Dead Red Herring Podcast

Dead Red Herring Podcast - Episode 23

At this point we are just tired of everything to do with Captain Marvel. But the movie has finally come out and the proverbial do-do seems to still cascade into the fan, so a final rant is a must. What is the reactions to the movie? A whole lot of "meh" it would seems. What might it mean for the whole MCU? The future looks bleak to be honest. Not to mention how Rotten Tomatoes has been caught fudging numbers for Captain Marvel and Disney. Expect no mercy.

This is not for the easily offended, you have been warned.

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Dead Red Herring Podcast - Episode 22

There is a great divide within what we might call nerdom. Today, it's more politics than story in mediums like movies, comics and games. Being a fan is no longer just appreciating entertainment, it's equally or even more taking a stance for politics and ideology according to certain people. Now we see the consequences of the progressive infection, how you no longer can have entertainment without a ideological whip cracking somewhere and if you oppose it, you might find yourself on the short end of the stick. But it's not only in the fandom, creators and publishers have also been infected and this leads to total destruction of once great IPs and franchises. 

This is more or less a rant from my perspective on the issue at hand and what I think could be done about it. Give it a listen and tell me if you agree or disagree. We need to come back to civil discussion, not keep slinging mud all the time.

This is not for the easily offended, you have been warned.

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Dead Red Herring Podcast - Episode 21

Alita: Battle Angel is, so far, the best movie adaptation of a manga out there. The movie is great and I will talk about why I think that is. I'll also have a small review on the CelesSteel comic, an indie game and comics project that wants to bring back the feel of 80's cartoons. Lastly, I'll have a rant about rotten tomatoes and critics.

Check out CelesSteel's website - https://www.celessteel.co.uk/

and follow on twitter - https://twitter.com/retroguygaming

Tell me what you think of Alita: Battle Angel and rotten tomatoes!

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Dead Red Herring Podcast - Episode 20

No monster is more renowned than the vampire. From the epic of Gilgamesh in ancient Mesopotamia to modern pop culture interpretations, what we know of as vampire seems to have always been part of human society. But without doubt, the most iconic representation of the horrid bloodsucker today is that of Dracula (1897), created by Abraham "Bram" Stoker in his novel with the same name. More recently though, Dracula has become synonymous with the game series Castlevania, created by Konami for the NES and released the first time in 1986.

But how has the vampire aged and evolved in our time? We can't say it really has retained it's status as monster of pure evil with series like Twilight, True Blood and such. So is it maybe time for the monster to go back to it's roots and be the monster we all used to fear? We deal with the subject at hand in our usual ranty way.

Give it a listen and tell us what you think about it. 

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Dead Red Herring Podcast - Episode 19

So EA got to keep their exclusive rights for making Star Wars games, a sad day for SW-game enthusiasts. Right now we can only wait and see if (when) Jedi: Fallen Order will either be canceled or remade into some horrid abomination full of microtransactions. Then we have Brie Larson saying her role as Carol Danvers, a.k.a. Captain Marvel, will be her (Larson's) way of activism, potentially damning the whole of MCU with it.

This and more in our episode 19! Give it a listen and tell us what you think about it. 

Link to the great Yong Yea and his coverage of the EA's financial report. 

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Dead Red Herring Podcast - Episode 18

Ever since George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, the Zombie has had a special place in modern populture. It has found it's place in all forms of media from games to TV and everything in between. But has the abundance of the walking dead made it less of a horror and more of a nuisance? We have a discussion about the Zombie, both the imaginary we all know and the potentially real form when people lose their minds.

Give it a listen and tell us what you think about it. 

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Dead Red Herring Podcast - Episode 17

The state of gaming today is bad. The big publishers/developers are focusing more on how to milk their products while ignoring the gamers, gaming pro journos are more interested in politics than the games. This has to stop.

This rant is our way to lift the issue and put our two cents into the conversation. 

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Dead Red Herring Podcast - Episode 16

When Disney moved in to copyright claim the Vader fan film by Star Wars Theroy, fans moved in and called it out. It came to the point where Lucasfilm stepped in to get it removed, a good move. We talk a bit about this and go on to discuss the latest with Fallout 76 before going into some twitter and Ghostbusters 3.

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Dead Red Herring Podcast - Episode 15

We have a special interest in storytelling and world building. So we thought it could be an interesting subject to bring to the podcast. But it's a big and very broad subject. Because of that we start off just speaking broadly about it, taking examples from Star Wars, Harry Potter and role-playing games.

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Dead Red Herring Podcast - Episode 14

When it comes to bad and lazy character writing, the Mary Sue and her brother Gary Stu, is the worst sin of them all. We take a dive into the history and concept of the siblings and go on a long rant on the subject because we love characters that are round and have depth. Flat, boring and self-aggrandizing characters are shit-tier trash. We list both good and bad examples of primarily female characters, because this is an issue in contemporary nerdom.

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