Detail Diatribe: OH MY GOD NEW SUPERMAN
The video you've all been waiting for for about… three weeks? damn
2025-08-08 15:05:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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OSPod 125 After-After Show-Show!
The gang talks about an upcoming game that Blue is very excited about, and then goes full Oops All Critical Role!
2025-08-06 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostHistory Summarized: Quebec's Architectural Memory
Congratulations, you just got Chateau'd
-B
2025-08-01 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostTrope Talk: Elemental Magic Systems
"Any excuse to sort things into color-coded boxes is innately super fun and compelling!" I said neurotypically.
2025-07-25 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostOSPod 124 After-After Show-Show!
The gang exercises EXTREME self-restraint to not talk about Superman (2025), and instead chats about the games we're playing for fun (Blue) and the games we're running like the navy (Indigo), the beautiful impracticality of futuristic technologies, and then we talk about cars for a LONG time before pivoting to the wonderful world of videogame ve...
2025-07-23 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostDesigning the Sacred in "The Pathless" – Detail Diatribe
This is the Detail Diatribe where I explain in thorough detail why he never shuts up about the video-games Journey, Abzû and The Pathless. It's a good time.
-B
2025-07-18 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostFriday sneak preview: ??
Designing the Sacred in "The Pathless" – Detail Diatribe
We're talking about the architecture of my favorite games, including Journey, Abzu, and The Pathless. Hype.
This frame shows a smattering of architecture in The Pathless which pulls from traditions all over the world.
-B
2025-07-14 15:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostDetail Diatribe: The Last Unicorn
Where was this video twenty years ago? Ten years ago?
2025-07-11 15:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostOSPod 123 After-After Show-Show!
The gang chats about Alita: Battle Angel, Blame!, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Red's newly-clocked preference for a story to have a beginning, end, and solid Point to keep track of!
2025-07-09 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostHistory Summarized: Greece... TWO (it's in Italy)
From the Olympians who brought you "Greece" and "The Other Side of Greece" comes the bold, innovative, and way shinier "Greece 2".
-B
2025-07-04 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostSUMMER SEASONAL UPDATE!
It was so hot the past two weeks i forgot about the summer seasonal update. It's toasty out there.
This update will be a quicker one, in part because the Big Thing coming down the pipeline is also the easiest to explain: BOOKS.
Indeed, Red's webcomic AURORA is finally nearing its ph...
2025-06-30 19:38:19 +0000 UTC View PostItaly!
Last month I went to Italy for the first time! Here's what I thought!
2025-06-27 15:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostSecret Cleo! (and ooooone more billing update)
We rolled up a rug yesterday while cleaning the house, Cleo decided to go surfing on it.
Very quick billing update – TLDR: ~170 patrons have monthly price caps which incorrectly carried over through the billing migration. Those caps will be manually removed in a month, so please adjust accordingly.
THE SITCH: 2025-06-25 14:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post
OSPod 122 After-After Show-Show!
After two grueling weeks of waiting, the cool colors are finally ready to talk about Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning! And because Red didn't do the homework, we all get to learn what happened together!
2025-06-25 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHistory-Makers: Laozi and the Daodejing
The great sage Laozi once said: "Ugh fine, here are the ancient secrets of the universe, can I please disappear into the mountains now?" Powerful stuff, really makes you think.
-B
2025-06-20 15:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostTrope Talk: Color-Coded Team With A Theme
if I had a nickel for every one of these I'd have an enormous abundance of functionally identical nickels
2025-06-13 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostOSPod 121 After-After Show-Show!
The OSCrew and Design Doc chat more about animated hair, our LEAST favorite fictional haircuts, the cathartic fall of Telltale Games, the deception of the "THERE IS NO PLOT ARMOR ANYONE CAN DIE" era of media, our theories on what the hell was going on with Game of Thrones, how stories can conceal their protagonists, and the difference in feeling...
2025-06-11 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostFriday Sneak Preview:
A trope talk about the Color-Coded Team With A Theme!
EDIT: I goofed, not only did I accidentally schedule this for fully the wrong day, this post was also only supposed to be visible to specific tiers. So uh- hi everyone else! These fun previews are what you can expect from the $10 tier and up!
2025-06-09 16:14:34 +0000 UTC View PostHistory Summarized: Venice... On Land?
Just when you think you know someone, they conquer part of mainland Italy.
Venice built its medieval identity on seafaring, so what happened when their gaze shifted west during the Renaissance and they stepped onto the Italian peninsula?
-Blue
2025-06-06 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDetail Diatribe: Captain America The Winter Soldier is the Best MCU Movie
and for my next detail diatribe, water is wet
2025-05-30 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostOSPod 120 After-After Show-Show!
The gang talks about Indigo's homework for PAX East - aka watching A Minecraft Movie - and dish at length about Red and Blue's recent Italy Adventure!
2025-05-28 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Voice Memo Files: Rewatching Winter Soldier!
Phase 1 is over! Will we ever recapture those halcyon days? Tune in on Friday for the more polished discussion!
2025-05-27 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDetail Diatribe: The Lost Art of Marvel's Phase 1
After a week of peppering the patreon page with voicenotes from Red and my rewatch of the Marvel Cinematic Universe phase 1, it's finally time to bring it together for the Detail Diatribe. Enjoy.
-B
2025-05-23 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Voice Memo Files: Rewatching Avengers!
After five swings and five big hits, we finally revisit the movie that promised so much - terrified to find out if it did or did not deliver on the wonders we remember! In advance of Friday's upcoming video, these are the straight-off-the-dome fresh thoughts from Red and Blue's Marvel Phase 1 full watch/rewatch! Watch this space - tomorrow'...
2025-05-22 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Voice Memo Files: Rewatching Captain America!
It took us five movies to reach the First Avenger - let's see if he was worth the wait! In advance of Friday's upcoming video, these are the straight-off-the-dome fresh thoughts from Red and Blue's Marvel Phase 1 full watch/rewatch! Watch this space - ONE more to go!
2025-05-21 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe Voice Memo Files: Rewatching Thor!
It's time to rise to the defense of Marvel's Mightiest Hero! In advance of Friday's upcoming video, these are the straight-off-the-dome fresh thoughts from Red and Blue's Marvel Phase 1 full watch/rewatch! Watch this space - two more to go!
2025-05-20 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Voice Memo Files: (Re)watching Iron Man 2!
It's the return of the Iron Man and friends, and we're two for two on having been lied to about the quality! In advance of Friday's upcoming video, these are the straight-off-the-dome fresh thoughts from Red and Blue's Marvel Phase 1 full watch/rewatch! Watch this space - three more to go!
2025-05-19 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Voice Memo Files: Watching The Incredible Hulk!
We've never seen this movie before, and it turns out we were lied to! In advance of Friday's upcoming video, these are the straight-off-the-dome fresh thoughts from Red and Blue's Marvel Phase 1 full watch/rewatch! Watch this space - four more to go!
2025-05-18 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Voice Memo Files: Rewatching Iron Man!
Welcome to a most unorthodox AASS - an AASS without a show to be after-after! In advance of Friday's upcoming video, these are the straight-off-the-dome fresh thoughts from Red and Blue's Marvel Phase 1 full watch/rewatch! Watch this space - five more to go!
2025-05-17 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostTrope Talk: Speedsters
Half the examples in this video are the Flash. It's what he deserves.
2025-05-16 15:05:02 +0000 UTC View Post