DOOM

You're looking at a computer in a laboratory called Cortical Labs.

It's playing Doom.

But look closer.

There's nobody playing it.

They just can't get out.

They are trapped there because this computer is running on living human brain cells, and those cells are the ones playing.

There's human brain cells in a computer playing Doom infinitely? How the f*** is that even possible? Isn't that just AI? Well, no, I think they're saying that there is inputs being generated by human brain cells that are hooked up to the computer.

How the hell do you even train individual human brain cells to play Doom?

Wow.

The guy who made Doom, right? So it doesn't have him in the book, but when he was back when he was with Inside Out Software, one of

his startups, like pre-ID,

And, um, they were looking at the aliens license in the late eighties.

Wouldn't be surprised, yeah.

Yeah.

And then lastly, in the book, you've got a section on alien-like games and you've got things like Alien Breed and Halo and Doom in there.

There's probably a load of other games that you could have mentioned that didn't make it in there.

you're looking at it on a Vectrex.

Yeah, it is Doom on a Vectrex in the same way that it was Doom on a pregnancy test.

There wasn't actually a CPU in there running the game.

Right.

don't even remember all of them but i remember it was quite extensive and rather different kind of thing that was fun i

think that speaks to as well like how cheats have changed over time like and originally it used to just be like glitches that you'd exploit or dev codes that they'd put in to test their levels or whatever Like I know all the Doom cheat codes, which I still remember to this day because I used them a lot.

They were all just there for the devs to test out levels and things without worrying about getting killed.

So they'd turn God mode on and play through the level to see if it works and that kind of stuff.

I would fuck around with that sometimes.

Some people even play it as a very serious thing because of it.

I mean, I've played, obviously, lots of Doom conversion mods and stuff back in the day.

Because people loved adapting that.

Or hell as this literal fiery hellscape comes from.

You know, the hell you have in the Doom video games.

Like, where's that from?

So...

And, uh, yeah, hopefully you guys will enjoy them.

And then, yes, we will be doing the doom wheel of doom, uh, to give away our copy of doom.

And, uh, Is he still in the chat? Is Dave Newland here? I feel like we need a Doom Wheel of Doom jingle.

He has

done it, but I don't know who he sent it to.

All I've got is

this.

Prepare yourselves for the Evercade Wheel of Doom.

Yes.

But what we often see in the current boomer shooter genre is a lot of games going for that kind of dark aesthetic that is very Doom-like, very inspired by Doom.

This game, visually, aesthetically, completely different from that.

It's almost like these 2D graphics in a 3D space that looks a little bit silly, but deliberately so.

Because it looks like I'm the only person voting on the Just Dance games.

Doom the Dark Ages, for example, has an easy, which is like, yeah, because you can adjust all of that stuff to make it a really straightforward game all the way through.

So that's one where the achievements also match up, where it's a relatively straightforward game and the achievements are relatively straightforward.

So that kind of is not a problem.