
The Artifexian Podcast
Summary: Edgar Grunewald and Bill McGrath discuss all things worldbuilding - the process of constructing fictional settings.
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Topics discussed: Star Trek, Constellations, Handwavia and Dager, How to Create Planetary Systems and The Top 250 TV Shows
Topics discussed: Voyager, Breaking bad, M Night Shyamalan, Artifexian changing, Pluto, New Horizons, XKCD, Jupiter, Asteroid belts, Scripting Videos, Storyboarding Videos, Recording Audio, Filming Equipment, Conan the Barbarian and FLAGS! Enjoy
Topics discussed: Modern Heavy Metal: Markets, Practices and Cultures, Helsinki, Suomenlina, Scandinavia, Pests, Liquorice, The Object by Eric Lange, 30secfantasy.com, The Walking Dead, Star Trek: Uncharted, E3, Fallout, FF7, Rian Johnson, Brick, MinutePhysics, Xkcd, Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech, Nerdist, Vsauce2, Vihart, and Designing Stick figures
Topics discussed: Hangul, Black Metal, Pathfinder, Pyschic Communication, Worldbuilding in Art, Short Story Videos, Galaxies, The Star Wars Galaxy, The MIlky Way and Star Trek, Mapping Galaxies, Warp Speed, The Fermi Paradox, The Drake Equation, Great Filters, and The Kardashev Scale
Topics discussed: Metal and Hardcore Music, Metal in Botswana, Music for Worldbuilder's, Conlanging, the IPA, Orthography, Sign Language, China Mieville, Larry Niven, Ian Banks, Klingon and Klingon Opera, Linguistic Purism and much much more.
Topics dicussed: Irish Creators Day at Google HQ, Dublin, Ireland; Problems with youtube as a platform; Curious.com; Khan Academy; big irish youtubers; Rode shotgun Mic, the nintendo 3DS and its awful 3D function; Flow Free and Tetris; Star Trek TNG: Starship mine, Deep space nine, Voyager and finally more on how to contact the show.
Topics discussed: Superbowl XLIX, Marshawn Lynch, Doping in the UFC, the video that started Edgar down the youtube rabbit-hole, Edgar's first three videos on stars, Hello internet, ViHart, Minutephysics and ten hypothetical stars that may be exploited in fictional settings.
Bill & Edgar discuss the term world building, Golarian, Brandon Sanderson and his massive back catalogue, Lord of the Rings, Ruritanian romance, Bangsian fantasy, Reverse Bangsian fantasy, the Temeraire series, The Years of Rice and Salt, The Mars Trilogy, Master and Commander, the Discworld Novels, On, R Scott Bakker and the skeptical fantasist.