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 ([email protected]) or Cohost (@Inumo).

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 ([email protected]) or Cohost (@Inumo).

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. Follow Niko _____ on Twitter (@Inumo) or Mastodon (@[email protected]).

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. Follow Niko _____ on Twitter (@Inumo) or Mastodon (@[email protected]).

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. Follow Niko _____ on Twitter (@Inumo) or Mastodon (@[email protected]).