Never Post

Why Does Everything Run Doom?

Never Post

Show Notes

Mike talks with two game designers, a nuclear physicist and sound artist about how the iconic videogame became what it is today: something that runs on every piece of technology (and increasingly: biology) known to man – Become a member at https://neverpo.st –

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– Everything Plays Doom

Xaser Acheron on Doomwiki and Github

Bijan Stephen’s Website and Bsky

John Matter’s Website and Bsky

Matthew Gantt on Instagram and Diagnostics, his record on OMR

Doom Guy: Life in First Person, by John Romero

Master of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, by David Kushner

Next Generation Magazine, 30 Jun 1997

Compute! Magazine Issue 163

Computer Gaming World Issue 116Computer Gaming World Issue 116

Doom Editing Utilities, Doomwiki

Other uses for DOOM engine, Usenetarchives

Zfootball, Doomhockey, Hellshots, Gallery Experience, MyHouse.wad

– Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. I got a tattoo of God. You can’t see it but it’s everywhere. If I seem out of it, do the math. I was put on earth. And then you were, making up your feet as you went along. New thinspo clanks the spank bank. New emoticon makes a Holocene.

Excerpt of Money Bin by Michael Robbins

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

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