133 - Pentiment feat. All Gamers Are Bastards

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07/08/24 • 68 min

We’re joined by All Gamers Are Bastards to talk about Pentiment, a mystery game with an opening similar to the novel/film Name of the Rose (1986) in many ways. Time for the history boys to drop some historiography.

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https://x.com/kayandskittles

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Kay’s other podcast and YouTube show

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Kyle’s other podcasts

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https://x.com/profaneshow

Media mentioned

Kay’s video: Two Games About History (And Why You Should Care) https://youtu.be/A1ibaKebZjo?si=wY_gStTszO9a_Uz3

https://forgottencitygame.com/

Episode transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/xiawczu3

https://soundcloud.com/agabpod

https://x.com/agabpod

https://x.com/kayandskittles

https://x.com/laborkyle

Kay’s other podcast and YouTube show

https://x.com/vgatwtoe

https://www.youtube.com/@KayAndSkittles

Kyle’s other podcasts

https://x.com/horrorvanguard

https://x.com/profaneshow

Media mentioned

Kay’s video: Two Games About History (And Why You Should Care) https://youtu.be/A1ibaKebZjo?si=wY_gStTszO9a_Uz3

https://forgottencitygame.com/

Episode transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/xiawczu3

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This week we’re talking about digital remains and death! How do things get into archives? What happens to your social media accounts when you die? Should you be planning now? Mormon transhumanists! All this and more!

Death Glitch: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/

Media mentioned

Tamara’s presentation at the Mormon Transhumanist Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfjjwmJ1Hc

Anya Bernstein Russian immortalists in the 19th century https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/anya-bernstein

Jacob Boss https://aiandfaith.org/featured-interview-jacob-boss

https://www.wired.com/story/using-generative-ai-to-resurrect-the-dead-will-create-a-burden-for-the-living/

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134 - Museum Ethics feat. Brigit

This week we’re talking about museums, ethics, and taxonomy. Probably other stuff too!

Media mentioned

https://www.geocurator.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol7/geocurator_7_6.pdf#page=14

"FRONTIERS TO SCIENCE: FREE TRADE AND MUSEUM ETHICS" by Tristram P. Besterman, 2001

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69005527

"US curator denies smuggling scorpions and spiders from Istanbul" BBC News, 2024

https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20230926050719/https://en.unesco.org/cultnatlaws/list

The web archived version of the UNESCO database for national cultural heritage laws, which ....they've taken down from their website for some reason? I was literally working from this list last year so idk what happened

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-history-and-evolution-migratory-bird-treaty-act

The Audubon website's heavily summarised history of the MBTA; pay particular note to the blurbs under 1900 and 1916

https://www.ducks.org/ The Ducks Unlimited website. Note Conservation and Hunting as top two tabs.

https://www.ducks.ca/about/our-partners/ The Ducks Unlimited Canada website page of corporate partners! Count the number of oil pipelines!

https://pridesource.com/article/stomping-spots-queer-feelings-for-a-bad-bug-heading-to-michigan

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librarypunk - 133 - Pentiment feat. All Gamers Are Bastards

Transcript

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Kay: I like that young people always find new ways to look silly. Kay: It's like a gift for people getting older, you know? It's a treat. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. Kay: It almost takes the edge off. Sadie: But not quite. I mean, to be fair, old people also find new ways to look silly. So don't write us out. Jay: Usually in the same way. Kay: Yeah, well, listen, when you're in the middle, when you're not very young or Kay: very old, that's when you look normal. No one tells you