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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2015, 12:05:31 AM »
I am by no means caught up, but just want to say that the Apache Tracker is my favorite character.  His stoic, heroic, semi-offensive Native American Russian persona places him high in the ranks for me!  Also, his heroic sacrifice at the bowling alley keeps him solidly in the top spot.

A cool thing to do is to look up all of his lines, only translated.  I was surprised a lot by what he was actually saying.
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2015, 01:03:17 AM »
Quote from: Sadoka on April 22, 2015, 12:05:31 AM
I am by no means caught up, but just want to say that the Apache Tracker is my favorite character.  His stoic, heroic, semi-offensive Native American Russian persona places him high in the ranks for me!  Also, his heroic sacrifice at the bowling alley keeps him solidly in the top spot.

A cool thing to do is to look up all of his lines, only translated.  I was surprised a lot by what he was actually saying.
As someone who speaks Russian, it wasn't really a surprise for me :)
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #17 on: April 22, 2015, 06:32:26 AM »
Thanks to everyone who pointed me to this! I just listened to the first episode and am now pondering if I can delay my poor neglected responsibilities for another twenty minutes...

The creepy but calm atmosphere is really fascinating and there are so many creative ideas in these "announcements".
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2015, 10:42:12 AM »
Ooo! I like Night Vale!  ;D I haven't listened to all the episodes yet though. I'm still on something like #13... :-\ I should start listening again...
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2015, 11:27:17 AM »
Quote from: Fen Shen on April 22, 2015, 06:32:26 AM
Thanks to everyone who pointed me to this! I just listened to the first episode and am now pondering if I can delay my poor neglected responsibilities for another twenty minutes...

The creepy but calm atmosphere is really fascinating and there are so many creative ideas in these "announcements".
Of course you can, Fen Shen! There's 66 more episodes to go through! It only gets better after the first episode, trust me. Cecil kind of settles into his character more and we get to know him a little better, too.
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2015, 01:43:05 PM »
Hehe, I already listened to the next two episodes while doing the dishes and cooking. I guess I'll volunteer for more household tasks in the next days...  ;D
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #21 on: April 22, 2015, 02:01:34 PM »
Quote from: Fen Shen on April 22, 2015, 01:43:05 PM
Hehe, I already listened to the next two episodes while doing the dishes and cooking. I guess I'll volunteer for more household tasks in the next days...  ;D
When I started listening I was working at this job where there was a lot of very repetitive computer things involved, and thankfully the supervisors didn't care at all if people listened to music or whatever, so I caught up really fast by listening through the episodes at work.
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #22 on: April 22, 2015, 03:37:31 PM »
I was doing some very boring scrubbing of balcony floor segments outside today, and it got fairly bearable by being combined with catching up on WtNV! Only one or two eps left now... (and some bonus ep I think)
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #23 on: April 22, 2015, 05:05:33 PM »
I love WTNV! But yeah, explaining it to someone is not really easy. It's like a radio play that pretends to be a radio broadcast from a town in the desert and all kinds of weird stuff happens… Especially when you tell your colleagues randomly that angels and the knowledge about their hierachy is illegal you'll have to make them understand. (They know I'm a weirdo, so they're just mildly confused. :P )

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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #24 on: April 22, 2015, 05:32:48 PM »
I'm curious, those of you in Europe, how did you find listening to WTNV as a non-native English speaker? (Technically I should count myself in that group also, but I live in an english-speaking country so I feel like it's a bit different? Sorry if I've offended anyone with this question...)

 I know there's a lot of play or words and figurative language and references to stuff, so I wonder how that translates to a different culture
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #25 on: April 22, 2015, 05:38:22 PM »
Quote from: Solovei on April 22, 2015, 05:32:48 PM
I'm curious, those of you in Europe, how did you find listening to WTNV as a non-native English speaker? (Technically I should count myself in that group also, but I live in an english-speaking country so I feel like it's a bit different? Sorry if I've offended anyone with this question...)

 I know there's a lot of play or words and figurative language and references to stuff, so I wonder how that translates to a different culture
I find it pretty easy, BUT as a scandinavian I'm more than used to everything on TV Not Being Dubbed. I mean, it's definitely easier for me to catch podcast english than, say, the danish lecturer......... or even a lot of norwegian people with not-even-that-thick dialects.............

references are a bit hard to catch, though. Mostly I won't even know it's a reference? they did actually reference norwegian pop-culture at the oslo show, though, which was pretty amazing
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #26 on: April 22, 2015, 06:43:21 PM »
My head's a jumbled mess of German and English most of the time and I'm used to watching a few BBC productions. So it's not quite unusual listening to someone talking in English. Also, I don't translate English most of the time anymore.

I don't know about references though. I might miss some, but I won't even notice I did until I find some website or blog pointing them out.



Non-dubbed TV… Lucky you. I was shocked to discover that my Doctor Who and Sherlock DVDs even came without subtiltles, but only English audio. Whereas the Dark Knight DVD a Dutch friend send me comes with Dutch subtitles, German subtitles and even German audio…
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #27 on: April 22, 2015, 09:02:31 PM »
This is timely.

Went to the live show in Oakland last night.  XD  But my just-turned 16yo is the big fan here.  She was starry-eyed through the whole thing.
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #28 on: April 22, 2015, 09:23:43 PM »
Quote from: Ann Marie on April 22, 2015, 09:02:31 PM
This is timely.

Went to the live show in Oakland last night.  XD  But my just-turned 16yo is the big fan here.  She was starry-eyed through the whole thing.
Ooooh how was it? Please tell us EVERYTHING.
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Re: Welcome to Night Vale, anyone?
« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2015, 08:56:51 AM »
Quote from: Solovei on April 22, 2015, 05:32:48 PM
I'm curious, those of you in Europe, how did you find listening to WTNV as a non-native English speaker? (Technically I should count myself in that group also, but I live in an english-speaking country so I feel like it's a bit different? Sorry if I've offended anyone with this question...)

 I know there's a lot of play or words and figurative language and references to stuff, so I wonder how that translates to a different culture

It was not an issue while listening to the podcast because you can always rewind, but during the live show in Paris it was a little more difficult
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