Show Notes
Surprise! Kim and AJ sat down and discussed their games of the year in the context of the themes that jumped out to them! What will be crowned Theme of the Year by the end of it?? Only one way to find out! --- Discussed in the episode (🚨Spoilers for games and themes, but no spoilers for the TOTY winner🚨): Themes of the year spreadsheet Exercising Power and Control in the Face of Hegemony of the Devil Michel Foucault and the panopticism theory of disciplinary power on Wikipedia Q-Up Leila FACEMINER Occlude Faustian bargain on Britannica The Dark Queen of Mortholme Öoo Centum DEAD LETTER DEPT Known Mysteries Fear and The Mind Eclipsium The Children of Clay Without a Dawn Phoenix Springs Interstate 35 Life's Weird, Huh? Eclipsium Centum Mini Mini Golf Golf Occlude (or not) Strange Jigsaws Unfair Flips Q-Up A Pizza Delivery*** Why Do We Puzzle? Strange Jigsaws The Worst Puzzle of All-Time | Design Delve on YouTube Your House Occlude Leila Is This Seat Taken Dark Queen of Mortholme Öoo (and Bubumbu) Work is Terrifying Constance DEAD LETTER DEPT Children of Clay Qualia FACEMINER The Dark Queen of Mortholme Q-Up A Pizza Deilvery (and Easy Delivery Co.) Environment's Fucked Known Mysteries FACEMINER Centum Mini Mini Golf Golf Artificial? Intelligence??? (slash Technology) FACEMINER Qualia Making Kin with the Machines by Jason Edward Lewis, Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis, and Suzanne Kite for Journal of Design and Science Mini Mini Golf Golf Centum Q-Up Phoenix Springs ChatGPT made me delusional by Eddy Burback on YouTube of the Devil DEAD LETTER DEPT Legacy Hades 2 Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs Interstate 35 Phoenix Springs Mini Mini Golf Golf Your House Sometime It's Just Nice to Go Fishing Cast n Chill PEAK Unfair FlipsSubscribe to our Kofi to see AJ's playthrough!
Kabuto Park Q-Up (and like all of the other games on this list) --- Visit our website! Support the show on Kofi! Follow us on Twitch! Follow the show on Bluesky! Check out The Worst Garbage Online! --- Art by Tara Crawford Music by _amaranthine Additional sounds by Boqeh Produced and edited by AJ Fillari --- Timecodes:
(00:00) - Hey remember RAMs???
(00:47) - Check out ZOTY if you haven't yet!
(01:09) - GOTY but make it dotzip
(02:33) - Structure of the episode
(03:15) - The year of Discrete Experiences
(08:50) - A very good place to start (Hegemony)
(09:00) - Exercising Power and Control in the Face of Hegemony
(12:30) - Q-Up SPOILERS
(16:02) - Exercising Power and Control in the Face of Hegemony
(32:23) - Fear and The Mind
(35:36) - Eclipsium SPOILERS!!!
(41:29) - Fear and The Mind
(43:09) - Life's Weird, Huh?
(47:16) - Centum SPOILERS!!!
(50:14) - Life's Weird, Huh?
(51:01) - Why Do We Puzzle?
(57:12) - Why do we puzzle? (derogatory)
(58:37) - Work is terrifying
(01:04:41) - Environment's Fucked
(01:11:01) - Cleanse the palette or keep digging the hole?
(01:11:33) - Artificial? Intelligence??? (slash Technology)
(01:28:11) - Legacy
(01:41:35) - Sometimes It's Just Nice to Go Fishing
(01:49:36) - Crowning the Theme of the Year
(01:51:37) - TOTY is the bag!
(01:52:06) - Hey that's it. See you next year!
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