Welcome to the Untitled Podcast. You know what the name is, we don’t … but we’re getting closer. Maybe. On this exercise, we hit the gym (or at least, the sidewalk) with our respective exercise routines, finish up our Tales from the Loop game, talk physical therapy for dogs, get lost in a few endless video games, and start grabbing books off the shelf for our respective reading lists.


David's Exercise Update

David talks about his exercise routine


Delays in editing the Untitled Podcast and Cowboy Dracula

But you're in the future, so the shows are already done!


Physical therapy is going to the dogs

Dog Zeke needs to continue his physical therapy for his muscle atrophy


David's Reading List

David started a reading list. Since he can’t go to a bookstore and just browse shelves, he needs to be much more mindful of what he wants to read next
The Books:

Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (First book in the Discworld series)

Learn more at Tor's Terry Pratchett Book Club.


Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

Check out Kowal's website


Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Tor Publishing's website for the book






Exiting Tales from the Loop

Finished our last session of Tales from the Loop and looking forward to another arc or a new game
The official website for Tales from the Loop


Settlement creation with Ex Novo

David played a little game called Ex Novo to create the settlement in his Gamma World game
Started out with a river, plain and pretty boring
Soon after had a cave system with metal tunnels with robots, a mountain that had been split in half, and the primary food source was the Hoppers, grasshoppers the size of your hand
A faction grew up to brew beers and spirits from the hoppers, another wanted to engineer the site to help with the yearly flooding and to increase the hopper population
The brewers collapsed as a faction as a fire in that district killed one of the elders of the village as they fought the fire and after that spirits were no longer allowed to be brewed
It went on from there with new factions forming, old factions gaining or losing influence
It makes for a great role-playing tool, since now the players have a direct interest in the settlement that we all built, and can reference the history




Run, Geek Run

Ken's 10K Training Routine continues with Week 4.
Also strength training routine (lots of planks, lunges, stretching, rollie, squats, etc.)


Getting Lost in Video Games

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Ken made it to the final temple. It only took 22 years...
Nintendo's Ocarina of Time website


DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition

Massive JRPG for the Switch
Includes “flashback” segments with old school 16-bit graphics Took me years to finish DragonQuest IX on the DS/3DS
Nintendo's Dragon Quest XI website




Ken's Summer Reading List

It's summer somewhen, right?
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data by Gene Kim

The follow-up to The Phoenix Project takes place alongside the earlier book. It's like the Ender's Shadow of the IT workflow/productivity fiction genre (which is so niche it might only contain these two books)
Official website for the boo . 


Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson

An indirect follow up to Cryptonomicon
A sequel of sorts to Reamde
About getting scanned and uploaded into a virtual universe.
Stephenson's website for the book


Bone Silence by Alistair Reynolds

Set in a far-future version of our solar system
Major planets have been dismantled and replaced by thousands of orbital habitats. Civilization has risen and fallen multiple times, leaving behind valuable detritus to those willing to risk dangers terrible and strange
The publisher's website


And the rest...

Excession (A Culture Novel Book, Book 5) by Iain M Banks (GoodReads)

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