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Cast Iron Brick posted:He has a fine radio voice, but he is entirely incapable of giving a performance that isn't a grandpa telling spooky stories around a campfire. He makes some really...interesting choices in how to pronounce certain words, so much so that once it happens, I can't focus on anything else.
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Echophonic posted:Then yeah, same actress. She also played Asterisk on Fringe and was great. 
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Jul 7, 2016 04:56
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Meowjesty posted:Magnus Archives is good. I'm on the Vampire Killer episode and I've grown to love how over this the narrator is at the end of each episode. This. The narrator never bothered me and his thoroughly British attitude towards everything really makes the show. I mean, the stories are great so far (just finished The Dreamer), but the narration really makes this a winner.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:48
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That's all well and good and likely true, but it'd make for a boring podcast. You need to allow for some creative leeway so that the fun stories are actually palatable. If he read everything like a court recorder reciting back what a defendant just said, I'd have dropped it after episode one.
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Sep 12, 2016 19:33
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Meowjesty posted:What the gently caress happened to Gertrude Robinson Yeah, all the hints are adding up and I worry that the truth won't be able to compete with the expectations.
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Sep 22, 2016 19:50
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Small Town Horror has started its second season. The first season was a little uneven at times, and some of the voice talent was just out and out bad, but there seems to be a good mystery at the core, and the preview for season two was creepy as hell.
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Sep 28, 2016 21:04
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The Magnus Archive has hooked me unlike any podcast since Limetown. And, naturally, the season is almost over  .
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Sep 30, 2016 18:58
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Small Town Horror gets worse with each episode. The main guy is just completely useless within the story, and his voice sounds like he's always drunk.
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Nov 16, 2016 17:44
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Is Return Home meant to be a horror comedy? I've only listened to the first two episodes, but everyone's acting is so over the top that it's hard to take anything seriously.
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Nov 18, 2016 16:11
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It's amazing how consistently good the Magnus Archives is. Some episodes are stronger than others, but I can't think of any that were bad. I have to wonder if a (large) contributing factor to that is the difference in mindset between Brits and Americans. The Rusty Quill guys have been consistent in saying they have a five-season arc for TMA, and it's obvious that knowing in advance where your end point is is a huge benefit for pacing and whatnot. Compare that to most any American-made horror podcast, where they seem to start with some fairly clear story goals, but as soon as they get a little bit of popularity, all that goes out the window as they try to milk it for everything they can (just how many Patreon campaigns do these people expect fans to back?). The Black Tapes and TANIS are probably the worst offenders, though Small Town Horror is going down this route, and Archive 81 is going...somewhere (this one may turn out to be good, of course, but the drastic shift in direction is worrisome).
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Jan 26, 2017 18:06
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New episode of Archive 81 is up. I still have some reservations about the new direction they're going, but I am intrigued and will keep listening.
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Feb 1, 2017 16:40
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Jurgan posted:Again, I haven't listened in a while, but my guess is that, in-universe, Nic knows MK's real name but doesn't use it on the podcast because she wants to remain anonymous. This is explicitly stated in an early episode. Slamhound posted:Man, I don't remember Nick and MK hooking up at all. It's an assumption, though a reasonable one based on context.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:43
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I started listening to The Box and while I like it, holy god do they need to do something about the volume levels in that loving thing. I'm fine when Addison is just talking, but when they do the phone conversations, the filters or whatever they're using for the person on the other end of the line are terrible and are probably going to end up making my ears bleed.
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Feb 15, 2017 16:15
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I'm up to episode 11 or 12 of The Box and, while they seem to have fixed the issue I complained about regarding the volume levels/filters used during phone calls, my new complaint is that every woman, regardless of age, sounds like a bored 20-something. That's fine for Addison, who actually is a bored 20-something, but it's literally every single female character. I know the folks producing this podcast (and most any other podcast) have to work with limited resources, including talent pools that are usually just their friends, but it's really off-putting how little effort seems to go into the voice acting for the female characters.
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Feb 20, 2017 20:55
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:When you hit the Cleveland episodes and beyond, be ready for them to say gently caress it and literally leave in bad line reads. As in, the actor badly reads a line, sighs and reads it again without any editing. Or another where they literally leave in the flubbed line, the actress laughing, warming up and trying again. I finished the Cleveland episode earlier and only noticed one time where a line got repeated, and it sounded more like a hiccup in the audio file rather than a bad reading left in. Regardless, it should have been caught in editing.
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Feb 21, 2017 22:48
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I'm up to the "Admit" episode on The Box and the goddamn editing is making it really hard to take anything seriously. For phone conversations in past episodes, either the two people were actually talking or the editing was clever enough to make it seem like they were actually talking, but it's painfully obvious in this one that Addison is just talking over a recording. It's bad throughout, but particularly bad in the first one, with the skeptic guy. All I could think of while listening was that scene in Last Action Hero where Arnie's ex-wife calls and keeps droning on and he just says, "Uh huh. Uh huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah," over and over.
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Feb 23, 2017 19:55
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DoctorWhat posted:Tanis, for all its faults, has atmosphere. It serves no purpose, though. The story just keeps going around in circles, with occasional pit stops to beg for Patreon money.
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Feb 24, 2017 19:55
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Paul Zuvella posted:My bathroom has atmosphere too, but at least my shits have the decency to have an ending. But(t) do they beg you for money?
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Feb 24, 2017 21:57
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I got the the first full episode of the new season of The Box and...I can't loving hear it. With the volume on both my phone and my car completely maxed out, I can just barely hear Addison talking; what's his face and the new lady might as well be Charlie Brown adults for all I can make out. This is loving ridiculous.
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Feb 28, 2017 20:10
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Looks like the NVP folks are gearing up for season 2 of Alice Isn't Dead.quote:A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. Part Two of her search is coming soon. To prepare, let’s relisten to Part One, starting with “Chapter One: Omelet,” this Friday.
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Mar 7, 2017 19:54
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I think everyone that makes, or wants to make, a podcast needs to listen to A Scottish Podcast. From a purely technical standpoint, it's damned near perfect. The overall sound levels are good, sound effects aren't either so loud they blow out your eardrums or so soft that you can't hear them at all, and the producers use common goddamn sense when it comes to relaying information from sources wherein the sound quality might be spotty: a few seconds will play in a spotty manner, then it transitions to a regular recording.
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Mar 8, 2017 19:30
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Tweak posted:I'm finally listening to the Magnus Archives (it's great) and I'm about ~20 episodes in: do the recordings ever get louder? Maybe it's just me/my iphone earbuds, but I can barely hear the guy over the outside world when I'm walking around. Meanwhile the opening violin chords destroy my ears since I'm at the max volume (this is perhaps related). It's gets better in that they lower the volume of the intro stuff so you are less likely to destroy your hearing by preemptively turning the volume up. I still maintain that anyone currently producing or planning to produce a podcast needs to listen to A Scottish Podcast so they can hear what a group of people that actually understand audio engineering are capable of producing.
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Mar 30, 2017 16:08
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Turtlicious posted:Limetown frustrates me because it's been years without any follow up. The followup was that they got a deal for a TV show and that actually pays real money so it's their focus.
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May 12, 2017 15:30
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Jurgan posted:Cool, but is that ever coming out? I've heard rumors about this show for over a year, but nothing solid. Welcome to the world of things being optioned and then getting stuck in development hell
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May 12, 2017 17:48
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Update from the Limetown Folks:quote:Dear Limetown listeners,
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It's just good, old-fashioned geek entitlement.
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