Hello, and welcome to the tournament quarterfinals. Here’s some highlights from the last round: Our top seed, The Twilight Zone, continues to sail, winning its matchup against Watchmen by a round-leading 51 votes. Meanwhile, it will meet the survivor of … Continue reading Speculative Television Tournament – Quarterfinals
Hello, and welcome to the third round of my increasingly erractically scheduled tournament! I’m hoping to get these up more regularly this week with the aim of having the finals next week, but we’ll see how that goes. Before we … Continue reading Speculative Television Tournament – Round 3
First, apologies for the delay in getting this up. I just haven’t had time to properly organize the Round 1 results until now. Second, some highlights from the first round: First, the biggest margin of victory belongs to our number … Continue reading Speculative Television Tournament – Round 2
I’ll have detailed results from the first round up on Monday, when Round 2 comes out, but for now, here’s the second part of Round 1. Continue reading Speculative Television Tournament – Round 1b
Hello, and welcome to round one of the speculative television tournament! First, some good news for fans of shows from the play-in round, as I made a couple of mistakes when I was initially sorting through the nominations, as I … Continue reading Speculative Television Tournament – Round 1
Hello and welcome to the preliminary round of the Speculative Fiction Tournament! We had a number of tied nominations at the bottom of the standings, but unfortunately with only the 64th and final slot open. So, I’ll be posting all … Continue reading Speculative Television Tournament – Play-in Round
I’ve had the thought of doing a tournament for the best speculative fiction TV show for a while now, so here it is. I’m using “speculative fiction” quite broadly here, mostly because it makes for a neater title than “Science … Continue reading Speculative Television Tournament – Nominations
Jon Bois is one of my favourite creators on the Internet. He’s an excellent storyteller, who’s carved out a niche of making fascinating low-fi sports documentaries on YouTube. His magnum opus, in my opinion, is The History of the Seattle … Continue reading The Night Thread of the Seattle Mariners
Palau is an island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, consisting of an archipelago composed of 340 islands. With a land area of 460 km2 (about the same as the borough of Queens, New York) and a population of just … Continue reading The Day Thread visits the capital of Palau
These days, cyberpunk seems to be everywhere. There’s the game that everyone’s talking about, of course, but the subgenre that’s defined by gritty neon-lit cityscapes and corporate dystopia seems to be everywhere these days. But if you’d like some hopeful … Continue reading The Day Thread is Solarpunk
Greetings Avocados, It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a great Christmas tradition that I’ve shamelessly stolen from Rock, Paper, Shotgun: playing Skeal. Skeal is a very short game and it’s freely available to download from itch.io, but I do … Continue reading The Day Thread Plays Skeal
Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not make your own post or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Podcasting and Videos 2020
Kitty Horrorshow is an indie video game creator, known for her (surprise, surprise) horror games. Her games have a very retro, low-fi aesthetic, reminiscent of the early days of 3D in video games, and unlike a lot of stuff in … Continue reading The Kitty Horrorshow Day Thread
For a long time now, I’ve considered David Lynch to be one of my favourite directors. It started with Twin Peaks getting its hooks into me, as I’d long heard of how influential it was on genre television of the … Continue reading Late to the Party: Eraserhead
The southwestern coast of Africa is home to Namibia, one of Africa’s largest and least-densely populated countries, home to just 2.5 million people spread over more than 800,000 square kilometres. Namibia is also home to the desert from which it … Continue reading The Day Thread Visits Where the Desert Meets the Sea
The Big Snit is a short animated film, directed by Richard Condie and released by the National Film Board of Canada in 1985. The ten-minute short is is about a married couple, who begin fighting over a game of Scrabble … Continue reading The Big Snit Night Thread
The North American House Hippo is a small, mostly nocturnal creature found throughout Canada and the Eastern United States. House hippos have adapted very well to urban landscapes, and are frequently found inhabiting people’s homes, surviving on foraged food and … Continue reading The North American House Hippo Day Thread
The southeastern part of Hudson Bay is an incredibly remote place that also happens to be filled with some fascinating little geographic oddities. First is the featured image, the Nastapoka Arc, a nearly perfect circular arc, covering a little over … Continue reading The Day Thread visits northern Quebec
May 25th is Towel Day, the annual tribute to Douglas Adams and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Celebrating is simple, just be sure you know where your towel is as you go about your day. To quote the first … Continue reading The Towel Day Thread
It’s winner-take-all time. What’s it going to be, nachos or buffalo wings? Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Finals
Apologies for the slight delay in getting this up, I had a few things going on yesterday that kept me from getting this up. Regardless, we’re now on to the semi-finals! Who will get to go for the gold next … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Semifinals
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