Octothorpe

17: This Podcast Will End at the Burp


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John has finished his TAFF report, Alison wants you to upgrade to Zoom 5.3, and Liz ate a cake.

Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and use #OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.

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  • Letters of comment:
    • “Crazy” Dave Mansfield
    • I have a longer form of this in draft, but just wanted to say that I’ve listened to 11 to 14 this morning. And it was really amusing hearing the shift from reviewing online conventions, to worrying that the wrong format was getting to be a tradition, to it being clear (with hindsight) that you were going to run one. Then episode 15 running with that as an accidental gag of failing to announce it was perfect. Hopefully I’ll finish the actual LOC today.
  • If Zoom is methadone for con social spaces, and Discord paracetamol, is Octothorpe one of those double blind trials, where it turns out placebo is better than the current version?
  • Claire Brialey of Croydon
    • ”…the Discord chat has already made me feel quite fannish - i.e. interested and engaged and amused and occasionally irritated.”
  • “…please continue with your attempts to baffle Neil Gaiman by sending him a corner of a completed jigsaw puzzle.”
  • “If that all becomes too difficult, you could probably achieve the same immediate effect by sending him some Weetabix.”
  • FIYAH Literary Magazine
    • FIYAHCON 2020
  • Vida Cruz on #FiyahConFringe
  • Essence of Wonder’s weekendly panels
  • Ineffable Con 2
    • Rachael’s Twitter thread on the unnamed technology used
  • Using Game Design to Make Virtual Events More Social
    • Multi-User Dungeons
  • Play the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy here
  • Read John’s walkthrough here
  • Punctuation has a venue to tell us what you miss about conventions and socialising in the pandemic.
  • Staying sane in the apocalypse
    • Using Buddymove to stretch throughout the day
  • Alison has bought a concertina from Alex Holden
    • Alex’s Instagram
  • Alex’s photo of Alison’s concertina
  • The history of the concertina according to Wikipedia
  • Liz had a cake spray-painted with rum
  • John has had (whisper it) friends over for tea
    • John has an outdoor heater
  • John has finished his TAFF trip report
  • John spent 14 hours playing Arkham Horror: The Card Game yesterday
  • Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license.
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    OctothorpeBy John Coxon, Alison Scott, Liz Batty

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