Vlog Ep. 282: Lucifer: From Comics to Small Screen

Tonight's #BaduyPride discussion was another requested topic, this time about the now rather expansive Lucifer franchise. And while the original request was to talk about the most recent season specifically (which we haven't seen), we instead broadened things to talk about the origins of this version of the character, covered some of his key comic book moments, and of course, got around to discussing the TV series.

You can tell we're pretty big fans of the former Vertigo comic line that helped to launch the stories of the Endless, John Constantine, and of course the Lucifer side of their story world. And while that was a bit of a barrier for us when we first tried to get into the TV show, over time we've come to better appreciate it as an independent creative work that doesn't really tie too strongly to its source material. And it's a show that has had enough of a following to manage to stick around for 6 seasons, so that's something.

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Vlog Ep. 281: Horror Tabletop RPGs

Today's Thursday edition of #BaduyPride was all about the unique storytelling world of horror-themed tabletop RPGs. And this can mean many different things to different people - something that we tried to tackle as we tried to define what we mean by a horror TRPG, at least for the context of our discussion.

Beyond the different games we mentioned as interesting things to try based on our gaming experience, the meat of today's discussion was talking about how to make such games work for your gaming group. It's important that expectations are clearly kept, provisions for safety are kept in mind, and everyone agrees to work with the tropes of the particular flavor of horror they're going to play as a game. At the very least, this is what works for us. And hopefully what we shared will work for many of you.

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Vlog. Ep 280: Tusok Tusok and Inihaw

This Tasty Tuesday episode of #BaduyPride was all about fun smoky street food in the form of tusok-tusok and inihaw food. They don't have perfectly precise translations, but we can refer to the former as various types of grilled skewers while inihaw is a specific Filipino form of barbeque but also the general act of barbecue here as well. 

Street food is a much-beloved aspect of our cuisine and I do have very fond memories of early street food adventures growing up. It was always something so risque, but at the same time delightful. And it's definitely something that we no longer have access to while in quarantine save for some sad delivery options. Hopefully, we can get out and enjoy some fun stuff again sometime soon. 

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Vlog Ep. 279: 50 Clues - The Leopold Trilogy

Today's #BaduyPride featured tabletop game is 50 Clues: The Leopold Trilogy. This set of immersive puzzles games puts players in the shoes of Maria, a woman who is determined to find her son in order to save the world from the menace of a figure known as Leopold. How she'll manage to get out of the mental institution she has been committed to in order to achieve this is the big challenge of the game. And add on a mature content warning for this particular narrative, and it makes for quite the compelling story.

Tobie and I enjoyed this experience and it made for a nice change of pace versus other puzzle games we've played. 50 Clues is a great reminder that there's still a lot of room in this game genre for more kinds of stories to be told with innovative game systems empowering them. And I'm super glad that Tobie found us copies of this trilogy of games so we got to experience this story in full.

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Vlog Ep. 278: Movies + Fear

Today's #BaduyPride episode was all about the movies that we most associate with your fears. Which movie first scared you (regardless of genre)? What was your first actual horror movie? These were the sorts of questions we tried to tackle in this special episode to help kickoff the spooky month of October.

We're going to try to do more horror-related episodes this month because Tobie really loves this genre and this is the perfect month for it. While other people are rushing to celebrate Christmas, we're more than happy to focus on Halloween first and all the quirkiness that comes with that. And as part of what I mentioned today, I'll also do my best to watch a few other scary shows and movies to celebrate things properly with Tobie.

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