We’ve got a particularly mad Mountains of Madness for you this week, as we talk about a brave landlord protecting his tenants from turning into zombies from that scary emergency alert that came and went. Then we get into why Google search is so awful now, straight from Google’
It’s spooky season, and that means our Horror Harvest is back again to bring you the scares and movie takes you’ve come to know. Which are worse for your health? This time we’ve got Evil Dead (2013), and it’s hard not to compare it to the
We’ve got some bookish stories for you in this one. First up, what the hell is going on with these scammy ebook apps on the Google Play Store? Our SEO/AI-driven hellscape continues unabated. Then we discuss the Seattle Kraken BookTok incident. When fandom becomes harassment in an arena
One of the strongest, if not the most pervasive, motivators in my life is anger. I use it as a guiding force. If something or someone pisses me off enough, I will work to spite them. Consider this anger management. Over on Twitter, a place for the very normal to
This week, a lawsuit from the Association of American Publishers forced the nonprofit Internet Archive to shutdown its ebook lending program. This program, which was expanded during the coronavirus pandemic, dubbed a “National Emergency Library,” was to remain open until June 30th or the end of the pandemic (whichever occurred
Bethesda Game Studios has made my favorite games. I can’t tell you how much I love Fallout 3. It changed my gaming world in 2008. And though it’s cool to hate on Fallout 3 and laud Fallout New Vegas as superior, I will always have a place in
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) circulated a list of songs to all of its radio stations that were suggested to not be broadcast. Some of the picks make sense, others absolutely do not. We go through the list, a time capsule of the thought
In our first Book Club episode we discuss Paul Tremblay’s The Pallbearers Club, the pseudo-memoir novel filled with New England dread, medical anxiety, vampire orbs, and 80s punk. What did we think of the unique formatting and hyper-focused interiority of the narration? Give it a listen to find out.
Here with a solo pod, because I have some stuff I want to talk about. Like the new Ari Aster movie, Beau is Afraid, and how it’s a 3 hour long nightmare for the paranoid among us. Specifically me. Later I’ve got an anime check in, as a
We’ve got a packed show for you this week. In Mountains of Madness we talk about Twitter clones and where we’re all supposed to go now that our 20s are over. We can’t keep making accounts forever. In Worst Beats in the World we discover the song
Sometimes we just shouldn’t record. But once we press that shiny red button, all bets are off, for better or worse. In any event we’ve got the latest Persona 3 Reloaded updates after the game’s official unveiling. And Atlus had still had one more trick up their
All the rumors and leaks were true. The Persona 3 remake is real, and in this episode I give my first impressions and reactions to the news, as well as some in-depth analysis of the trailer and what we know so far about Persona 3: Reloaded. I have some concerns.
Sometimes we never learn from our mistakes. Toddlers learn not to touch the hot stove, but we didn’t remember why we stopped doing tarot readings in the opening of the show. Oops. Later, we discuss the children’s author who sought a little too much real world experience, the
The AI storm rages on, and we hear a lot about these large datasets these large language models and supposedly advanced AIs are trained with. But what exactly is in those datasets, and why are these “open” AI companies not exactly forthright with the data they’re using? We uncover
We’ve got a deep dive for you this week, and I needed to call in some backup. We’re taking a look at some controversy surrounding emo/punk band Say Anything, its lead Max Bemis, and his and his family’s patterns of behavior over the last several years.
I’ve got a short one for you as I recover from another wisdom tooth surgery. It’s just been so much fun behind the scenes. Sunshine and rainbows. So let me tell you about some anime I’ve seen lately. As usual we’ve got some good, some bad,
Can we talk about the Persona 3 Remake leaks? I need to talk about the Persona 3 Remake leaks. I’ve been dying to talk to you about the Persona Remake 3 leaks. But first: a new Dating is Dead has me joining a new dating site, but I don’
It’s no secret that there’s plenty of pressure on healers in Final Fantasy XIV. One minute your weekly Euphrosyne Alliance Raid is going fine and suddenly your tank is dropping to the single digits and there’s a couple of DPS dead when all you were trying to
