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199 - What Remains of Edith Finch (feat. Lenore and Aysha U. Farah)
🕑 Added 2025-07-23 06:00:08 +0000 UTCAysha U. Farah (All My Maidens) and Lenore (The Socialist Shelf) return to the pod to take the lads on a heartfelt journey of death and birds as they cover Giant Sparrow’s 2017 walking sim megahit: What Remains of Edith Finch. Topics include games about death, the importance of twee in the face of tragedy, and what remains of both the walking sim genre and the titular Edith Finch.
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The Socialist Shelf: A podcast where we care about two things: good fiction and changing the world. From your favorite pseudointellectuals, Jacob Dallas-Main and Lenore Olson.
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All My Maidens: Welcome to All My Maidens, an Elden Ring lore podcast. Have you ever played 100 hours of Elden Ring and then thought, wow. I have no idea what the heck this game is about? Well, join award winning game writer Aysha U. Farah as she invites various friends and confidants to come on and Explain Elden Ring to her. What is an Elden Ring, anyway? What makes it elden? Who are the Tarnished? Why do a bunch of guys have weird horns on their faces? Who is that dude made of roots? Answer all these questions and more, right here!
Media Referenced in this Episode:
What Remains of Edith Finch. Giant Sparrow. 2017.
“The making of What Remains of Edith Finch” by Chris Schilling. PC GAMER. June 2nd, 2018.
“Whitespace: The man behind ‘The Unfinished Swan’” by Evan Shamoon. Polygon. October 9th, 2012.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Interstitial: “What Remains of Joshua Boerman” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Featuring A.J. Ditty as “AJ Ditty”, Brian Alford as “Brian Alflord”, Josh Boerman as “Joshua Boerman”
Comments
John Her
I love how once an episode AJ says something easy to clip out of context: "I think child death... is beautiful..."
NowhereMan661
The Lewis section is so painfully real. Being a creative person working in a monotonous, meaningless, unfulfilling job and coping with it through your fantasies, but in doing so you become completely alienated from reality because you have nothing else, and eventually you just decide to leave reality all together.
