Bad Philosophy

Newcomer Adam Easterling joins Britton, Kevin, and Stephen on a leap of faith into the philosophy of Braid and many other video games.

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Achron, Adam, Braid, Brink, Britton, Citizen Kane, Commander Kean, Dallas Morning News, Dark Souls, economics, film noir, game design, Gamespot, Guild Wars 2, heaven and hell, Humble Bundle, indie games, InfoCom, Jazz Jackrabbit, Johann Sebastian Joust, John Carmack, Jonathan Blow, Joystiq, Just Cause 2, Kevin, LiMBO, Megaman, Memento, Myst, Mystery Men, Narbacular Drop, Ninja Gaiden, Papa y Yo, plants vs zombies, PlayStation Move, Portal, Prince of Persia, Project Greenlight, QuakeCon, Quantum Conundrum, Retro Computing Roundtable, Riven, SimCity 2000, Skyrim, Spec Ops: The Line, Steam, Stephen, storytelling, Super Mario 3D Land, Tag, The Sixth Sense, The Walking Dead, time, Uncharted, University of Texas, video games, Wolfenstein, Zork

One of BF’s largest panels ever dives into the moral choices in contemporary video games like The Old Republic and Skyrim.

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2012 Election, 2012 Olympics, Aaron Sorkin, Arrested Development, beer pong, Beyond Good and Evil, Blackberry, Britton, consequentialism, darts, debate, deontology, dreidel, ethics, Fatal Frame, GameBoy, games, golf, Humble Bundle, Jedi, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Kiki, Kindle, Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR, Laughing Squid, law, Major League Dreidel, masturbation, Microsoft, Mists of Pandaria, MMORPG, morality, Pokemon, Pokemon Snap, Quidditch, racism, Runescape, Simon, Sith, Skyrim, soccer, sports, Sports Night, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Stephen, storytelling, video games, witches, World of Warcraft, WoW

Conventions! In the geek world the idea of them is synonymous with sleepless nights, smelly hallways, and unforgettable times with friends and strangers. Recently a few of us got to experience such an adventure, Kevin Saunders at San Diego Comic Con and me, Britton Peele (of the Dallas Morning News), and Tim Poon (of Platform […]

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Angry Birds, Bawls, BioShock, BioWare, Britton, caffeine, casual gaming, Daily Toreador, Dishonored, Dumb and Dumber, games, Gamespot, gaming, Half-Life 2, Harvey Smith, Id Software, IKV Stranglehold, Inception, John Carmack, Kevin, LA Noir, League of Legends, Mario, Marty Stratton, Mass Effect 2, Master Pancake Theater, NES, Nintendo, Oblivion, Peggle, pizza, plants vs zombies, Platform Nation, Pop Tarts, Portal 2, QuakeCon, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC, Skyrim, Starcraft 2, Stephen, Team Fortress 2, Tetris, Thief, Tim, Tribes: Ascend, Twilight, Ventrilo, Victor Antonov, Waldo, Wii, Wilford Brimley

Tragedy struck the podcast this past week. As Kevin Saunders departed for his trip to Prague, the plane encountered unusually heavy turbulance over a remote region of the South Pacific (why the pilot was flying over the Pacific to get to Eastern Europe is perhaps an even greater mystery). Kevin’s plane and all aboard crash […]

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Babylon 5, Bonanza, Britton, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Cloverfield, Daily Toreador, David Hume, Dharma Initiative, dreams, Fringe, good and evil, Harry Potter, heaven, hell, Hinduism, Jimmy Kimmel, John Locke, Kevin, LOST, purgatory, reality, religion, religious pluralism, samaras, Stephen, the Force, The Sixth Sense, time travel, TV Tropes, Twitter, Voyager, writing