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I was having trouble sleeping. So I wrote up a review of Excavation of Hob's Barrow.

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Love to deliberately omit context and take obvious jokes seriously.

I actually thought the most recent Shining album (Animal) would show up on Albummer at some point when the show started. I guess Shining is a bit too far into the weeds though, particularly with the confusion with the other Shining.

That obnoxious snare sound was actually pretty common in extreme death metal at the time. Or a sample of such a snare in bands that utilised a drum machine.

Given Lars' weird comments at the time (pre-release) comparing St Anger's sound to Meshuggah's latest album (Nothing). It wouldn't surprise me if he picked up the idea from some random extreme metal band at the time.

Still nothing on the Albummer podcast feed

That comes with the territory. For most of the 2000s adventure games were simultaneously the most common genre, but also "dead".

@goosemunch: Not a fan of Atari owning Mobygames. But they've had a variety of dubious owners over the years.

You know it's a good podcast where there's a lengthy digression about Chumbawamba and not once do they mention or imply "one-hit wonder".

Good to see a Classic of Game like JAMM IT featured.

@corporalgregg: Strangeland is excellent. It's the exact same creative team as Primordia. So you'll probably enjoy it.

It's quite different structurally though. Primordia is very creative and original, but the broad strokes are a pretty standard post-human sci-fi setting. Where Strangeland is entirely dream logic and metaphor. It's also much shorter (I played it in one afternoon)

@sethmode: Gemini Rue, Technobabylon and Unavowed, I would consider required playing for anyone who takes an interest in games in general. But if you like Adventure games they're all very decent. Ironically, the Blackwell series would be the only one I'd hesitate to recommend due to the commitment required to play them all. (still worth playing though)