Podcasts sure, but I’m mostly thinking of good tv shows and webseries here, movie franchises and documentaries too. I want to set it going in VLC and turn the screen off, which is basically how I watch YouTube slop.
a 10 hour loop of Red Sun in the Sky
You need to listen to Your Kickstarter Sucks and you need to get publicly mad about Plex and your NAS server more often.
On the bright side, I’d started using alternate ASCII characters to keep my digital files and folders sorted and pretty, like using the raised colon ˸ and reverse solidus ⧸ . So I’m pretty pleased about that. Linux allows the slash but I don’t know about the colon.
that’s simultaneously cool and fucking horrifying
I’ve listened to a bit of YKS and I respect that they have a particular vibe but I got the unshakable feeling that the funny era of the podcast was already long since over.
YKS makes me laugh so hard sometimes
I listen to an unholy amount of actual play podcasts, there are some very good explicitly anti-colonial and anti-capitalist ones out there. Good for entertainment that isn’t pure lib slop, some hilarious bits with engaging stories and the unpredictability of dice-driven storytelling. Not in a position to make specific recs right now but I’ll come back to this thread.
EDIT: Oddity Roadshow is pretty fun and irreverent. GM has a tendency to “make capitalism the bad guy”, one of the PCs is openly commie (but it doesn’t come up much). Tendency to commit to the bit at the expense of plot (or even narrative sense) means it goes a bit off the rails sometimes, but it’s fun.
I was going to recommend Campaign: Skyjacks as well, but I’ve kinda lost interest in it over the last year or so. It did set out to tell an anti-colonial story (the Big Bad organisation is basically Dutch East India Corp) but kinda got bogged down in its own lore. YMMV. There’s also Courier’s Call which is closer to a kids show, set in the same world that I find quite heartwarming.
Also a shout out to The Orpheus Protocol. It’s a cosmic horror epic run on the GM’s own system. I get the feeling the GM has pretty good politics but they don’t really make it into the show. Basically the podcast that got me hooked on actual play. It’s very, very cool. CW for some pretty gruesome shit tho.
there are some very good explicitly anti-colonial and anti-capitalist ones out there
Anti-capitalism isn’t really a core theme or anything, but anything Brennan Lee Mulligan runs is going to have some of that sprinkled in. The Fantasy High halfling rant is legendary.
The entire script of every golden era episode of The Simpsons (incl. stage directions) as read by a circa 2010 text to speech bot.
There are vast amounts of radio dramas that you can grab off the net. I spent some time downloading shows. Stuff decades old is old-timey and it absolutely was not for me. An example of something I really hated is Dimension X. It was one of the first sci-fi radio dramas.
For the past few decades the radio became increasing unimportant and the format morphed into audio dramas. The Brits love the stuff. Just considering the UK alone - there must be
1,000s of hoursan ungodly amount of sci-fi, horror, mystery, etc. Doctor Who-related stuff is a genre unto itself. I spent yet more time downing shows. Sadly for me audio dramas (UK or not) are not my taste either.The only thing I listened to episode after episode was an oddball, ultra-low budget zombie series called We’re Alive. I think after all the effort I made I wanted to find at least one thing I listened to from start to finish. It wasn’t that good. I could have stopped after season one - but damn the torpedoes - I listened to the entire thing.
We’re Alive, A Story of Survival
We’re Alive — A Story of Survival is a horror/post apocalyptic audio drama, originally released in podcast form. Its story follows a large group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse in downtown Los Angeles, California. We’re Alive premiered May 4, 2009 on iTunes, and concluded its fourth and last season on July 29, 2014.
Apparently this link has all the episodes.
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/d1b39068-c10f-5817-8324-88ba173183cd
I’ve listened to We’re Alive a couple years back. I thought it was pretty ok. It’s better than most audio stuff of its ilk.
It was interesting to listen to a longish audio full cast thing. I don’t like all the spinoff crap that came from it, though.
In a similar vein, I’m pretty sure Phil Hendrie’s archive is available online and he was on the air forever, he must have recorded thousands of shows.
Das Kapital Volume 2 on audiobook
We must find a way to slopify it
X files
I’ve been trying to discover new music the last year is so, & one good way I’ve found to do so is use the radio. Problem is, in a car, you’re limited to the stations in range, so I go with internet radio instead.
I use an app called Transistor on fdroid, which let’s you search, save & play stations found on a massive database of internet radio stations. Best part is there’s no account bs required.
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99 percent invisible with Roman mars is solid for less political topics and history of design and other niche things.
seriously wrong is both comedy and politics, but also philosophy and socialism. It’s a fun one for sure.
Kelliot if you’re fancying some graphic design stuff
