Attention Elsewhere

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No medium is off limits. Everything is worth our attention. On their podcast, Alasdair & Eli spotlight overlooked, underappreciated, and/or up-and-coming entertainment media, folding in external research to develop a deeper understanding of each piece.

Zhang Jing's persona poses with the characters from her various manhua, including Ah Jiu and Yu Ji
Ah Jiu holds an open umbrella over Princess Yu Ji's head.
"There is an interesting distinction between what the actual professional military people want out of these games and what they find successful in them, and the kinds of things that hobbyists pursue in wargames."
Signalis' Falke awakens from one dream to another... Ready to kill and replace Elster
Adler shoves Elster into an elevator shaft
Adler looking relatively normal, other than the big-ass knife through his eye
A propaganda poster found in the world of Signalis. It shows a FKLR (Falke) unit holding a Eusan flag (which looks *very* similar to that of Soviet-controlled East Germany (or the German Democratic Republic).
Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel) by Arnold Böcklin (1880)
Elster, assuming the role of Dale Cooper, talks into a microphone: "Ariane, cycle 3000. Entering S-23 Sierpinsky."
A STAR unit from rose-engine's survival horror game Signalis says, "...an Elster unit?"
A copy of Robert W. Chambers' 'The King in Yellow' found within the world of rose-engine's Signalis
The replika unit Elster stands at the bottom of a red pit. The stairs behind her lead up to the snow-covered surface, while a hole in the wall leads deeper into the facility.
The all-seeing eye of Attention Elsewhere spots Elster and Ariane from Signalis creeping through Mordor(?)
Taken from the Wikipedia article on the Derg, the military junta that ruled over Ethiopia and parts of Eritrea from 1974 to 1991: "Ethiopian army soldiers rally in support of the Derg; many of them holding advocacy manifestos of the regime."
Another cover of "Oromay," this time showing the silhouettes of a two people in front of a tall peak.
Photo of Oromay's author, Baalu Girma.
The cover of the first, official English translation of Baalu Girma's "Oromay." It shows a woman posed in front of the silhouette of a soldier.