Soma’s AI Horror Story Is Even More Relevant Today

Episode 317

13th August 2026

The Triple Click gang talks about SOMA, the 2015 sci-fi horror game that tells a riveting story about brain scans. They talk about the game’s strengths (the story!) and the flaws (the voice acting…) as they prepare to send their consciousnesses into space. One More Thing: Kirk: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Maddy: Savant-Garde (podcast) Jason: Heather (Caitlin […]

Episode notes

The Triple Click gang talks about SOMA, the 2015 sci-fi horror game that tells a riveting story about brain scans. They talk about the game’s strengths (the story!) and the flaws (the voice acting…) as they prepare to send their consciousnesses into space.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Maddy: Savant-Garde (podcast)

Jason: Heather (Caitlin Mullen)

LINKS:

A recent (fairly harrowing!) WSJ article about the “jury duty” scam

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