Episode 533: Best Non-Answer of the 19th Century
February 3rd, 2023 | Robin
In the Gaming Hut we look at what characters should do more often in horror: run!
At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Eric Saltwell, the Word Hut seeks the real truth behind Unicode ghost kanji.
In part two of our Cinema Hut Science Fiction Essentials series, we finally get to some actual movies, the precursors (and one classic) of the silent era.
Finally Ken’s Time Machine fuels itself on some high-octane introductory exposition as fiendishly clever backer Philip Masters asks our. chrononaut to come up with a fresh answer to the Schleswig-Holstein Question.
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Track down foul sorcerers in a corrupt city, clamber through underground ruins and investigate the intrigues of your decadent rivals in Swords of the Serpentine, the GUMSHOE game of swords, sorcery and mystery, now available from Pelgrane Press.
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I’m a bit concerned that Star Wars is going to be treated as science fiction. It isn’t. Giving a fantasy a technological backdrop doesn’t make it science fiction, no more than cowboy hats and six-shooters make something a Western.
Also, I don’t recall either of you mentioning the film known as “Final Prayer” or “The Borderlands”. You might appreciate it – it shows what the ‘found footage’ genre is capable of.