Best Deltahead LLC Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 5: Stardew Valley & Animal Crossing—With Sheepherder's Hands 1:26:45

3y ago1:26:45

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Cookie Hiponia — author, poet, and former lead editor of Destiny 2 and Mass Effect — joins to discuss the social simulation games Stardew Valley & Animal Crossing through the lens of poems about making and giving. Barbara Jane Reyes, "Track: 'Dahil Sa Iyo,' Pinay (1998)" Pablo Neruda, "Ode to My Socks" Cookie Hiponia We Belong at Penguin Random Hou…

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Episode 4: Gone Home—Descending to the Traveller 1:51:23

3y ago1:51:23

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Game critic and narrative designer Michael Lutz joins to discuss Gone Home (Fullbright Games 2013) through the lens of poems about dilapidated homes and their mystique. Walter de la Mare, "The Listeners" Æmilia Lanyer, "The Description of Cooke-ham" Downloadable PDF Michael Lutz Ranged Touch Twitter & Patreon Michael's 2013 Blog about Gone Home Cam…

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Episode 3: Contra III—Hanging on Like Death 2:05:27

3+ y ago2:05:27

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Game developer and poet Shonté Daniels joins to discuss Contra III: The Alien Wars (KONAMI 1992) through the lens of poems about failure, loss, and love under tense circumstances. Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz" Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art" Shonté Daniels Music copyright by James Chandler Jr The specialest of thanks to Josh Trevett for editing a…

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Episode 2: Bloodborne—Out of Her Chamber, the Moon 1:19:22

4+ y ago1:19:22

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Critic Joshua Trevett joins to discuss Bloodborne (FROM Software 2015) through the lens of poems about dreamspace, memory, and the horrors of marriage. Sylvia Plath, "The Applicant" Jorge Luis Borges, "Adrogué" (Harold Morland, trans.) Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Waning Moon" Trucks Podcast Trucks Episode 57, featuring guest James Howell (apparently…

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Episode 1: Tokyo Jungle—Red in Tooth and Claw 1:05:51

4+ y ago1:05:51

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Poet William Wright joins to discuss Tokyo Jungle (Sony 2012) in conjunction with two poems about extinction, ecology, and the imagination. James Dickey, "For the Last Wolverine" Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese” William Wright on Amazon James Howell, "Blood Ecology" Music copyright by James Chandler Jr.By Deltahead/James Howell