Cutting room floor segments from our episode on Hard to Be a God (2013). This is a sample of the extras we upload regularly for those who patronize us on Ko-fi.com/emissariesfromthevoid — includes comparisons to other films and video games and an extended cut of Ari’s leftist rant.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989) —

Consumption, appreciation, waste, taste, charlatans, toxic generosity, Albert as God, God as manager, Albert as State, Georgina as Sophia, healthy masculinity, assigning blame for original sin, denied resurrection

CW: Sexual assault, disgusting imagery, pervasive cruelty

Hard to Be a God (2013) —

The gray to black pipeline, pain worship, paper isn't power, Arkanar as mask-off Western civilization, anarchist philosophy, The Enlightenment didn't fix our core problems, what would you have God do?, supremacist thinking, wasted efforts, desolate beauty.

CW: Blood, implied sexual abuse, and pervasive cruelty.

Why a purple skunk? Proto inceldom, amateur art, art in the face of the Internet, monsterfucker furry venn diagram, outsider art, trying to save what we watch.

Vide Noir

The dark side of romanticism, the virtue of letting go, escapism, art drug, indulging the void, intrusive thought worms, accountability, misery multiplication, Finding Alaska Syndrome, toxic yearning.

Outro Music is Arcadia by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Head (1968) – Capitalist determinism, artistic dissonance, decency standards, algorithmic pipelines, the information firehose, subliminal messaging, scrambled context, short-form content, white-washed exoticism, Neil Breen and Paul Thomas Anderson are the only free creators, AAA vs indie games, the holocaust can't be filmed, red-washing, fascism, slavery.

The Cell (2000) - control, hyper-specific schizophrenia synchronicity, dream logic inside and out, savior complex, lack of consequences, learning the wrong lessons, equine segmentation, corrupted curiosity, religious trauma

Outro Music is Arcadia by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Yin Yang Insane (2007)

Robert Z'Dar, Eternal Detours, Alleged Duststorm, War With Self, Desolation of the Soul

Outro Music is Arcadia by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio