This episode of Enthusiastic Rest was originally released on March 11, 2024. I can't access the original posts anymore to remember what-all I said originally, so I'm just copying over episode details for these re-uploads.

Episode link: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/niko864/episodes/A-Tour-of-the-Punks-e2guegu

Episode description: 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!

Episode transcription below the cut.

This episode of Enthusiastic Rest was originally released on December 4, 2022. I can't access the original posts anymore to remember what-all I said originally, so I'm just copying over episode details for these re-uploads.

Episode link: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/niko864/episodes/Tabletop-Roleplaying-Games-e1rnd9c

Episode description: 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!

Episode transcription below the cut.

This episode of Enthusiastic Rest was originally released on November 29, 2022. I can't access the original posts anymore to remember what-all I said originally, so I'm just copying over episode details for these re-uploads.

Episode link: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/niko864/episodes/Enthusiastic-Rest-Show-Trailer-e1rgnoo

Episode description: Get ready to get sleepy. Enthusiastic Rest: a show to talk you to sleep with an endless stream of words about nothing important.

Episode transcription below the cut.