Today we are joined by Austin Walker to begin the journey through Tomino's mostly disliked final entry in the Universal Century, Victory Gundam. Nobody likes this show, not even Tomino himself, but we believe that we can escape Earth's Gravity and find the beautiful truth within. So far? We might just be in with a...
2019-05-01 05:18:09 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: Rape, Violence, Racism; I’m talking about Game of Thrones so y’know
Hey folks,
Jackson here with the Patreon Letter! Sorry for the delay, busy week, busy weekend, you know the deal. But I’m here now and I have a couple things to talk about. So let’s get right into it.
I’ve been struggling focusing a lot this year, I’ve talked about...
2019-04-30 21:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Voip Life returns and this time we are broadcasting to you from the distant past of a week earlier than when we usually record these episodes, bringing you long delayed reactions to "The New Star Wars Trailer" along with our usual nonsense. Enjoy!
2019-04-26 15:35:22 +0000 UTC View Post
For our finale episode of Stardust Memory we are joined by our friend Heather Alexandra to talk about the Men Of Destiny, the Robots of Destiny, and Jamitov Hymen Hacking The Election.
Em's Suit Ranking
Jackson's Sui...
2019-04-24 19:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, Em here again. It's nice to be back on schedule! Let's hope it lasts.
I've recently gotten into lock-picking youtube because the algorithm served up a channel that Jackson had mentioned to me, LockPickingLawyer. In this channel, a pleasantly even-keeled man absolutely obliterates ...
2019-04-20 14:43:11 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the penultimate week for 0083: Stardust Memory which means only one thing: it's time to send emails in, if you have them. This is our last Email Episode until October(!) so I'm dedicating a whole description to it. If you have 0083 takes, suit rankings, or gundam questions for our journey so far then send them in to podcast@abnormalmapping.com
You have until SUNDAY.&...
2019-04-17 02:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
It’s Sunday, it’s time for the Patreon Letter! Hello, hi, I’ve missed you. This letter is going to seem like it has missed the window somewhat, it’s my contribution to a discourse that I’m fairly sure everyone is sick of but I still want to write it and I know it will come around again. That’s right, I’m going to talk about the Difficulty/Accessibility/Art...
2019-04-15 00:26:55 +0000 UTC View Post
It was only a matter of time before the content truly ran out and there was nowhere else to go. This is it. We have reached the end. There is nowhere left to go. We struggle in a desperate land as our content finally runs dry.
Here's a link to the Foldable Ideas video I mention in the episode. It is worth watching. It will make you feel very good about video games. 2019-04-12 22:36:23 +0000 UTC View Post
[ALBION GOOGLE LOG]
"How To Talk To Girls"
"How To Talk To Spacenoid Girls"
"What Do Spacenoid Girls Like"
"How To Cook Carrots"
"101 Ways To Spend Your Final Day Before Retirement"
Episode 83: Gato Is Fighting For Our Prayers
Hi everyone, Em here with a new letter after our impromptu little bit of time off. Thank you so much for your understanding, we regularly exist on the fringes of burnout because two people can only do so much, but thankfully every one of you is extremely nice so we should be back on track without any real bumps.
I've been trying to combat my exhaustion with games lately by just going back...
2019-04-08 00:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post
WHAT DO WE WANT
"Fanservice"
WHEN DO WE WANT IT
"Instead of regular worldbuilding"
Episode 82: Anaheim Electroincs Will Be At E3
2019-04-02 22:07:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Another two weeks, another Voip Life, and in this week we have a very special very dumb slice of content: we're doing a bracket of all the games we've ever covered on Abnormal Mapping. It is completely randomly seeded. I'll be putting up the results later but I'll let you all listen first.
Also I sent a note around but this episode is on the $5 tier as a apology/thank you to everyone in l...
2019-03-29 01:39:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It's true what they say. The only thing that can beat a bad guy with a Gundam is a good guy with a Gundam. And the only thing that can beat a good guy with a Gundam is Mellowlink Arity.
Episode 81: Nina Genesis Evangelion
2019-03-27 00:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the infinite skies and endless adventure of the coolest anime of the 80s as we watch the entire 26 episode run of Dirty Pair! How much chaos can two women create as they save the galaxy one job at a time? We're going to find out as we run through some of our favorite episodes of this goofy trek through the pinnacle of sci-fi anime aesthetics.
Thank you to Liv (@nolovedeeptrans)...
2019-03-22 02:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we are starting a brand new show so we have another free episode! Hello to all the new listeners! This week we're starting 0083: Stardust Memory, please enjoy an hour of our journey through all things Gundam.
If you aren't currently a subscriber then just go to the main page at patreon.com/abnormalmapping 2019-03-20 15:34:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Another fortnight passes and another Voip Life is released into the land. Our fourteen weeks of discovery hell are rapidly approaching their end, but we remain strong and busy in this final stretch.
The youtube video for our song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5bR_9LpTxc
2019-03-18 14:04:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Legend tells of a forgotten age, one score and a half ago, when there were these mobile suits known as "Gundams" and people known as "Newtypes." But that knowledge is lost now. Lost to time. On a Colony where nobody has written anything down and history has been forgotten, two new kids are thrust into a war and have to figure out which one is bad: liberal hegemony, or aristocratic race science?...
2019-03-13 18:55:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey,
Jackson here, finally getting current with the Patreon Letter. I know, I know. After last week's very sad letter about mental health it's time to be fully normal today and just talk about some things I have on my mind. Here we go.
The Dragon Prince
I've been watching the netflix cartoon The Dragon Prince this week, and it's really good. Eve...
2019-03-08 00:32:38 +0000 UTC View Post
For our final episode on War in the Pocket we are joined by special guest Austin Walker to talk about our good friends Bernie and Al, and the need for Gundam to occasionally beat its audience over the head with its themes.
Thanks so much to Austin for being on, we had a great time, and I hope everyone enjoys w...
2019-03-05 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks, Jackson here!
If you're keeping track, this is the Patreon letter I owe for my last weekend. Not this one. Where I owe another letter. Our hell peroid of a packed schedule continues, thanks everyone for being so understanding!
Anyway I don't have much to talk about. This isn't going to be the usual letter where I've watched a film or played a game and am go...
2019-02-28 23:35:39 +0000 UTC View Post
*note: there's information in this one about the patreon tiers, which aren't changing but our $20 tier is getting a bit of a refresh*
We act like a couple of grannies about drugs, grump about overwork, and then get in the weeds about the state of Disney movies. SPOILERS FOR WRECK IT RALPH 2
2019-02-28 23:32:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We smash through the second third of our War in the Pocket viewing and finally things start to happen! With our complaints about the thematic premise of the Ova out of the way it's time to enjoy how incredibly cool it is when two grizzled vets (presumably 26 and 31) stand on top of a mobile suit and throw a cigarette off in stoic preparation for their upcoming hollow sacrifice.
It's extre...
2019-02-26 13:33:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, Em here with another late one. If you're paying attention to our release schedule you'll notice that we're missing one. We know. Jackson's just been very busy and they intend to double up this weekend.
So a few weeks ago the first two volumes of Rumiko Takahashi's classic manga Urusei Yatsura got...
2019-02-26 01:59:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks, it's Voip Life! It's half a week delayed, sorry about that, but there's a reason: this episode has a lot of really dumb music content that required a bunch of editing. It's pretty good so I hope it's worth it! The next episode should be up at the regular time.
-Jackson
2019-02-20 21:33:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The Year Is 0080. And the war is not over. There's Gundams in boxes, there's kids in schools, and everyone is named something really boring like Robert Smith because Tomino is off making a movie that unfortunately isn't about Gundam Racing though it sounds like it should be.
It's time to talk about War in the Pocket
Your Name Spoilers finish at 2019-02-19 17:21:18 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for another trip to the Beach House! Everyone loves the Beach House. Today we are joined by Rick to talk about the 1990s OVA, Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Here are the Show Notes. They will make sense as you listen.
2019-02-14 21:50:19 +0000 UTC
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Happy Valentine's day! I know this letter is late, but as Jackson explained last week please expect the letters to just be late until Discovery is over. We're literally drowning in work right now, and I haven't had an actual day off since Christmas. It's been a rough go, so thank you for bearing with us as we do all the podcasts as our main priority.
There was a Nintendo direct toda...
2019-02-14 04:53:06 +0000 UTC View Post
And as quickly as it began, we come to the end of our SD Gundam journey with the final two episodes of SD Gundam Gaiden. We'll wrap back around if any of the other episodes are translated but we don't expect that to happen out of the blue. Stranger things have happened tho.
Next time we begin War in the Pocket so I hope you're all very excited for that!
Episode 75: In Amuro Clad
2019-02-12 18:02:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The summaries return!! SD Gundam brings us a four part series of half an hour episodes with characters and plots and even.... dare we say it.... themes...... Gundam is back, baby!!!!!
Episode 74: Classic Anime
2019-02-06 18:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostI used to watch The West Wing with my Dad. He introduced me to the show when I was a very lonely and unhappy teen in my first year of a screenwriting degree, who still naively thought that might be something they could and wanted to do with their life. These are the scientifically proven perfect conditions to introduce a human being to the work of Aaron Sorkin: a child’s understandin...
2019-02-06 17:39:54 +0000 UTC View Post