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maxnmona posted:New store coming by the end of the week, with restocked shirt and other merch items. There is a very good chance after my vacation I'm going for the big donation. I really want that shout out from Cecil.
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No Your Other Left posted:Or it might have gotten run out of the tag already. I remember reading that only 200 or so posts get shown in a tag overall. That might have changed since then, but it's something to be aware of. How can they run out of tags? That's like twitter running out of hash tags.
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dj_clawson posted:How can they run out of tags? That's like twitter running out of hash tags. Studies show that at this rate we'll have completely run dry our supply of hash tags by 2020. #ScienceFacts
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Aug 6, 2013 21:19
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So I just finished Sandstorm B. What in the everloving Christ. Seriously, what the hell was going on there?
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xanthan posted:So I just finished Sandstorm B. What in the everloving Christ. Seriously, what the hell was going on there? Clearly the Desert Bluffs crew enjoys eating rotisserie chicken when they should be focusing on just radio. At least that's how I explain the animal viscera.
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xanthan posted:So I just finished Sandstorm B. What in the everloving Christ. Seriously, what the hell was going on there? I'm still not sure if Cecil and Kevin are their own doubles and met each other and just have different interpretations on what happened, or they each had their own doubles and Cecil ran into Double Cecil and Kevin ran into Double Kevin.
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Aug 7, 2013 04:25
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dj_clawson posted:I'm still not sure if Cecil and Kevin are their own doubles and met each other and just have different interpretations on what happened, or they each had their own doubles and Cecil ran into Double Cecil and Kevin ran into Double Kevin. No, they're each other's doubles. The point of Cecil's part in Sandstorm B is that Desert Bluffs is, deliberately or not, unaware of what's actually going on.
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Dickeye posted:No, they're each other's doubles. The point of Cecil's part in Sandstorm B is that Desert Bluffs is, deliberately or not, unaware of what's actually going on. OK, two things that contradict these theories: (1) Though Cecil and Kevin look similar, they do not look exactly the same and do not insist that each one is the real person, like the other doubles. Kevin specifically has black voids for eyes, and Cecil does not. They have different smiles. (2) It would be difficult for the other doubles that appear in their respective towns to actually be the towns crossing over because they have different names. For example, Intern Dana fights Intern Dana, while Intern Vanessa doesn't fight Intern Vanesa, even though both are injured by staplers. Vanessa doesn't like and insist she's Dana and Dana doesn't lie and insist she's Vanessa. Both Mayor Winchells insist that they are the same person, not one insisting she's the mayor of Desert Bluffs and the other that she's the Mayor of Night Vale. Also, if all the doubles went to where they appeared, in Night Vale, that means they LEFT Desert Bluffs, so Desert Bluffs would have an exodus of people instead of people arriving. So, um, I still don't have an answer for you, but I have thought about this a lot, and the whole "Desert Bluffs people are exact duplicates of Night Vale people" doesn't work because they aren't actually exact duplicates. What we here in both narrations implies two sets of doubles, one for each town.
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dj_clawson posted:OK, two things that contradict these theories: Actually, each of them identifies the person in the photo on the other's desk as being largely identical to them while still believing that it's a different person, and they describe the person in the photo in similar terms (neither tall nor short, neither thin nor fat). Also, as for 2, Kevin describes Cecil trying to murder him as a "hug". So it's clear they're not entirely on the same page about what words mean.
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Republican Vampire posted:Actually, each of them identifies the person in the photo on the other's desk as being largely identical to them while still believing that it's a different person, and they describe the person in the photo in similar terms (neither tall nor short, neither thin nor fat). Also, as for 2, Kevin describes Cecil trying to murder him as a "hug". So it's clear they're not entirely on the same page about what words mean. OK, I'm willing to accept that Cecil and Kevin's experiences were different than the people in general, because they walked through a void between radio stations, but I still think that in general people stayed in their respective towns and met their respective doubles, not that the towns collapsed on each other. One interesting interpretation of the "hug" Kevin describes is that was as violent as Cecil, and he is just a filthy liar on the radio.
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Aug 7, 2013 05:22
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dj_clawson posted:OK, I'm willing to accept that Cecil and Kevin's experiences were different than the people in general, because they walked through a void between radio stations, but I still think that in general people stayed in their respective towns and met their respective doubles, not that the towns collapsed on each other. Yeah, that's probably the intended effect. I'm pretty sure you're supposed to see all the sunny-but-ominous stuff Kevin says as being indicative of something actually horrifying. Hence all the viscera and his little comment about Cecil's booth or desk not being covered in blood.
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dj_clawson posted:It would be difficult for the other doubles that appear in their respective towns to actually be the towns crossing over because they have different names. For example, Intern Dana fights Intern Dana, while Intern Vanessa doesn't fight Intern Vanesa, even though both are injured by staplers. Vanessa doesn't like and insist she's Dana and Dana doesn't lie and insist she's Vanessa. I'll be honest, I can imagine Nightvale having a Doppelgänger certification course or something like that.
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Republican Vampire posted:Yeah, that's probably the intended effect. I'm pretty sure you're supposed to see all the sunny-but-ominous stuff Kevin says as being indicative of something actually horrifying. Hence all the viscera and his little comment about Cecil's booth or desk not being covered in blood. And then the things that aren't ominous at all? Probably something still really awful! The Vanessas "assembling a bookshelf" and one of them being accidnetally injured? Yeah, that probably didn't happen that way at all. Part of Desert Bluff's thing, that's the opposite of Night Vale, is how deep in denial everyone is about the crazy poo poo that's going on and how terrible it is. Either that or they're completely inured in a way that Night Vale isn't, which is actually scarier.
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Dickeye posted:And then the things that aren't ominous at all? Probably something still really awful! The Vanessas "assembling a bookshelf" and one of them being accidnetally injured? Yeah, that probably didn't happen that way at all. Part of Desert Bluff's thing, that's the opposite of Night Vale, is how deep in denial everyone is about the crazy poo poo that's going on and how terrible it is. Either that or they're completely inured in a way that Night Vale isn't, which is actually scarier. My assumption was that Strex Corp just pumped them so full of medicine they were happy and complacent all the time. Edit: If I wanted to get the story of that rear end in a top hat the Apache Tracker to someone what episodes would I force them to listen to? Len fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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AllanGordon posted:Saw this on MetaFilter and figured I'd share. I just started listening to night vale and then, these youtube podcasts of seeing ear theater. I had sirius xm about the time that this was being put together and never heard a mention of it amongst all the channels that usually promote other sirius happenings. I don't see how they decided that late night paranormal talk show with whoever it was (now Art Bell) is better than this. City of Dreams is pretty rad and has 100% less mouthbreathing gun nuts who call in. This is likely part of why I unsubbed from sirius two years ago. Terrible content management and demographic targeting.
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Len posted:My assumption was that Strex Corp just pumped them so full of medicine they were happy and complacent all the time. The first two episodes, One Year Later, and the one where he actually becomes a Russian-speaking Apache tracker. There's a few other scattered appearances but most of them are him standing outside the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex and occasionally talking to the Man in the Tan Jacket.
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Given the description of the Desert Bluffs radio station, what in the hell were the Vanessas making a shelving unit out of?!  What did they break that they couldn't replace?  
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midoriyourself posted:Given the description of the Desert Bluffs radio station, what in the hell were the Vanessas making a shelving unit out of?! Don't worry, I'm sure it wasn't some human body part. Otherwise they would happily replace it.
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Congratulations, Welcome to Night Vale. You have arrived.
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From which blasted hellscape did those abominations even come from?!
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Tres Burritos posted:From which blasted hellscape did those abominations even come from?! I dunno but it would make a pretty good entry for SA's "Strangest Fanart"
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I still have no idea what compels people to do these things. It's like the time I was at the mall and saw some kids dressed up like those Home Stuck gremlins or whatever.
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I imagine licensing issues make it unfeasible, but I'd love to see a "Best of The Weather" album in the store someday. P.S. While I'm still the most recent poster, I have a question. I signed up for Tumblr recently, and I thought I'd check out the Night Vale tag, but I don't understand why all these pictures of Cecil have three eyes. Is there some throwaway reference I missed that the internet has latched onto? Roach Warehouse fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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Roach Warehouse posted:I imagine licensing issues make it unfeasible, but I'd love to see a "Best of The Weather" album in the store someday. Tumblr has just kind of decided that Cecil has three eyes. Sometimes Tumblr just collectively decides on a particular look for something for some reason. It took them a while to decide that Carlos wasn't white, but they eventually figured that one out.
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So what is the relationship exactly between Hannibal and Night Vale? I know Jeffrey mentioned the theory that when Night Vale started really blowing up a couple weeks ago, it was because a lot of the Hannibal fanbase had come over, but I don't see the connection. I did notice that Night Vale fans on tumblr are constantly posting pictures of Mags Mikkelsen though.
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I just saw some Night Vale Cecil/Carlos bdsm tentacle porn, I guess you guys have truly made it.
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notsowelp posted:I just saw some Night Vale Cecil/Carlos bdsm tentacle porn, I guess you guys have truly made it. The image on your screen is real. The world outside of it is the illusion. Welcome to Rule 34. duh duh duh duh....
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CaptainPsyko posted:Tumblr has just kind of decided that Cecil has three eyes. Sometimes Tumblr just collectively decides on a particular look for something for some reason. It took them a while to decide that Carlos wasn't white, but they eventually figured that one out. People also regularly demand that people stop drawing Cecil white, even though we don't know what Cecil looks like, and he has a white guy voice, because his VA is a white guy. So that's the natural default setting. But a lot of the fans are white teenage girls who are being WAY too politically correct in their rants. I think Cecil looks pretty bad with a third eye. Gross, even. In Buddhist and Indian art, where the third eye is really important, it's drawn sideways, so it forms a natural triangle of eyes, and that looks much better, but very few people do that.
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dj_clawson posted:People also regularly demand that people stop drawing Cecil white, even though we don't know what Cecil looks like, and he has a white guy voice, because his VA is a white guy. So that's the natural default setting. But a lot of the fans are white teenage girls who are being WAY too politically correct in their rants.
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FalseParadigm posted:Cecil (the actor) has performed live as Cecil (the character), so I think there is your answer - for both his looks and voice. People know this, because .gifs are posted on Tumbler, but some people are still insisting that if you drawn him as white, you're basically a racist. Nobody draws a bald Cecil though. I think that's rather telling. unto itself. dj_clawson fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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dj_clawson posted:Nobody draws a bald Cecil though. I think that's rather telling. unto itself. EDIT: I also just listened to episode 19. I liked the music "swap" from Night Vale to Desert Bluffs, and also your rendition of Eliezer's Waltz, Earwicker. FalseParadigm fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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Spoiler alert: people draw fanart mostly for masturbatory purposes so they always try to make them as sexy as possible.
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I've been putting off listening for months. Finally downloaded episode 1 yesterday and proceeded to marathon through the entire goddamn series. drat. You. You know what? This show would sound kickin' rad broadcast in the middle of the night on shortwave. Make this happen and I'll die happy, if I've earned the right to die.
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Favorite fan art I've seen so far: http://petrichoriousparalian.tumblr.com/post/57443741563/littleulvar-im-not-sure-what-happened-but-it The tattoos!
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showbiz_liz posted:Favorite fan art I've seen so far: http://petrichoriousparalian.tumblr.com/post/57443741563/littleulvar-im-not-sure-what-happened-but-it Cecil having a Yakuza level body sleeve tattoo of seeing eyes and bizarre unknowable symbols that is just never mentioned or seen as odd fits the show in my head.
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SirDan3k posted:Cecil having a Yakuza level body sleeve tattoo of seeing eyes and bizarre unknowable symbols that is just never mentioned or seen as odd fits the show in my head. Every once in a while someone submits a question to NightValeHeadCanon asking if the tattoos and third eye are canon and they're like, "NOOOOOO."
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I like the sleeves though, it's like maybe he got them on one of his european adventures or something from a blind gypsy with no tongue.
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Tres Burritos posted:I like the sleeves though, it's like maybe he got them on one of his european adventures or something from a blind gypsy with no tongue. There is a ton of spectacular art out there. I've been downloading everything I see that's decent and I've got a folder of 350ish files. Just keep safe search on!
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AstroZamboni posted:I've been putting off listening for months. Finally downloaded episode 1 yesterday and proceeded to marathon through the entire goddamn series. Why do I have to make this happen? You make it happen.
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