Chip and Ironicus

There's enough game in this game to choke a horse, but we're doing it anyway, in our signature style. The first two videos are up. New uploads every Saturday. What's the secret? We're not horses.

Uncut Commentary Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sip5O0GUGHs&list=PLETAX88Pcf6g

Sora, Donald, Goofy, and a lot of their friends are back as we make good on the last moments of the KH1 LP and continue on to its first sequel. We're playing the PS2 remake with full 3D environments and voice acting that the GBA original did not have.

If you'd like a refresher on the important parts of the first game, a viewer has you covered with this handy-size compilation

Early last year we began Bizarre Podcast: Space Puppets, a podcast walking through television's cult classic Farscape. Last week, after a 53-episode run, it ended. You can find it all here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/383131/

The other big announcement is it's all free. This started as a premium show, which is why it's hosted on Patreon in the first place, but as a special gift we decided to drop the paywall and commemorate Farscape's 26th anniversary and open the show to all. Please, take a listen. Please, share the show around. We go wide, deep, and long. That's a show with dimension.

The long-awaited Zork LP has begun! This is the first of three parts, making good on the pledge we made on Ranged Touch's 2022 Prepare to Give stream benefitting The Brigid Alliance.

New Podcast!

Grant and his wife Alaina launched a new show about one of her childhood joys: seaQuest DSV from 1993. Each week we're talking about an episode of the finest near-future, submarine-based adventure and "Science Fact-ion" that NBC and Steven Spielberg had to offer. Yes, this is the one with the talking dolphin.

seaQuest DSV was an ambitious show that had a lot riding on it, and never found its audience. At least, not enough of one to be financially viable. So it was continually tinkered with to the point each season is essentially a different show. We're telling those stories, and connecting them to the end result broadcast into people's homes. And every few weeks, we visit one of the films of legendary actor Roy Schieder to see what led him to take the starring role of Captain Nathan Bridger.

As I write, automated reminder emails are being sent to everyone who hit the "remind me later" button on the Kickstarter campaign for The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne. What will they find? A fully funded campaign! That's right, we now have the necessary funding to make an additional 7 episodes for a full 8-part season.

But we're already knocking on the door of our first stretch goal to make that a 9-part season. With your continuing support we can reach even beyond that in these last two days. Our story is a mystery, it's character based, and there's a secret world to explore. All of those things benefit from a little extra room in the run, a little more time to sit and experience and take the side roads. That's what is so exciting to me about hitting the stretch goals and lengthening our series.

As mentioned in a recent post, I've done a total of 8 promotional guest spots to help spread the word about The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne. Here's some links to the second half:

There's one week to go on the Kickstarter for the full season of The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne. Lots more news and information have dropped since my last roundup, so here it is!

The first four guest spots I’ve done to spread the word about The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne have come out. (First five technically, but that one will kick off the second roundup). Let's take a look!

Today we're 1-week into the 30-day Kickstarter campaign for The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne. We've also crossed the 50% mark. That means we're on pace to not only reach our goal and make a full season, but possibly to reach our highest stretch goal of extending that season with 5 additional episodes!

In the last week we've had a listen-along premiere stream with a visualizer, a lo-fi beats playlist based on the show's soundtrack with original pixel art, and the first set of partially-redacted character profiles (below the cut). But the way to turn a trend into reality, and a hope into a season, is to help us meet that funding goal. Go and listen to the premiere at lydiadisappears.com; or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or your podcatcher of choice; and make sure your friends know about the show and listen to it to! Then, take a look at the Kickstarter page to see how your pledges will be turned into the rest of the story, and the rewards you can claim in return.

The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne is a new audio drama! I (Grant) have been cast in it, I'm so glad you can listen and enjoy the first episode, and I'd love for this team to make more. Let's go through those points one at a time.

DoLF (DiLF if you're nasty) is a "magical surrealist" story about a young woman and her friends caught in adventure and intrigues they never imagined. It's about big data, surveillance, and the global, digital panopticon. It's about scheming uncles (I play one of those). It's about a talking bird. According to Dee, it's about Dee. You can listen to the premiere and learn more here

Today we announced the launch day watch-along premiere, set for Monday the 3rd at 6pm eastern, 3pm pacific, and 11pm for our friends in Ireland and Great Britain. Spooky. It will be on the Moonshot Podcast Network's youtube channel.

Our website also has a link to the Kickstarter campaign. That's how we get to make the rest of the story. It's also launching on Monday, and running for a month. Available rewards include advance access, outtakes, scripts, a suspicious envelope, and more. But the most important reward is making a full season of an independent, original, and exciting audio drama possible and viable.

So listen now, and listen again with us on Monday! I've been talking about this a lot on podcast guest appearances, and soon I'll be collecting those once they're all out. For now, I'll leave you with one last link to https://www.lydiadisappears.com/ and our video trailer:

Bizarre Podcast: Space Puppets!

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The hotly anticipated successor to Dogs Must Die has arrived. This time around I’m leading Chip by the hand through Farscape to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The Sci-Fi Channel’s dampest, foam rubber-est, most subversive and tangible original series is our topic for the next 50 or so episodes.

First we start at, and before, the beginning; with a look at Season 1, Episode 1: Premiere, and some highlights from its years of development.