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Hughlander posted:Hey in better(?) news, Terry Miles has a feature film coming https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28015371/ staring Felicity Smoak as calamity jane, and Oliver Queen as Wild Bill... It's television for your eyes!
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He does good imo at creating a vibe, he just sucks at plot, so directing someone else's script actually feels like a good fit for him.
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Bumping the thread yo say if you like art, people talking into tapes a la the Magnus Archives, and an over arching mystery that might be occult / horror, The Phosphene Catalogue is pretty cool. official website: https://phosphenecatalogue.com/ Their summary. quote:We see light where others see only darkness. The narrator is newly replacing the previous art director to catalogue various art pieces. At first the pieces dont seem connected until particular symbols, relationships, and coincidences start piling up. I greatly appreciate that she sounds competent and skilled at her job. There's so many podcasts that have bumbling narrators that are allegedly professionals in their fields but sound like they're barely out of high school and have no experience whatsoever in their decades long career. It's by Namtao Productions so those familiar with the hard scifi hopepunk podcast, Lost Terminal. It's quite well made for an indie podcast. Very professional voice acting and production. Theres only a handful of episodes so far, but I have high Hope's. Lost Terminal had wonderful plot lines and I feel safe to assume it will be the same for this one.
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That is extremely my thing, thank you!
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Thanks for the suggestion!
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Listening to a lot of old TMA and does that Glasgow Willy Wonka thing feel like the shenanigans of The Stranger to anybody else?
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AstroZamboni posted:Listening to a lot of old TMA and does that Glasgow Willy Wonka thing feel like the shenanigans of The Stranger to anybody else? It's the Unknown.
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Oh yeah! The third series of Victoriocity is now out. If you haven't heard of it, it is a tres silly steampunk farce in a dystopian Britain where London takes up about a third of England and Queen Victoria is now some kind of mad meta-human brass supercomputer who everyone is too scared to tell that she should be officially declared dead.
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Victoriocity is basically Victorian pulp by way of Douglas Adams and it's fantastic.
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Also, if anyone is concerned the steampunk label, it avoids the pitfalls of the genre for the most part. It's probably the only piece of steampunk media I enjoy and it is one of my favorite podcasts, if that says anything.
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What are the pitfalls of steampunk?
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A Maze of Clouds posted:What are the pitfalls of steampunk? A tendency to whitewash the extremely brutal living conditions for all but a monied elite, whose lifestyle was patently impossible without colonial and domestic exploitation. Politely ignoring the massive racism of the age, which factors into the previous point but also is definitely its own specific thing. Basically treating the historical setting upon which steampunk builds itself with all the depth of a throwaway romance novel.
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What podcast app do y'all use? I've been using pocket casts but I'd like a way to sort and organize things that isn't tied behind a subscription fee
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podcast addict. I think I have a cracked version by accident. Though I am a freak who prefers to use a separate app, Smart Audiobook Player and Musicolet, to listen to podcasts. If I don't have my specific type of mp3 tag sorting I will blow up and die. Podcast addict doesn't do some hosed up attempt at DRM by hiding the audio files as some extensionless files. Looking at you, Realm app. Podcast addict also has decent suggested podcasts at the bottom of individual podcast info summaries. Observable Radio scifi, mystery, single season currently,, 8 episodes as of posting, on going, 20 minutes but realistically 15 once you X out the ads, intro extro, and misc. quote:Observable Radio is a found footage anthology podcast of retro sci-fi and analog horror from Cameron Suey and Phil van Hest. Essentially a radio host who's totally bot a radio host experiences a space phenomenon, and suddenly hears various bizarre transmissions bounced down to his radio station. Theres a brief intro by him and then theres the odd transmission played which is the found footage portion. There seems to be an overarching plot with him, so he's not an unnecessary gimmick to give intros with. It's still developing. The Liminal Lands fantasy, mystery, contemporary, on going, multiple seasons, 4 + seasons, 10 to 20 minute episodes, with very brief less than 5 minutes intro extro. quote:All alone in a hostile new reality, one man sets out on a journey to find his missing family. Follow along as he struggles to survive in and understand this strange new world he has found himself in. A weekly podcast chronicling his travels through The Liminal Lands, and the trials he faces in a world where seemingly everything wants to kill him. Will he survive? Will he find his missing family? Can he escape The Liminal Lands? Being an indie podcast, the voice acting ain't the hottest. In this case I find it genuinely refreshing. Sometimes theres too much emphasis to sound like you have a full time staff to edit record polish jack off etc etc the episodes. It better suits the feel of the podcast--a ordinary guy gets tossed into a bizarre situation and he has to use his ordinary skills to survive it. No tailed beast and sudden magical Super ninja blood heritage revelation here, thank you. And speaking of indie sounding podcasts, have yall heard of John From Back Home? John From Back Home fantasy, contemporary, completed, single season, 15 to 20 minute episodes. quote:You haven’t been back home in years, but the old answering machine is filled with messages from a high school friend named John. John From Back Home is about leaving friends behind, keeping secrets hidden, and the dangers of trying to live someone else’s life. For fans of horror, mystery, and weird fiction. Who doesn't love some small town horror? Theres decent audio effects which are thankfully rare and add to the atmosphere. The plot carries itself and i liked the main characters struggles. Poor dude.
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Len posted:What podcast app do y'all use? I've been using pocket casts but I'd like a way to sort and organize things that isn't tied behind a subscription fee Overcast. I pay a subscription but 99% sure it’s just because I like supporting the authors of apps I spent so much time with.
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Player.fm but I don't know if I can really recommend it.
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I've been listening to White Vault Goshawk and I'm wondering if thats a mistake. See I liked the location horror of a hosed up cave temple thing, and then I got annoyed when it repeated the gimmick for season two. And now it feels like they've gone all the way opposite by not being about a hosed up cave temple at all? Does it get better and or circle back to the hosed up cave gimmick, or should I cut my losses? I only listened to the first five episodes.
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I'm curious about that as well. I haven't listened to Goshawk but I've been underwhelmed by the last few seasons. It feels like they've been loving about for multiple seasons and haven't advanced the mystery or revealed anything meaningful about what it is. If this season is more of the same meaningless loving about, I'm going to cut my losses.
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I tried episode six and its finally mentioned the stupid plot point of the vault[s] having secret society families that protect / benefit from them and you know. And one of the family member who is a minor member is supposed yo now take over the worshipping ritual thing because it hasn't been done and now the head matriarch role is hers now or her family is going to die. I dont think I have the patience for it. Maybe I'll listen to the very last 2 episodes when the season is done. I wanted some hosed up caves not stupid pseudo antisemitic elite clans ruling the world via occult alien caves. I dont thn k they should've continued this series. It's very Tanis except not good, and I say that as someone who mildly enjoyed tanis*. They also dit ch ed the gimmick of having people speak in their first language, then doing a English translation voice over. I liked that, even if it was a episode time padding. * listen it was the first big huge multi season podcast I listened through all at once. My standards were still developing at the time.
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Yeah, it was an incredible first season and then since then they've literally revealed exactly two big plot points: 1. There are more sites with the same spooky properties 2. There are families that know what is going on and profit in some way from that. They've managed to make around 100 episodes out of the reveal of those two things. I don't think they went in knowing what the solution to their mystery was and I don't think they've figured it out yet either. Sucks, it had a lot of promise.
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I agree. It was an interesting premise, but it didn't really live up to it.
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Is goshawk different from regular white vault or just the name of the latest season? I gave up after season 2 was just season 1 again.
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Goshawk is the name of the latest season for White Vault. I assume it's to differentiate from the priors, and for flavor. Or maybe to make people think it's a sequel? The others never had unique names. The story beginning features two nature photographers so I'm guessing there's symbolism there that I'm not getting. Or its meaningless. Its suppose to continue the concept of the white vault, but not the previous plot lines.
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Doublr posting to say the podcast The Liminal Lands, has started the latest season. Its genres are fantasy, contemporary, maybe a little fairy tale / mythological but very much grounded. I keep imagining the scenery having the same aesthetics as the Neverending Story movie. Not dated, but if it was a modern version of the setting, if that makes sense. Think Bobby Hill but in the Neverending Story? That makes no sense and I'll stop now lmao It's the podcast wherein a man in the rural Southern us went out hunting, fell from his snipers nest, and somehow landed in a dangerous, alternate world full of monsters and tricksters. The majority of the plot involves his travels back to his family. The minor plot is of his wife trying to figure out where he's gone while caring for their daughters and fending off an unseemly suitor. Not in a explicit sexual harassment way, but it's clear what's going on. It's a little oddyssean imo, but not too on the nose. It's an indie podcast so its charming and refreshingly unique in its presentation. I really hope people would give it a chance.
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Just wanna check if anyone else here is a Fan of the Kingmaker Histories. The season 2 finale went out a few weeks ago and felt like an appropriate season climax for things to get explosive.
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FrozenGoldfishGod posted:So one I've been addicted to lately (got there via Night Vale, then got recommended Monstrous Agonies, and then Episode One just came up on my list without me ever actually putting it there) is Hello from the Hallowoods. It's a very queer story - and I mean that in the sense that 'just about every major character is some variety of queer person', as well as in the sense of 'this story is about weird, spooky poo poo happening'. The basic premise is that the world suffered a bizarre apocalypse of some sort, and the survivors of the apocalypse are mostly based out of a northern forest called the Hallowoods. I was thinking of this again lately. I finished all of Season One and thought it was good, then bounced at the start of Season Two thinking, "Do I want to invest another 20+ hours in a season." Can someone who has continued past season one answer if it's worth finishing? I think this is one that just isn't a good binge.
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Samite podcast, Season three pros: only four episodes, good writing, interesting plot, consistent quality, I cannot complain. cons: man c'mon I like hearing even more about this weird analog bbs horror cult. But I kinda wanted to know more about the mythology and this Queen in Samite in the first place. Like what does she do besides encourage murders / suicides, are there other obscure cults that also involve ritual suicides, what motivates her followers to do this. Just a fraction more, please. You know, they did mention there was small offshoots of the cult. What if these offshoots were planning in challenging the Queen? They did mention women ceiling to avoid provoking the Queen into combat.. I wish it went more into that than another season of 'theres yet more, earlier generations of this cult who did murders'.
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