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Azathoth posted:With "reading a decent scp verbatim" as the baseline, how good are we talking? Much better than that. It’s pretty atmospheric and the lecture-recording gimmick is leading to some neat audio production bits. It’s presented as pretty dry but it’s absolutely fascinating if you like weird ancient civilizations and mysteries.
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Definitely better than baseline. It's an interesting premise executed in a unique way, as a series of lectures by a tenured professor of archeology teaching about an advanced lost civilization that allegedly existed 80,000 years ago. He's able to teach the class because he has tenure, and everybody thinks he's either insane or doing some sort of weird performance art. That is, until it gradually starts to seem as if he might be telling the truth. There's only about a dozen fifteen-minute episodes thus far and it's a breezy listen.
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That sounds amazing, thank you for the recommendation!
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Binged through the whole thing. Admittedly I was hoping that they would stretch out the whole "Is this real or not?" ambiguity for a while longer or at least not go fully supernatural so soon but paying off the clear Chekhov's Gun of the named characters suddenly all having injured arms was neat too. Really looking forward to see where this goes.
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Len posted:Does anyone know what's going on with Archive 81? They haven't updated their Patreon since 2019, their Facebook since right before the show dropped, and their twitter was silent from March until these two tweets Alright so they responded to their tweet from early January the other day https://twitter.com/Archive81/status/1623404103903608834?s=20 It's a link to a now ended kickstarter for a queer take on The Odyssey https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1194463901/hearthbound-an-untelling-of-the-odyssey
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Found a really cool podcast (from the creators of Modes of thought) called The Imperfection. The story is a group of people who suffer from a rare neurological or psychiatric affliction which causes them to randomly hallucinate wildly suddenly found that their doctor dissapeared without a trace. Or was he erased from existance? By a conspiracy? Of robots? This show is amazing, imagine a support group of certified mental patients (all very likable good people) running around New York investigating a mad conspiracy while very aware that their findings might just be utter hallucination, corraborate with one another. And the whole thing is very uplifting so far, often hilarious.
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So... Do you have to subscribe on their site to listen to it? Is that the only way?
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Feb 21, 2023 13:17
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I found it searching in Podcast Addict and got this feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/SBP5382128338
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Yeah Pocketcasts found it no problem. I'm about halfway through it and really liking it so far.
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i was having a super weird issue with megaphone (spotify's open platform) and that might have caused the problem. basically it looks like they forgot to renew some security certificates (again) and so a bunch of my podcasts wouldn't update for a few days. not sure if that would keep it from showing up in a search, but i could see it causing weird issues like that
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Anybody listened to What happened in Skinner? I gave it a try but it gets a lot...cuter after the first episode and I'm having a bit of trouble remembering who's who. Does it ever pick up or is it nor for me?
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I made it about 3/4 of the way through before I gave up. Wasn't for me either. I did finish the Imperfection. I had a very Severance like dream after finishing it.
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Capilarean posted:Anybody listened to What happened in Skinner? I gave it a try but it gets a lot...cuter after the first episode and I'm having a bit of trouble remembering who's who. Does it ever pick up or is it nor for me? i've started it twice and just always bounce off it, it doesn't seem to ever get gripping we're going out to a nightvale show tomorrow in PA which should be a fun time. i went to a show back in 2014 and enjoyed it a bunch
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Capilarean posted:Anybody listened to What happened in Skinner? I gave it a try but it gets a lot...cuter after the first episode and I'm having a bit of trouble remembering who's who. Does it ever pick up or is it nor for me? It was ok. The opening I thought set it up poorly. It’s better than Tanis in that it has a plot and a story and leaves when the story is told. And no bomba socks anywhere.
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Capilarean posted:Anybody listened to What happened in Skinner? I gave it a try but it gets a lot...cuter after the first episode and I'm having a bit of trouble remembering who's who. Does it ever pick up or is it nor for me?
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This is only tangentially related to the topic, but I didn't see it mentioned. Slay the Princess, a horror visual novel, got a demo on Steam and is getting some good buzz. The narrator may sound familiar... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RByDoYQpFa8 (It's Sims)
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Boxman posted:This is only tangentially related to the topic, but I didn't see it mentioned. Slay the Princess, a horror visual novel, got a demo on Steam and is getting some good buzz. The narrator may sound familiar... The princess also sounds familiar Nichole Goodnight
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Capilarean posted:Anybody listened to What happened in Skinner? I gave it a try but it gets a lot...cuter after the first episode and I'm having a bit of trouble remembering who's who. Does it ever pick up or is it nor for me? I finished it a while ago. It starts with a nice mystery and ends up as what amounts to a superhero origin story (thematic rather than specific spoiler).
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Ornamented Death posted:I finished it a while ago. It starts with a nice mystery and ends up as what amounts to a superhero origin story (thematic rather than specific spoiler). Meh. I think if there's a S2 it'll explore that more but that wasn't my take away. The power they had in the last 3 episodes was a once a 90 year thing.
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Len posted:The princess also sounds familiar Pretty sure she was also involved with the last horror visual novel they made… Sleepy Willows? Something Willows. It’s pretty dece if u like body horror, but I’m not huge into the art style
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Re: the last couple of Anterran Literature eps: wow, they are really just going to dismiss that whole "slicing one's hand and OTHER people feeling it" thing as mass hysteria", huh? God, I hope this doesn't turn into another Tanis that just spins around in circles forever. Again, they really should have stuck to the lectures and stretched out the "is this real?" ambiguity before introducing the mystery box nonsense.
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I was going to start a new podcast today and couldn't remember the name of a podcast I heard an ad about. It was a weird museum told by an audio guide that makes comments about guests going missing in the museum. Somehow I shouldn't be surprised that there's more than one that fit that exact description but there are. I was thinking about The Godfrey Audio Guide but instead started The Misholme Museum. I only listened to the first episode but it was an episode that was like a version of the Cottingley Fairies with the serial numbers filed off and a dash of spoooooky. I'll probably keep listening but mostly I just wanted to post about there being more than one podcast about a weird self guided museum tour
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Len posted:mostly I just wanted to post about there being more than one podcast about a weird self guided museum tour One of the seasons of Within The Wires used that idea, very well I think.
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Anyone got anything new they’ve been enjoying? I listened to a short show called Deviser that was decent enough to get me through a shift at work. Horror/scifi if you’re into that.
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Wangsucker 69 posted:Anyone got anything new they’ve been enjoying? I listened to a short show called Deviser that was decent enough to get me through a shift at work. Horror/scifi if you’re into that. I was going through the Misholme Museum one I mentioned above but it's kind of losing me in season 4 (I think) the metaplot that developed just hasn't hooked me
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Wangsucker 69 posted:Anyone got anything new they’ve been enjoying? I listened to a short show called Deviser that was decent enough to get me through a shift at work. Horror/scifi if you’re into that. Not exactly new, but I’ve really gotten into Midnight Burger in the last few months.
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It’s not exactly “new”, but it’s been on my backlog since release, and I’ve only just gotten around to it: Brimstone Valley Mall.
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Antitonic posted:It’s not exactly “new”, but it’s been on my backlog since release, and I’ve only just gotten around to it: Brimstone Valley Mall. We binged this on a trip to Columbus and back awhile ago. It was a fun time and I hope season 2 is as good as the first
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If anyone was listening to the sci-fi sitcom/adventure series EOS10 back when it was suddenly abandoned on a massive cliffhanger 3 years ago, you should know the show recently came back with a three-part special that wrapped up all the plot threads in a fantasticly satisfying cap to the adventures. The only thing missing after all this time is that Levi’s actor isn’t on the cast, but his role is now filled by one of his sibling princes who appeared in an earlier season
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codswallop posted:If anyone was listening to the sci-fi sitcom/adventure series EOS10 back when it was suddenly abandoned on a massive cliffhanger 3 years ago, you should know the show recently came back with a three-part special that wrapped up all the plot threads in a fantasticly satisfying cap to the adventures. Thank you for pointing this out! I was subscribed to it from back in the day but apparently the active RSS feed I was using didn't get that update. Looks like I have something to do today after all.
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Station 151, antarctic not arctic show but well put and presentented Tales of low city - must listen, calm description of various species and societies who dwell in underground city when the surface is poisoned The Madness of Chartrulean - an epic scifi tale of not sure, gods, superhumans and overwhelming sound design. Pls post more for insomniacs who need a narrative but calm thing to drift off to
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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. So far, I've mostly been working my way through Season One, and I have to say, it's doing a pretty good job of both revealing the weirdness, and tying things together so that you don't need to keep a notebook handy to keep up with what's going on and who's who. It also helps that the voice work is pretty solid throughout, so keeping track of who's talking - even when it's just one guy voicing both characters - is surprisingly easy. It's also very, very respectful and presents just about all of the characters as well-rounded people (probably helped by the guy producing and running the show being queer himself), and even the characters who look stock at first have a surprising amount of depth to them - Solomon, for instance, could very easily have been a flat stock version of his character, but instead the writers show us that no, he's just as human as the rest at his core (even if that manifests in some pretty horrifying ways). There's one exception - but even that's got a thematic reason behind it.
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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. Does the narrator try to be bargain bin Cecil when not in story mode forever? Or is that an affectation just from the first few? I wasn't a fan of the guy moderating the Silt Verses post-season discussion (He kept bringing all topics back to his podcast, and that's not what we were here for.), but the first episode seemed good for a first episode thing.
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Hughlander posted:Does the narrator try to be bargain bin Cecil when not in story mode forever? Or is that an affectation just from the first few? I wasn't a fan of the guy moderating the Silt Verses post-season discussion (He kept bringing all topics back to his podcast, and that's not what we were here for.), but the first episode seemed good for a first episode thing. I mean, some of the later episodes make him very much a character in the world of the show, but he's not really Cecil - he's not directly involved in anything that happens, and while he does directly address the character of the listeners (as well as a handful of other characters who are shown to directly be able to reach into his portfolio, on rare occasions) - but he's never really directly acting in the events that happen. Like, the whole part where Cecil gets directly involved in events doesn't really happen with him - even when he's talking to a character directly, he's still very much on the sidelines of any actions taken. Just to be clear, I'm thinking of stuff like the 'Who's a Good Boy' arc, and the Well of Night stuff - where Cecil wasn't just an observer, but an active participant in events. That doesn't really happen with the narrator of Hello from the Hallowoods - even when he's directly interacting with another character, he's just talking to them, rather than actively getting involved, and even that is pretty rare. FrozenGoldfishGod fucked around with this message at 06:37 on May 16, 2023 |
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FrozenGoldfishGod posted:I mean, some of the later episodes make him very much a character in the world of the show, but he's not really Cecil - he's not directly involved in anything that happens, and while he does directly address the character of the listeners (as well as a handful of other characters who are shown to directly be able to reach into his portfolio, on rare occasions) - but he's never really directly acting in the events that happen. Like, the whole part where Cecil gets directly involved in events doesn't really happen with him - even when he's talking to a character directly, he's still very much on the sidelines of any actions taken. Right, I meant more the dictation: - I'm a person in the world broadcasting to another person in the world. - I'm going to make a statement about the world that I say is obvious to everyone in the world. - I will then make a qualifying statement about it and over emphasize the words that are the weirdness about the world. The tone and dictation was almost identical to this exchange in the WTNV pilot: quote:A new man came into town today. Who is he? What does he want from us? Why his perfect and beautiful haircut? Why his perfect and beautiful coat? compared with: quote:I am in the shadow under your bed and I know each skeleton in your closet... you have so many skeletons in your closet. Maybe I'm overreading into it and it's just the first episode.
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Hughlander posted:Right, I meant more the dictation: Oh, I don't recall hearing as much of that as in WTNV, but then, I usually don't actively just sit and listen to podcasts. I put them on in the background while I do other things, as some extra sound. That said, I don't think it entirely stops, but he definitely doesn't do it as much. That said, if that kind of thing is a deal-breaker for you, that's fine - I clearly don't mind it, since I didn't even particularly notice it after the first episode.
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Sekenr posted:Tales of low city - must listen, calm description of various species and societies who dwell in underground city when the surface is poisoned drat, this is so loving good. I love this world-building, xenobiology, fictional anthropology kind of stuff so much. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Sekenr posted:Tales of low city - must listen, calm description of various species and societies who dwell in underground city when the surface is poisoned I listened to the first episode and I love it. Shades of Eskew
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Some people behind Wooden Overcoats, Wolf 359 and Rusty Quill have come up with a sitcom based on the misadventures of Marc Antony and Gaius Octavius after killing Brutus - Cry Havoc and ask questions later.
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