Bugging A-Cell: Episode 1 (Patreon)

Caleb Stokes from Dead Channels corners me and Dennis Detwiller on microphones and asks us your questions. We don't know how to use our microphones very well so we sound like garbage. Not Caleb. Caleb sounds wonderful. Caleb has that little round fabric disk thing over his microphone. Caleb remembers to lean in real close to the mic. Caleb does not have a loud fan causing white noise that screws with his Discord voice detector. Caleb knows all the tricks. Except how to put a mono track so it comes into both sides of your headphones at once. Your left ear gets us, your right ear gets nothing.

1:00: Awkward introductions.

4:00: What recent media properties do we think is most DG? We like Sicario and Taylor Sheridan's other works. We love and hate True Detective. Absentia. Blue Ruin. Green Room.

10:00: Paralled programs in other countries. 

14:30: Nonfiction inspirations. Rhodes' Making of the Atomic Bomb. Annie Jacobsen. UFO doofiness. Canadian cross-border smuggling.

27:00: What's coming out next. Ways we disappoint Caleb with the Delta Green process. 

31:20: Getting the scenario to go where you want without stomping player agency.

38:30: Throwaway lines that become critical.

45:00: Our favorite published scenarios that we didn't write.

49:00: I say "You're wecome" because I'm contractually obligated.