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Advent day 17: Millennium
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Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com // bandcamp // instagram // youtube
111.17: Millennium
pre-apocalypse
85: The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
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In the last episode of 2020, I cover The Sundial by Shirley Jackson and discuss how to turn it into a pseudo-LARP based on the UK indie game Witch: the Road to Lindisfarne.
Show Notes
Introduction 00:07
Synopsis 02:04
Remarks 13:21
– Boundaries
– No appeals to authority
– Hierarchies
– Oracles and weirdness
RPG 18:36
– Across the Table episode on Witch: the Road to Lindisfarne
– Adapting Witch: the Road to Lindisfarne to the Halloran Witches
Media 23:41
– Fictoplasm episode 4.03 (The Last Policeman, Hard Sun, The Three Body Problem)
– On the Flip Side by Nicholas Fisk
– Interview with Flatland Games
– Through Sunken Lands and other adventures
Music Credits
Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com // bandcamp // free music archive
Samples: “Is that you or are you you?” from Reappear // “Another version of you” from Thoughtless
74: Days by James Lovegrove
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Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 02:50 // Commentary 15:20 // The Outside (what kind of a world has gigastores?) 15:28 // Manufactured cultures (zaibatsus and phyles) 16:26 // Grant Morrison (intelligent cities and corporations as planetary contagion) 16:48 // City as organism 17:20 // (autocracy) 18:36 // (microcosm) 19:01 // (visitors) 19:41 // (spaces) 24:26 // (scenes) 29:16 // (pacing) 32:43 // (rise and fall) 33:52 // Extra 34:42 // High Rise by J G Ballard 34:51 // The Hope by James Lovegrove 39:14
Music Credits
Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com // bandcamp // free music archive
Samples: “Is that you or are you you?” from Reappear // “Another version of you” from Thoughtless
Episode 64: Until the End of the World, Strange Days
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This episode I’m revisiting two charming 90s near-future films: Wim Wender’s Until the End of the World, and Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days.
Show Notes
Until the End of the World 01:17 // Strange Days 06:26 // Themes 10:49 // Brain taping, addiction to dreams, Snow Crash, Dollhouse, Sense8 10:53 // Fear of the future, The Last Policeman 13:43 // Games 16:48
Music Credits
Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com // bandcamp // free music archive
Samples: “Is That You Or Are You You?” from Reappear // “Another Version Of You” from Thoughtless
4.03: The Last Policeman, Hard Sun, The Three Body Problem
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Ralph briefly discusses three pre-apocalyptic novels, with the conclusion that all that matters is how much time you’ve got left.
Show Notes
- Three works of fiction 01:00
- The Last Policeman by Ben Winters 01:30
- Hard Sun 03:40
- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu 06:30
- Remarks 08:55
- Summary 12:30
Links
- This episode is partially inspired by the thread Nihilism: Gaming in a Hard Sun world on the UKRoleplayers forum.
- Here’s a fun stackexchange thread) on Hard Sun’s possible extinction event.
Music Credits
“Cylinder Nine” from Cylinders by Chris Zabriskie