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Scarfolk
- dang 7y agoRelated from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11334436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11334436 Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10389497 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10389497
- mastazi 7y agoA podcast that somehow reminds me of Scarfolk: http://www.welcometonightvale.com/ http://www.welcometonightvale.com/
- Sophistifunk 7y agoHuh? I clicked this and still have NFI what it's about or why it belongs here.
- Palomides 7y agoit's a rather grim multimedia satire of aspects of 1970s british culture
- mattkevan 7y agoNot just in 1970s. If you look carefullyat the dates, the events in 1970s Scarfolk track surprisingly accurately with what’s going on today...
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoSometimes he gets topical, and it stops looking quite so satirical: https://twitter.com/Scarfolk/status/1177130150833610752 https://twitter.com/Scarfolk/status/1177130150833610752 My favourite - the new festival of Brexit poster: https://twitter.com/richard_littler/status/1046322039114674176 https://twitter.com/richard_littler/status/10463220391146741...
- arethuza 7y agoI'd managed to miss that the "Festival of Brexit" is going to be a real thing: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/05/government-pushes-ahead-plans-festival-of-brexit https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/05/government-...
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoOh heck, I didn't realise that was still going ahead. I fully expected it to be round filed when May exited stage left.
- kjs3 7y agoNot even close. GB just doubled down on Bexit by re-electing Boris Johnson in a landslide. It's "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" for Brexit, one way or another.
- arethuza 7y agoI'm 99% certain NeedMoreTea was referring to the "Festival of Brexit" - not Brexit itself which is pretty much guaranteed to happen at this point due to recent electoral events.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoQuite so. After our delightfully flawed FPTP election results, I can't conceive of Brexit not happening with the ERG majority of 60. Seems we may end up throwing the BBC and NHS out with that particular bathwater too. Scarfolk's Watch out, there's a politician about: https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/05/watch-out-theres-politician-about.html https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/05/watch-out-theres-polit...
- kjs3 7y agoMaybe (two peoples divided by a common language and all that), but why would the Festival cancel when May leaving just meant Boris was coming in. Same net effect unless I missed a subtlety.
- arethuza 7y agoAlbion Estate looks like something from "Years and Years" (it comes a couple of years before the latter): https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2017/12/albion-estate-sign-1970.html https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2017/12/albion-estate-sign-197...
- JackFr 7y agohttps://liartownhits.tumblr.com/ https://liartownhits.tumblr.com/
- hrnnnnnn 7y agoFor more information please re-read this comment.
- gpderetta 7y agoI'm getting a strong Laundry Files/CSP/Paranoia RPG vibe. It is awesome.
- UncleSlacky 7y agoIf you like this, you might also like the British public information films of the 70s such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPMYRlvySY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPMYRlvySY
- daddylonglegs 7y agoSee also "Look Around You," a pitch perfect send up of 70s and 80s educational TV.
- gambiting 7y agoHuh, interesting - the game "Control" released this year has some very similar vibes to this.
- zorbash 7y agoCan you please share some more info on this?
- gambiting 7y agoThe entire game is about a hidden US agency called Federal Bureau of Control, and their job is to investigate and hide from the general public any paranormal phenomena. These are some posters found in-game, I found them very similar to those Scarfolk ones: https://kotaku.com/i-love-the-posters-found-in-control-1837746677 https://kotaku.com/i-love-the-posters-found-in-control-18377... And this quote describes one of the many events from the in-game lore nearly perfectly, I wouldn't be surprised if the writers were inspired by some of it: "Super-conductive copper ribbons were used during the dance because it was believed that their combination with 400,000 volts and expendable children opened a vortex to an alternate dimension where household items were always on sale and could be purchased for a fraction of the price. Items that were brought back through the vortex, however, risked corruption by dark forces, as witnessed on May 1st 1971 when Scarfolk was overrun by a vast horde of malevolent, sentient food blenders."
- zorbash 7y agoSounds rad, love it already, thanks!