Bad Philosophy

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

Community has gone on hiatus! This episode Stephen gushes on its brilliance and Kevin schools him about the TV industry.

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30 Rock, ABC, American Family, American Idol, Andre the Giant, Arrested Development, Austin Powers, beer, Bosom Buddies, broadcasting, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CBS, Community, corporations, Dollhouse, Eddy Izzard, FOX, Freaks and Geeks, house of cards, How I Met Your Mother, James Spader, Kev Hamm, Kevin, Kevin Sorbo, Kevin Spacey, Martin Scorsese, Michael Williams, NBC, Neil Stephenson, Neilsen Ratings, Netflix, Parks and Rec, Party Down, Pretty in Pink, Pulp Fiction, Ron Howard, Shiner, Shutter Island, Slashfilm, Snow Crash, Stephen, structural dramaturgy, The Office, The Simpsons, The Voice, The Wire, Til Death, Tom Hanks, TV, Veronica Mars, Wallace Shawn, Whitney, Will Smith, work, Work It

Kevin, Stephen, and Jacie discuss Stephen’s new YouTube direction and the video community in general.

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A Very Potter Musical, anthropology, Ashton Kutcher, ASL, Beyond Viral, Blue Moon, Community, Cory Williams, Cyber Bullying, DailyMotion, ethnography, Glee, Google, Halloween, Halo, Jacie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jomama Jones, Kevin, Kevin Nalty, Kevin Smith, Master Pancake, Mike Wesch, Miller High Life, Neil Simon, nerdfighteria, performance, Philip DeFranco, Project for Awesome, Red State, Seinfeld, songsigning, Starkid, Stephen, Stephen King, theatre, True Lies, Tyler Perry, Vimeo, Vlog Brothers, YouTube

Kevin and Stephen critique the nature of work from first principles and rip capitalism a new one.

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benefits, Boing Boing, Bureau of Labor Statistics, bureaucracy, capitalism, Cillian Murphy, communism, corporations, corporatism, economics, education, employment, gift economy, health insurance, Hyperbole and a Half, illegal immigration, Jerry Pournelle, Joel Olsteen, Joshua Glenn, Kevin, love, MacBeth, Mark Kingwell, Marxism, migrant work, minimum wage, neo-Marxism, personal identity, price fixing, Reading Rainbow, religion, slavery, Stephen, stock options, Tales of the Golden Clipper, teachers, telepathy, Texas Roller Derby, theatre, trust, TSA, United States, value, wage slavery, wages, work