When Games Become Living Worlds
Games feel alive when their culture exists.
Aug 31, 2026 · 58 min · 13 segments
Dillin played Knights of the Old Republic once a long, long time ago, and Robin has never played the series. We're playing them chapter by chapter and discussing along the way. Dorkspawn began as a…
There are so many nursery rhymes where I do need to be like...
Is this a real Mastery Rhyme or did I make this up? The P and the Princess were definitely one of them.
The Princess and the
P? Yeah, the Princess and the P is a weird
one.
It's definitely a weird one.
It's a weird one.
Because there's so many things which...
It's a thing which is a UK thing that didn't make it in North America as far as I'm aware, which is pantomimes.
You don't have pantomimes really over there, right?
I don't know what that is.
So no, good.
Because this is one of the things where I've been living in North America for like three, almost four years at this point.
And I was like, I know for a fact you don't have pantomimes.
But if I attack this with such determination, you're like, we have pantomimes.
I'm going to be very embarrassed.
You don't have pantomimes.
Pantomimes, pantos, are Christmas period... like plays that are of nursery rhymes normally they're all there's like they're every single one of them has tropes uh the tropes are like he's behind you which is um at some point a character a villain is going to be stood behind a character and the audience has to yell he's behind you and then they will turn and then they won't be there anymore and then they walk across the stage they're a bit of a buffoon there is always cross-dressing like there is a like a drag queen in every show not like a drag queen it's like a guy who is in every respect a cis guy who is dressed up like a female character um So it's not like a drag queen, like, you know, they are an expert and are known to be this.
But again, a very British thing, a very British thing, which is why the transphobia in the UK makes absolutely no sense.
I know, it's wild.
On a cultural level, it makes no sense.
Every single person who is above the age, who is above my age, or my age or above, basically, who is transphobic, is literally so fucking stupid because so much of our culture is based on drag.
Yeah.
There was like almost like, I'm saying like a solid...
Six out of every 10 game shows when I was a kid was hosted by a drag queen.
There are so many nursery rhymes where I do need to be like...
Is this a real Mastery Rhyme or did I make this up? The P and the Princess were definitely one of them.
The Princess and the
P? Yeah, the Princess and the P is a weird
one.
It's definitely a weird one.
It's a weird one.
Because there's so many things which...
It's a thing which is a UK thing that didn't make it in North America as far as I'm aware, which is pantomimes.
You don't have pantomimes really over there, right?
I don't know what that is.
So no, good.
Because this is one of the things where I've been living in North America for like three, almost four years at this point.
And I was like, I know for a fact you don't have pantomimes.
But if I attack this with such determination, you're like, we have pantomimes.
I'm going to be very embarrassed.
You don't have pantomimes.
Pantomimes, pantos, are Christmas period... like plays that are of nursery rhymes normally they're all there's like they're every single one of them has tropes uh the tropes are like he's behind you which is um at some point a character a villain is going to be stood behind a character and the audience has to yell he's behind you and then they will turn and then they won't be there anymore and then they walk across the stage they're a bit of a buffoon there is always cross-dressing like there is a like a drag queen in every show not like a drag queen it's like a guy who is in every respect a cis guy who is dressed up like a female character um So it's not like a drag queen, like, you know, they are an expert and are known to be this.
But again, a very British thing, a very British thing, which is why the transphobia in the UK makes absolutely no sense.
I know, it's wild.
On a cultural level, it makes no sense.
Every single person who is above the age, who is above my age, or my age or above, basically, who is transphobic, is literally so fucking stupid because so much of our culture is based on drag.
Yeah.
There was like almost like, I'm saying like a solid...
Six out of every 10 game shows when I was a kid was hosted by a drag queen.
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