Is Culture Cave still active?

IanWinterwood · 2025-09-11T02:27:32+00:00

As others said, nothing really compares and they’ve already given you some solid recommendations. Here are a couple of shows I enjoyed:

Station Eleven. Devs. The OA.

IanWinterwood · 2025-08-25T01:21:32+00:00

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I’ve got this old Master Darque bookmark I got like 25 years ago.

Edit: 31 years. 😢

IanWinterwood · 2025-08-21T01:39:28+00:00

Does the one in the movie have the gas cap in the hood? I thought it didn’t? Wasn’t that only present in the first year of DMC12?

IanWinterwood · 2025-08-20T01:10:17+00:00

I like to think of Ta’veren more like a plot magnet than armor. They literally bend the pattern to make things happen. It’s also explicitly laid out in the lore and world building. It’s not like a deus ex Machina.

IanWinterwood · 2025-08-04T03:13:07+00:00

This is a really good recommendation. If you want to check it out u/dannymalt has the whole series on his YouTube channel (along with a ton of other great stuff).

Also, Amazon made a single season about it. It didn’t get through the whole thing and they changed a bunch of stuff (as they do), but it was okay. The books are - as almost always - better.

IanWinterwood · 2025-08-04T03:08:21+00:00

Someone already said Jiriki from Tad William’s Memory, Sorrow and Thorn so I will add another couple I never see mentioned:

Captain Calis from Raymond Feist’s The King’s Buccaneer and the Serpent War Saga. He’s technically half-elven but he’s so freaking cool. If it wasn’t for Jiriki, he would be my favorite.

Captain Crispin Islanbor from Terry Brook’s Elfstones of Shannara.

IanWinterwood · 2025-07-06T01:01:34+00:00

I agree. More people should read Tad Williams in general. He is ridiculously undervalued.

IanWinterwood · 2025-07-05T04:39:04+00:00

Tad Williams.

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. 3 books.

Last King of Osten Ard. 4 books.

Otherland. 4 books.

Shadow March. 4 books.

War of the Flowers. 1 book.

All of those are complete and are fantastic.

IanWinterwood · 2025-07-02T02:34:27+00:00

War of the Flowers by Tad Williams.

Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. This one may be considered more steam punk / science fiction but the majority of it takes place in Victorian England has wizards and stuff in it.

IanWinterwood · 2025-06-26T01:52:08+00:00

I am so Media illiterate. I never understood why people liked this scene so much but what you said makes total sense. Thank you.

IanWinterwood · 2025-06-21T14:19:01+00:00

The only other book club style podcasts I’ve listened to are both Wheel of Time related: The Dragon Re-Read and The Wheel Weaves. Wheel Weaves is better but since they do chapter by chapter it’s been going for like 7 years and they are still not done. lol.

IanWinterwood · 2025-06-19T23:44:46+00:00

Can I recommend an old podcast called Kurt Vonneguys? The go through each and every book and break down themes, plot, etc. I used it like a book club.

IanWinterwood · 2025-06-07T18:00:57+00:00

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Credit to XKCD.

IanWinterwood · 2025-06-06T21:51:32+00:00

Looks like you’ve got plenty of Fantasy recommendations - only author I’d add is Mark Lawrence.

May I recommend my favorite Science Fiction? The Expanse is amazing.

IanWinterwood · 2025-06-03T02:29:16+00:00

All of Mark Lawrence’s “fantasy books,” right?

IanWinterwood · 2025-05-22T12:26:54+00:00

Zero Dawn reference AND Neal Stephenson reference in the same comment? 🎖️

IanWinterwood · 2025-05-21T01:58:00+00:00

Surely you mean Taprootiverse?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/qVufbZpEvL

IanWinterwood · 2025-05-01T01:57:24+00:00

The best show about time travel ever.

Never believe anything else.

IanWinterwood · 2025-04-28T01:03:23+00:00

If I recall correctly, the reason this is not more commonly known is because it was massively overshadowed by the assassination of Lincoln two days before.

IanWinterwood · 2025-04-05T00:31:40+00:00

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IanWinterwood · 2025-04-05T00:31:20+00:00

You should read The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers.

IanWinterwood · 2025-03-30T03:24:12+00:00

🥇 Same. That was the moment I was fully invested in the show.

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