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Don't let mom know how much Mountain Dew you drank or how long you spent playing Jazz Jackrabbit because you're the only kid in the whole school who plays Doom and you don't want to mess that up. You've got your whole life ahead of you and based on the DOS games you've played there is reason to believe the future is going to be pretty sweet. After all, love and success came to the intelligent, the clever, quick-witted, laser blasting, star fighter flying, helmet wearing nerd-kid like Luke Skywalker, but without all the dopey religion and Pepsi instead. It was the 90s and the Satanic panic was coming to a close but the temptation and promise of becoming your own god was now upon the horizon and in the face of a persistent game-layer and ubiquity of digital landscapes there looms the possibility of now of total immersion within a virtual reality preferable in almost every way to "reality proper" for vast swathes of the population who face, day in and day out the demiurgic reality of growing old, becoming sick, mentally ill, poor of time or spending money, addicted to drugs, heart-broken, depressed or just stupid there exists the promise of affordable escape into a world of our choosing, one where we decide what happens and our dreams may be fulfilled, at least partially. But isn't it better than nothing at all? Listen, play along and decide for yourself. 

On this show we discuss: 

-ID Software 

-John Carmack and Tim Hall

-Satanic principles and their relationship to work and play. 

-The Hindu concepts of Lila and Avatars

-The Law of Contagion and Sympathy in video game worlds. 

-Digital Astral Travel

-Overcoming the Demiurge

-I talk about John Carmack way too much but he totally has a lot to do with the past and future of gaming. 

-This will not be the last episode about gaming or games. 

In the Patreon section (than you Patreons you are everything to me) we spend an additional 30 minutes discussing Gnosticism, becoming your own God, my love life and two Hollywood movies which pertain to the subject of seizing one's desire and achieving reward through ambition. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D

History of ID Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv-byZAauAs

https://www.britannica.com/topic/lila

https://www.britannica.com/topic/avatar-Hinduism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_conception_of_the_soul#rn_/_Ren_(name)

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=bad+days+lyrics+flaming+lips

The Satanic Bible - Book 4


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