Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 09/06/2026And don't forget to read the extras, too! They might not be set within the world of YSMT, but they're just as important—if not more so—than its actual, textual narrative. 000
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Interested in reading along with the show? You still have time to finish Yin Shan Meng Tan before our episode. But don't wait too long... With over a 100 chapters, varying levels of translation quality, and a richly layered narrative, YSMT demands both time and attention to properly enjoy. 110
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 22/05/2026If you enjoyed our episode on 'Heaven Will Be Mine'—a game in which space is characterized as both playground and battlefield for its young cast—then we strongly recommend you read Asterisk Magazines' recent interview of Jon Peterson in which he traces the evolution of wargaming throughout history. 111
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Next episode: We'll be covering Zhang Jing's manhua, Yin Shan Meng Tan (or: Dream Talking in the Hidden Mountain) (2017-2020). 110
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 10/05/2026LEADER. GOD. MOTHER. On this holy day, we worship at the feet of Mother Falke, Protektor Commander of S-23 Sierpinski Facility. We thank her for all she has done for us, the sacrifices she has made, and most of all, we thank her for stepping on us. 020
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 05/05/2026In our second (and final!) Signalis episode, we discuss Adler who has plagued—and charmed—us since pushing poor Elster down the elevator shaft. Best read as a foil to Elster, he is both perpetrator and victim—his fate decided by compulsory heterosexual desire and Ariane's fading dream. 021
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Attention Elsewhere Ep. 4: 'The Genre is Empire': 000
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Attention Elsewhere Ep. 3: 'Would James Sunderland Approve?': 000
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 28/04/2026In Ep. 3 we examine, not just Signalis' artistic influences, but its historical influences too: Its world draws aesthetic inspiration from both Nazi Germany and the Soviet-controlled GDR, while its narrative and themes subvert or directly refute their fascistic ideology, rhetoric, and actions. 010
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 21/04/2026In the first of our two episodes on Signalis, we discuss how, by featuring subtle and prominent references to—and direct use of—many famous paintings, novels, shows, films, and other games, Signalis' form comes to mirror that of the narrative with the blending and blurring of lines between subjects. 111
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 08/04/2026It's *always* a good time to (re)play Signalis, and with our next episode (and a delightful, if very spoilery, discussion) on the horizon, you've really got no excuse to keep putting it off. So ignore your backlog; play Signalis; and come listen to the podcast once you're done! 121
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 03/04/2026In preparation for our next episode on Signalis, we are reading Robert W. Chambers' 'The King in Yellow.' While we won't be discussing it in-depth, it's far from a throwaway easter egg. Rather, it serves to expand and complicate both world and narrative of the game. 010
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 21/03/2026ACHTUNG! We're not quite ready to release it, but in our next episode we will explore the corrupted depths of Sierpinski S-23 and twisted, fragmentary memories of its many denizens in rose-engine's 2022 survival horror, Signalis. 011
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The Eye of Attention Elsewhere is always searching for more yuri... 121
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 16/02/2026In our upcoming episode, we test the blurry boundaries between journalism and espionage, news and propaganda, spokesperson and puppet - and how now, more than ever, we may need Oromay's insights to help us navigate our own political waters, muddied by news media, puppets, and propaganda alike. 121
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Now, in 2026, we finally have a complete English translation of "Oromay" by David DeGusta and Mesfin Felleke Yirgu, and in just a few weeks, we'll tell you all about it! 010
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 29/01/2026While a compelling narrative in its own right, "Oromay" is also historically significant: Like Tsegaye, Baalu Girma was the propaganda chief for the Derg, and with the cataclysmic failure of the campaign, he similarly became disillusioned, choosing to stay in Eritrea, rather than return to Ethiopia. 110
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 29/01/2026In the next episode of Attention Elsewhere, we'll be covering Baalu Girma's "Oromay" (1983), which follows journalist and minister of propaganda, Tsegaye Hailemaryam, and his role in, and eventual disillusionment from, the Derg's 'Red Star Campaign' (better known now as the Red Terror) in Eritrea. 210
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Heaven Will Be Mine's setting and core conceit (that of the relationships that form between pilots as they operate their ship-selves in the vastness of space) draw, pretty explicitly, from elements of the mecha genre. But what's most fascinating, perhaps, is it's interpretation of the "Newtype." 110