It looks like the download link is accidentally using a URL which links through facebook.com. Presumably that is an accident rather than a new sponsorship?
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Side-effect of copying the description out of our FB post, yes, thanks. Fixed.
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Guest player Tim Gilberts joins for interstellar exploration of two oft-overlooked sci-fi titles of the 1970s: Aldebaran III by Peter Langston, and Dog Star Adventure by Lance Micklus.
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Are those Macbeth witches AI? They look kinda weird. (Yes, I know it’s not inappropriate for witches to look wEird.)
-Wade
They’re a processed stock image, I can’t swear to what tools were used but it’s always just seemed like striking contrast to me.
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Tune in next week for more considered discourse on the sources of our brand artwork. We’ve got new material coming, and I’m pretty excited about it!
When I read this, I thought, ‘Huh, I thought this artwork was brand new. Why ‘always’?’
To reverse engineer all this, the reason I said anything is that the Youtube link drew my attention to the cover images for what I thought was the first time. Normally I receive the podcast via iTunes and never look at any related imagery.
After @jcompton’s comment, some memory returned and I realised I had seen these before, including the witch one. Just awhile ago.
-Wade
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Yeah, the new art for the podcast as a whole will roll out over the coming month. We’ve always had per-episode art on top.
I mostly listen from my podcatcher queue as well, and some of these covers are new to me as well!
Thank you for putting them on YouTube, you have made it much more likely that I will remember to listen to them!
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For the second anniversary of our first episode, we have a new regular host, new artwork, and a new way to have discovered this new episode over on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOTlT9Ac7OU
But have no fear, we’re still on our existing feeds: Episode 39 - Second Anniversary Chatisode | The Retro Adventurers
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Just listened to the chatisode. @SpaceHobo 's description of the day one AI art was amusing to investigate.
First, the old image always appeared as a tiny thumbnail wherever I saw it, where it easily passed muster. Today was the first time I looked at a 2048 x 2048 of it.
The longer you look, the stranger it gets. First, the sleeves are certainly inhuman. Then I noticed the guy had what what we might describe as a tiara on his hat. He similarly has a dangly silver thing by his leg. An engraved flute-cum-sidearm? His backpack’s trappings are elaborately weird and impractical.
He appears to be staring at nothing, not any of the amazing vista before him. Finally, upon closer inspection of the ‘temple’ windows, it’s hard to argue that the interior of the building is not on fire.
-Wade
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Haha! I’m glad you liked it. Generative art is a touchy subject, but I did want to address some of the limitations of the original image. I was tickled by @jcompton’s point about AD&D3e artwork having similar fashion choices, which I had to admit was a solid point!
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Do you have a discord channel or something similar for feedback
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It feels a bit duplicative to start up our own Discord server, but maybe one of the server ops out there will make a channel for us.
(update: one flurry of negotiations later and we now have a channel on the Interactive Fiction Discord server, thank you Garry.)
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Awesome!
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