The Overlords take a look at The Electric State, including Simon Stålenhag’s original art/fiction book, the just-released role-playing game, and the upcoming 2025 Netflix movie. The mood in the lair fluctuates between the majestic vastness of the book’s decaying alternate 1997 America and the apocalyptic, virtual-reality plagued world that feels eerily resonant today. Ken and […]
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Welcome to The Lair of Secrets podcast, the podcast about gaming and being a geek by two middle-aged geek dads. Yeah, we said middle-aged … because “forty-something” wasn’t quite accurate anymore. This episode finds Ken Newquist caught in a maze of endless meetings, all alike, while David Moore finds that his week went somewhere …
A podcast by two fortysomething geek dads who are even more middle aged than they were during the last podcast. On this episode, we talk about the joys of progressive lenses (see, we told you we were middled aged), the Twilight 2000 Kickstarter, woodworking with lathes, The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (and narrated
