I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream – Cane and Rinse No.442

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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“A spark of humanity somewhere. Always that wretched little spark.” Bleak, dystopian, depressing - and that's just 2020. It's not funny because it's true. To distract from the day-to-day misery, Leon, Jesse, Jon and Ryan enter the Hell-realm that is Cyberdreams' 1995 point and click adaptation of Harlan Ellison's grim short story from 30 years prior, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_442.mp3 Music featured in this issue: 1. Introduction by John Ottman 2. Ted's Fatal Flaw by John Ottman Cane and Rinse 442 was edited by Jay TaylorDon't forget, you can get an often extended version of this podcast four weeks early if you support our Patreon for just $2 a month (+VAT) Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to the Kain and Rinse Podcast, Volume 9, Issue 442.
0:26.8	And today we're going to be talking about I have no mouth and I must scream.
0:32.1	Joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue, are Jesse Fuchs.
0:35.6	Thank you for help with Dahl.
0:37.3	Me go playing hole.
0:41.1	John Salmon.
0:42.5	Hi.
0:43.6	And Ryan Heyman.
0:45.0	Hello.
0:46.0	So, this was John's nomination for this volume of the podcast, and we'll ask you about that later yeah what won't wrong no no no I don't
1:00.0	want to I think this is going to be a really interesting show yeah it definitely is I hope I've set us up
1:06.6	for a failure now but anyway first thing we must do is issue a spoiler warning, both for the
1:13.2	original text, the short story that this game is based upon, and of course, the game itself.
1:20.9	You can go and read the short story. It's downloadable as a PDF. I don't know if it's legal or not,
1:27.0	but it's totally easy to find.
1:28.9	Or you can, you know, buy a secondhand volume of compilation of Harlan Ellison short stories if you want or whatever else.
1:36.0	The story, we will be talking about not only the ending of the canonical original story, but also the multiple endings of the game.
1:44.7	The game is available on good old games.
1:46.7	If you do want to play it legit, you can download it for a few dollars.
1:51.1	It runs in Scum VM on a modern PC perfectly well.
1:54.1	It is, if you don't know, a 1995 sci-fi horror point-and-click adventure game based on a 1967 or thereabouts short
2:05.6	story of the same name by the aforementioned science fiction author Harlan Ellison.
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