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    I very much enjoyed this, even if I don't necessarily agree with the apparently popular opinion that it's better than Episode 1 of TWD. I happen to think Ep 1 was actually the second best of that whole series, so perhaps I'm in an odd position.

     

    But yes: the noir vibe is awesome, I like all the characters, it's genuinely surprising in its story which is cool, and hot damn that art is GORGEOUS.

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    A snickering Jake steadily simmers into a boiling broth under the conversation.

     

    Chris breaks the tension with a hamfisted, acknowledging impression of himself, and all three weave in and out of butt jokes, and cursing their own podcast for the next 15 minutes, then apologize to the audience and take a break.

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    Nick: "I wasn't gonna say this... but I was playing Far Cry 2 the other day."

     

    Everyone: WOOOAAAH OHHOAAAAHH OOOOHHHHHH

     

    (I used to love it when that soundbyte was slipped in. It was the best.)

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    I used my Idle Thumbs free audio book token! I used it to get The Devil in the White City, based on real people and events, it's about both the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and Dr. H.H. Holmes, a serial killer who was active in that period of time. Both fascinating (the Fair part) and terrifying (the Holmes part). I wasn't actually familiar with Holmes, but he murdered at least 27 people and had an entire building block, which you could say functioned as a disguise for his activities. The guy had a secret chute in his office that he used to drop his victim's bodies down to the basement. Trapping people in the basement, floors covered with acid, or in an incinerator. Fucked. Up. All that said, the book luckily doesn't try to shock you with gory imagery. It kind of doesn't have to, as a description of the events is more than enough to creep you the hell out.

     

    The Chicago's World's Fair part was just fascinating. The vision behind that event; I don't think anything like that would ever come to fruition in the modern day. The book does an excellent job of weaving known facts (it frequently uses writing and correspondence from the characters) with flourishes that make the period come to life. I thought it was a good book to listen to!

     

     

    If I'm not mistaken, Ken Levine has mentioned that often in discussions of the genesis of BioShock: Infinite.