Introducing our first bonus show: Infodumping! This month’s episode is about bartering and, specifically, the Pepsi Navy, a Real and True thing that happened.

Discussed

HP Touchpad, PalmOS, Metro: 2033, Money, Currency, Trade, Bartering, Pepsi, Harrier Jets, Hunt for Red October, Stoli Vodka, Diesel Submarines.

Links

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Infodumping Bartering

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Today's episode is about Vault Tec, the Fallout company offering better living underground...for the control group at least. Join us as we dig into the corpo lore of the wasteland's best mad scientist conglomerate. As Logan said, it'll be rad.

Discussed

Fallout games and TV series, social experiments, brain in a jar, MK Ultra, capitalism, Third Wave Experiment, vaults, vault boy, the aesthetics of Fallout's nostalgia, satire in general, nostalgia in games.

Links

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004: CORPO LORE

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Today's episode is about the Anthem of Creation from Bioware's 2019 flop, Anthem. It is not about Party Rock Anthem, a different music thing that we collectively don't talk about anymore either.

Discussed

Anthem, energy, BioWare, failed games, Iron Man suits.

Chapters

00:41: Intro

01:00: Bright Spots

04:34: Guess that game!

06:31: Anthem Overview

08:44: A new creation myth

13:50: How did Anthem happen?

19:00 Anthem Lore

28:46: A Break!

37:22: A brief MTG diversion

38:01: Back on (different) tracks 

46:10: Loose Threads

49:12: Lore in modern games 

51:49: Should you play Anthem?

55:21: HP Touchpad Jump scare

55:50: Wrapping up

56:11: Gordon Hamburger dot com

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003: Bad Anthem Energy

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The episode in which we talk about all the things Palworld points at interesting ideas and symbols…only to fall back on the classic “if you see that mountain, you can go to it” trope.

See if you can count the amount of things Palworld ‘gestures’ at, or how many times we tried to end the episode, only to be struck by yet another absurdity.

Discussed

Palworld, Pokemon, Breath of the Wild, Copyright infringement, capitalism, seizing the means of production, Pals with guns, communism.

Links

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002: Capitalism in Lamball's Clothing

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Wherein, we astral project into Control (2019). A somewhat simple discussion of Control that takes a turn for the Carl Jung and couldn't quite return to the material plane.

Discussed

Control (2019), The Oldest House, Carl Jung, Synchronicity, Rubber Ducks, archetypes, haunted refrigerators.

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Codex 001: It's rubber ducks all the way down

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Welcome to episode zero of Codex, a casual lore podcast. Today’s episode is about the show itself. I know, we’re getting meta early on.

Our episode music this week is “Top Ten” by Jeremy Blake.

Discussed

The very concept of having a podcast.

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