This week Tim is talking about nostalgia and Jon is quietly disagreeing with some of the conclusions.

https://youtu.be/tPxZaKWm3Lg

The dream world is dark and dangerous, but with a bit of work we should be able to fix that and make it nice and inviting. Or, if not, at least a bit less nightmare filled.

So we’ve discovered this new dream world, but it’s always dark and we’re chased by nightmares. Oh, and it’s almost totally water. Right, we can do this…

We’re talking about what we’ve been playing again, and it’s a colourful mix of Destiny, The Solus Project, Both Minecraft and Dirt Rally in VR and Tabletop Simulator with not everybody in VR. That’s a lot of VR.

If you want to read along for the next Hugo podcast in a few weeks then the book in question is Redshirts by John Scalzi, we’ll mention future ones at the end of each Hugo show.

https://youtu.be/J2ShqBlpfHs

Now that all that swimming is out of the way it’s time to push on with Witchery in order to get closer to the final quests. Time to start sleeping on the job.

It’s time to finish off these diving quests, and with that complete yet another page of quests.

This week we’re expanded the team with @StMistaken and @Dr_Toerag for the first of our new monthly looks at the winners of the Hugo award for best novel. We’re starting at the very beginning with Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man, the very first winner back in 1953. It’s a tale of committing a murder in a society where telepaths can read your mind before you commit the crime.

The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
Interview with Bester

The games chat will be back next week.

https://youtu.be/31CyrL8O7Uk

Oh yeah, we left the last episode with Tim entombed at the bottom of the ocean. We should probably start this episode with rectifying that.

After the stress of the last episode we’re going back to fill in some of the more harmless quests that can’t possibly go wrong. Starting with diving in water in a game where you drown in seconds…

It’s a trio of space games this episode, with Starbound, No Man’s Sky and X: Rebirth. Two of those games didn’t have the best of launches…

https://youtu.be/ZzQ4-N0TSu4