Month: January 2018

Games & Gaming Culture: AMA With Game Designer Ara Shirinian

TLS returns to talk with our favorite guest, and yours, game designer Ara Shirinian a sort of loose AMA session. Big thanks to everyone who submitted a question, and we will be speaking with Ara again sometime in the near future, so be sure to keep and ear, and eye out.

Check out more from Ara on:

instagram
Youtube Channel
Twitter

Film & TV: Phantom Thread

It is Oscar season and the Lost Signals is catching up on the “best” movies of the year.  Today’s episode features Daniel Day Lewis in a classy reboot of 50 Shades of Grey. [Aggregate Score: 8]

AFI Top 100 #068: Unforgiven

The Lost Signals heads to the western frontier to deconstruct the genre and its characters with Clint Eastwood’s classic, “Unforgiven,” #68 on the AFI top 100. [Aggregate score: 9]

Philosophy & Narrative: Performative Knowledge

A new year of philosophizing with Steven Ormosi, Scott Thurlow, and Jonathan Ian Manczur.  Old Johnny is going through some nasty philosophical crises about narrative, bias, and knowledge acquisition.  Listen in or go watch these instead:

Mark Blyth

Robert Reich

On the Horn: Cody D. Boyce from Rogue Squadron Podcast

Some of you may recall that we met Cody at 2017’s Podcast Movement among a group of other great folks and recorded a couple of episodes with him back then. Considering he co-hosts a Star Wars podcast, we wanted to get back in touch to hear his thoughts about The Last Jedi, so we just had a somewhat informal chat the other day. Cody was also nice enough to record video and live stream for us, so double thanks go to him.

You can experience more of Cody and his Star Wars geekiness at:
https://www.roguesquadronpodcast.com
https://www.facebook.com/roguesquadpod
https://www.patreon.com/roguesquadpod
and on Instagram and Twitter @roguesquadpod

Game Developers Choice Awards 2018: Nominees

It’s been exactly a year and the GDC Awards have announced their latest nominees. In what is probably now a tradition, I’m going to comb through the list and pick out a few categories and entries that lay within my particular myopic games purview.

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Film & TV: Bright

The Lost Signals takes a look at Netflix’s gritty buddy-cop-fantasy-drama, “Bright.” Leave the burrito, take the wand.

[Aggregate score: 8]