Radmars Podcast

Tis the season... kind of! It's time for our belated holiday episode where we do another watchalong of an unhinged Netflix Christmas movie together. This time it's the bafflingly titled Hot Frosty, which I will not elaborate upon because this is a ride best experienced blind. Queue it up on Netflix and join us for an extra injection of bizarre holiday cheer. Hey! Check this out: Arcane S2 (Netflix...

The Radboys have reconvened for yet another Ludum Dare game jam! This time we welcome long-missed Porter and new member Devin to the brainstorming session for our game, where we put our heads together and astral project to a mystical idea zone full of gnomes, locusts, tardigrades, pearled hats and so many other magical creatures. After you listen to the episode you can play the game that we did in...

It's that wonderful time of the year once again! This time we're doing a watchalong of The Christmas Chronicles 2, a whimsical holiday romp featuring bad boy elves, the Kurt Russellest Santa Claus ever conceived, and a level of violence and mind control that is probably too high for what is ostensibly a kids' movie. Hop on Netflix and join us in watching Santa's bizarre adventure.

The Radmars Podcast awakens from its eternal slumber and welcomes back the prodigal son Andy, who returns with a horrific tale of hospital horrors. Content warning: descriptions of blood, surgery and many other terrifying health issues. Hey! Check this out: No Man's Sky (Switch and PS5) Across the Obelisk (Steam) Spirit Island (board game) Mind Game (2004 film) Poker Face (on Peacock) Quest Ki...

We successfully Ludum Dared once again! We birthed a beautiful meat baby called Meat Rancher 2199, and this is our postmortem where we talk about how the jam went, with hopefully fewer Javascript complaints this time around. If you haven't played it yet, go play it already dang it!!! https://radmars.itch.io/meat-rancher-2199 Hey! Check this out: Andor (TV) The Last of Us (TV) A Day in the Life of...

It's Ludum Dare time once again! Listen as we brainstorm and harvest all sorts of bizarre game ideas out of our brainmeat, also featuring the elusive lost Radmars member Eugene! Then play our new game: https://radmars.itch.io/ Hey! Check this out: Deep Rock Galactic Kerbal Space Program La Mulana Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

It's the most special time of year yet again - time for our annual holiday movie watchalong where we dive head first back into the Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe (NCCU). This time our movie experiment is The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star, a Christmas movie that turns out to be a totally different genre which I won't spoil because it's totally insane. You may notice that we skipped th...

The Rad boys jump through a big ring and teleport themselves straight into a discussion of the new Sonic movies! Spoilers abound, but everyone on the planet has seen them already of course. Also everyone on the mushroom planet. Hey! Check this out: Adventure Time The Lost Metal (Brandon Sanderson novel) Sonic Frontiers

The Dry Crew gathers at the table to talk about modern board games! Prepare for complicated mechanics and crunchy rules, crunchy snacks optional. Hey! Check these board games out: Star Wars: Rebellion Concept Paperback

The Randboys generate a new episode to talk about randomizers, aka mods that randomize game progression, from Link to the Past to Elden Ring. Thankfully this episode is in go mode from the beginning, what a lucky break! Hey! Check this out: Julia (HBOMax) The Invisible Man (2020 film) Breath of the Wild, small indie game you probably haven't heard of it

We successfully made the game we said we were gonna make! And in this episode we talk about how we made it! But mostly it's a lot of complaining about Javascript. If you haven't played 360° MICROSCOPE yet you have to now, it's the law. https://radmars.itch.io/360-degree-microscope Hey! Check this out: matter.js Cosmic Crisp apples Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched

Hey, remember how Radmars is actually a game dev group? No? Well I don't blame you, but now you have no excuse because we made another game! We participated in the Ludum Dare 51 game jam, and this episode is our Friday night brainstorming session before we started work. Come hear how the delicious game sausage is made! And then play it! Or the other way around! I don't care! Play our new game here...

The Rad Neural Net jumps back into the horse ocean to discuss the latest developments in AI image generation and the inevitable takeover of the machines. I'm sure I made a joke in the description of the last AI episode about how an AI could do it better, so let's try it. GPT-3, continue this description of a podcast episode about AI. "The AI episode of the Rad Neural Net podcast is all about the l...

The Dry Crew dusts off some fossils and history books to investigate the history of animal domestication, from dogs and cats to livestock and even foxes. Whether the particular segment of humanity represented by the hosts of this podcast is domesticated, however, remains to be seen. Hey! Check this out: Midnight Mass (Netflix) House of the Dragon (HBOMax) Speculating About Deus Ex: Human Revolutio...

The Rad crew dons their protective gear to chat about manmade unnatural disasters, including "peaceful" uses of nuclear weapons, drilling-induced mud volcanoes, and intentionally introducing invasive species. Humanity continues to carry on its tradition of being excellent stewards of the planet. Hey! Check this out: Genshin Impact 3.0 update Umbrella Academy Season 3 (Netflix) Why the US Army elec...

This week a Brendonless configuration of the Rad Infiltration Team huddles up to discuss hacking and lockpicking minigames. This is an expert-level lock so you'll probably be breaking about 5-10 picks in order to access this episode. Hey! Check this out: Westworld (season 1, on HBOMax) Sandman (Netflix) Nope (2022 film)

The Rad crew gathers this week to discuss accessibility, in video games and beyond. The verdict reached on whether to put accessibility features in your games: "just do it ya dingus" Hey! Check this out: No Man's Sky: Endurance Jazz Emu ( https://www.youtube.com/c/JazzEmu ) Red Letter Media Star Wars Reviews ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI&list=PLZJ2yOBfQ1hr3wacUOgHhY_ZFZ2ujxAEo...

The Dry Crew returns to crack open a couple cold ones and chat about hostile design in architecture & games and also how to keep those pesky humans from slurping up our yummy nuclear waste 10,000 years from now. How dare they try to find valuable things. (Mild Elden Ring spoilers from 21:15 to 26:45 btw.) Hey! Check this out: Matzo ball soup Inscryption (Steam) Star Control 2: Precursors Remix...

We made it to episode 100! And on this auspicious occasion we talk about the recent trend of movies-as-family-therapy, in particular Turning Red, Encanto and Everything Everywhere All at Once. (spoiler warning for those movies of course) Step into our office and have a seat, won't you? Hey! Check this out: Baymax! (2022, Disney+) Swiss Army Man (2016 film) Hyperion (novel by Dan Simmons) Popcorn (...

The Dry Crew returns and jumps into hyperdrive to talk about ASMR (again) and Star Wars (again)! Still definitely not sexual and not too many JJ/Palpatine complaints this time, we promise. Hey! Check this out: The Wire (HBOMax) This is EVE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0 ) TrekWatch ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNQXSAwT1xUrIZDS3KGnTxQ )

This week the Radmars Astronomical Division peers into the night sky to discuss infrared astronomy, the James Webb Space Telescope, Lagrange points, and the general mystery of space. Be careful though - if you gaze into an eldritch black hole, the eldritch black hole gazes also into you... Hey! Check this out: Station 11 (HBOMax) Crash Course ( https://www.youtube.com/c/crashcourse ) V Rising (Ste...

The Rad team upgrades their cyberbrains to talk about EVE Online drama and transhumanism, all the way from current tech like cochlear implants and bionic vision to futuristic brain modification and replacing various parts of your body with shark heads. It's what all the cool kids are doing nowadays. Hey! Check this out: The Expanse (audiobooks) He Who Fights with Monsters (audiobook) Why Does Meta...

On this thematic episode of the Various Superheroes That Andy's Son Likes podcast, we talk about Power Rangers, its badass theme song, and how musical motifs work in superhero movies and other works. Just imagine that cool Avengers theme right now. Pretty good right? Hey! Check this out: Oolong tea Spider-Man (Japanese TV series) Spider-Man: Far From Home Suite Thai iced tea

In this expansive episode we jump on the horse again and ride into a discussion of open world games and emergent gameplay. What emerges, you may ask? Horses. Of courses. Hey! Check this out: Better Call Saul Severance Set (card game & https://www.setgame.com/welcome ) suckerpinch aka Tom 7 ( https://www.youtube.com/c/suckerpinch & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio )

We once again open the Rad-Files to investigate alien abductions and other spooky encounters, including those of Betty & Barney Hill, Travis Walton, the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter and some guy on Reddit. The truth is out there... it's just that the truth mostly consists of people getting confused. Hey! Check this out: Venom 2 You Are Two ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8 ) Invinc...