Never Post
Never Post
Charts & Leisure
Why Does Everything Run Doom?
55 minutes Posted May 28, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
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Mike talks with two game designers, a nuclear physicist and sound artist about how the iconic videogame became what it is today: something that runs on every piece of technology (and increasingly: biology) known to man
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Everything Plays Doom
Xaser Acheron on Doomwiki and Github
Bijan Stephen’s Website and Bsky
John Matter’s Website and Bsky
Matthew Gantt on Instagram and Diagnostics, his record on OMR 
Doom Guy: Life in First Person, by John Romero
Master of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, by David Kushner
Next Generation Magazine, 30 Jun 1997
Compute! Magazine Issue 163
Computer Gaming World Issue 116Computer Gaming World Issue 116
Doom Editing Utilities, Doomwiki
Other uses for DOOM engine, Usenetarchives
Zfootball, Doomhockey, Hellshots, Gallery Experience, MyHouse.wad
Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
I got a tattoo of God. You can’t see it
but it’s everywhere. If I seem out of it,
do the math. I was put on earth.
And then you were, making up your feet
as you went along. New thinspo clanks the spank 
bank. New emoticon makes a Holocene. 
Excerpt of Money Bin by Michael Robbins
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia