[Ch 2] Nerd Noise Game Club: C2E14 - “Escape Artists”

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[SEE IMPORTANT EDITOR’S NOTE BELOW THE TRACKLIST!]

Today’s Broadcast is C2E14 for Theme Thursday, October 12th, 2023. Today’s Theme is escape themed music, on a program called “Escape Artists” - theme and title (and track run order by Hugues)! Also, a bit of big news and a bit of small news from St. John - neither of which will probably be a surprise to anybody! Lastly, apologies for this episode being so late. This was actually SUPPOSED TO BE the August episode!!! :-O

Tracklist: Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Selected By

01) The Last Dungeon - Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap - Master System - Shinichi Sakamoto - Hugues

1. a) Earcatcher - 00:00:00
2. b) Music - 00:00:03
3. c) Intro - 00:01:48
4. d) Top of Show Business - 00:03:58
5. e) St. John's "Small News" (Linux Geekery Updates) - 00:08:27
6. f) Discussion - 00:10:45

02) Act 2 Part 1 - Ninja Gaiden - NES - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa - St. John

1. a) Music - 00:14:57
2. b) Discussion - 00:17:01

03) Dance with Traps - Ys IX: Monstrum Nox - PS4/PC/Switch - Hayato Sonoda - Hugues

1. a) Music - 00:22:20
2. b) Discussion - 00:24:31

04) Police Precinct - Streets of Rage 4 - Multiplatform - Olivier Deriviere - St. John

1. a) Music - 00:29:34
2. b) Discussion - 00:32:16
3. c) St. John's "Big News" (Autism Diagnosis and Implications) - 00:35:43

05) Distrust - Danganronpa - Multiplatform - Masafumi Takada - Hugues

1. a) Music - 00:46:05
2. b) Discussion - 00:49:21

06) The Heist (Arasaka Octant Theme) - Cyberpunk 2077 - Multiplatform - Marcin Przybyłowicz, P. T. Adamczyk, and/or Paul Leonard-Morgan - St. John

1. a) Music - 00:53:30
2. b) Discussion - 00:57:57

07) Walking in Derceto - Alone in the Dark - PC - Phillipe Vachey - Hugues

1. a) Music - 01:02:07
2. b) Discussion - 01:04:20

08) 4000 Degrees Kelvin - Portal - Multiplatform - Kelly Bailey and/or Mike Morasky - St. John

1. a) Music - 01:06:36
2. b) Discussion - 01:07:43

09) Recollection - 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors - DS - Shinji Hosoe - Hugues

1. a) Music - 01:12:24
2. b) Discussion - 01:16:16

[TRIGGER WARNING for the sensory-sensitive: Track 10 begins with about 10 seconds of harsh noise]

10) Sentinel Core Escape - X-Men 2: The Clone Wars - Genesis - Kurt Harland, Mark Miller and/or Nu Romantic Productions - St. John

1. a) Music - 01:21:10
2. b) Discussion - 01:24:46

11) The Tower - Wolfenstein 3D - Jaguar - Bobby Prince - Hugues

1. a) Music - 01:29:31
2. b) Discussion - 01:32:42

12) Escape - Metroid - NES - Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka - St. John

1. a) Music - 01:37:37
2. b) Discussion - 01:39:54

13) Ending C - Innsmouth no Yakata - Virtual Boy - Yoshiyuki Ishii and/or Dota Ando - Hugues

1. a) Music - 01:43:08
2. b) Discussion - 01:45:03
3. c) End of Show Business (with a little bit more autism business) - 01:50:34
4. d) Track 14 Discussion - 01:57:13
5. e) Sign-off - 01:58:57

14) Airport Counter - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Switch - Kazumi Totaka, Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi - St. John

1. a) Music - 01:59:06
2. b) Episode Outtakes - 02:02:13

Total Episode Runtime: 02:13:03

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This episode is the flip-side of the C1E79 coin in that where C1E79 was the final episode of NNR ever to be recorded and produced by a non-confirmed autistic person (with the conversation occurring from the perspective of two people who didn’t know for sure yet, and had to be tentative and hesitant about it all), C2E14 is the first episode of NNR ever to be recorded and produced by a confirmed autistic (and where the conversation could occur from a place of certainty and finality). Apologies if anyone feels like I’m making too big of a deal about all of this, but you have to understand that this diagnosis changes EVERYTHING for me! It feels like a 43yr chapter of my life has ended and a new chapter of greater clarity, optimism, self-love, and opportunity has begun. It simply means that much to me, gang! I promise that I won’t keep talking a ton about it for the rest of time - or if I do, I will do so on a separate program dedicated specifically to the subject, but I do beg you to bear with me for now, while this is all still so new for me. :-)
Also, another “flip-side of the coin” situation between this and C1E79, which didn’t get discussed in the episode: In a certain manner of speaking, each episode are “the first episode ever to be produced in Fedora”. The mic time on both episodes were done on “the Big Rig”, which is running Arch-Based “Garuda KDE Dr460nized”, but the rest of the production was done on laptops. In the case of C1E79, the main laptop (which had been running Arch-based Endeavor OS [KDE] at the time) was out of commission awaiting a motherboard replacement, so all the production had to be done on one of my backup laptops, where I had just so happened to be “auditioning” Fedora 38 (Gnome) at the time. I ended up liking it so much that once the main laptop was repaired, I ended up replacing Endeavor with Fedora 38 (Gnome) - which was where all the production of this episode (minus the mic-time) happened. So, in a certain manner of speaking, both episodes were a “first time on Fedora” situation. Also, just as Arch-based Linux supplanted Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros, I feel like Fedora and Fedora-based is what is next to supplant Arch. Also, I think it’s official: I’m a Gnome convert. My “KDE-first” days indeed appear to be over for the time-being at least. I’ve even since replaced Garuda KDE Dr460nized with Garuda Gnome, but not until after all the mic recordings had been completed.]
Links to Autism tests - again, DO NOT take these test results as a SUBSTITUTE for a formal diagnosis by a trained professional. On the other hand, these tests are VERY reliable, so if they do indicate you have autism, you very likely do. Therefore, the advice of St. John is to take the test results and find a professional with whom you can show and discuss them:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17a6jSemcC5LO_HDqjB8iGHQcsJCMmr-1/view?usp=drive_link

Links to Autism / ADHD / AuDHD YouTube videos mentioned in the episode (as well as a few others added later - such as Illymation, Savannah Brown, Not Your Average Zebra, Proudly Autistic, and Kaelynnism).

Three-starred video is the one to watch if you're only gonna watch just one or two. Two-starred videos are the ones to see if you’re only gonna watch 3-5 of them. One star videos are the ones to watch if you’re gonna watch 7-10:
Savannah Brown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFlrHxn6xcA ***

Not Your Averaga Zebra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EHlKi4V_f0 ***

Yo Samdy Sam - https://youtu.be/pMx1DnSn-eg?si=XeI2sqZ0rmtMoXqa **

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgxHpHIrGNY

DSA Threads Costuming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAKBlc_R3IA **
Mat Ricardo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nI-GZjbJ3M **

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ValDCBdCbUg *

Mom on the Spectrum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E_V7cGteuo *

Foster on the Spectrum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxDHylYeQDo *

Kaelynnism - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CZMD8jMDpoA *

Illymation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Vy2BPmMS4 *

Orion Kelly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttacXR3FRWw

Purple Ella - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWv9gjPiy4

Autism From the Inside - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNgLrPkp2y4

Proudly Autistic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIRHGRQ0JiE

I am Mindblind - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xa02TT-k-w

The Thought Spot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uSjyB8csrE

Molly's ADHD Mayhem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GELgAsUI8ds

Hayley Honeyman - https://youtube.com/shorts/pDhdTOibsw0?si=3e2DRh3nc6s27fRp

I'm Autistic, Now What - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vcMWB7fuQ

How to ADHD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ-wCP4tjrg

Olivia Lufallah - https://youtube.com/shorts/kzL3mUFcAIw?si=p7JI8TxcSoacRQOu

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Thanks for listening! Join us again on Oct 15th for C1E80: “The Remix Episode” - guest hosted, guest curated - AND EVEN GUEST-PRODUCED by Hugues!! Delicious [non] VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds. And wherever you are - Fly the N!