167: Victor Varnado and the Worldwide Tic Tac Toe Championship

Victor Varnado! Comedian! Artist! Entrepeneur! Writer! Director! Friend! Delight! More! Victor is a legally blind, Black albino, neurodivergent comedian, New Yorker cartoonist, and filmmaker whose work has appeared on Conan, Jimmy Kimmel, Marvel Comics, Vice, and Salon. He received a National Science Foundation grant for accessibility technology, and he recently signed a distribution deal bringing his Worldwide Tic Tac Toe Championship to over 100 million players through FRVR, one of the world's largest instant gaming networks. The Championship is live right now at HighScoreGameArcade.com, no app, no install, just a phone or laptop and the audacity to think you're good at Tic Tac Toe. His alternate identity is King Supernuts, a benevolent supervillain who presides over the Worldwide High Score League and recruits the world's top scorers into global competition. The format is engineered to destroy mastery, timed rounds, expanding boards, real-time global rankings, and it's completely, earnestly real. As King Supernuts himself put it: "It's 100% fair. It's global. It's sanctioned by the Worldwide High Score League. And it's ridiculous, but it's real." Find out more here! And play lots of games here!  We have a great chat! You have a great listen!