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  • The app I use, Podcast Addict, has given me some pretty decent recommendations from the ones I’ve subscribed to. I’ve also had some decent luck search for the keyword “anthology”.

    I can give you a few more recommendations that are less tipped toward weird, as jumping off points:

    • LeVar Burton Reads (Exactly what is says on the tin. Reading Rainbow for adults. Be prepared to hear Geordi say “fuck” once in a while.)
    • Myths and Legends (Snarky narrator retelling classic mythology in an accessible modern tone)
    • Fictional (Same guy as above, but for classic lit like Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula and Frankenstein)
    • Short History Of… (Various bits of interesting history told in narrative form)

  • I used to listen to Nightvale quite a bit actually. Stopped some time shortly after the mayoral election storyline because IRL stuff meant I just wasn’t listening to as many podcasts at the time. I did like it, but it’s also one that I recall as best listened to in order, so it’s always been on the back burner to pick back up. Maybe I’ll give it another go during some long game sessions this winter.


  • I tend to go for story-telling podcasts, and within those I gravitate towards Twilight Zone-style weird anthologies. I don’t know how under-appreciated they are, but I rarely see the genre represented in discussions much.

    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.)–


  • We’re bringing back Sliders without a reboot.

    It was the real Arturo that got left behind in “Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome”, and Remy ends up finding him again after his cliffhanger solo slide.

    Working with Arturo, they manage to get a slidegate up and running to go back for the others. They also find a dying copy of Quinn along the way who has some valuable Kromagg info and end up merging him into Mallory like the accident that melded our Quinn into him, in a last-ditch effort to save him. The presence of this third Quinn, who is almost like the original, outweighs Mallory so we have Jerry O’Connell back in the cast.

    The gang all back together, they go to deliver the Kromagg bio-weapon in Remy’s blood and succeed. It’s now slowly spreading across all worlds. But the Kromagg big bad they’re fighting during this process sets off some kind of nuke inside a slide-tunnel, destabilizing the entire thing and basically scrambling sliding across all worlds. Even if you knew how to precisely connect to a world before, it goes somewhere else now.

    And now we’re back to the classic formula, we can do whatever we want from here.




  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldtext to speech
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    29 days ago

    Log in and look for the Settings gear in the lower right.

    Click on it, then scroll down to Accessibility and click on Configure.

    This window is pretty crowded, so use the search bar in the top right to look for Input Settings.

    Click on that and look for text-to-speech, then open the drop-down, select your microphone,