Enthusiastic Rest

A Tour of the *Punks (Quiet Version)

The quiet version of Enthusiastic Rest is for people who want a softer listening experience without fiddling with any volume settings on their device. Tonight, I ramble about one of my niche fields of knowledge: cyberpunk, and especially cyberpunk derivatives nobody's ever heard of. Featured in this episode: * A not-so-brief possibly-apocryphal history of noir, cyberpunk, and punk music itself * So is your cyberpunk cyberpunk, post-cyberpunk, or cyberpunk (again)? * Why steampunk feels so different from cyberpunk * How we could have had so much more than vaporwave Spongebob * Why hope is radical, but cannot be an entire politic * And more! Transcript available at https://cohost.org/enthusiastic-rest/post/5022084-enthusiastic-rest-a/ Follow Niko _____ on Mastodon (inumo@dragon.style) or Cohost (@Inumo).

A Tour of the *Punks

Tonight, I ramble about one of my niche fields of knowledge: cyberpunk, and especially cyberpunk derivatives nobody's ever heard of. Featured in this episode: * A not-so-brief possibly-apocryphal history of noir, cyberpunk, and punk music itself * So is your cyberpunk cyberpunk, post-cyberpunk, or cyberpunk (again)? * Why steampunk feels so different from cyberpunk * How we could have had so much more than vaporwave Spongebob * Why hope is radical, but cannot be an entire politic * And more! Transcript available at https://cohost.org/enthusiastic-rest/post/5022084-enthusiastic-rest-a/ Follow Niko _____ on Mastodon (inumo@dragon.style) or Cohost (@Inumo).

Tabletop Roleplaying Games (Quiet Version)

The quiet version of Enthusiastic Rest is for people who want a softer listening experience without fiddling with any volume settings on their device. Tonight, I ramble about the many tabletop roleplaying games I've played, or at least have enough experience with to confidently just start talking. Featured in this episode: * Lukewarm takes about why D&D is bad * Seriously I go on about why I don't like D&D and its peers so much * My bias towards Powered by the Apocalypse games * A sampling of niche games you probably haven't heard of * Me accidentally thinking Shut Up & Sit Down's videos on Spire: The City Must Fall and Heart: The City Beneath were made by People Make Games * And more! Transcript available at https://cohost.org/enthusiastic-rest/post/537204-enthusiastic-rest-t/0556054889474d09bb543594b1bfaa6e [https://cohost.org/enthusiastic-rest/post/537204-enthusiastic-rest-t/0556054889474d09bb543594b1bfaa6e]. Follow Niko _____ on Twitter (@Inumo [https://twitter.com/inumo]) or Mastodon (@Inumo@dragon.style [https://dragon.style/@Inumo]).

Tabletop Roleplaying Games

Tonight, I ramble about the many tabletop roleplaying games I've played, or at least have enough experience with to confidently just start talking. Featured in this episode: * Lukewarm takes about why D&D is bad * Seriously I go on about why I don't like D&D and its peers so much * My bias towards Powered by the Apocalypse games * A sampling of niche games you probably haven't heard of * Me accidentally thinking Shut Up & Sit Down's videos on Spire: The City Must Fall and Heart: The City Beneath were made by People Make Games * And more! Transcript available at https://cohost.org/enthusiastic-rest/post/537204-enthusiastic-rest-t/0556054889474d09bb543594b1bfaa6e [https://cohost.org/enthusiastic-rest/post/537204-enthusiastic-rest-t/0556054889474d09bb543594b1bfaa6e]. Follow Niko _____ on Twitter (@Inumo [https://twitter.com/inumo]) or Mastodon (@Inumo@dragon.style [https://dragon.style/@Inumo]).

Enthusiastic Rest: Show Trailer

Get ready to get sleepy. Enthusiastic Rest: a show to talk you to sleep with an endless stream of words about nothing important. Transcripts available at https://cohost.org/enthusiastic-rest [https://cohost.org/enthusiastic-rest]. Follow Niko _____ on Twitter (@Inumo [https://twitter.com/inumo]) or Mastodon (@Inumo@dragon.style [https://dragon.style/@Inumo]).