I'm currently grinding for those vials as probably nearly everyone is, and I've decided to listen to podcasts to keep myself entertained. I found one called Criminal that I'm enjoying so far, but I want to have others in case I finish listening to it.
Any recommendations? I already know about Welcome to Nightvale, but I'm currently not in the mood to listen to that.
I'm currently grinding for those vials as probably nearly everyone is, and I've decided to listen to podcasts to keep myself entertained. I found one called Criminal that I'm enjoying so far, but I want to have others in case I finish listening to it.
Any recommendations? I already know about Welcome to Nightvale, but I'm currently not in the mood to listen to that.
My favorite podcasts are My Brother, My Brother, and Me (comedy), Sword and Scale (true crime), & Something You Should Know (it's just an informational podcast which is neat!)
My favorite podcasts are My Brother, My Brother, and Me (comedy), Sword and Scale (true crime), & Something You Should Know (it's just an informational podcast which is neat!)
Tbh Ive only listened to the adventure zone thanks to friends suggestion but it was so cool (guys playing DnD, fun and comedy but with cool times)
Im also looking for nice postcasts! If rpg, sci-fi, fantasy or comedy, Id love to know those!
Tbh Ive only listened to the adventure zone thanks to friends suggestion but it was so cool (guys playing DnD, fun and comedy but with cool times)
Im also looking for nice postcasts! If rpg, sci-fi, fantasy or comedy, Id love to know those!
The Adventure Zone was mentioned and I will second that, because it is a very good show and also very funny.
ars Paradoxica is the best time travel story I have ever heard. The finale came out a few days ago, so I'm more emotional than normal about it, but basically it starts when physicist Sally Grissom accidentally invents time travel, gets stuck in the 1940s, and gets semi-abducted by a shady government agency that wants her to recreate her machine. It is on the intense side, but also has some very funny moments. It's also got a lot of good queer representation- Sally is ace, and a lot of other characters are not straight.
The Bright Sessions is wrapping up next week and I am very excited and sad about it. The plot follows a therapist who helps patients with unusual abilities, such as being able to read thoughts or accidentally time travelling or sensing other people's emotions. It starts off on the chill end of things, and then begins to develop a very intriguing plot. All of the characters here are great and I love them.
The Penumbra Podcast is a little unusual in that it started as an anthology podcast and then had two stories take over. There are three standalone stories, two of which are horror stories I have not listened to and one of which is a fun swashbuckling Western lesbian romance. As for the main plots, we have the Second Citadel stories, which are about a group of knights that fight strange manipulative monsters, and the Juno Steel stories, which are about a depressed bi noir PI who lives on Mars. Both are great (even if I'm a little more partial to Juno).
The Bridge is great if you like the ocean, spooky folklore, and/or good music. It's about a group of people who run a watchtower on a bridge crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The bridge has mostly been abandoned by the time of the story, and the characters are all alone. Well, mostly all alone. It's got some creepy stuff, but mostly it's just really good.
The Strange Case of Starship Iris is about biologist Violet Liu, the only survivor after a catastrophe kills off the rest of the Starship Iris's crew. She is rescued by another ship, and learns that the accident may not have been as accidental as she thought. I just caught up on this one and it's great. It's got space found family, funny dialogue, a really clever frame story... seriously, just listen to this one.
Wolf 359 wrapped up six months ago and I'm still not over it, so it's going on here too. It's about a crew orbiting around the star Wolf 359. It starts off as a really funny slice of life show about the crew interacting with each other and getting on each other's nerves, but they come to realize that the people who sent them into space may have had mysterious plans for doing so. GODS I love this show.
Girl in Space is about a girl. In space. Alone. With only her ship's AI Charlotte and a copy of Jurassic Park to keep her company. And that mysterious speck that's getting closer to the station... I love the narrator of this story, she's just so much fun to listen to.
Startripper!! only has two episodes out so far, but it's really fun and fluffy! Basically office worker Feston Pyxis has a midlife crisis and decides to sell all of his stuff, quit his job, buy a spaceship, and go adventuring around the galaxy. It just sounds so happy- both from a plot and sound design perspective. It's by the same people who wrote ars Paradoxica, so I may be a little biased, but I'm excited to see where this goes.
The Adventure Zone was mentioned and I will second that, because it is a very good show and also very funny.
ars Paradoxica is the best time travel story I have ever heard. The finale came out a few days ago, so I'm more emotional than normal about it, but basically it starts when physicist Sally Grissom accidentally invents time travel, gets stuck in the 1940s, and gets semi-abducted by a shady government agency that wants her to recreate her machine. It is on the intense side, but also has some very funny moments. It's also got a lot of good queer representation- Sally is ace, and a lot of other characters are not straight.
The Bright Sessions is wrapping up next week and I am very excited and sad about it. The plot follows a therapist who helps patients with unusual abilities, such as being able to read thoughts or accidentally time travelling or sensing other people's emotions. It starts off on the chill end of things, and then begins to develop a very intriguing plot. All of the characters here are great and I love them.
The Penumbra Podcast is a little unusual in that it started as an anthology podcast and then had two stories take over. There are three standalone stories, two of which are horror stories I have not listened to and one of which is a fun swashbuckling Western lesbian romance. As for the main plots, we have the Second Citadel stories, which are about a group of knights that fight strange manipulative monsters, and the Juno Steel stories, which are about a depressed bi noir PI who lives on Mars. Both are great (even if I'm a little more partial to Juno).
The Bridge is great if you like the ocean, spooky folklore, and/or good music. It's about a group of people who run a watchtower on a bridge crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The bridge has mostly been abandoned by the time of the story, and the characters are all alone. Well, mostly all alone. It's got some creepy stuff, but mostly it's just really good.
The Strange Case of Starship Iris is about biologist Violet Liu, the only survivor after a catastrophe kills off the rest of the Starship Iris's crew. She is rescued by another ship, and learns that the accident may not have been as accidental as she thought. I just caught up on this one and it's great. It's got space found family, funny dialogue, a really clever frame story... seriously, just listen to this one.
Wolf 359 wrapped up six months ago and I'm still not over it, so it's going on here too. It's about a crew orbiting around the star Wolf 359. It starts off as a really funny slice of life show about the crew interacting with each other and getting on each other's nerves, but they come to realize that the people who sent them into space may have had mysterious plans for doing so. GODS I love this show.
Girl in Space is about a girl. In space. Alone. With only her ship's AI Charlotte and a copy of Jurassic Park to keep her company. And that mysterious speck that's getting closer to the station... I love the narrator of this story, she's just so much fun to listen to.
Startripper!! only has two episodes out so far, but it's really fun and fluffy! Basically office worker Feston Pyxis has a midlife crisis and decides to sell all of his stuff, quit his job, buy a spaceship, and go adventuring around the galaxy. It just sounds so happy- both from a plot and sound design perspective. It's by the same people who wrote ars Paradoxica, so I may be a little biased, but I'm excited to see where this goes.
i can vouch for my brother, my brother, and me - i love the mcelroy boys !! they answer questions and give terrible 'advice' to their listeners, all the while cracking jokes.
i also listen to supermegacast, which i'd suggest if you got into supermega. just two boys on a couch, talking abt whatever. video games, politics, anything that comes to mind.
both MBMBAM and SMC are occasionally nsfw and i would recommend wearing headphones so no one else can hear lmao
i can vouch for my brother, my brother, and me - i love the mcelroy boys !! they answer questions and give terrible 'advice' to their listeners, all the while cracking jokes.
i also listen to supermegacast, which i'd suggest if you got into supermega. just two boys on a couch, talking abt whatever. video games, politics, anything that comes to mind.
both MBMBAM and SMC are occasionally nsfw and i would recommend wearing headphones so no one else can hear lmao
Can vouch for TAZ, MBMBAM is good too but I haven't listened to much--really any McElroy podcast is probably a good time
Also if you like WTNV you should check out some other podcasts by Night Vale Presents! I'm a fan of Alice Isn't Dead (horror fiction, about a woman looking for her missing wife and a conspiracy involving inhuman monsters) and Within the Wires (sci-fi about an alternate timeline where, after a huge war, society reshaped itself into something completely different from what we know).
Can vouch for TAZ, MBMBAM is good too but I haven't listened to much--really any McElroy podcast is probably a good time
Also if you like WTNV you should check out some other podcasts by Night Vale Presents! I'm a fan of Alice Isn't Dead (horror fiction, about a woman looking for her missing wife and a conspiracy involving inhuman monsters) and Within the Wires (sci-fi about an alternate timeline where, after a huge war, society reshaped itself into something completely different from what we know).
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Agours
I'll make sure to keep those noted somewhere! I haven't listened to an informational podcast yet, so I might try listening to that one once I'm finished with Criminal (also a true crime podcast). However, the other two look quite good too.
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Hikumi
A DnD podcast sounds interesting~ I'll definitely have a look at that at some point in the future. I've also been interested in playing DnD or just getting to know it in general, so perhaps its a good place to start.
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browncoatparadox
You've hooked me into seriously wanting to listen to The Bright Sessions and The Strange Case of Starship Iris. The others also look great, not going to lie, but those I'm definitely going to check out. Thanks for the list, I'm not going to run out of podcasts anytime soon now lol.
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sakigamis
I considered listening to Alice Isn't Dead actually, I saw it while searching, but then I saw Criminal and decided to listen to that one first. I know that the cast behind WTNV is great, so that's definitely on my list (like the rest suggested here). Within the Wires sounds interesting, I haven't heard of a story like that before.
Thank you all for the recommendations! All of them have piqued my interest, and eventually I'm going to listen to them all. I didn't know there was such variety in podcasts~
If there are others then I'd still appreciate hearing about them. I'm loving about what I have to listen to.
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Agours
I'll make sure to keep those noted somewhere! I haven't listened to an informational podcast yet, so I might try listening to that one once I'm finished with Criminal (also a true crime podcast). However, the other two look quite good too.
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Hikumi
A DnD podcast sounds interesting~ I'll definitely have a look at that at some point in the future. I've also been interested in playing DnD or just getting to know it in general, so perhaps its a good place to start.
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browncoatparadox
You've hooked me into seriously wanting to listen to The Bright Sessions and The Strange Case of Starship Iris. The others also look great, not going to lie, but those I'm definitely going to check out. Thanks for the list, I'm not going to run out of podcasts anytime soon now lol.
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sakigamis
I considered listening to Alice Isn't Dead actually, I saw it while searching, but then I saw Criminal and decided to listen to that one first. I know that the cast behind WTNV is great, so that's definitely on my list (like the rest suggested here). Within the Wires sounds interesting, I haven't heard of a story like that before.
Thank you all for the recommendations! All of them have piqued my interest, and eventually I'm going to listen to them all. I didn't know there was such variety in podcasts~
If there are others then I'd still appreciate hearing about them. I'm loving about what I have to listen to.
I also wanted to pop in and mention a couple of interesting podcasts I found:
Tin Can is a podcast that just finished about a man that is stuck alone in his heavily damaged starship after an explosion nearly destroys the ship and kills all of the crew except him. It's pretty short in terms of episode length, but it as a pretty good plot and I enjoyed it a lot. (No word on whether there will be another season or if the team is working on something else, but I hope there is.)
Writing Excuses is a writing podcast where three authors (Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler) discuss a different topic relating to writing each week. It tends to focus a lot on how writing genre fiction (sci-fi/fantasy/horror) works and also has quite a few episodes about the business of writing. It also has great banter and is frequently very funny.
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browncoatparadox
I haven't heard of Startripper. I'll have to check it out. I liked the style of Ars Paradoxica, but the storyline got a bit too dark for me so I'll have to check this one out since it seems more lighthearted.
I also wanted to pop in and mention a couple of interesting podcasts I found:
Tin Can is a podcast that just finished about a man that is stuck alone in his heavily damaged starship after an explosion nearly destroys the ship and kills all of the crew except him. It's pretty short in terms of episode length, but it as a pretty good plot and I enjoyed it a lot. (No word on whether there will be another season or if the team is working on something else, but I hope there is.)
Writing Excuses is a writing podcast where three authors (Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler) discuss a different topic relating to writing each week. It tends to focus a lot on how writing genre fiction (sci-fi/fantasy/horror) works and also has quite a few episodes about the business of writing. It also has great banter and is frequently very funny.
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browncoatparadox
I haven't heard of Startripper. I'll have to check it out. I liked the style of Ars Paradoxica, but the storyline got a bit too dark for me so I'll have to check this one out since it seems more lighthearted.
Within the Wires and Alice Isn't Dead!
Within the Wires and Alice Isn't Dead!
Adventure Zone is great. Only on episode six or so but... dang. I'm also a fan of the first fifty Welcome to Night Vale episodes [fell out after a bad breakup, it doesn't have the same feeling], and above all, the Alton Browncast. Great if you're a fan of cooking.
Adventure Zone is great. Only on episode six or so but... dang. I'm also a fan of the first fifty Welcome to Night Vale episodes [fell out after a bad breakup, it doesn't have the same feeling], and above all, the Alton Browncast. Great if you're a fan of cooking.
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