244: Otaku Christmas

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

We're putting the time machine back into service again this week with another magazine review, this time of Next Generation issue 36 from December 1997. Notably, this was the issue when the venerable thinking-person's game magazine declared the PC the best place to play games for the first time, along with an in-depth assessment of the N64, PlayStation, and Saturn's places in the market. Plus, we also run through a whole bunch of other interesting material, including an early call for an independent game development scene, a look at some entry-level mid-'90s game dev tools and early Dreamcast development kits, the surprisingly silly origins of Gran Turismo, a review of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, and a bunch of other stuff. Check the show notes for a link to the issue! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	So I was thinking about buying a new mouse pad.
0:02.3	Oh, wow.
0:02.7	This is, this is, look, people don't realize this, but I know this is a big thing for you.
0:07.6	Wait, you didn't have to get into that, okay.
0:10.0	Yes, I am using an alienware branded funk pad.
0:13.2	Just to be clear, that mouse pad is older than my almost 12 year old child.
0:18.0	Oh, yeah.
0:18.6	It doesn't six probably.
0:20.3	We got them, we got them when we got all those ailing wear machines again.
0:23.6	Let's move on.
0:25.0	Okay.
0:25.4	So, so I was thinking about buying a new mouse pad.
0:28.2	Yes.
0:29.2	And then I made the mistake of going to Reddit.
0:31.8	Oh, yeah, no, no.
0:33.1	Did you go to mouse reviews or did you go to the, is there like some mouse pad reviews?
0:37.1	There's a mouse pad subreddit.
0:39.2	Dude, there is, there is no limit to the subdivisions of communities that you can, like,
0:43.8	is there a term for this?
0:45.3	I don't think, I don't think there is a category of product that you can seek to buy these days
0:49.4	where you can't find a community based around the, they've got category that goes into
0:53.6	like endless,
	...

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