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PATREON CHECK-IN #019 (Patreon)

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2023-10-30 21:59:04
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Austin's Question (answer in the comments):

Look up the games that came that came out the year you were born and pick the best one. Post about it down below. Bonus points if you play it.

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3:05 What I've been playing lately and why

8:05 channel updates, including talking about the abortion fundraiser

17:45 skybox appreciation discussion

20:51 Austin’s Question answers: What is your job?

35:22 blast from the past (Blind paragliding in Radiation Island)

40:10 Listener Questions

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I was a little sick while recording this, just so you know. 

Yours,

Any Austin

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Comments

Ciara Donegan

Commenting before actually having a chance to watch the video lol… it looks like I haven’t actually played any games from the year I was born 😨 I’ll go with Pokémon Gold/Silver (Japanese release that year), since I have played HeartGold at least (and loved it!).

Sarah Sarah

Hands down Super Mario Bros 3 is my fave from 1988. My grandma and big brother would play it together. I didn’t get around to playing it until I was in college, unless you count the time I took the controller and smashed buttons until I warped them to the end of the game.

Colamancer

Well I dunno if its possible to finish Q*Bert or Dig Dug but I guess we're gonna try!

Mr F

I was born in '87 and I found three games that I have already played going by the original Japanese release dates. Metal Gear (MSX version), Castlevania 2, and Zelda 2. Out of those three Metal Gear is the one I found most enjoyable. I'm not overly familiar with the series but I was surprised how similar it felt to Metal Gear Solid on the PS1. A lot more primitive of course but the core ideas are there.

Blair

I found out there are a lot of games I've heard of but never played that came out in 1992, but I'm most excited to have learned about GayBlade - one of the earliest LGBT games. I feel blessed that I was born the year someone published a game about fighting homophobes 🙏

Gary Rickelman

Thank you for your work with Brigid alliance. I do work with planned parenthood and rff/natal. Always appreciated. And 84 wasn't a great for great games. I guess the best one would be excitebike and I've played the shit out of that.

Novel

Friday the 13th was released 1989; the year I was born and whilst I don't think the game is great, it has atmosphere. But the best thing about it is the music; holy crap... The cabin theme is still one of the greatest pieces of chiptune music ever written. It has that wonderful 'Kraids Lair' aesthetic about it where its mostly these ghostly arpeggios until it blooms into this overwhelmingly beautiful and ethereal chorus of catchy melodies

Will

Conker’s bad fur day is the biggest stand out from ‘01 in my opinion. I love some over the top humor and the cultural references and gags in that game are iconic.

Horsethe

Only a bit into the episode but have some comments. One of the things that got me vibing with your channel was some episode you ended saying something along the lines of "acab and blm, if you don't agree fuck you ". Also, maybe just whenever you come across a worthy skybox, make a short? I like the series and should hate to see it go but I get it.

Joe tuna

(Subjective non professional opinion) As a person who had to have an abortion past ten weeks, 15 weeks is nothing to shake a stick at. The situation we went through really made me realize the legitimate reasons why it’s necessary to legalize the right for people to have abortions but at the same time made it so much more real the reasons why it’s a really fucked up thing to experience for all parties involved especially when it’s past 10-12 weeks. 15 is reasonable for a blanket law IMO not because the baby isn’t relatively developed by then but rather because the convoluted way medical care works right now, many mothers aren’t able to know they might be advised medically to have an abortion until the test results come out sometimes at around 12-13 weeks so there’s really no way about it

Jon

My game from 1993 is Daytona USA. Awesome graphics, vibrant colors, and alluring sound tracks. Much nostalgia for being at arcades and a local family restaurant that had the arcade version with the steering wheel, seat and shifter. Petal to the metal baby.

Jon

BLAST TO THE PAST: Eggbusters S1 Banjo Kazooie @ 4:20 when Aysha makes scary and painful noises as she exerts Banjo over the fence. Its so funny it kills me a lil bit

ranavain

Having been born in 1985, it's tempting to go with either the OG Super Mario Bros or The Oregon Trail, but I think I'm gonna go with the one that was just called "Soccer"

James Covenant

Hey Austin! I wanted to chime in on the abortion issue since you asked. Ask yourself a simple question: Does abortion require the deliberate killing of an innocent human life? If yes, then it's very hard to find a reason that would ever justify it. But if no, then why not be super-cavalier about it? I'm sorry to hear from your video that another pro-lifer resorted to name-calling, but alas, I'm not surprised. Abortion is an extremely emotional issue – from both sides! Banjo-Kazooie composer Grant Kirkhope once swore at me and called me a dirty name because I politely challenged his views on abortion 🤷‍♂️

dudewheresmycouch

Skybox Appreciation is a great series, and I would be sad to see it if it isn’t enjoyable to do, it’s probably for the best to sunset it for the time being. Austin’s Question: I was born in 1995, the year of Yoshi’s Island. It was one of my favorite games growing up, and playing the SNES version emulated on my dad’s computer might have been one of my first ever Gaming Experiences™️. I have revisited it more recently, and I am impressed with the visuals for an SNES game — the handmade look influences me even today — but the baby crying is so grating. I can’t believe how irritating it is. It’s an interesting game mechanic, but it must have tested the patience of parents worldwide. My question: You have mentioned in a few of your videos about how you’re in pilot school. Is it weird to get in a car and drive on the road after you’ve been flying a plane all day?

Laufix Twalmer

I was born in 1992, apparently the year Kirby's Dream Land came out. I've played the squid out of it, wonderful game. I got it at my 10 years bday along with the rest of my brothers collection of maybe 15 gameboy games and his original thick, gray gameboy, as he had supposedly grown out of it. He regretted that later. I had that gameboy with me litterally everywhere, best console ever made.

Laufix Twalmer

Oh, and i do have thoughts on the Skybox Appreciation, being that it would make me very sad to see that series go. That and Odd and Remarkable Places were the first ones i watched on your channel, and the ones that got me hooked (don't remember the order). So they kinda define your channel for me, and the unique, artistic approach to video games that you represents. Tbh i'm not the biggest fan of the Unemplyment Reports, but they're fun enough and others are clearly big fans. The Let's Drown videos are grotesque, which i like and don't like at the same time. LD and to some extent UR lag some of the slow, observant quality i like about your videos. If you let go of SbA i hope you will consider replacing it with something that has that quality, such as "Texture Appreciation", "Color palette analysis", "Look at those details" or something.

Robert Stammitti

Austin's Question: A mere three weeks after I was born, Super Mario World came out. That's definitely my favorite game of 1990, borderline my favorite game of all time. Have played it over and over again. One time we went to a friend's house for a Halloween party (I was Bojack Horseman) and she had a SNES set up in her basement where the majority of the partygoing was going on, and after sufficient drinking and socialization I hunkered down and made it my mission to beat Super Mario World before the night was through (not an impossible task by any means with Star Road). I did, to be fair and thorough, go through all the special stages before beating Bowser.

Robert Stammitti

Honestly, re: the abortion issue, I have conflicted feelings about it generally, but like...listen to something as simple and accessible as, for example, the recent This American Life episode "The Bear at the End of the Tunnel," and I just don't see how there's any way you don't come out pro-choice to one degree or another (I don't think choice and life are mutually exclusive). (this is the This American Life, for those interested: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/812/the-bear-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel)

Robert Stammitti

loool did this before you mentioned This American Life yourself...

Mr F

Regarding skybox appreciation: it's one of my favourite series of yours along with odd and unremarkable. Both of them have chill vibes that I love. But I also wouldn't want you to force it if it's not working for you. Whatever you do I think most of us here will be happy to come along for the ride.

Carlos Hartmann

I'm new to the bureau and thought that listener questions went on the "Member Posts" tab here. So I'll restate my question here that I posted a while ago: "I spent a part of my sabbatical playing through all of Metal Gear Solid. It was a sort of wish fulfillment to my younger self who was only able to play the PSP titles that were famously not as great as the rest. (a bit like what you said about late 00s 360 for you). Anyway, do you have any experience with MGS? Its ludicrous writing, oddball humor, troll creator and of course: so many odd places!" Austin's Question: 1995 has lots of weird point-and-click stuff, but what really grabs my attention is Kriby's Dream Land 2. The boxes that Gameboy games came in are super nostalgic to me. They were so colorful and somehow didn't overstate their content. Lots of games back then had idealized graphics on their covers that were nowhere near the actual in-game style. But Nintendo somehow stayed faithful to the simple, whimsical flair of their games while still making beautiful covers&boxes.

The Bread Pirate

*Austin's Question* Majoras Mask (2000) I love the spooky atmosphere (perfect for Halloween), the dark themes about grief, and the count-down clock. It adds a pressure that other Zelda games lack. It makes you value every second of gameplay. And while you play, you never forget what you're fighting for. *Listener Question* What is a question you have always wanted people to ask you? And what is the answer to that question? *Other Thoughts* "Abortion isn't my favorite thing, but fine, we kill &%^ all the time. Okay, let's pretend we didn't say that." [13:30] Dude, I'm a Christian who leans toward the Pro-Life stance, but that comment nearly made me cry laughing. It was so insanely out-of-pocket and absurd. And that's why I love your videos. You have such a surreal, sarcastic, and uncensored reaction to things. It is refreshing. There will never be a moment in history when EVERYONE agrees on politics and lifestyle choices. I am fine with that. I don't need to agree with you on everything to enjoy your work. I love your videos as they are.

ranavain

I appreciate that you're so friendly and polite here, it's really nice to know that even if we don't agree, we can all be Austin Fans here together. I was interested in your framing re: the abortion question, because I think it's virtually the same as mine, but with other conclusions. To me, the question of whether or not they are an innocent human life is immaterial. To me, the question is: do other people have a right to use my body without my permission? Do I have the right to evict other people from my body, if I don't want them there? Being pregnant is a dangerous (sometimes deadly) condition, and abortion is a far safer way to resolve pregnancy most of the way, until you get pretty close to birth. I cannot fathom how the state could possibly have the right to tell me that I must let another person occupy my body (at my own danger and expense) for the better part of a year. How a person who is subject to that kind of control could ever be considered to have freedom or autonomy or personhood. To me, laws outlawing abortion amount to valuing the life of the baby *far more* than the life of the parent, when both entities are supposedly equal under the law.

ranavain

re: "bad" jobs - I am infuriated by how much productive labor capacity is taken up by advertising operations. Like your hedge fund manager or banker examples, not *inherently* evil but..... There are tens of thousands of people whose job is to manage ad inventory on websites, to sell ad space on one business' website to other businesses, who manage the tech functions to make ads appear properly on the websites... marketers who spend thousands of their only precious hours in this life figuring out what kind of irritating pop-up ad gets the most accidental clicks when people are trying to close it. And seeing how much ad revenue holds up basically our entire news media, it feels like a very poor basis for freedom of the press as well as a total waste of human potential

James Covenant

Thank you for taking time to reply. I think your arguments are really interesting! Here are 3 thoughts: 1) Human familial relationships come with inherent rights and responsibilities. While I certainly don't have a right to use your body, your unborn child does because she is your child and you are her mother. Parents have a natural responsibility to give their children the nutrition needed for growth and survival. That is why a newborn baby is entitled to her mother's breast milk (or a suitable substitute like infant formula). An unborn baby also has this same right to nutrients, but the only way she can receive them is through her mother's bloodstream. 2) Pregnancy doesn't happen spontaneously. When a man and woman freely choose to engage in sexual activity, then they are consenting to the possibility of pregnancy because that's the natural consequence of sex, and birth control is never 100%-effective. A very small percentage of abortions are performed in response to rape, where the mother couldn't possibly consent. But in that scenario, why should the innocent child be punished for the heinous crime committed by her father? Abortion in response to rape merely creates another victim. (This is the point that got me in big trouble with composer Grant Kirkhope, by the way! 😬) 3) Is abortion really safer than pregnancy? Safer for whom? Every time an abortion is performed, 1 human individual is deliberately killed, whereas human death from pregnancy only happens some of the time, and it's always accidental (i.e. the baby never intends to kill her mother). Let me know what you think. Happy to keep discussing on this thread or via email if you prefer: jamescovenant@gmail.com

Keep Pluggin

i was born in 1993 so there was some good choices but i found something called return to zork which i never heard of and it looks crazy. it seems like a point and click adventure game with animation over real actors, very cool

ranavain

I wrote a whole long reply and then decided I should probably email you rather than post here! :) Will send soon

Kimmett

I was so excited to be mentioned in the video! I'm the guy that keeps egg cartoon making machines running. It's a surprisingly complicated process, we have three main machines that do different things but each one is made up of a lot of smaller machines that do specific tasks. It's really fun when I start a new job and have to figure out how things work. The basics of mechanical engineering isn't hard to learn but it's so cool how people combine all these little a concepts into stuff that can accurately run millions of cycles and not loose timing. *Edit Answer to your question, Mario 64 came out when I was a kid and I loved that game growing up so that's my favorite game to come out the year I was born.

Kira

Austin’s Q: 1997 had some landmark releases… so *instead* I dig around and found Culdcept for the Sega Saturn - which is virtual Monopoly, except you use Magic the Gathering-esque trading card monsters to protect your properties instead of building houses. I’ll end up trying this before FF7, and I think that’s hilarious

nj

Skybox appreciation is a special series. It has a tone I've never seen anywhere else, where you toe the line between heavy, introspective commentary and tongue in cheek rambling. I'd be super sad to see it go. But, your time is a finite resource, and, if the series is by far the lowest performing, of course it would be okay to wrap it up. VG wham is my personal favorite series. It also opened me up to the concept of casually playing 15-hour games from random indie devs. I'd love to see a reboot of it or a similar concept. Maybe it would help you play more games with your limited time, too, since each game is a small commitment?

Kira

Question for Austin: When you knew exactly what you wanted to do with your time, what was it that you did? Was it something specific? (thank you for spending your time here <3)

Thom Coté

Awesome to have my answer in the video! My last name is pronounced "Cotay" for the future. I'll have to plug my game once it's finished in like 2-3 years (fingers crossed) hahah Austin's Question: I was born in 1997 and Crash Bandicoot 2 was the first game I played as a kid, but that's not an interesting answer so I'll say Symphony of the Night. I only played it last year but it's such a strikingly well-crafted game with so many things that stick around in your mind. (Honorable mention to The Last Express, a real-time first person FMV train mystery game that I am super into conceptually but did not have the patience to play for more than 15 minutes)

Alex Pinku

The Radiation Island series was something I binged when I was in a really deep depression and brought me a lot of joy, so seeing the clip made me smile a lot. I was born in 1995; the most beloved game by the masses was probably Twisted Metal? But Im going with Rayman personally.

Jake Fee

~ Austin's Question ~ From a list of 1995 games, I downloaded the abandonware "A to ZAP! Featuring the SUNBUDDIES!" which opens with an elephant conducting an orchestra and yodeling "Yowza! Yowza! Yowza! Let's have some fun!" Every loading screen was accompanied with a small child singing "dum de dum dum doo dum de dum". Each letter has a corresponding minigame, except for G, which only reveals a clickable icon that resembles a swirling void. All the letters disappear one by one, and a child says, "... where did all the letters go?" ~ Listener Question ~ What video game character is your wardrobe based on?

Min Goto

Austin's Question: Looking at 1997, I didnt have regular access to videogames until I was 11 or 12 so I am shocked to see a game I DID play as a kid (or almost) the sequel to Oddworld: Abes Oddysee (1997) Munch's oddysee(2001) was absolutely terrifying and no 5 year old needs to experience that little monster energy guzzling freak. At the time my dad worked at microsoft and the only games I had access to were original xbox titles. So in the nature of children with limited game choices ive played and been confused by endless hours of Munch, Blinx, and Fusion Frenzy. the aesthetics of these games is truly something else. I also played a lot of this game about the gang wars of some clothed rats called Sneakerz. Sorry about not really answering the question...

Min Goto

Looking at Abe's Oddysee though, it is conceptually wild. Like a slave at a meat processing facility trying to mount a revolution and free his people so they dont get made into a packaged food product is nuts. I think playing it would really freak me out and just thinking about it makes me sick, but maybe that means I should do it...

Min Goto

Viewer question: (If this is too prying a question just ignore me) Im a pretty new viewer so I find myself bouncing between AnyAustin eras while watching. Do you have any thoughts on the development of your personal style? I find myself wondering about the "uninteresting" or "unimportant" parts of your videos in much the same way the videos themselves are about these under-recognized parts of games. The subtle changes in the intro sequences, the blue hair, deep v-neck and hair clips eras (and the less defined spaces inbetween these landmarks). In a more recent video you had a mirror behind you in such a way that the back of your head was prominently featured and I coudn't get over how interesting of a decision/non-decision that was. I think of you as an artist, and (to sum this up) im interested in hearing any thoughts you have about the metacontextual and "irrelevant" parts of the work you make.

Kevin Hilt

Listener comment: I just beat the Super Mario RPG remake, which was really good. It brought me back to the Here's a Podcast episodes where you and the crew played through the game and reported back each week to discuss how strange and charming it was. I really loved those episodes, and I'm struck by the fact that was over 10 years ago now. Thank you for continuing to make interesting stuff this whole time, and consider checking out the Super Mario RPG remake!

Jack

Damn, I was looking around for someone born way later than me to get my mind blown by what game they chose, but it's all 90s babies like me. Was kinda hoping to see somebody who came out the same year as a Gamecube game was born. The lady who'd never played the original Pokemon Gold/Silver was closest I was born in '92 and the closest game to my birthday on Wikipedia was Ecco (the dolphin), which I love but also kinda hate because of the "bicycle controls" on Ecco (big wide turns, lots of momentum, awkward to move once you lose momentum). I never got past like the third level. I was playing this recent little RPG called Vaporum the other night, and it was good but for some reason what it reminded me of was a battle of the bands. Like it felt like the video game equivalent of if you went to a show, and there were some local kids playing with some band name you forget immediately and they're nice kids and all but they're just kinda in tshirts with scruffy hair playing whatever is the most generic flavor of rock for current year. Like very unoriginal but in an endearing way. Like they got together in their mom's garage like "let's make a game!" and it's like... okay it's kinda a Bioshock rip off but not so much, it's a 3d unity game with like a dingy industrial look.... kinda dark creepy tone but not a horror game, you got your switch puzzles, your key puzzles, your block pushing puzzles, you got your audiologs where people talk about how much they love their husband or something, and the plot is kinda just vague and hinting at things enough to be intriguing but also not super deep either. A thoroughly video gamey video game. Anyway for some reason to me this all felt like something you would have said on an old episode of VG wham

ghoul

92! The Year Of Sonic The Hedgehog 2. Still one of my favorite games of all time, mostly for the insanely groovy ost. The game itself is the reason my brother and I still share custody of our childhood sega genesis.

ghoul

my question is what’s your favorite song rn

Horsethe

I was lucky enough to be born in 1990. That's when super Mario world, the best game ever made, was released (in japan). In the u.s. we got contra, final fantasy 1, and God damned super Mario 3??? How the fuck was 1990 so stacked.

Horsethe

My question is: what the fuck am I doing with my life??? Also, you still learning to fly planes?

ninby_salter

I was born in 1990 and super excited to learn that The Secret of Monkey Island came out that year. It's my pick because it's the first of a series that had a huge impact on me growing up. I have a lot of special memories of playing games as a child, but I remember being especially enchanted by the feel of some point-and-clicks, mostly ones from Lucas Arts and Sierra Games. The third Monkey Island game was the one I played the most growing up, and the more I went back into the origin of point and clicks I’ve been nothing but entranced by the art and the music and the feel of them. I also get a huge kick out of how slow and stilted they can be. I did go back and play the original Monkey Island years ago, and it’s so special and fun I don’t know what else to say!! Influential and hilarious and beautiful.

Carlos Hartmann

I have another question: How do you feel about Wet Dry World in Super Mario 64? The stage is infamous for having a "negative emotional aura". Mish Koz talks about it in his Mario 64 Iceberg video so that makes two different people who agree on this, and I personally also feel it very clearly without knowing what it is exactly. I'd love for you to weigh in on it in some way or another :)

AntiMS

I was born in the year the NES was released in the U.S., but I'm surprised how few of the NES launch games I've played. Just Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt. Both are, of course, great, but Super Mario Brothers had more replay value, so I'll pick it. (Though maybe I should try Excitebike or Ice Climber some time.) Question for Austin: What book is top of your "to read" list? If you read regularly, what's next in your queue that you haven't yet started? If not, what would you read if you were to start?

Lutecau

1999 I'm 4 months old. Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios are cooking something up in the kitchen. They're about to change action, action and role-playing- and survival, and also horror. What's in the oven? You already know it's System Shock 2. 20/20, even on a Mac. You could play it in Starbucks.

Lutecau

Or, to be clear, a better coffee establishment. System Shock 2 is just that groundbreaking.

Hannah Rogers

I was born in 1997, and Megaman Legends came out that year. I grew up in a Playstation family, and when we had saved up enough money for a PS2 (which went to my dad), I got the PS1. Megaman Legends was the first game I got for it with my own money, probably in the bins at the Gamestop. I don't remember if I ever beat it, but I do remember it kick-starting my love of video games, especially other Capcom games.

Hannah Rogers

Also have a listener question, what is your favorite drink? I'm not a big drinker but I had a lavender lemon drop the other day that was really good!

Ethan Kaskamin

Too many good games came out in 2004! I might have to say... Sims 2 though, this was a tough choice but I go back to that the most. Also I missed the last question! I'm a Supervisor at a Starbucks.

Chomps

Is this where we put questions if we are MOB's? I dont really have one. I just wanna know