Ridley Scott plays fast and loose with history, and it felt like basically every scene has something that would rub historians the wrong way. Mostly minor things like Numidia having a counterweight trebuchet, but I’m sure Ash would have a more complete answer.
Minor spoilers for the movie, and also history: My friends and I found the inspiring speech at the end extremely funny, because the next hundred-ish years was famously full of backstabbing emperors and peasant revolts. There’s a whole Wikipedia article about how terrible everything was.
Hell yeah! Circus is fantastic. My mom loved playing that one as well.
I’m just going to keep adding to this post.
If you want to see a pretty decent film about the end of The Odyssey, I enjoyed The Return. It’s my favorite Juliette Binoche film since Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blue.
Recently we started releasing the “SICK FREAK MIX” of episodes due to insistence by many forum members and other listeners that the buzzer isn’t loud enough. I DO NOT WANT THE SHOW TO SOUND LIKE THAT, so for a long time I have considered making separate versions of the show that have louder and quieter buzzers as the audience likes.
In the past this was impossible, because all audio uploaded to Patreon was immediately pushed in the podcast feed. A new feature let me decide what goes into the feed and what doesn’t. Clearly that new feature failed, as many of our paying subscribers were served the Sick Freak Mix in place of the normal episode. While I triple-checked every setting to make sure this would not happen, I still apologize for it.
I don’t want anyone who isn’t prepared for Sick Freak Mix listening to it. Not joking here, I don’t think anyone should listen to it. I don’t like making or presenting it, but some people really seem to love it, so I did. The absolute worst thing a chef can do is serve you food that makes you sick, and the absolute worst thing an audio editor can do is give you audio that hurts your ears. First, do no harm. It sounds silly but I take this stuff really seriously.
That post has been deleted. Going forward these versions of the show will only be available as a link to a google drive, which I will include in Patreon feed show notes. You’ll have to download them yourself if you’d like to listen to them. Again, I apologize. Thanks for your time and understanding.
Genuinely, I’m sorry that happened. It really does not seem like you are at fault here. The technology failed you.
You are doing your best to correct the problem and mitigate any future occurrences. Speaking as a healthcare professional, that’s really the best you can do in this type of situation.
this is yeso’s wife. He was killed by the shear sonic force of a patreon exclusive buzzer sound mix which caused his head to explode like a balloon full of vegetable soup. He leaves his many children totally destitute. May god have mercy on his soul
Is there any chance you’d push the Bunny mix in the Patron feed? I got the regular and Freak mixes this morning on PocketCasts myself. One whiff of the Freak buzzer was enough for me for the time being.
My parents rarely touched the ‘family computer’, the Commodore 64. I recall basically two occasions.
One day my dad became obsessed with Mr. Mephisto and played it for hours. Alone, silently. It was kinda weird. A strange gloomy game.
My mum enjoyed Aqua for a couple of days but then would refer to it for years on end. ‘My favourite game is Aqua’, as though anyone ever knew of this strange low budget pac-man style diving game.
So incredibly stoked for the return of the Video Game History Hour. I’ve listened to some of those interviews 3, 4, 5 times. Incredible show, can’t wait for the first of the new bunch.
Almost my whole immediate family currently plays Wordle and will compete to see who can guess the word in the least tries on the daily. My mother also plays Wordscapes almost daily. My brother used to be a big Everquest guy. One of my sisters never played console games, but will settle into a jigsaw puzzle for hours. The other sister doesn’t play anything now, but used to enjoy the Gabriel Knight adventure games.
I don’t mind picking up coins in games for the most part, but I don’t like when there’s a set number of them the game wants me to collect. I like collectibles in the form of world building objects, but the repetitive nature of seeking out and grabbing coins or rings because the quest tracker tells me there are 30 hidden in this particular area or that 100 will give me an extra life just doesn’t appeal to me.
I love that there are new games coming out for old consoles so often that its hard to keep up with them. I recently picked up Witch n’ Wiz for NES and am looking forward to Former Dawn, but acknowledge that the new Genesis library is probably the most accessible and robust of the selection.
My older sister is the Action RPG Sister. She played FF16 and that new Star Ocean remake pretty recently. I could never get her into Dragon Quest or SMT or the like. I’m the Turn-Based RPG Sister. If you’d like to cross our bridge you must first answer our riddles three.
Ash, we all know who’s pulling the strings here. You keep saying you’re going to spend those credits to get the panel to play Magic: The Gathering, Esper is over there trying to get Jaffe to play Magic: The Gathering, it all adds up!
If you can’t post directly, tap a non-basic land and we will try to send you help!
why is what’s on offer things like play magic the gathering or watch deep space 9? Why not something like wake up early to watch the sun rise? Something nice like that
