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Best line of the show was Cecil's final "I'm not a good salesman" . It really makes me think that Cecil is playing 10 dimensional chess while all the Strex goons are running around thinking Night Vale is just another "pay to win" town to acquire.
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Action Yak Police posted:I wouldn't be surprised in the least to find out they had some kind of Apache Tracker/Man in the Tan Jacket thing going. This would explain everything.
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Hey just got around to listening to "Visitor" and it was great and I was super intensely into it until sad Cecil said "He was my boy, he was my buddy..." and I immediately and uncontrollably burst into tears. I had to give away MY cat earlier this year due to cat health reasons and it tore me apart. He WAS my boy, he WAS my buddy.....This show is so wonderful because you find those deeply human moments in this crazy Lovecraftian world. I again thank all you people who make it. Such hard, quality work, and it shows. It's art. Thank you thank you thank you.
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Okay, time has passed, I'm not going to tag this. Steve is Janice's (Janet's?) stepfather. This implies Cecil has a sister (or had a sister who is "out of town"), got married, had a kid, then something happened to the husband (divorce/death) and she remarried. That seems like a lot of characters I don't know about. Question for anyone on the Night Vale staff: What is the correct spelling of the niece's name? Like, if there's an official spelling in the script.
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I really hope that thisZorak posted:I had assumed from the end of the episode that the whole "Niece" thing was a lie and it's just Cecil funding the rebellion against Strex Corp using it as a front. Plus it could also be a ruse to get station management to buy / consume something as some sort of ruse. Thus his attacking Steve Carlsberg was incidental because gently caress that guy. is the case instead.
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I was wondering if you guys saw/heard about the guys at Superego up for doing a crossover with Nightvale? Someone asked them during a video interview/recording thing and one of them said they'd do it and to contact them about it.
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I'm really looking forward to Tuesday's episode. Maxnmona tweeted the title last week: "A Story About Them." The title alone sends chills down my spine. I have a feeling it's going to be a doozy.
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dj_clawson posted:No, my plan is working too well. That's it, I'm doxxing you. Here's his photo, everyone.  wait gently caress where did i put it
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Apr 14, 2014 14:16
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The weather this week was amazing. Also StrexCorp now owns city hall! The tiny city isn't finished yet and intern Dana continues to be a badass.
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dragon_pamcake posted:The weather this week was amazing. I'll second that. Possibly my favourite weather yet. After it finished playing I was torn between wanting to hear the rest of the episode and wanting to rewind it to hear that song again, and the song won out. e: This whole episode was fantastic. I was cracking up when the man who is not tall started arguing with Cecil's narration of what he was thinking. Leospeare fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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Apr 15, 2014 10:15
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Wandering Knitter posted:Is...is Old Woman Josie okay? She hasn't been seen since Yellow Helicopters and hasn't been mentioned since. Either Strex took her away or killed her. I don't think Cecil knows.
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dragon_pamcake posted:She hasn't been seen since Yellow Helicopters and hasn't been mentioned since. Either Strex took her away or killed her. I don't think Cecil knows. Maybe she's with the angels! ...or she's with the angels. 
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Wandering Knitter posted:Is...is Old Woman Josie okay? The angels left her unprotected, and then the yellow helicopters came for her. Perhaps even they cannot stand against the smiling god. I still want to see the "awesome god.. Much better than that dumb god Desert Bluffs has," despite the fact that it was probably just a one off joke. And despite the fact that whatever strange deity Night Valeians might pray to under civic mandate would never actually be describable.
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Leospeare posted:I'll second that. Possibly my favourite weather yet. After it finished playing I was torn between wanting to hear the rest of the episode and wanting to rewind it to hear that song again, and the song won out. She was the Weather at the Dallas show and I really enjoyed her music. I was happy to see she was the weather in today's episode and the tone of the song really felt like it fit the episode. I did listen to the episode right before going to sleep and both the story and the proverb gave me a pretty hosed up dream, though. City Hall being tarped over by StrexCorp was maybe my favorite image of the show. I really love the slow build of Cecil's fury.
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I definitely want to know more about the dark planet near the end but that may be due to loving astronomy, and the lunar eclipse last night.
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Apr 15, 2014 16:07
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My speculation is that the dark planet that keeps being mentioned is tied in some way with Dana's Dimension, which is also connected to Strex? I'm so confused, but in a good, thinking way
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Solaris Knight posted:My speculation is that the dark planet that keeps being mentioned is tied in some way with Dana's Dimension, which is also connected to Strex? I'm so confused, but in a good, thinking way I'm not sure about that last connection, because in Condos  SPOILER FOR THE CONDOS EPISODE SPECIFICALLY Cecil's vision of a "perfect world" that he saw when in the condo was the Dark Planet of Awesome Size Lit By No Sun, and that makes me doubt it and Strex are connected.Unless of course, the DPoASLbnS is some kind of anti-Strex...
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Apr 15, 2014 19:09
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This is not the first time I have bought an album on the strength of the Weather, but this is probably the first time I've done so on the same day.
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Apr 15, 2014 20:25
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docbeard posted:This is not the first time I have bought an album on the strength of the Weather, but this is probably the first time I've done so on the same day. I can see why people like it, but it's a bit too loud and repetitive for my tastes. To each their own, I guess.
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Odd question, but I was wondering if you guys have an 'endgame' of sorts planned? Something along the lines of (and god forbid, but all good things and all that) 'we'll, interest is waning and/or time to move on so here's how everything concludes' type of scenario. Not trying to borrow trouble, it just occurred to me during a cross discussion of WtNV and Game of Thrones.
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Apr 15, 2014 21:29
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Were the man who is not short and the man who is not tall, based on Kroup and Van Demar from Never Where?
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My theory is that the dark planet of awesome size lit by no sun is a nexus of all the realities that make up the night vale multiverse, including Night Vale itself, Desert Bluffs, the desert Dana is trapped in and the alternate reality where Nulgursk was destroyed by nuclear war. The lighthouse on top of the mountain is its avatar in Dana's current reality. The ultimate goal of the Smiling God is to consume the dark planet, rendering all of existence null and void. Basically I'm approaching it as a parallel of Stephen King's dark tower series, because there are SO MANY references and parallels. Dark Planet/Lighthouse = The Dark Tower Smiling God = Crimson King Strexcorp = Sombra Corporation/North Central Positronics
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iostream.h posted:Odd question, but I was wondering if you guys have an 'endgame' of sorts planned? Something along the lines of (and god forbid, but all good things and all that) 'we'll, interest is waning and/or time to move on so here's how everything concludes' type of scenario. If the podcast drops below #30 on the itunes list there will be a GoT crossover episode where Daenerys comes through an intra-universal rift opened by Hiram McDaniels who mistakenly thought she was a three-headed dragon, and the station is incinerated when Cecil mispronounces what he thinks is a traditional Old Valerian greeting.
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Earwicker posted:If the podcast drops below #30 on the itunes list there will be a GoT crossover episode where Daenerys comes through an intra-universal rift opened by Hiram McDaniels who mistakenly thought she was a three-headed dragon, and the station is incinerated when Cecil mispronounces what he thinks is a traditional Old Valerian greeting.
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iostream.h posted:I loving love you too loving much for this. I thought all real ~Wild Cards~ were incapable of love at this point. I also thought this was a really fun episode! Cool to get some answers on a few things and some more weird mysteries going.
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HaitianDivorce posted:I thought all real ~Wild Cards~ were incapable of love at this point.  I read that first loving book when it was 'new series by acclaimed author GRRMpy'. I know Dana's predicament all too well.
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Earwicker posted:If the podcast drops below #30 on the itunes list there will be a GoT crossover episode where Daenerys comes through an intra-universal rift opened by Hiram McDaniels who mistakenly thought she was a three-headed dragon, and the station is incinerated when Cecil mispronounces what he thinks is a traditional Old Valerian greeting. This is more reasonable than some of the ridiculous speculation I've seen in this thread.
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Dana...Daenerys...THIS MEANS SOMETHING (It means nothing. There is no such thing as meaning.)
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"What do we say to the Smiling God?" "Not today."
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"I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I shall not look up. I shall not look inside. I shall not sleep. My god is not a smiling god and I am ready for this war." Enough of that silliness, on to some different silliness. After listening to this episode and giving A Story About You another listen, I can't help but wonder if there's a connection between the organization that employs the not-short/not-tall men that occasionally make hawk noises in response to orders, and the mysterious organization whose helicopters are covered in murals depicting birds of prey.
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I've been relistening from the start, and as early as episode six (The Drawbridge) Cecil mentions a power outage with the sounds of hawks shrieking, and once the power comes back on people feel like "they had been switched out with someone who is exactly like them." THE HAWKS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM.
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Cecil did say the children were better behaved after the Hawk Helicopters returned them... About the latest episode I found it really out of character for Cecil to refer to himself as "innocent and kind". I think the narrator for "A Story About Them" was the actual Voice of Night Vale or something else entirely. I also think based on being seen by people who are about to die and Cecil's vision in "Condos" that the Dark Planet Lit by No Sun is Night Vale's god/Strex's archenemy
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dragon_pamcake posted:About the latest episode I found it really out of character for Cecil to refer to himself as "innocent and kind". I think the narrator for "A Story About Them" was the actual Voice of Night Vale or something else entirely. It could well be both. He said, also in this episode, that he sometimes has no idea why he says the things he says. (And other times he knows exactly why.) quote:I also think based on being seen by people who are about to die and Cecil's vision in "Condos" that the Dark Planet Lit by No Sun is Night Vale's god/Strex's archenemy Who knew that the throwaway line "our god is an awesome god, much better than that ridiculous god they worship in Desert Bluffs" might actually have plot significance?
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docbeard posted:
I just realized Cecil taunted Desert Bluffs with that line only one Episode before "Yellow Helicopters." Way to gently caress up everything, Cecil.
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I always just thought the dark planet of awesome size lit by no sun was just something you see before you die. Then again it being a visual representation of death would make it a pretty appropriate deity for night vale I suppose.
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in case you guys missed it there is a 2nd Anniversary live show in NYC at Town Hall on June 4th featuring a completely new script that will only be performed at this one event. Disparition will be playing live. And tickets are on sale now! http://commonplacebooks.com/live-events/#/townhall2014/
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Last I checked (about an hour after it went on sale) there were 5 tickets left, so it's now or never.
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If I'm going to buy one Disparition album to listen to while driving a convertible on a desert road trip, which one should I buy?
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Knockknees posted:If I'm going to buy one Disparition album to listen to while driving a convertible on a desert road trip, which one should I buy? When is your road trip? I'm releasing a new album called Granicha on May 23rd so I'd say that one. Otherwise, Madoc - it only has three tracks but they are quite long and meant to be journeys so I think it'd be good for a road trip.
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