Where do Smash Bros Bob Odenkirk and David Cross fit into this?

I think at least some of it must be that stress makes you more sensitive to some sensory inputs. If I’m about to have a breakdown, my response to any touch or the ambient temperature increases by like tenfold.

Don’t forget Dark Heresy, the follow-up to Rogue Trader. I don’t think we have a release date yet, but winter of this year probably isn’t out of the question.

No, but I’ve had the Nectar of a Thousand Sorrows from Parks and Rec, which is red wine and root beer. It’s not bad, great way to slug down a dryer cheap bottle.

Sweet cherry pie?

Poor decisions.

Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, as a whole.

I guess within the band, my ranking would go:

• Dr Teeth
• Animal
• Janice
• Zoot
• Floyd
• Lips

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You might also like Auditory Anthology then. Their original stories are sometimes a little hit or miss for me, but one neat thing they do is they rebroadcast old episodes of a 50s radio show called X Minus One between their own stories. Often ones that they used as inspiration for a modern rewrite in an earlier episode.

I tend to go for story-telling podcasts, and within those I gravitate towards Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Black Mirror style weird anthologies.

Right now I’m finding a lot of great stuff in:

• The Other Stories (all kinds of stuff, they have a different theme every month or so)
• The Wrong Station (similar, but less likely to stick to a theme for a while)
• Gray Matter (lots of modern adaptations of older horror/sci-fi, like Lovecraft)
• The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings (higher ratio of dumb stuff, but still some gems)
• The Program (Black Mirror-esque)
• The Truth (various radio plays. Many aren’t sci-fi, but still weird in some way. Kind of reminds me of the bits of Inside No. 9 I’ve seen.)

Children’s Horror

We give gifts to both sets of parents as a couple, but we’re both involved in picking them out.

Actually what usually happens is my wife sets me loose to wander in a store and follows me like a dowsing rod or a truffling pig, and then I stop in front of a shelf and go “I dunno, this?” and 8/10 times she goes “holy shit, yeah”.

I think a lot of amateur writers feel more comfortable with a prompt or an established theme for the community to get started with. It’s part of why WritingPrompts, HFY, and HumansAreSpaceOrcs were pretty popular on reddit. After that, I imagine it’s just like any online community, a matter of promoting it to people and getting splintered tiny communities to band together in one place.

It looks like your community is pretty general theme-wise, have you considered maybe a “theme of the week” post, or a sticky where people can dump prompts for someone to pick up and run with?

Maximo

Fuuuuck, I haven’t thought about Maximo in years. That, Dark Cloud, and MediEvil are probably highest on my “It’s been 20 years, where the hell is my third game?” list.

Nethack maybe? It’s been updated over the years, but it’s still largely the game that released in '87.

I’m also playing Might and Magic 6 [98] right now, and remembering why I liked 7 so much more. Planning a playthrough of World of Xeen [93/94] soon too.

Romantically? I don’t suppose that there’s much choice to falling in love. But continuing to love someone once the honeymoon glow wears off, and it’s not always as happy and easy? I think that is, to some degree, a choice you make.

Okay, this is obviously shit as presented, but… I might try a Froot Loops-dusted tuna steak.

You can use a chair as a table, but can’t comfortably sit on most tables. QED, fuck off tables.

Also we get Will Sasso to come back as hotelier Gomez Calhoun at least once a season.