Episode 123: Iteration

No Story Is Sacred

In this episode we talk about an original story idea by Alex. It involves robots and AI!

Content warnings for strong language, robots, the problem of machine learning and algorithms, catholicism, Kat really having no idea how video game genre conventions work, and Kat and Pippin being in the same room.

We reference or spoil: The Prestige (movie and book), No Story is Sacred episode “Cabin in the Woods”, Empire Records, The Carpenters “Close to You“, The Mitchells vs the Machines, “behold a man!”, Castlevania, Mean Girls, Mur Lafferty‘s Six Wakes, Passengers, Portal, RPG Maker, Ib, John Mulaney‘s The Comeback Kid, “there was only one bed“, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek” by Ambrose Bierce, The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, No Story is Sacred episode “Dog”, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya “Endless Eight” storyline, Untitled Goose Game, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Eternal Darkness, “one of us lies, one of us tells the truth“, An Inspector Calls (2015), Harlan Ellison‘s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream“, Um Actually, The Road to El Dorado, Undertale, The Good Place, Alice and Bob Facebook chatbots, Stella Gibbons‘s Cold Comfort Farm, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Ghostbusters, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode “Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad”, Katherine Crighton‘s “Sing in Me, Muse“, Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Once More With Feeling“, Sir James Frazer‘s The Golden Bough, TVTropes, Diana Wynne Jones‘s The Tough Guide to Fantasy Land, Doki-Doki Literature Club, Gravity Falls episode “Soos and the Real Girl“, “Walk on Water” (TVTropes), Resident Evil (movies), Resident Evil (video game), Galaxy Quest, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater.

In addition, Kat is going to be part of an author roundtable talk for Apex Magazine on December 13th and is teaching Assabet Community Education classes in Spring 2023 (“Writing Short Fiction” “Writing Novels” “Practical Publishing”), and Brendan is doing an improv show at the Arcade Comedy Theatre in Pittsburgh PA 7:30 PM December 17th!

The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.

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