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After more than a year in Early Access, Hades II finally launches in full on September 25, 2025. Supergiant Games returns with a sequel that expands the award-winning roguelike formula into something darker, sharper, and even more addictive.In this episode of Ongamecast, we break down everything you need to know:Melinoë's rise as the new protagonist and her battle against ChronosHow witchcraft, Omega abilities, and new weapons change the gameplay loopThe haunting worlds, lunar-inspired art, and Darren Korb's soundtrackWhy Hades II matters for the roguelike genre, and gaming as a wholeWhether you're a returning Zagreus veteran or diving into the Underworld for the first time, this sequel is poised to be one of 2025's defining releases.gaming, Hades II, Supergiant Games, roguelike, roguelite, Melinoë, Chronos, Switch 2 games, PC games 2025, indie games, Early Access, Darren Korb, Greek mythology games, Ongamecast

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The Great Myth of the Sun GodsBy Alvin Boyd KhunIt may be that many of you have come to this lecture with the expectation of hearing about the superstitious beliefs of some ancient fire-worshippers or sun-worshippers. You may wonder why we should presume to waste an evening dilating upon the childish fancies of early peoples who could conceive of no more exalted form of deity in the universe than the physical body of our sun. Can there possibly be anything important in the study of such forms of crude fetishism?Let me disabuse your minds of any such prepossession at once. We have not invited you to hear of infantile nonsense of early child-humanity. On the contrary, it is our opinion that there is not a theme within the entire range of religious interest of such sublimity and authentic grandeur as this subject of the Sun-gods. We have come to the persuasion that this is the most important lecture that we have given or shall ever give. In it there is to be found the central thesis of all religion. We have asked you to hear an exposition of the cardinal principle of all true religion. Instead of dealing with an erratic notion of primitive barbarism, we have to present to you this evening the long-lost supreme datum of all high religion. And it is our design to show that religion in the world has drifted so far away from its original base that it no longer recognizes the very first and fundamental conception about which it was in the beginning constructed. The myth of the Sun-gods is the very heart's core of religion at its best.It is commonly supposed that religious honors were paid to the sun as a deity by a few isolated peoples or sects, such as the Parsees and the ancient Ghebers of Persia, and some African tribes. In correction of this view we are prepared to support the declaration that the worship of the Sun-god was quite universal in the ancient world. It ranged from China and India to Yucatan and Peru. The Emperor and the Mikado, as well as the Incas, and the Pharaohs were Sun-god figures. And is the belief only an empty myth? So far from being such, it is at once the highest embodiment of religious conception in the spiritual history of the race.Since the word "myth" occurs in the title, it is necessary to define it so that we may the better glimpse the nature of the subject. To the modern mind the word carries with it a derogatory implication. To reduce any construction to the status of a myth is to put it out of court and render it valueless. We regard a myth as a fiction and a falsity. To show that a theory or a belief is only a myth, is to relegate it to the world of non-reality, and dismiss it from further consideration as a thing of value.Not so with the ancients. With them (the ancients) a myth was a valuable instrumentality of knowledge. It was an intellectual, even a spiritual, tool, by the aid of which truth and wisdom could at one and the same time both be concealed from the unworthy and expressed for the worthy. The ancients rightly regarded spiritual truth and experience as being incapable of expression or impartation by means of words simply. A myth or an allegory could be made the better means of conveying subtly and with a certain added force, the truth veiled under a set form of dramatic presentation. The myth would enhance spiritual truth as a drama reinforces moral situations. It was all the more powerful in its message precisely because it was known not to be outwardly a true story. No one was caught by the literal falsity of the construction. Attention could therefore be given wholly to the hidden import, which was not obscured by the outward occurrence. The myth was known to be a fiction; therefore it deceived nobody--until the third century. But at the same time it was most ingeniously designed to instruct in the deepest of spiritual truths. It was a literary device to embalm lofty wisdom in the amber of a tradition that could be easily remembered, in the guise of a human story. It was truth incarnated in a dramatic occurrence, which was known to be untrue. Outwardly fictitious, but inwardly the substance of a mighty truth, was the myth. And as such it was the universal dress in which ancient knowledge was clothed.To indicate the universality of the Sun-god myth it is only necessary to enumerate some thirty of the chief figures known as Sun-gods amongst the nations about the Eastern Mediterranean, before the advent of Jesus. There were in Egypt, Osiris, Horus, Serapis, Hermes or Taht (Thoth), Khunsu, Atum (Aten, Adon, the Adonis or Phrygia), Iusa, Iu-sa, Iu-em-hetep; in Syria, Atis, Sabazius, Zagreus, Kybele (femine); in Assyria Tammuz; in Babylonia, Marduk and Sargon; in Persia, Mithra, Ahura-Mazda and the Zoroasters; in Greece, Orpheus, Bacchus (Dionysus), Achilles, Hercules, Theseus, Perseus, Jason, Prometheus; in India, Vyasa, Krishna, Buddha; in Tibet the Boddhisattvas; besides many others elsewhere.Likewise in the ancient Mystery dramas the central character was ever the Sun-god the role being enacted by the candidate for initiation in person. He went through the several initiations as himself the type and representative of the solar divinity in the field of human experience.Moreover, the Patriarchs, Prophets, Priests and Kings of Biblical lore are no less Sun-god figures. For in their several characteristics they are seen to be typical of the Christos.From the study of a mass of the ancient material the sincere and disingenuous student becomes ere long convinced of the fact that the Jesus figure of the Gospels, whether he lived historically or not (and there is much question of it even among theologians), is just another in the long list of the solar gods. They were figured by ancient poetic genius as embodiments of divine solar glory living among men, if they were not purely the mythical constructions of the allegorists.These Sun-god characters, of none of whom can it be said positively that they were living personages, were, it must be clearly noted, purely typical figures in the national epics of the several nations. They were symbols, one might say. But of what were they symbolical? That is the point of central importance. They were representative characters, summing and epitomizing in themselves the spiritual history of the human individual in his march across the field of evolving life on earth. They were the types and models of the divine potentiality pictured as coming to realization in their careers. They were the mirror held up to men, in which could be seen the possibilities locked up in man's own nature. They were type-figures, delineating the divine life that was an ever-possible realization for any devoted man. They were the symbols of an ever-coming deity, a deity that came not once historically in Judea, but that came to ever-fuller expression and liberation in the inner heart of every son of man. The solar deities were the gods that ever came, that were described as coming not once upon a time, but continuously and regularly. Their radiant divinity might be consummated by any earnest person at any time or achieved piecemeal.They were typed as ever-coming or coming regularly because they were symboled by the sun in its annual course around the zodiac of twelve signs, and the regular periodicity of this natural symbol typified the ever-continuing character of their spiritual sunlight. The ancients, in a way and to a degree almost incomprehensible to the unstudied modern, had made of the sun's annual course round the heavens a faithful reproduction of the spiritual history of the divine spirit in man. The god in us was emblemed by the sun in its course, and the sun's varied experiences, as fabulously construed, were a reflection of our own incarnational history. The sun in its movements through the signs was made the mirror of our life in spirit. To follow the yearly round of the zodiac was to epitomize graphically the whole history of human experience. Thus the inner meaning of our mortal life was endlessly repeated in the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly cycle of the sun's passage, the seven or twelve divisions of which marked the seven- or twelvefold segmentation of our spiritual history or our initiations. (They were figured at first as seven, later as twelve, when the solar gods came upon the cosmic scene.)The careers of these solar gods, then, were a type of what is occurring to every man who is dowered with the spark of divine soul within his breast. Each one of us has had or will have his festival of conception in June, his birth into the world of fleshly life in the autumn, his spiritual awakening at Christmas, and his glorious resurrection from the dead body of this life at Easter.The Christians say the Christos came once in a single character in history, Jesus of Judea, saying nothing about his coming to Everyman at all times. They present to the world the Only-Begotten Son of the Father, confusing in one historical figure two distinct characters of ancient philosophy, the Logos and the Christos, and making both historical in a human being born of woman. Suffice it to say that neither character was historical in the ancient systems. The Logos and the Christos were cosmic forces, and the erring Christians confounded these "personages" of ancient philosophy with the mundane career of the man Jesus, who was not other than one of the mythical Sun-god heroes, or national type-figures. What a travesty of truth the Christian representation has become! What a caricature the Gospels have made of the divine spiritual principle in man's life!The ancients had no "only-begotten" son because the term used in their systems, miserably mistranslated "only-begotten," was something with quite a different connotation. It was in Greek "monogenes," and in Latin "unigenitus," and was far from meaning "only-begotten." It meant that which was begotten of one parent, the father, alone, not the offspring of the union of father and mother. By the term the ancients meant to designate him who was the projection into matter of the spirit forces of life, not the final product of the union of spirit and matter, or the male and female elements. Had the early Christian Fathers known of the inner meaning of the symbolism of the Egyptian Ptah, as Khepr-Ra, who was typed by the male beetle that incubated in the ground and without union with the female transformed and regenerated himself after twenty-eight days (exactly a moon cycle) in the form of the young scarab, symbol of the new-born sun in the moon, they would have been intelligent enough to have avoided the great schisms that divided the Church into Roman and Greek Catholic bodies over the abstrusities of this very origin of the persons of the Trinity. But Egypt was farther away from Rome of the third century than it is from us, who can now read the inscriptions that were sealed from them.All this ancient scriptural data accentuates the fact that not the historical Jesus, but the spiritual Christ, or the god within the individual heart (as expounded in the lecture on Platonic Philosophy in the Bible) is the subject of the sacred writings of old, and the kernel of the whole religious ideology. Angelus Silesius has expressed this in a stanza which should be a perpetual reminder of the futility of clinging to the historical interpretation of Gospel literature.Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, But not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn; The cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain, Unless within thyself it be set up again. And the Christian hymn, "O Jesus, thou art standing, outside the fast-closed door," gives expression to the kindred idea that while we look across the map to localize the Christos in Judea, we keep the spiritual mentor of our own lives standing without, seeking an entrance into our lives in vain.By the aid of archaic sacred books we have been enabled to trace authentically the origin of the name Jesus. And it is of great importance to present this material, because it throws a flood of clear light upon the ancient conceptions of the Messiah and the coming Son, or Sun-god. In this light the name will be seen to be a type-designation and not the personal name of an historical being.It is derived from the two letters (or numbers) which in the beginning of typology symbolized the two first elements, spirit and matter, into which the primal One Life bifurcated. They are the I (or 1) symboling the male or spirit, and the O (letter) or 0 (cipher) symboling the female or material universe. Together they represented the biune male-female deity. We have, then, the letters IO, or the number 10. As the vowels were freely interchanged, in ancient languages, the name was written either IO, IA, IE , or IU, and all these forms are found. Next the I transformed into consonantal value and became a J (as it is yet in Latin), so that we find the names JO, JA, JE and JU, from each of which many names have arisen. When the creation had combined the male and female and the two had given birth to the Son, or Logoic universe, the name was given the form of three letters, and we then find such forms as IAO, JAH, IEO, JEU, ZUE. When the universe became founded on the four cardinal points or the square of four dimensions, the name was spelled variously as IEOU, JOVE, ZEUS, JEVE, DIOS, T/HEOS, HUHI, IHUH and others. In its character as a sevenfold or seven-lettered name, it took the form of JEHOVAH, SABAOTH, DEBORAH, DELILAH, SEP/HIROT/H, MICHAEL, SOLOMON, and others of seven letters. The I permuted with l (el) or 1 (one), so that IE became LE or, inverted EL, the great Hebrew character of deity. The EL and the IAH (JAH), became the most frequent determinatives of divinity, as a host of names will testify. There are Bethel, Emanuel, Michael, Israel, Gabriel, Samuel, Abdiel, Uriel, Muriel Azazel, and many others, in which the EL is prefixed. The JAH is seen in such names as EliJAH, AbiJAH, while the IAH comes in a host of such names as Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Obediah, Hezekiah, Isaiah, Messiah, Alleluiah and more.But whence comes the "s" in Jesus's name? This is of great importance. It is derived from an Egyptian suffix written either SA, SE, SI, SU, or SAF, SEF, SIF or SUF (SAPH, SEPH, SIPH or SUPH) and meaning "the son," "heir," "prince" or successor to the father. (The F is an Egyptian ending for the masculine singular.) When the original symbol of divinity, IO or IE, JO or JE, was combined with the Egyptian suffix for the succeeding heir, SU or SA, the resultant was the name IUSA, IUSE, IUSU, or IOSE; or IESU, JESU, IUSEF, IOSEF, JOSEF. One of the many forms was JESU and another was JOSEF. The final F became sibilant at times and gave us the eventual form of JESUS. The name then meant the "divine son," and combined in the Egyptian IU the idea of the coming one. Hence JESUS was the Messiah, the coming son of the divine life. There was in Egypt for ten thousand years B.C. the character of this functionary under the name of IUSA. Later he was the Iu-em-hetep, which means "the divine son who comes with peace (hetep). But most interestingly, this last word also means seven. Hence Jesus is he who comes as the seventh principle to complete the six elementary powers of natural evolution with the gift of divine intelligence, which supplants the elementary chaos with the rulership of love and intelligence and thus brings peace into a warring situation. Hence finally, Jesus is the seventh cosmic principle, announced in all religious lore as he who comes to bring peace and good will to men. And as such he was announced in the Christian Gospels. But there was more than one Jesus or IUSA or IU before the coming of the alleged historical Jesus.Startling as are the implications of this bit of etymology, a far more amazing denouement of Bible study is the revelation that not only were there over thirty Sun-god figures in the cults of the various nations of old, but there are immediately in the Bible itself, in the Old Testament, some twenty more Sun-god characters under the very name of Jesus! Are we speaking arrant nonsense or sober truth when we make a claim which seems at first sight so unsupportable? Twenty Jesus characters in the Old Testament! Let us see. We have noted the many variant forms of the Jesus name. There are still others in the Old Testament, never suspected as being related to the name of the Christian Redeemer. There are Isaac, Esau, Jesse, Jacob, Jeshu, Joachim, Joshua, Jonah and others. All these are variant forms of the one name, which has still other forms among the Hebrews in secular life, Yusuf, Yehoshua, Yeshu, etc. Joshua, Hosea and Jesse are from this name indisputably. A few might be the subject of controversy.Furthermore, beside these that bear the original divine name, there are other Sun-god figures in the Old Testament under a wide variety of names. They are Samson (whose name means "solar"), David, Solomon, Saul (equals soul, or sol, the sun--Latin.), Abraham, Moses, Gideon, Jephtha and the like. Their actions identify them as solar representatives.Now let us see what the conception of our divinity as a Sun-god in reality meant to the sages of old, and what it should mean to us. It meant that the divinity within us, our divine soul or Self, was itself the Sun-god, or solar deity. And what does this signify in concrete terms for us? Just this; that the god within us is constituted of the imperishable essence of solar light and energy! In short, we ourselves, in our higher nature, are solar gods in potentiality! Our highest nature is an incorruptible body composed of the glorious essence of the sun's energy! The gods in the Bible were always symboled by the light or fire of the sun. We are now enlightened to see it as a description of our nature as veritable truth and fact. We are Sun-gods. Our immortal spirits within us are composed of the radiant substance of solar energy.At the very time we were first assembling the material for this lecture, there came an announcement in the daily press of a discovery by a modern physicist, Dr. George W. Crile, of the Cleveland Laboratories, which practically fixed the seal of truth upon every word we have uttered or shall utter in this lecture. It was most startlingly corroborative of our exegesis. He announced that he had discovered at the heart of every living organism a tiny nucleus of energy, all aglow, with temperatures ranging from 3000 to 6000 degrees of heat, which he called "radiogens" or "hot points." These, he said, were precisely akin to the radiant energy of solar matter. He affirmed, in short, that a tiny particle of the sun's power and radiance was lodged within the heart of every organic unit! The light and energy that has life. What would be Crile's surprise, however, if he were to be shown a sentence taken from Hargrave Jennings' old book on the Rosicrucians, written over sixty years ago: "Every man has a little spark (sun) in his own bosom?" For this was one item in the teaching of the Medieval Fire-Philosophers, and the reason they were styled such. They knew what Crile has discovered, as likewise did the ancient Bible-writers. They based their Sun-god religions upon it. Our souls are composed of the imperishable essence of solar light! We are immortal because we are Sun-gods.But many will impatiently rise to expostulate with us, and ask why, if this was the universal fundamentum of the old religions, the Bible itself does not categorically carry this message and state this central fact. Wait a moment! Who that knows this primary datum has searched the Bible to see if it has nothing to say on the point? We, too, believed the Bible was remiss in expressing this conception, until we searched with a more watchful eye. And now let us hear what the Bible says as to our solar constitution, and determine for ourselves whether it is silent on the groundwork of religion or not. Let us hear first the Psalms. "Our God is a living fire," say they; and "Our God is a consuming fire." "The Lord God is a sun," avers the same book. "I am come to send fire on earth," says Jesus, meaning he came to scatter the separated sparks of solar essence amongst mankind, a spark to each soul. In Revelation the angels scatter the fire and the incense of their seven censers over the earth, among the inhabitants. Then says John the Baptist: "I indeed baptize you with water, but he that cometh after me will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire!" Jesus says: "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." (Satan was the descending Lucifer, or Light-bringer, before he was lifted up and divinized.) The fire that falls on Jeremiah's altar and many another in the Bible narrative types the deity coming to dwell with mortals. Says Jesus: "When I am in the world I am the light of the world." Again he said: "Ye are the light of the world," and "Let your light so shine that others may . . . glory your father which is in heaven." The Lord, say the Psalms, "made his angels messengers and his ministers a flame of fire." The New Testament Jesus, following the well-known Egyptian diagram of the Ankh, the solar disk with the spread wings, is described as "the sun of righteousness, risen with healing in his wings." John has Jesus saying that the condemnation of the world lay in that it rejected the light when it was sent into the world. Says Job: "Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle and his candle shall be put out with him." Isaiah writes: "Behold all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks; walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled." We are adjured to "Rise, shine, for thy light is come." "The Lord is my light," reiterates the Psalms. And again: "In thy light shall we see light." "Light is sown for the righteous." "We wait for light," cry the souls in the darkness of incarnation, far from their original fount of light. John declares that the Christos "was the true light" which was to come Messianically for the redemption of our lower nature. And again he declares that with the Christos "light is come into the world." No cry echoes with more resounding intensity down to this age than Paul's exhortation to our souls buried in lethal darkness: "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon thee!" And in Revelation there are those mighty pronouncements: in the spiritual resurrection "there shall be no more need of the sun to shine by day nor the moon by night, for the glory of the Lord did lighten it." And there is no more heartening assurance anywhere in the Bible than Jesus's statement: "Ye have light in yourselves."And these are only a gleaning from the great score of similar passages with which the Bible teems. And still folks will say they find no warrant for the Sun-god idea in the Bible!In Rome the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta was guarded by seven Vestal Virgins, chosen for purity and for psychic vision. If they permitted the fire to die out (symbolic of the light of deity dying out in the heart) the penalty upon them was death. If they violated their sexual purity, they were buried alive in the city. And from the great old Egyptian Book of the Dead we take just one passage among scores: "Lo, I come from the Lake of Flame, from the Lake of Fire, and from the field of flame, and I live." And again, from an old Book of Adam and Eve we quote a great passage in which the Lord says: "I made thee of the light, and I wished to bring out children of the light from thee." If only we had been taught by our religious teachers that our spiritual natures are woven and fabricated of solar light, we should have had a clearer apprehension of our potentialities for divine education.Supplementing all this material from the Bible and ancient scriptures, there is at hand for our supreme enlightenment one grand pronouncement from Greek Platonic philosophy which we conceive to be that lost ultimate link between science and religion. It is the truth before whose altar both science and religion can kneel at last and find themselves paying tribute to the same god,--the god of solar radiance. It is a sentence from the learned Proclus, last of the Great Platonists: "The light of the sun is the pure energy of intellect." Are we big enough to catch the mighty significance of that statement? Is it not the essence of what the modern physicist means when he talks of "mind-stuff?" The fiery radiance of the sun is already the motivating genius of intellect! Matter is itself intelligent and intelligence! Here is the basic link between all naturalism and all spirituality. Matter enshrouds and contains the soul of mind and spirit. The light of the sun is the deific flash of intellect! And the very core of our conscious being is a spark of that infinite indestructible energy of solar light. There is the "seminal soul of light" or the seed of fiery divinity (Prometheus's "fire" stolen from the gods) in each of us. It makes us a god.Armed with this unquenchable fire which is intellect, we are sent on earth to inhabit a body which is described as a watery and miry swamp. The body is nearly eighty per cent. water! It is the duty of the fiery spark to enlighten the whole dark realm of mortal life, to transmute by its alchemical power the baser dross of animal propensity into the finer motivation of love and brotherhood. This life is a purgation--Purgatory--because it is a process of burning and tempering crude animal elements into the pure gold of spiritual light. In Egyptian scriptures the twelve sons of Ra (the twelve sons of Jacob, and the twelve tribes of Israel) were called the "twelve saviors of the treasure of light." An Egyptian text reads: "This is the sun within us, the seminal source of light. Do not dim its luster or cause it to suffer eclipse." And another runs: "Give ye glory as to the sun; he is the chief, the only one coming from the body, the head of those who belong to the race of the sun."With this force of fire we must uplift the lower man and transmute his nature into the spiritual glow of love and intelligence. With it we must turn the water of the lower nature into the wine of spiritual force. Around it we must aggregate the refined material which we shall build into that temple of the soul, that body of the resurrection, the great garment of solar light, in which we shall rise out of the tomb of the physical corpus and ascend with the angels. This is the radiant Augoeides of the Greeks, the Sahu of the Egyptians, in which the soul wings its flight aloft like the phoenix, after rending the veil of the temple of the body. It is our garment of immortality, the seamless robe of glory, in prospect of which we groan and travail, says St. Paul, as we earnestly desire to be clothed upon with the garment of incorruption. As flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of heaven, we must fashion for our tenancy there this body of solar glory, in whose self-generated light we may live eternally, having overcome the realms of darkness, or spiritualized the body. Jesus prays the Father to grant unto him that glory that he had with him before the world was, and his prayer is fulfilled in the formation of the spirit body out of the elements of the sun.Who is this King of Glory?--says the Psalmist. And we are exhorted to lift up the aeonial gates, the age-lasting doors, to let the King of Glory enter into our realm. The King of Glory is the Sun-soul within us, raised in his final perfection in the fulness of Christly stature to the state of magnificent effulgence. The King of Glory is the immortal Sun-god, the deity in our hearts; and when at last he blazes forth in the heyday of his glory, and comes in majesty into our lives, then we behold his glory, as of the alone-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And when he appears to those still sitting in the shadow of darkness, they report that "they have seen a great light, and to those that sat in the valley of darkness did the light shine." And this light, seen ever and anon by some illuminated son of man, as he gropes in the murks of incarnation, is truly "that light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world."And when that light shineth clearer and brighter unto the perfect day, then, indeed, we know of a surety that we ourselves are nucleated of that same glorious essence of combined intellect and spirit. Then we know that we ourselves are the Sun-gods, and that the ancient allegory is not a "myth," but the very essence of our own Selfhood.The Great Myth of the Sun GodsBy Alvin Boyd Khunhttp://mountainman.com.au/ab_kuhn.html This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dwtruthwarrior.substack.com/subscribe

Damn you to Hades!Prior to September of 2020 that would have been a worrying phrase to hear,  but now I don't think we'd mind it!Yes, this episode we are talking about SuperGiant Games Hades (and also Hades 2 quite a lot, actually!)Described on Steam as 'a god-like rogue-like dungeon crawler' (so that settles the lite/like debate) players take on the role of Zagreus, son of the titular Hades, a teenager hell-bent on escaping the underworld and making it to the surface to talk to his mother.Does it deserve a spot on the pantheon of the gods, or is the murky underworld actually where it deserves to reside?Take a listen and find out! Plus we talk briefly about the Concord disaster, and how it is possible for a game to fail so spectacularly.Enjoy! Thanks to our monthly supporters ZomBev Harry Flynn RicFlair lee jones thesweatyllama ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Every Supergiant Games release is an event. But it's not just from the gamers and critics who adore the video games' rich stories, immaculate art style or addictive game play. It's the music nerds that also wait with bated breath on Darren Korb's newest score.  As Supergiant's in-house composer and audio head, Korb has become a fixture unto himself with his compositions, from the Lead Belly meets Massive Attack thunk of Bastion to the Imogen Heap inspired Transistor soundtrack. But for Korb, and Supergiant as a whole, Hades might be the zenith. The game has received lavish praise, and so has Korb's work, which has found him expanding into new sounds. Hades' eccentric score is a mixture of Mediterranean folk, progressive-metal and lush chamber pieces. Alongside collaborators Ashley Barrett and Austin Wintory (composer of Journey), Korb has reached the apex of composition: an album that can stand on its own sweeping merits while providing the perfect audio companion to the gameplay. We talked to Korb about his research for the score, his work voicing the main character, Zagreus, and recording in Abbey Road. These two interviews are from before Hades' release, looking at the history of Korb's work with Supergiant. The second is after Hades' release.

Every Supergiant Games release is an event. But it's not just from the gamers and critics who adore the video games' rich stories, immaculate art style or addictive game play. It's the music nerds that also wait with bated breath on Darren Korb's newest score.  As Supergiant's in-house composer and audio head, Korb has become a fixture unto himself with his compositions, from the Lead Belly meets Massive Attack thunk of Bastion to the Imogen Heap inspired Transistor soundtrack. But for Korb, and Supergiant as a whole, Hades might be the zenith. The game has received lavish praise, and so has Korb's work, which has found him expanding into new sounds. Hades' eccentric score is a mixture of Mediterranean folk, progressive-metal and lush chamber pieces. Alongside collaborators Ashley Barrett and Austin Wintory (composer of Journey), Korb has reached the apex of composition: an album that can stand on its own sweeping merits while providing the perfect audio companion to the gameplay. We talked to Korb about his research for the score, his work voicing the main character, Zagreus, and recording in Abbey Road. These two interviews are from before Hades' release, looking at the history of Korb's work with Supergiant. The second is after Hades' release.

Joe & Mark tackle the biggest main range release to date - the mighty 50th special Zagreus! But which of us loves this and which of us hates this?

As you take on the role of Zagreus, the rebellious son of Hades, you'll navigate through procedurally generated dungeons, facing off against mythical foes and challenging bosses. The game's fast-paced combat mechanics keep you on your toes, offering a blend of strategy and skill that will put your reflexes to the test. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ongamecast/support

De plusieurs aventures extraconjugales, Zeus engendre un autre fils. Plusieurs ? Oui : d'abord Zeus met enceinte Déméter, puis Perséphone, ensuite Sémélé, et c'est seulement alors que naît Dionysos. Un long chemin vers le vin en somme... Avec: Zagreus, Dionysos, Zeus, Héra, Déméter, Perséphone, Hermès, Apollon, Arès, Héphaïstos, Sémélé, Cadmos, Harmonie, Astréos, Prométhée, Ino, Athamas, Poséidon, Leucothée, Mélicerte, Ampelos, Hadès.

Zeus may have dodged one usurpation, but there's another heir to the sky god's throne we need to discuss. This heir is the predecessor of a very unassuming god- Dionysus, the god of wine. Our Dionysus, known as Lysios when he was born, can be called Dionysus II. Dionysus I, or Zagreus, has a much more violent story... Sources for this episode: Evelyn-White, H. G. (1943), Hesiod: The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. London: William Heinemann Ltd. Frazer, J. G. (1921), Apollodorus: The Library (Volume I). London: William Heinemann. Guerber, H. A. (1929), The Myths of Greece & Rome: Their Stories Signification and Origin. London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. Oldfather, C. H. (1989), Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes. Volume I: Books I and II, 1-34. London, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Rouse, W. H. D. (1940), Nonnos Dionysiaca. London : William Heinemann Ltd. Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Dionysus (online) (Accessed 21/12/2023).

"I was the fan, and I enjoyed being serviced"After a decade, Ben and Mark bring On the Time Lash's NuWho Watchthrough to an end with a discussion of The Power of Doctor, paired up with Big Finish's wildly experimental 40th anniversary audio adventure - Zagreus.And since it's the end, Ben and Mark discuss the big issues:How to lend gravitas to the name Uncle Winky, why The Power of the Doctor is a pitch-perfect satire of modern fandom, a celebration of Sacha Dhawan's Master, the meaning of an empty chair, why Paul McGann doesn't wear robes, the impossibility of explaining the plot of Zagreus, and a lament for when Big Finish took big swings.And what is the imbecile/Icini conundrum?With thanks to Roger LangridgeSupport the showFollow us on TwitterLike us on FacebookBuy us a pint

Here it is. The unbills that encrypted language is... You might be able to... if you're gonna make that argument, you might say the author of the revelation is looking back at all these martyrs who were killed by their own people. 00:11 Unknown speaker Yeah, but I'm just saying that the term is prophets in the Gospels. Here it is specifically Christfell. There was a bunch of conflict happening between the year of the Four Emperors, so what I think the number five is, or the number six, you jump from Nero straight to Vespasian, who's number six, the seventh being his son Titus, which gives us... 00:23 Unknown speaker Now this could be a rounding thingy for you. Caligula, besides Nero, is the four... You take the red bill and you stay in Wonderland, and I show you just how deep the radical goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. 00:46 Unknown speaker Nothing more. Got crucified. But the cult that followed him evolved and mythologized in such a manner that they adopted kind of the Dionysian rites and such in their practice of... I'll go ahead and give a bad guy a bad cop classicist answer. 01:14 Unknown speaker It's a title. He also is a title, right? The one that brings that drug or that poison, and not only is Jason... Back. No -ness later on puts those two stories together in what's called the Dionysica. 01:36 Unknown speaker The Dionysica has the whole story from the birth of Zagreus to him getting ripped apart by the main adds to him going down in a Haiti. All of by the same result, inflation. The world of consciousness must now be leveled down in favor of the reality of the unconscious. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tadpole-slamp/support

Our 60th Anniversary series continues with a look back at the Doctor Who 40th Anniversary special, Zagreus. Joining us to talk about it in depth is producer, director and co-writer, Gary Russell. We'll also be jumping down the rabbit hole with the live Sydney audience from our recent event with Katy Manning. And for those who loved our recent interview with Conrad Westmaas, he returns here to give us his special experience of working on Zagreus. Original theme composed by Joe Kraemer | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.joekraemer.com/about/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sirensofaudio@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.sirensofaudio.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Audio Feedback: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sirensofaudio X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://twitter.com/audiosirens⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/audiosirens/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/audiosirens⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrU3MLlOeJTLnAbLl35QgeQ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Clips and music are copyright BBC and Big Finish and are used for review purposes only. No infringement is intended. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sirensofaudio/message

Revisiting an unofficial Spooky episode... Zagreus, Zagreus, Zagreus. It's gross, it's weird, it's both an afterthought and supremely important. Welcome to the story of thrice born Dionysus, better known as Zagreus. Find all six years of Spooky Season content on this Spotify Playlist! Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content! CW/TW: **this episode includes particularly egregious assault and incest, even for Greek myth** far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing. Sources: Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz; Nonnus' Dionysiaca, translated by William Henry Denham Rouse. Further reading: Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods by Dwayne A. Meisner; The “Orphic” Gold Tablets and Greek Religion, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III; The Orphic Hymns, translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow. See last week's episode for even more Orphic sources. Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Composer Darren Korb's music for Hades properly beloved. It's a great blend of metal with acoustic Mediterranean instruments to take you through the deep story of the game. Darren adds his voice acting talents to the game as well, voicing the main character, Zagreus, and the training dummy, Skelly. Hades is one of my favorite rogue-lite dungeon crawlers, and the music is the best.  Darren and I had this conversation about his music and acting in November 2021. For a handful of reasons, none of which have anything to do with Darren, we are sharing it now, with sincere apologies for a nearly two-year delay! Come chat with us on Discord about game music, and subscribe to Level with Emily's YouTube channel. PLAYLIST by Darren Korb for Hades unless noted otherwise 00:00 No Escape 06:44 Scourge of the Furies 10:06 Out of Tartarus 10:54 Out of Tartarus 12:29 Through Asphodel 13:54 The King and the Bull 14:56 Mouth of Styx 15:50 God of the Dead 16:56 On the Coast 17:32 In the Blood (feat. Ashley Barrett) 23:14 Final Expense 26:22 In the Blood (feat. Ashley Barrett) 31:02 God of the Dead 33:24 God of the Dead 34:14 The Unseen Ones (feat. Daisuke Kurosawa and Masahiro Aoki) 49:27 In the Blood (feat. Ashley Barrett) 51:56 Good Riddance (feat. Ashley Barrett) 54:54 The Unseen Ones (feat. Daisuke Kurosawa and Masahiro Aoki) 57:48 From Olympus 58:40 Primordial Chaos 59:56 Primordial Chaos 1:01:34 The Bloodless 1:03:50 Field of Souls 1:04:46 Rage of the Myrmidons 1:05:38 The Painful Way 1:06:24 Other Sprouts by Sam Keenan

It's time for the second story of the Demigod Files, this time with Steven Parra live in Oslo, Norway! Topics include Norwegian board games, predictions, Blitzen, non-demigod campers, Hey Arnold, fire ants, Fort Knox, dudes, time management, engineering, CAAM 335, Gyarados, stationary walls, pizza trophies, composting, anime, rodeos, compliments, architects, Mona Lisa, Kingdom Hearts, Oprah, Seigmen vs Malort, Zagreus, and more! TNO Live: thenewestolympian.com/live Seattle, Vancouver, Cleveland, Detroit, and Toronto LIVE NOW Hartford, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis coming soon! TNO Merch: thenewestolympian.com/merch Thanks to our sponsors: HEADPSACE - Get 60 days FREE at www.headpsace.com/OLYMPIAN60 ANNIE'S KIT CLUBS - Get 50% off w/ code "MIKE50" at www.annieskitclubs.com ATHLETIC GREENS - Get 1 year of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs at www.athleticgreens.com/newestolympian   — Find The Newest Olympian Online —  • Website: www.thenewestolympian.com • Patreon: www.thenewestolympian.com/patreon • Twitter: www.twitter.com/newestolympian • Instagram: www.instagram.com/newestolympian • Facebook: www.facebook.com/newestolympian • Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/thenewestolympian • Merch: www.thenewestolympian.com/merch   — Production —  • Creator, Host, Producer, Social Media, Web Design: Mike Schubert • Editor: Sherry Guo • Music: Bettina Campomanes and Brandon Grugle • Art: Jessica E. Boyd   — About The Show —  Is Percy Jackson the book series we should've been reading all along? Join Mike Schubert as he reads through the books for the first time with the help of longtime PJO fans to cover the plot, take stabs at what happens next, and nerd out over Greek mythology. Whether you're looking for an excuse to finally read these books, or want to re-read an old favorite with a digital book club, grab your blue chocolate chip cookies and listen along. New episodes release on Mondays wherever you get your podcasts!

It's our 50th episode and to celebrate we are playing the game Hades! What is the point of the Hades game? For Nathan to guide the main character, Zagreus, the prince of the underworld, to escape from the underworld. Nathan is joined by his older and wiser brother Isaac who knows everything and helps with inspiring insults about Nathan's gaming capabilities. Can Nathan escape Hades without petting the hell hounds? Will Mr. Hades be stuck doing paperwork for all eternity? Find out in today's episode!

Ugh...family drama.This week, Rick is ferried by the Stygian Boatman down the River Styx along with good friends Nick and Will, of the Friday Night Gamecast. The destination? None other than Hades! This smash hit from Supergiant Games was many's GOTY choice, and it's clear why: a satisfying gameplay loop, blistering music, endearing characters, and more. Hear about our thoughts on the narrative style, the gameplay choices...and Rick's bad David Bowie impression. All of this and more - we hope you enjoy!MORE FRIDAY NIGHT GAMECAST: https://linktr.ee/FridayNightGamecast PATREON: www.patreon.com/pixelprojectradioDISCORD: https://discord.gg/Rfjx2ptWP5TWITTER: https://twitter.com/pixelprojectpodINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/pixelprojectradiopodcast/Thank you for listening! Want to reach out to PPR? Send your questions, comments, and recommendations to pixelprojectradio@gmail.com! And as ever, any ratings and/or reviews left on your platform of choice are greatly appreciated!

But First, Let’s Talk Nerdy Episode 81! Brittany recounts the history of one of her favorite Marvel mutants, Tabitha Smith aka Boom-Boom. Then Martha discusses the video game Hades, its protagonist Zagreus, and how it relates to ancient Greek mythology. But First, Let’s Talk Nerdy on Instagram! Please rate and review But First, Let’s Talk … But First, Let’s Talk Nerdy Episode 81: BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM There's Himbos In The Room! Read More » The post But First, Let’s Talk Nerdy Episode 81: BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM There's Himbos In The Room! appeared first on The ESO Network.

In this very special episode of History N' Games, host Meghan Sullivan interviews Professor Sarah Ils Johnston of the University of Ohio, a prominent expert on Ancient Greek religion, particularly its underworld aspects. Topics include the game series Hades, the origins of Zagreus and his sister Melinoe, the truth behind Hecate, and the extreme lengths the ancient Greeks went to in order to appease angry ghosts!Watch the Youtube version here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG1OuUbrQPQ&tQuestions? Comments? Future collaborations? Contact Meghan at megnhistory@gmail.com! Support the show

Der Weltraum - unendliche Weiten. Sternzeit 49897,5 Nehmen Sie sich eine Auszeit, haben sie gesagt. Auf einer eigentlich rein repräsentativen Mission auf der Raumstation Hephaistos kam es zu unerwarteten Schwierigkeiten. Die Wissenschaftlerin, die damals eine Seuche ausgelöscht hatte, hatte in Warheit einen Ersten Kontakt. Doch statt Kommunikation erwartete die neue Spezies nur die Auslöschung. Da sie sich wie ein Virus und über Töne verbreiteten, wurden sie fälschlicherweise als Gefahr angesehen. Eine intensive Recherche unserer Crew brachte diese jedoch zu dem Heimatplaneten der Zagreus, wie sie sich zu nennen schienen. Neema Kyll handelte einen besseren zweiten Kontakt aus und alles schien gut, bis die Orioner erschienen. Anwesend sind Cpt. Decker, gespielt von Simon, LoVok gespielt von Manu und 8 von 10, gespielt von Korn. Der Captain schaut angestrengt auf seinen Bildschirm und die orionischen Waffen… https://www.patreon.com/1W3Rollenspieler https://twitter.com/1Rollenspieler Tabletop Audio - Ambiences and Music for Tabletop Role Playing Games

Periphery are back with two new singles - “Wildfire” & “Zagreus” - from their upcoming album: ‘Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre'.We analyse, review and react to these new songs from the Progressive Metal Djent giants! You can also watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7mfJVCp_TzbPNZNMMemJuw

Leikur ársins 2020 er loksins til umfjöllunar í tölvuleikjahlaðvarpi Íslands!  Roguelike hack-and-slash ævintýrið Hades kom sá og sigraði með einstaklega flottum listastíl og skemmtilegu formi.   Zagreus, sonur Hadesar, guðs undirheima grískrar goðafræði, vill ólmur drullast úr vítisvistinni og þarf að ferðast í gegnum fjögur svið helvítis.    Hver dauði er tækifæri til að læra hvað fór úrskeiðis - og tækifæri til að bæta sig.   Arnór Steinn og Gunnar ræða allar hliðar leiksins, ótrúlegt en satt þá er Arnór ekki búinn að gefast upp þrátt fyrir erfiðleikastig. Batnandi mönnum og allt það.  Hvað fannst þér um  Hades? Endilega segðu okkur þína skoðun!   Þátturinn er í boði Elko Gaming og Serrano

Hello and welcome to episode 65! Today Janey will tell us all about Dionysus, who truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Then, Max will retell an episode of Supernatural JUST KIDDING it's just a regular story about the devil! Enjoy! Janey's Sources - Legends of Dionysus“Ariadne” by Jennifer Saint Semele (Dionysus's mortal mother) Wikipedia Info on Zagreus More info on Zagreus from Theoi Silenus, Dionysus's drunk but lovable tutor Ovid's "Metamorphoses"Max's Sources - Satan Takes a Wife“Icelandic Folk Legends: Tales of Apparitions, Outlaws and Things Unseen” collected and translated by Alda Sigmundsdottir Free text of "Satan Takes a Wife" Recorded reading of "Satan Takes a Wife" and other Icelandic tales "The Stupid Boy and the Devil" - a variant story, also from Iceland, in the canon of Sæmundur Fróði Sigfússon Check out our books (and support local bookstores!) on our Bookshop.org affiliate account!Starting your own podcast with your very cool best friend? Try hosting on Buzzsprout (and get a $20 Amazon gift card!)Want more??Visit our website!Join the Discord!Shop the merch at TeePublic!If you liked these stories, let us know on our various socials!InstagramTiktokGoodreadsAnd email us at sortofthestory@gmail.comAnd thank you to Keith, a man who never lost his baby teeth. He knows exactly where they are. 

Orfizme inananlar için o çok kıymetli: Zagreus. Bazı kaynaklarda "tanrıların en üstünü" diye bahsedilen Zagreus' çok kısaca tanıyalım. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mitolojik-inciler/message

The Titans have been torn apart, their limbs scattered across multiple realities. They'll never be whole again. But in the Underworld, another kind of brokenness has taken root in the heart of young Zagreus, the brooding son of Hades and Persephone. From Mythology, a Parcast Original from Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week's episode, Billy is excited to reveal his most recent character concepts to Joe for the upcoming Curse of Strahd campaign. The characters were inspired by Zagreus, Wall-E, and even the Long Island Medium. As always we end on some quickies. 00:00 - Intro00:21 - D&D character concepts51:56 - Quickies

Straight from our Champion suggestions we've got Pit vs Zagreus! Go to http://bluechew.com and use code DBC to receive your first month FREE - just pay $5 shipping! Shop the Rooster Teeth Holiday collection now: http://bit.ly/ANIM_Holiday2022 December 1st through 14th, - Use code RWBYFALL on the fall RWBY collection. - Use code COZYBUNDLE on the RWBY winter collection. - Use code AHB2G1 on the Achievement Hunter fall collection. - Use code FJBUNDLE on the Face Jam BBQ Bundle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En este episodio Elvis y Jose analizan los héroes Griegos presentes en los videojuegos.

Hades is the latest release from Supergiant Games, a studio that consistently releases some of the slickest and most stylish games of the generation. This is the best yet. You are Zagreus, a son of Hades, determined to break free from the Stygian realm of your birth. A roguelike (roguelite?) that will test your twitch skills with weapons and power ups that make each run unique. Maybe most remarkably it has a nearly endless trough of voice lines and story beats that punctuate each run and unfold over the many deaths that await you. The game can be a little daunting at first, but we loved this game and bet you will to. Check it out. Next game for the gameclub is Outer Wilds: https://store.steampowered.com/app/753640/Outer_Wilds/ Join our discord!!! https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ Everywhere that you can find us: https://linktr.ee/wideflank Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:57 What is Hades 07:30 Meta progression vs player mastery 10:30 Story vs challenge 15:05 Roguelikes and roguelites, are they fun? 29:40 Combat/Fav Weapons 37:00 Favorite Boons 41:40 Style, art, etc. 54:53 Music 1:00:00 Mythology 1:07:00: Random thoughts 1:15:00 Ratings Show Notes: Eggplant Podcast Hades episode: https://eggplant.show/58-easing-into-hades-with-supergiant-games

Straight Outta Gallifrey talk Big Finish's 50th episode in the main range, Zagreus, where we get literary allusions, past episode references, and actors with familiar voices.  What is your experience with Zagreus?  We would love to know.  And how smooth is Paul McGann, right?   prydonian.post@gmail.com Twitter @sogallifrey www.wrightonnetwork.com  

The Titans have been torn apart, their limbs scattered across multiple realities. They'll never be whole again. But in the Underworld, another kind of brokenness has taken root in the heart of young Zagreus, the brooding son of Hades and Persephone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Zagreus, Zagreus, Zagreus. What a mess of a story. It's gross, it's weird, it's both an afterthought and supremely important. Welcome to the story of thrice born Dionysus, better known as Zagreus.CW/TW: **this episode includes particularly egregious assault and incest, even for Greek myth** far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.Sources: Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz; Nonnus' Dionysiaca, translated by William Henry Denham Rouse. Further reading: Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods by Dwayne A. Meisner; The “Orphic” Gold Tablets and Greek Religion, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III; The Orphic Hymns, translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow. See last week's episode for even more Orphic sources.Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ben is still sick for this one, in case you caught his other shows! Still we power on and discuss so many fun things!! Download Link

L'équipe Au Coin du Checkpoint revient sur les mythologies revisitées par Supergiant Games dans leur incroyable Roguelike: Hades. Au programme, on décortique des divinités rencontrées dans le jeu par le héros, alors qu'il tente de s'enfuir des enfers, on parle du lore, on enchaine avec un quiz sur les chatiments divins et on conclue avec ce challenge de Point Chimere très gourmand: "Déïfiez vous! Créez un dieu, et des bénédictions que vous donneriez à vos fidèles". Liens: Rejoignez notre Discord: https://discord.gg/aMShNdTBgF  Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuCheckpoint  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aucoinducheckpoint  Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jacnosaysrelax  Mentionné dans l'Épisode: Le jeu RPG narratif interstellaire "Citizen Sleeper" La série Netflix "Uncoupled" La série sur OCS "The flight attendant"  Les livres "Percy Jackson" Merci énormement pour votre écoute et votre soutien! Si vous avez aimé l'épisode, laissez-nous 5 étoiles sur Apple Podcast, et faites tourner :) Plus on est de fous, moins y a de riz, et c'est la plus belle façon de nous soutenir et de nous envoyer de la force pour la suite!    Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Caleb (twitter.com/ScifiSpeedster) and Avery (twitter.com/redrocketpanda) unpack the connections between classical myth and the game setting of Supergiant's Hades while exploring Zagreus' role as the god of blood.This is an EXPERT level episode, which means some parts of the discussion may not make sense unless you've played the games. Expect lots of spoilers.Email us: lorepartypodcast@gmail.comSlide into our DMs: https://twitter.com/lore_party

Indie Games Month is back and we are going down into the depths of Hades for our opening episode. Zagreus has family problems and the only solution is becoming hopelessly addicted to a roguelike created by Supergiant Games! Episode Topic: 25:35 ​​Hair of the Dogcast is a proud member of the HyperX Podcast Network.  For more information check out podcast.hyperx.com! Contact Us: Twitter: @HOTDogcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hairofthedogcast  Instagram: hairofthedogcast To see how you can support us and access a bunch of cool, exclusive perks, visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hairofthedogcast We appreciate your support!

Noah and Elias break the ice once again, but this time they talk about terrible haircuts before diving head first into the craziness that always is... The Feature Presentation. Elias talks about having an innocent and childlike belief in Christ and how Grogu shows how his total trust in the Force parallels this biblical truth. Then Noah talks about the game Hades and discusses how we are unable to save ourselves and so *game spoilers* Jesus descends to earth, just like how Zagreus' family is made whole. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ocvepod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ocvepod/support

Summary: Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review the Big Finish’s 40th anniversary Doctor Who story Zagreus and 2022 Marvel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically: 00:00 – Intro and theme tune. 01:52 — Welcome! 03:27 […]

We've emerged from the depths of the BioShock series to begin a fresh season of Video Gameography! We're doing things differently this time as we're discussing the gameography of a developer rather than covering an individual game series. That studio is Supergiant Games, the acclaimed indie developer of Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and Hades. This week, we conclude our season by analyzing 2020's Hades. Unlike Supergiant Games' previous titles, Hades had two release dates. Its first release came on December 6, 2018 when it launched in early access on PC, while the full game was available to be played on September 17, 2020. Hades takes everything the studio has learned up to this point and blends them into an ambitious rogue-lite that's developed in a way the team has never experienced before: with the gaming public playing the game as it's being made. Check out this episode to learn the backstory of how Pyre's large cast of characters inspired the evolving narrative of Zagreus and his dysfunctional diety family, how the studio fared developing an early access game, and learn all about Greek mythology from our guest, the incomparable Jill Grodt. Join hosts Marcus Stewart (@MarcusStewart7), John Carson (@John_Carson), along with Game Informer associate editor Jill Grodt (@Finruin) for a verbal stroll through the history and narrative of Hades! If you'd like to get in touch with the Video Gameography podcast, you can email us at podcast@gameinformer.com. You can also join our official Game Informer Discord server by linking your Discord account to your Twitch account and subscribing to the Game Informer Twitch channel. From there, find the Video Gameography channel under "Community Spaces."

Supergiant Games "Hades" is quite popular right now, lets find out how close it gets to the actual Greek mythology and see where they got it right, and where they were just making it up.  Also we go and talk about other places where Zagreus and Hades pop up in pop culture.Doctor Who Big Finish Productions "Zagreus" 2003"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" 2010"Clash of the Titans" 2010"Wrath of the Titans" 2012"Hercules" 1997Hercules the Legendary JourneysZena Warrior PrincessOnce Upon A TimeVixx"Hadestown" 2006God Of WarKingdom HeartsAge of MythologyAge of Empires: MythologiesKid Icarus: UprisingPersona ZSmiteHorizon: Zero DawnAssassins' Creed Odyssey: Fate of AtlantisFinal Fantasy 14: ShadowbringersRayman LegendsPercy Jackson and the Olympians book Rick RiordanHades by Mathew ReileyHigh School DXD (Manga)God of War (Comic series)DC Wonder Woman (Comic)Fairy Tale (Manga)Gerihopilus Hades (Snake)Music by Jason Shaw at audionautix.com

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Where do your eyes go?, published by alkjash on the LessWrong. This is a linkpost for/ [Shoutout to the LW team for very helpful (and free!) feedback on this post.] I. Prelude When my wife first started playing the wonderful action roguelike Hades, she got stuck in Asphodel. Most Hades levels involve dodging arrows, lobbed bombs, melee monsters, and spike traps all whilst hacking and slashing as quickly as possible, but Asphodel adds an extra twist: in this particular charming suburb of the Greek underworld, you need to handle all of the above whilst also trying not to step in lava. Most of the islands in Asphodel are narrower than your dash is far, so it's hard not to dash straight off solid ground into piping-hot doom. I gave my wife some pointers about upgrade choices (cough Athena dash cough) and enemy attack patterns, but most of my advice was marginally helpful at best. She probably died in lava another half-dozen times. One quick trick, however, had an instant and visible effect. "Stare at yourself." Watch your step. By watching my wife play, I came to realize that she was making one fundamental mistake: her eyes were in the wrong place. Instead of watching her own character Zagreus, she spent most of her time staring at the enemies and trying to react to their movements and attacks. Hades is almost a bullet hell game: avoiding damage is the name of the game. Eighty percent of the time your eyes need to be honed on Zagreus's toned protagonist butt to make sure he dodges precisely away from, out of, or straight through enemy attacks. In the meantime, most of Zagreus's own attacks hit large areas, so tracking enemies with peripheral vision is enough to aim your attacks in the right general direction. Once my wife learned to fix her eyes on Zagreus, she made it through Asphodel in only a few attempts. This is a post about the general skill of focusing your eyes, and your attention, to the right place. Instead of the standard questions "How do you make good decisions based on what you see?" and "How do you get better at executing those decisions?", this post focuses on a question further upstream: "Where should your eyes be placed to receive the right information in the first place?" In Part II, I describe five archetypal video games, which are distinguished in my memory by the different answers to "Where do your eyes go?" I learned from each of them. I derive five general lessons about attention-paying. Part II can be safely skipped by those allergic to video games. In Part III, I apply these lessons to three specific minigames that folks struggle with in graduate school: research meetings, seminar talks, and paper-reading. In all three cases, there can be an overwhelming amount of information to attend to, and the name of the game is to focus your eyes properly to perceive the most valuable subset. II. Lessons from Video Games Me or You? Hades and Dark Souls are similar games in many respects. Both live in the same general genre of action RPGs, both share the core gameplay loop "kill, die, learn, repeat," and both are widely acknowledged to be among the best games of all time. Their visible differences are mostly aesthetic: for example, Hades' storytelling is more lighthearted, Dark Souls' more nonexistent. But there is one striking difference between my experiences of these two games: in Hades I stared at myself, and in Dark Souls I stared at the enemy. Why? One answer is obvious: in Dark Souls, the camera follows you around over your shoulder, so you're forced to stare at the enemies, while in Hades the isometric camera is centered on your own character. This is good game design because the camera itself gently suggests the right place for your eyes to focus, but it doesn't really explain why that place is right. The more interesting answer is that your eyes g...

Doctor Who is bloody old now, and what better way to celebrate it than get a bunch of Doctors together and get them not to play the Doctor.  In this episode Dylan and Jack look at 30th anniversary "special" 'The Airzone Solution' staring Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. Written by Nick Briggs and directed by Bill Baggs, this oddity has almost nothing to do with Doctor Who. Then they look at  40th birthday bash 'Zagreus' from Big Finish, much like 'The Airzone Solution'  this stars Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy not playing the Doctor at all, but fortunately Paul McGann is there playing Zagreus and sometimes the Doctor.  The 3 hour and 55 minute epic is written by Gary Russell (who also serves as director) and Alan Barnes.

Greg Kasavin is the creative director and writer at Supergiant games where he's helped create critically acclaimed titles such as Bastion, Pyre, Transistor, and Hades.Prior to working at SuperGiant Games, Greg worked as a games journalist for Gamespot where he rose the ranks from being an intern all the way to executive editor (editor in chief) of the publication. He's also worked in various producer roles for games in the Command & Conquer franchise, and as a publishing producer on Spec Ops: The Line.We talk with Greg about his relationship with the protagonist of Hades and what he thinks about the role of narrative in gaming. Hosted by Phillip Russell and Ben ThorpLearn more about Hades here.Follow Greg on Twitter here.Visit our website: Originstory.showFollow us on Twitter @originstory_Do you have feedback or questions for us? Email us theoriginstorypod@gmail.comCover art and website design by Melody HirschOrigin Story original score by Ryan Hopper

This week, Grace watches a Minotaur dig himself out of an awkward conversation with the Short King by Bobadeluxe, James pulls his Devil Trigger in Zagreus and the Other Princes of Hell by Toastkat, and Nick gets involved in a dog petting heist with Thanatos and Robnauts. If your enjoying the show or have any fanfiction requests, feel free to reach out to us on twitter @theshipforecast, our tumblr we are The Shipping Forecasters or contact us the old fashioned way, at thefanshippingforecast@gmail.com

This week, the forecasters try their best to escape the underworld with the help of the olympian Gods, a three headed good boy, and everyones favourite grumpy teenager Zagreus. If you'd like to get in touch, you can find us on twitter (@theshipforecast), our Tumblr (https://www.tumblr.com/blog/the-shipping-forecasters) and the old fashioned way thefanshippingforecast@gmail.com

(TSAP S04E01) In our very first interview of Season 4, we're starting 2021 like a Zagreus out of hell. In this episode, Sam is joined by Audio Director of Supergiant Games, Darren Korb about their recent hit game, HADES. Sam chats to Darren about his career so far, his 10+ years at Supergiant Games, the early access journey of HADES, creating all the audio, music as well as voicing the main character Zagreus (and Skelly!) and more! "Darren Korb is the Composer and Audio Director for Supergiant Games, whose award-winning scores for Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and Hades have have received over one hundred million Spotify plays.” Big thanks to Callum Tennick for editing and mastering this episode. This episode and so much more at: www.thesoundarchitect.co.uk Twitter: @SoundDesignUK Facebook: facebook.com/thesoundarchitect.co.uk Instagram: thesoundarchitectofficial Stay up to date via our Monthly Newsletter as well: www.thesoundarchitect.co.uk/newsletter --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thesoundarchitect/message

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