In the final days of 2022, I happened upon an intriguing sixty-minute low-budget film. Entitled Letters to the Postman, it is an adaptation by British indie filmmaker Felix Dembinski of a short story by Robert Aickman which appeared in the author’s 1980 anthology Intrusions and proved to be his final […]
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S16E12 – Roomba On Hoover Violence
S16E06 – Schrödinger’s Black Hole
S16E03 – Aibo’s Lovesick Blues
PX38 – What Would Make You Boycott A Game
Tis the season to be grumpy, and nobody complains like a gamer (or spits their pacifier out/throws their toys out of the pram). Now there are plenty of reasons to complain about a game (micro-transactions, pay-walls, pay-to-win, gorily-detailed hunting, forcing developers to censor their games after signing exclusivity contracts, etc), […]
PX36 – How Did Incomplete Games Become The Norm?
S15E26 – Godly Masters of Slipper-Fu
Your friendly neighbourhood Geek Show returns with the two Robs to take you on another wild ride through the weird borders of the science, technology and culture. The big news this week is involves right-wing commentator and activist Alex Jones and his Infowars “media empire”, and after that we find […]
S15E23 – Elon Musk Is Not A God
S15E01 – Glam Rock and New Beginnings
Meandering Mic: Lindsay Penn
This weekend I interviewed Lindsay Penn about her biweekly YouTube program “The Dinz”. The Dinz has been described best by their VFX artist Kezi, “It’s a motivational speech with sketch-comedy cutaways”. Every Tuesday Lindsay tackles a different topic, and reasons through it with advice, evidence and hyperbolas or example sketches […]