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Abnormal Mapping is a monthly game club of Em and Jackson, talking primarily about old games with an eye to critiquing without nostalgia.
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All the anime watched by Em and Jackson that isn't part of The Great Gundam Project, usually an entire season in an episode, with most episodes chosen by our listeners! Because sometimes you're so tired of mechs.
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Second Officer Slog is a monthly Star Trek book club celebrating the wild, sprawling, dubiously canon extended universe of our favorite TV sci-fi series so you don't have to! Life long Trek nerds M and Jackson dive into the minutia of treaties, techno-babble, and Bajoran independence starting from the DS9 novel relaunch and headed where no book club has gone before. Intended for people who've never cracked a single Trek book, we're talking about the best and worst that universe has to offer ...
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We eat our cinematic vegetables as we go deep into the past to dig out all the cool old movies that languish in our to-be-watched pile and talk about them one a fortnight!
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Your Faves Would Never is a weekly podcast from Destiny and Em as they talk about what they've been doing to get by and get better in a world of shit. This is a chill conversation cast, one of those cute couple casts but cool because we are cool, about all the things we might have on our mind in any given week. Chill out, sit back, and consider that while YOUR faves might never, we will and do.
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US immigration laws are one of the biggest challenges for startups establishing in the US market. The Startup Visa® podcast is all about US immigration issues for startup founders and international entrepreneurs. US-based startups/employers struggle to hire talented minds who often need work visas. International entrepreneurs and founders need to navigate the US immigration maze to understand how to enter the US market legally. Tahmina Watson, author of the bestselling book series "The Start ...
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Em is back from the month off to talk about the joy of a kind of cheesy mystery with a great sci-fi premise as we get to live out our Star Trek: The Original Series dreams by lecturing ancient peoples about how our modern world view is clearly the best one. This sounds like it’s selling The Forgotten City short, but I promise it isn’t, we really li…
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This month it’s just me, Jackson, being joined by Crystal to play Citizen Sleeper. Em is currently in Hospital after major surgery and so I’m taking over and organizing the podcasts while they recover! Please send them well wishes. It’s time to talk about RPG systems, and the strange act of critiquing leftist video games that you mostly agree with.…
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We watch a 90s indie classic and talk about how much childhood sucks, the weirdness of age when you’re in school, the messiness of allegiances when you’re young, and much more with this funny, uncomfortable movie. Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us any email questions and comments about the m…
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I'm joined today by Red (@gender_redacted) to have a casual discussion about Legend of the Galactic Heroes. I read the books, they've seen the anime, and we just kinda shoot the shit about our favourite guys and our frustrations with the series and its reputation.Oleh Abnormal Mapping
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We enjoy one of the major modern attempts at making a Pokemon-style monster collecting and battling RPG with Cassette Beasts. We talk about surprising scope of the world, the intense battle system, what your numbers say about your priorities, the weirdness of dating mechanics, and much more! This game was a great surprise and a huge delight, so ple…
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We watch a perfectly middle of the road movie and talk about aspiring to be a Michael Clayton, the burden of ripped from the headlines movie making, Mark Ruffalo being extremely fifty years old, and more! Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we …
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We watch a science fiction classic and talk about slow cinema and the weird pissing matches between authors and directors and other directors. Solaris is pretty good! Also, a bunch of other movies get discussed. Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us any email questions and comments about the mov…
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We find ourselves doing grunt work for Atrus once more as our favorite self-published author and god of his own realms begins reaping what he’s sown over the last two games. We solve some puzzles, enjoy Brad Dourif, and talk about the kind of guy who keeps going around birthing entire worlds. Exile was good fun, happy to dip back into the world of …
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Sometimes you watch one of those movies where a bunch of disparate things fall into place and you realize some of your favorite directors definitely watched this movie and lost their minds about it. Don’t Look Now is definitely one such movie! We enjoy the foggy streets of Venice, Donald Sutherland’s cartoonish frown, psychic abilities and their pi…
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We head to the world of mood lighting, stupid cops, and the poetry of a life of crime as we all enjoy the rhythms and aesthetics of Deep Cover! This one’s a pretty silly movie, but I mean that in the kindest way possible. Truly the early 90s could just get away with a corny earnestness in genre work that is sorely missed. Check out our letterboxd l…
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We leap back in time to the Mega Drive to talk about two action classics back when action games meant jumping and avoiding and not perfect parries. Not exactly divisive that we enjoy these types of games, but the generational split is very real as we talk about these two classics of game. Join us, for a walk down memory lane (Sega edition). Thank y…
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One of the stone cold classics of cinema this week as we all watch our first Rossellini movie together and come away deeply impressed. Sometimes a movie is just a classic for a reason! Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in g…
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This episode might be two weeks late, but that’s just because we were exploring the Real America to learn how the 99% lives. But we’re back with a bunch of movies and one of the classic comedies of the 1940s! Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies…
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We finish our long Final Fantasy adventure by playing Square’s largest single player Final Fantasy yet. But does size equal quality? Does it equal ambition? We have many thoughts about this and about where the entire Final Fantasy VII Remake Project has gone and is heading in this enormous podcast about an equally enormous game. After dozens of hou…
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It’s the big 100! We’ve watched 100 (+2) movies on this second edition of our movie show, somehow, and we picked a banger to celebrate the milestone. Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to abnormalmappingpodcast@gm…
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We’re joined by Molly for the return of one of the classics, a guy who just needs to jump over every spike in all the world, conveniently located in a beautiful palace. That’s right, we’re here to talk about the return of Prince of Persia, and the surprising ways Ubisoft have melded the last ten years of exceptional platforming games into something…
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We watch a sci-fi classic and talk about robots, corridors, and the aesthetics of gymnasiums! Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to abnormalmappingpodcast@gmail.com! Also, we're a patreon supported show, please go…
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled coverage with a special announcement: Jackson has played the Final Fantasy XIII games, at last. Despite the frankly illegal amount of Final Fantasy content lately they were not going to let that go to waste. They are joined by Erin (@Woodabris, Woodaba on Youtube) to discuss the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, with…
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One of the greatest films ever made this week on Repertory Screenings, and also we have some other movies to talk about on top of that. Also, note, we do talk about Close-Up Long Shot, the 1996 documentary which follows up with Sabzian after the movie. Highly recommended you seek that out before you listen! Check out our letterboxd list if you’d li…
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We’re going back to the heady days of licensed multi-platform games in the early 00s this month as we play 007: Everything or Nothing and talk about the era of arcane save processes, weird genre mashups, awful final missions, and the ways in which the whole medium could turn on a relatively short dime to become something new. Was this game an unher…
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This week we’re lighter on movies but plenty to talk about with George Clooney’s breezy educational film about a moment in time and the collision of history and ideology it represents. Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in g…
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We have a super-sized episode as Destiny and Em finally saw Barbie which means we cover Barbie for a long time before getting into this week’s movie. Also, there’s just a lot of cinema watched over the holiday break. Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us any email questions and comments about th…
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We close out the year with a podcast years in the making, as Molly joins us and we take a road trip with the king to be and his homies and play the much maligned but beloved by us Final Fantasy XV! This podcast will cover the main game and the first three episode DLCs (Gladio, Prompto, Ignis), and there’ll be a follow up podcast on the patreon (fre…
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It’s Fellini for Christmas as we talk about the tragicomedy of the human spirit and the best faces in all of cinema with Nights of Cabiria! Also, Em’s got a whole boatload of movies from the last three weeks. And we talk about British hypnotists, how many eggs we could eat in a day, and more. Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all t…
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It's time for the final Beach House of 2023, and we read Delicious in Dungeon! The whole thing! It's a great manga and we had a good time discussing it even if our job is pretty difficult because the main thing is just: look at it. I mean look at it bro. We'll be back next year with a slightly reduced Beach House schedule but we'll update you ahead…
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We’re back with a Destiny childhood classic and some extra movies besides as we get back into the groove of things with Steve Martin’s first breakout film: The Jerk! Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to abnormalm…
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We keep gaming as we tackle a bunch of small games in a classic grab bag and talk through a whole mess of games that are interesting and worthwhile but often have one or two extremely obvious parts that hold it back. Some of them are reasonable critiques, some of them are just the unfortunate realities of game production, some are just The Times. I…
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The strike is over which means movies are back on the menu! We talk about the modern dad classic that speaks to the Star Trek nerd in all three of us, the power of just shooting guys on a boat, and the impossible task of being a dad and winning a war in this action packed episode! Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies co…
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The strike is over! After what seems like a lifetime, the 2023 writers strike came to an end and with it the request podcasts not do promotional work. Which means we can get back to talking about movies! We’re really excited, but also it’s been a tough year, so we decided to make one short episode talking about where we’re at, where we’re headed, a…
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The strike is over! After what seems like a lifetime, the 2023 writers strike came to an end and with it the request podcasts not do promotional work. Which means we can get back to talking about movies! We’re really excited, but also it’s been a tough year, so we decided to make one short episode talking about where we’re at, where we’re headed, a…
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The strike is over! After what seems like a lifetime, the 2023 writers strike came to an end and with it the request podcasts not do promotional work. Which means we can get back to talking about movies! We’re really excited, but also it’s been a tough year, so we decided to make one short episode talking about where we’re at, where we’re headed, a…
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It’s Jackson here with a surprise episode of Abnormal Mapping! This was meant to be a bonus anniversary surprise but scheduling woes got it pushed back a week, but that’s not important: I finally played Majora’s Mask. And I’m joined by my good friend Crystal to talk about it. Things Discussed: Majora’s Mask, most Zeldas, some Resident Evil. Next Mo…
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I'm joined this time by Liv to talk about Hyouka, the 2012 KyoAni mystery show that gave us a lot to chew on. Thank you so much to Liv for coming thru again, go listen to TBH: An Anime Podcast!Oleh Abnormal Mapping
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We’ve been doing this for ten years! Damn, that’s a long time to be doing a monthly game club. But we’ll keep trucking into our second decade as we start a series that neither of us have played before. We’re joined by a guest, Shenmue superfan Dia Lacina, to talk about Ryo and his ridiculous quest for vengeance. Please enjoy this supersized episode…
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We’re back! With one of our most relevant Beach Houses actually talking about a topical show. It’s time to watch the breakout hit of 2022, Bocchi the Rock! Next Month: Terror in ResonanceOleh Abnormal Mapping
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I’m joined by Madiha to talk about a show that we thought was going to just be a little easy watch but ended up revealing hidden terrors deep within….Oleh Abnormal Mapping
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We celebrate a century and a half of excellence this month as we talk about 3D platforming as we take a thorough look at Demon Turf and talk about platforming for sickos, designing games around the expectations of Nintendo Polish, and what that means in terms of expectations and the war within ourselves to appraise a thing. Demon Turf is really goo…
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We are joined today by Dia to watch some OVA trashy goodness, but some of us might just be too young to appreciate that.Oleh Abnormal Mapping
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I'm joined by Luc today for the return of Bad Mecha Anime Hour. I (Jackson) will be doing some bonus extra free episodes without Em during the writers strike, while they are doing the FFT let's play at the $5/tier. Which means watching shit they would never touch in a thousand years. Like Valvrave The Liberator. Next Episode: Demon City Shinjuku…
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We’re back with one of the obvious classics of all time, a game neither of us had played before this month but came like a lighting strike into our lives with its charm and brevity and interesting vision of early 3D RPG design. That’s right, it’s time to servbot up some exploration, with a dash of adventure, you dig? Okay, okay, I’ll stop. Please e…
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It's our Dennou Coil episode! We finally watch the long awaited and beloved show and see if it lives up to its reputation.Oleh Abnormal Mapping
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Em is joined by anime gaming expert Olivia today to talk about a classic of Visual Novels, the Muv Luv trilogy of games! We have a brief RPG checkin first, nothing especially spoiler-heavy so don’t worry if you’re not also 7 games into Kiseki, but the Muv Luv sequence is, of course, exceedingly spoiler heavy by nature. Thank you so much as always f…
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We’re joined by post-gamer and friend of the show Austin Walker to talk about the latest and greatest in the long running Final Fantasy series. That’s right, it’s Clive time! Join us as we try to grapple with this large action RPG and talk mostly about its story and themes. Some mechanical talk, but this is very writing centric as an episode. Enjoy…
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We watched Konosuba! And had a conversation about the friction of the genre. Next Month: Dennou CoilOleh Abnormal Mapping
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We’re back! We’ve watched more Lower Decks and it’s fantastic, while reading a pretty interesting early Reeves-Stevens book that gives us the crunchy look at bad Starfleet beauracracy that we love. If you would like to get exclusive podcasts please visit patreon.com/abnormalmapping to support us and find out how! Send any questions or comments abou…
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We’re back to watch an incredible movie and announce that we’re taking the rest of the month off! Reasons given within, but we’ll be back in a few weeks. Until then, Em is filling in as guest host of Ornate Stairwells, which you should absolutely listen to! Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Send us …
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We’re joined by blogger of the year and adventure game maestra Dia Lacina to talk about one of the most iconic games of the LucasArts era, Monkey Island 2! There’s plenty of other games besides, but it’s really mostly this one, because it’s worth it. You can watch Dia play Monkey Island 1 for free HERE, and support her Patreon to watch her play all…
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Not much in the way of movies this week but Destiny saw the new Wes Anderson and Em gets way in the weeds on feeling a bit discontent with this week’s very solid and historically beloved movie, so we manage to fill the time just fine anyway! Thanks for listening! Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that way! Se…
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It is Yandere time, motherfuckers. It's time to talk about Future Diary, a weird manga that Jackson wanted to check out for curiosity reasons.Oleh Abnormal Mapping
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We start a sort of haphazardly thrown together mini series of Pride movies as we watch a sad melodrama that is most upsetting in how topical it all feels almost 100 years after the original play was written. We have a great time talking about a bummer, please join us! Check out our letterboxd list if you’d like to see all the movies covered that wa…
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