Review Crew: Blaseball & Finding Satoshi

02/03/22 • 43 min

The Crew is back!

This week Kevin Gossett & Patrick McLean tackle Blaseball's latest experiments as Kevin attempts to make a fan out of Patrick. Then Laura Hall, Leah Davis, and Blake Weil lead the discussion [12:00] about Finding Satoshi (no, not that Satoshi), an NHK documentary about the last loose end of the legendary Perplex City ARG which took over a decade to solve. Note: spoiler warning for some of the surprises in Finding Satoshi.

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Previous Episode

Child of Empire/BRCvr Film Fest/On The Morning You Wake...

This week on the show a trio of interviews with the people behind some amazing projects.

First up, Erfan Saadati, co-creator of Child of Empire, joins us to talk about this stunning VR piece showing at Sundance's New Frontier that explores the human cost of the Partition of India: one of the largest forced migrations in human history. [6:00]

Then Doug Jacobson, Athena Demos, and Andrew Barrett from Big Rock Creative drop by to talk about the upcoming BRCvr Film Festival which takes place next weekend. [25:00]

Rounding out the program is Steve Jamison co-creator of On The Morning You Wake (To the End of the World), an incredible piece of VR documentary making that is also at the New Frontier at Sundance this year. [40:00]

Plus Headlines and voting for the NoPro Audience Awards is now open, a link to the ballot and the full list of nominees can be found here.

Associate Producer: Parker Sela

Music: Chris Porter

Headlines: Kathryn Yu, Executive Editor of No Proscenium

Producer and Host: Noah Nelson

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Next Episode

Exploring VRChat's Infinite Worlds

This week we catch up with Jen Davis-Wilson, aka Fionna on VRChat, and her efforts as part of the VRC Prefabs World Builder Community to curate some of the most interesting worlds out of the thousands upon thousands created for the social VR platform. The ongoing product of which you can find at NoPro's sister site Everything Immersive. Plus: headlines from a busy news week and a heartfelt thank you and a BIG UPDATE on our Patreon campaign as NoPro enters a make-or-break month.

Don't forget: the voting period for the 2022 NoPro Audience Awards is still open, and we've started a round of AMAs with some of the nominees in our Discord.

Associate Producer: Parker Sela

Music: Chris Porter

Producer and Host: Noah Nelson

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