Episode 452: Bog-Muppet Territory

About this episode

The hosts discuss various games and films, including Silent Hill f and Alien: Earth, while exploring thematic elements and personal inspirations.

Chris, Jamie and Marsh discuss what the f Silent Hill f is about, get systemic in Sword Hero, jump ship in Jump Space, try to pronounce “photogrammetry” correctly while discussing Mind Diver AND take a cathartically large dump on Alien: Earth. * Silent Hill f * Big-time ambiguity intertext: Henry James’ Turn of the Screw * I’ve always wanted to make something with a rainy montage sequence in it, inspired by Ghost in the Shell’s . And Silent Hill f goes and does it out of the gate! * The Whale God: film in which a Japanese fishing village eats itself * Sword Hero: pocket-sized Skyrim-sim with loppable limbs and good meat * Skin Deep: pocket-sized imsim that we may come back to! * Jump Space, formerly Jump Ship * Iron Pineapple plays games on the internet telly * Chained Beasts * Sunderfolk: tactical turnbased Dungeons & Dragons stuff * Mind Diver * Alien Earth * Noah Hawley is Alien Earth’s showrunner * Fargo and Legion are other shows he’s worked on * Our Fargo/True Detective Lock-in * John Carpenter’s The Thing * Gale Ann Hurd: co-writer of Terminator and producer on Aliens, The Abyss and many other films * Possessor, directed…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris, Jamie, Marsh

Topics covered

• Silent Hill f
• Sword Hero
• Jump Space
• Mind Diver
• Alien: Earth
• game discussions
• film references

Keywords

• Silent Hill f
• Sword Hero
• Jump Space
• Mind Diver
• Alien: Earth
• game analysis
• film discussion
• Ghost in the Shell
• Turn of the Screw

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Sword Hero, Skin Deep, Jump Space, Chained Beasts, Sunderfolk

Books & works: Silent Hill f, Turn of the Screw, Ghost in the Shell, The Whale God, Mind Diver, Alien: Earth, Fargo, Legion, True Detective, John Carpenter’s The Thing

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