Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E028 - Three Robots: Exit Strategies
Release Date: 04/14/2023
Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E038 - Tiermaker V1-3
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Thanks to Drarker, we're building a Tiermaker list for our thoughts on volumes 1-3. Can Kat and Dae agree on anything after Fish Night and The Very Pulse of the Machine?
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Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E037 - Volume 2 and 3 Recap
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We've covered all of the currently released three volumes of LDR, so come join us as we talk about our favorite episodes of the volume two and three, and also we'll talk about one episode each, that we could do without. Come join us on 37 because we plan to take a pause on LDR+ until volume four drops!
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Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E036 - Jibaro
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Deep in a forest, a band of knights take a break in their journey next to a small lake. Unbeknownst to them, the water is the home of a siren, whose body is covered in golden scales and jewels. She rises from the lake and ensorcels the knights, compelling them to a watery doom. Only one knight, deaf and unable to hear her calls, is immune to her spell and though he is initially frightened of what she can do, his greed drives him closer to the siren, who likewise seems intrigued by his ability to resist her powers. The two engage in a short-lived semblance of courtship, before the knight...
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Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E035 - In Vaulted Halls Entombed
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When a Special Forces team advances into a mysterious cave in pursuit of enemy fighters with a hostage, they end up getting way more than they bargained for. They stumble across several dead bodies just before they’re attacked by a horde of flesh-eating spiders, who chase the survivors deeper into the cave system until they stumble upon a massive cavern with a temple seemingly made for giants. Unable to resist a mysterious pull that calls them closer, the remaining pair of soldiers discover a monstrous demi-god chained in the temple. When it possesses the commanding officer, his subordinate...
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Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E034 - Masons Rats
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When Farmer Mason discovers that the rats living in his barn and stealing his wheat have evolved intelligence, he turns to an extermination company to deal with the problem. They install several laser turrets, which starts a full-on war, but the rodents take the first round by destroying the equipment. Mason then upgrades, purchasing a literal rat-killing scorpion machine. Its excessively violent methods make Mason uneasy however, and during the final battle within the barn, Mason has a change of heart, destroying the scorpion before it can wipe out the rest of the rats. The act seals a new...
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Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E033 - Swarm
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When two humans are investigating a huge nest of highly organized, symbiotic creatures living in space, they think they have discovered an almost perfect system. Believing the creatures to be non-sentient, one researcher convinces the other to try and weaponize their discovery for the benefit of humanity. Unbeknownst to them, their efforts trigger a genetic defensive response in the organisms of the swarm, and the scientists are captured and then forced to comply with the swarm’s demands to breed more humans as new additions to its fleet of symbiont servants.
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Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E032 - Kill Team Kill
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When a small special forces team encounters a killer cyborg bear on a mission in Afghanistan, half their team is killed before the bear is scared off by a Sergeant from a nearby secret CIA base. They learn that the bear is actually a prototype weapon designed by the CIA that went rogue earlier that day. Upon returning to the secret base they find all its occupants already slaughtered. After stocking up on weapons and ammunition, the team makes their stand. A bloody fight ensues and the team finally manages to neutralize the cyborg monster. But before they can celebrate, the bear initiates a...
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Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E031 - Night of the Mini Dead
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When a mini-couple makes a creepy cemetery the scene of their late-night drunken love-making, an unfortunate strike of unholy lightning awakens the mini-dead. The small horde (pun intended) of mini-zombies start to relentlessly hunt and convert other mini-people, and soon enough the mini-world is quickly overrun by them. With no options left, a mini-world leader uses mini-nuclear weapons to smite all of the mini-Earth, ending in a quickly forgettable gaseous blip in the galaxy. https://www.retrozap.com/love-death-and-robots-plus/
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Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E030 - The Very Pulse of the Machine
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Two astronauts exploring Jupiter's moon Io are involved in a tragic accident, which kills one of them and destroys their rover. The survivor, whose damaged equipment makes her dependent on the dead astronaut’s functional oxygen tank, must drag her dead companion for several kilometers across the surface of Io towards their lander and safety. But when a mysterious voice starts talking to her and claims to be Io itself, she’s torn between believing it’s another hallucination from taking pain medications or if the moon is a sentient machine and it’s actually true. When she realizes that...
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Love Death and Robots Plus Podcast E029 - Bad Travelling
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On an alien ocean, a sailing ship is attacked by a monstrous crab-like creature, who kills and eats some of the crew before taking up residence in the ship's hold. When the surviving dozen or so crew force our protagonist, Torrin, to go below and investigate the situation, he discovers the monster can communicate and it demands to be taken to a nearby inhabited island where it plans to feast on all the residents there. After negotiating with the crab, Torrin returns above deck and shifts the balance of power when he retrieves a pistol from the former captain’s quarters. The crew deliberate...
info_outlineIn a follow-up to the story of K-VRC, XBOT 4000 and 11-45-G, the three robots continue their tour of fabulously ruined human locales. Starting at a prepper’s compound, then an oil rig modified by a tech billionaire, an underground government bunker, and then ending at a massive rocket launch site, the three talk about the sociopolitical workings of human civilization and how they expired. The tour ends as the robots realize that even though most of humans were unable to escape the dying planet, one rocket did successfully launch into orbit and they wonder if a remnant of humanity survives after all. (Spoiler: it doesn’t.)