Writer and game designer Merritt K joins to talk about her new book LAN Party: Inside the Multiplayer Revolution.
We discuss escaping into digital worlds, retro-techno nostalgia, multi-user dungeons, energy drinks, control vs convenience, closed-circuits, getting away with gaming at school, THE COMPUTER LAB, Cyberpunk becoming reality, idolizing Y2K, egregores, forum heroes, creating the torment nexus, Depression Quest, Gamergate, Twine, nautilus organs, StumbleUpon, casting the million-sided die, Vampiric Disco, blood raves, druids, chaos magick, Alan Watts, and snow.
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