2440 – Fallout (TV Series 2024 -)

timespace coodinates: The series depicts the aftermath of the Great War of 2077, an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in an alternate history of Earth where advances in nuclear technology after WWII led to the emergence of a retrofuturistic society and a subsequent resource war. Many survivors took refuge in fallout bunkers known as Vaults. More than 200 years later in 2296, a young woman named Lucy leaves behind her home in Vault 33 to venture out into the dangerously unforgiving wasteland of a devastated Los Angeles to look for her father, who had been kidnapped. Along the way, she meets a Brotherhood of Steel squire and a ghoul bounty hunter, each has their own mysterious pasts and agendas to settle.

Fallout is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the role-playing video game franchise created by Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky  the series stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, Xelia Mendes-Jones, and Walton Goggins. (wiki)

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2342 – The Fall of the House of Usher (TV Mini Series 2023)

timespace coordinates: 1953 to 1980 / 2023 US

The Fall of the House of Usher is an American gothic horror drama television miniseries created by Mike Flanagan. All eight episodes were released on Netflix on October 12, 2023, each directed by either Flanagan or Michael Fimognari, the latter also acting as cinematographer for the entire series.

Loosely based on various works by 19th century author Edgar Allan Poe (most prominently the eponymous 1840 short story), the series adapts otherwise-unrelated stories and characters by Poe into a single nonlinear narrative set from 1953 to 2023. It recounts both the rise to power of Roderick Usher, the powerful CEO of a corrupt pharmaceutical company and his sister Madeline Usher, the genius COO of the pharmaceutical company, and the events leading to the deaths of all six of Roderick’s children. It stars an ensemble cast led by Carla Gugino as a mysterious woman plaguing the Ushers, and Bruce Greenwood as an elderly Roderick. (wiki)

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2154 – Blasphemous (2019 video game)

spacetime coordinates: The game is set in Cvstodia, a land of religion, highly influenced by Roman Catholicism, its iconography, and Spanish culture—particularly that of the Andalucía region. The land is hallowed by a force known as “The Miracle”. This force manifests itself in strange and often cruel ways, sometimes blessing and sometimes cursing Cvstodia’s inhabitants, transforming them into twisted creatures.

The protagonist is The Penitent One, the sole survivor of the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow (called so because their members have agreed to a vow of silence). He wears a mask and helmet that consists of barbed wire and a pointed helmet, and his sword is adorned with spikes as of that of a rose and an effigy. During his pilgrimage he meets characters such as Deogracias, who is found in several key moments of the story and acts as a narrator for the game; Redento, a pilgrim who walks with his back bent and his hands tied as a form of penance; Candelaria, an old merchant who sells various items; and Viridiana, who offers assistance to the player in boss battles. There is a governing Church led by His Holiness Escribar, who was reborn as the Last Son of the Miracle long before the game’s events.

Blasphemous is a Metroidvania video game developed by Spanish studio The Game Kitchen and published by Team17.

The game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on 10 September 2019,  with Warp Digital handling the console ports. Versions for macOS and Linux were released on 21 September 2020.  It began as a Kickstarter campaign in 2017. (wiki)

Blasphemous – Full Game & True Ending (Longplay) (No Commentary)

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Windows (MINIMUM): Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system / OS: Windows 7 64-bit / Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 or AMD Phenom II x2 550 / Memory: 4 GB RAM / Graphics: GeForce GTX 260 or Radeon HD 4850 / Storage: 4 GB available space

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“Lord, either let me suffer or let me die.” Teresa of Ávila

2115 – Underworld Idle (2021 early access game)

Underworld Idle is an idle game about underworld management.

Game Features:

Factions (demons, undead, utopians, and blackseekers). Each faction is responsible for producing its own resource. Mechanics of creating units. For example, higher demons create lower demons, and so on. The same about units of undead, drowners and warlocks.

Infinite progression. Start with a small number of resources and expand into a long list of units and huge numbers.

Infernal Contracts – Prestige Mechanics.

A variety of locations: lab with energy crystals, junkyard, library with grimoire (containing dark spells).

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2096 – The Northman (2022)

spacetime coordinates:  AD 895  island of Hrafnsey / AD 914 land of the Rus, Iceland (during the early settlement of Iceland, also known as the “landnámsöld” (literally “age of land-taking”), before the establishment of the Althing.)

The Northman is a 2022 American epic historical fiction film directed by Robert Eggers, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sjón.

Very loosely based on the legend of Amleth, the film stars co-producer Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe.

The plot follows Amleth, a Viking prince who sets out on a quest to avenge the murder of his father. (wiki)

It’s no great insult to suggest that The Northman, for all its impeccable craft and diligent verisimilitude, possesses an intrinsically adolescent appeal. This is teenager cinema par excellence, an opera of old-world mayhem fit for Beavis and Butthead. Eggers is drawing on The Icelandic Sagas, milestones of ancient Scandinavian storytelling, but in doing so, he’s also evoking a whole library of violent pulp entertainment distantly indebted to them: Comic books of barbarian combat, baroque fantasy novels of magic and murder, hack and slash dark-age video games. Certainly, few filmmakers have ever come closer to approximating the horns-up sensibility of heavy metal; were someone to adapt both the album art and lyrics of Swedish Viking-metal titans Amon Amarth for the screen, the results would surely resemble Eggers’ epic. (The Northman review: Viking mayhem for adolescents of all ages By A.A. Dowd)

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1988 – Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (2002)

spacetime coordinates / Synopsis: 2010. Meguro City, Tokyo, Cat Earth, a world of corporations and commercialism, where a giant mechanical Colonel Sanders wanders the streets with an axe embedded in its head, loudly advertising the restaurant. Tamala, bored with the city, leaves her home against the wishes of her human mother and flies away in a personal spaceship bound for her birthplace, Orion. Her ship is shot down by the Mysterious Postcat, and lands on the outskirts of Hate City on the Planet Q

TAMALA 2010: A Punk Cat in Space is a 2002 Japanese animated film written, directed and featuring music by the two-person team t.o.L (“trees of Life”), known individually as K. and kuno. The film features both 2D and 3D computer animation, and is mostly black-and-white. The characters, designed by t.o.L and Kentarō Konpon, are reminiscent of Sanrio‘s Hello Kitty and 1960s anime and manga such as Astro Boy. The creators admit that one of the film’s central plot points, about a cult operating as a postal service and corporate monopoly, is influenced and adapted from Thomas Pynchon‘s novel The Crying of Lot 49.

TAMALA2010 was originally envisioned as the first episode of a trilogy – the latter two parts were given the working titles TAMALA IN ORION (which would chronicle Tamala’s search for her real mother) and TATLA (which was to explore the character of Tatla in greater depth). A colour TV series was also planned, with the working title TAMALA IN SPACE. As of 2020, none of these has surfaced – instead there have been two shorter works, the t.o.L written and directed TAMALA ON PARADE

and TAMALA’S “WILD PARTY“

–two short stories from different writers, storyboarded and directed by Shūichi Kohara and animated by Studio 4°C. Both of these are included on the TAMALA ON PARADE DVD, released in Japan in August 2007. This DVD does not have English subtitles.

 A sequel named TAMALA 2030: A PUNK CAT IN DARK has been under production since 2019. (wiki)

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Wake up!! TAMALA (english subtitles)

t.o.L collaboration with the WWF Japan

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TAMALA 2010 OST – happy prince

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ELDEN RING – steam

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Dying Light 2 Stay Human – steam

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