Year: 2018

Literature: Spider the Artist by Nnedi Okorafor

We’re reviewing the delightful near future short story about a woman, a guitar, and a spider…type…thing. You know what, just read the story and tune into our newest episode below. [Aggregate Score: 10]

 

Games & Gaming Culture: The “C” Word (Collectibles)

We delve into a thorny topic: That of the inclusion of collectibes in video games, discussing what to do, and what defintiely not to do with them.

 

Literature: To Serve Man by Damon Knight

Pour an aperitif and listen as The Lost Signals dish up a full plate of discussion about Damon Knight’s science fiction classic short story, “To Serve Man.”

[Aggregate score: 7.66]

https://youtu.be/Tag4ik4hrD8/

The Great Philadelphia Comic Con 2018: Weekend Wrap-Up

We wrap up and give our final impressions of our time covering the The Great Philadelphia Comic Con this year.

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Film & TV: Avengers: Infinity War

The infinity war is finally upon us and TLS discusses the ins, outs, ups, and downs of the MCU’s climactic showdown.
[Major Spoilers]

[Aggregate score: 10]

Games & Gaming Culture: GTFO: Get the F&#% Out (2015 documentary)

We discuss one of the more unpleasant sides of Games & Gaming Culture, filtered through the experiences, treatment of, and testimonies from women in the video game community via the 2015 documentary, GTFO: Get the F&#% Out.

Guest Starring Beth Morgan.

 

Film & TV: Super Troopers 2

The TLS crew returns to the hijinks of Broken Lizard in their sequel to cop-prank-filled cult classic with Super Troopers 2. Now with more Mounties. [Aggregate score: 9.25]

AFI Top 100 #078: Modern Times

TLS bumbles through Modern Times with Charlie Chaplin in his final film as his lovable, but unlucky character, the Tramp. Check out our review and why we think this movie still rings true today. [Aggregate Score: 9]

Far Cry 5: Big Bombast, Scant Soul

[Contains spoilers]

 

Far Cry 5 was born in controversy long before it was released. The original promo art caused a bit of a stir and was accused of both provoking and encouraging some kind of vague alt-right sentiment and/or being an indictment on the state of American society. This backlash against it died down pretty quickly in the aftermath (as such things often do) and was mostly forgotten by the time it actually did release, a few weeks back. Having recently completed the campaign of FC5, the first thought that comes to mind is–if only it was indeed intending to tackle and sustain such a thorny and timely topic on any but the broadest of lines. Now that I’ve experienced it firsthand, I have a number of items to discuss, so let’s pile into the pickup and get to it.
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Bonus Points: Far Cry 5 Shenanigans

A compilation of some general screwing around and some decent skills in FC5 as a somewhat easter egg to the Dialogue Tree blog about it.