Gaming PC Recommendations

Classic Rap Albums, Microtransactions, Games Reviews, and we go shopping for a gaming PC.

Show Notes:

Madvillainy 20th anniversary:

• Searching for Tomorrow: The Story of Madlib and DOOM's Madvillainy
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20240203032745/https://pitchfork.com/features/article/9478-searching-for-tomorrow-the-story-of-madlib-and-dooms-madvillainy/ -> Archive.org link in case Conde Nast does a Conde Nast

Dragon Dogma 2:

• Four Thoughts on Dragon's Dogma - Remap
• Dragon’s Dogma 2 has surprise microtransactions, and players are angry - Polygon
• Dragon's Dogma 2 - PS5/Xbox Series X/S and PC - Digital Foundry Tech Review

Anti-Cheat Conversation:

• Apex Legends finals postponed after suffering unprecedented hack
• Microsoft quietly added an anti-cheat game feature to Windows 10 - The Verge
  • WHY WAS THIS REMOVED, WHY IS ANTI-CHEAT ALL THIRD PARTY?

packetcat’s video game corner:

• Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Music corner:

• Future & Metro Boomin - WE DON’T TRUST YOU
• Four Tet - Three
• Sofia Kourtesis - Madres
• Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
• ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS
• Matt Champion - Mika’s Laundry
• Knxwledge

packetcat’s book corner:

• Translation State by Ann Leckie
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Chapters:

• (00:56) - Madvillainy 20th Anniversary
• (12:27) - Dragon's Dogma 2
• (25:38) - Anti-Cheat Conversation
• (37:11) - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
• (43:28) - Music Recommendations
• (57:25) - Book Corner

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