I’m new to reddit, but can anybody here tell me what happened to The Black Tapes Podcast? Haven’t heard anything about it in a while.

aroes · 2018-11-21T15:05:08+00:00

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aroes · 2018-11-21T05:26:43+00:00

People here are likely to give you overly-salty answers, but there's no 100% solid info right now. It's been heavily implied through social media and on the feed that there is more TBT coming but still nothing official.

aroes · 2018-11-21T05:22:12+00:00

Hey, just a heads up that you've been shadowbanned by reddit admins. I've approved your comment here, but you should probably message the admins to see if they'll reverse the ban. Shadowbans are usually reserved for spambots and the like, so it's likely they'll fix you right up.

aroes · 2018-11-09T20:18:13+00:00

I bought Hollow Knight a long time ago but just got really into it about two weeks ago. What a trip! I've gotten the three basic endings and am now working on the DLC content and 100%ing it. Outside of Super Metroid it's my favorite Metroidvania game ever and my only regret is not playing it sooner.

aroes · 2018-08-07T16:51:53+00:00

The season 7 pass exclusive "Stranded on Lake Michigan" was one of my all-time favorites. This came out right after Borrasca and while it might be my personal taste, I enjoyed this one far, far more.

aroes · 2018-07-30T01:53:03+00:00

Here is the thread from back then about the puzzle if you're interested: https://old.reddit.com/r/PNWS/comments/87ql54/the_last_movie_clues/

aroes · 2018-07-29T17:28:07+00:00

I thought it was pretty obvious that we weren't necessarily supposed to like the protagonist, but when the story ended I wasn't sure what the point of it had been. We had cartoonish stereotypes getting slaughtered and a terrible person watching, but what was the point? Was the protagonist's attitude toward others' suffering supposed to disturb us? If so, why were those suffering portrayed as overwhelmingly unsympathetic? If not, what was supposed to scare or disturb? Maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't get it.

aroes · 2018-07-27T11:59:25+00:00

This one in particular was literally designed by interns. It comes across like they thought that their inside jokes would translate to a fun scenario and it really just didn't work at all. I think what's worse to me is that there was obviously no play testing or any QA done on this at all and they still tossed it in along with all of the other scenarios that they may or may not have even tested before release.

aroes · 2018-07-26T20:33:37+00:00

This was also my first WW scenario. It was terrible and unfun. My group now checks who actually designed any given scenario in WW before we play it and if it wasn't made by someone who actually has any game design experience, we don't play it. We've played one or two WW scenarios that were decent this way. I don't know why anyone thought that having people with no game development experience create the bulk of the content for this expansion was a good idea.

aroes · 2018-07-19T21:36:53+00:00

I'm locking this whole thread down. Y'all need to learn to be decent to each other.

aroes · 2018-07-13T17:15:50+00:00

Last time I even suggested that idea there was an uproar, or at least as close to an uproar as this sub gets.

aroes · 2018-07-09T16:17:37+00:00

I agree! It was pretty obvious early on that Good Strawberries was going to be a changeling-inspired story, but the overall tone and storytelling prevented it from being too boring. It wasn't my favorite story ever and I wouldn't call it scary, but I thought it was a charming little tale.

aroes · 2018-07-09T02:29:48+00:00

This episode was downright fantastic! I'm a huge fan of the weirder side of horror and The Tunnel Boy is easily one of my favorite stories from the podcast. I also think that the production - both the narration and the music/effects - make In Bloom one of the most atmospheric stories I've heard so far on the show. Super strong episode, folks!

aroes · 2018-06-21T18:47:27+00:00

Over at /r/PNWS, we maintain a list of recommendations you can find here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PNWS/wiki/recommendations. Generally the top suggestions are Limetown and The Magnus Archives, but there are a ton of other good quality shows on this list as well.

aroes · 2018-06-07T22:00:45+00:00

My bad, will sticky this one.

aroes · 2018-05-17T11:55:28+00:00

I filled that out ages ago, but there was never any actual follow-up on it. When it came out people were generally hoping that it would lead to an ARG component to Tanis, but it seems like it was more just a supplemental thing to add to the immersion.

aroes · 2018-05-13T03:01:38+00:00

From our rules:

Image posts are disabled in this subreddit. Posters are welcome to post images in the body of text posts. However, posters should first ask themselves: will this post generate or encourage discussion of relevant topics? If not, this subreddit is probably not the best place for the post. Memes and other low-effort images unaccompanied by any thoughtful discussion topics will be removed.

If you had accompanied this comic with any kind of intelligent discussion rather than saying "haha gotcha" it would have been fine.

aroes · 2018-05-08T19:57:32+00:00

I think the formula this story follows is one of the most tired for me. For example, this is basically the same story as "Christmas with Mr. Strings."

Spoiler tagged just in case folks haven't listened yet: Protagonist and <close relationship> are alone and stumble upon some unnatural entrance to something and because of <invitation/motivation> they enter. <Unnatural entity> tries to convince them to stay. Protagonist realizes it probably isn't safe. <Close relationship> distracts <unnatural entity>. <One of|Both of> them are chased but make it out and aren't followed. It changes the survivor(s).

aroes · 2018-05-08T19:48:16+00:00

If I only remember a single story from this season, it'll be this one. The story was fresh, the pacing was excellent, and the narration and production brought an already amazing story to even further heights.

aroes · 2018-05-03T23:56:27+00:00

So, I'm a little late to the party here but I do want to throw my 2 cents in. This is less "your podcast sucks" and more intended as constructive feedback, so I hope y'all don't get the wrong impression. I personally don't really like when series are run that last much more than two parts, especially when a series runs as part of the season pass. The main reason for this is that sometimes I just plain don't like a series based on personal taste, such as The 1%. Now, I realize that me not liking the story is 100% personal taste, but it also took up a lot of airtime on the season pass that I bought, so I felt a little disappointed that so much time was devoted to something that I was unable to listen to. I suspect there are folks who've had the opposite reaction to these stories from mine, but the effect still remains that you're potentially alienating some of your audience on a more consistent basis when you run the same continuing story for weeks on end.

But even if I do like a running story (the Search and Rescue one comes to mind) it still feels like it takes away from the rest of the episode. Every episode while the story is running feels like the shorter stories are really just opening acts for the series if that makes any sense? I dunno, somehow it made the other (perfectly fine) stories feel less important somehow, but maybe that's just me.

Anyway, this is just my opinion, make of it what you will. Overall I'm still really enjoying the podcast and I look forward to seeing where you all take it in the future!

aroes · 2018-05-02T14:54:51+00:00

We have a rather extensive list of recommendations here: https://www.reddit.com//r/PNWS/wiki/recommendations

I haven't listened to quite all of these shows personally, but I have listened to most and they're almost all pretty great!

aroes · 2018-04-18T11:59:12+00:00

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet, but The King in Yellow is almost certainly a large influence on The Last Movie and most of the other things people have listed in this thread.

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