14 September 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
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
01 November 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
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
24 October 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Protesting is one of those most righteous and time-honored of human activities. Something about the simple act of getting angry, going somewhere, and shouting pithy phrases repeatedly with a group of people all holding signs appeals to our deep inner psyche. Is it the adrenaline rush of potentially getting busted by the authorities? Is it […]
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bailouts, banking, beer, economics, elections, employment, First Amendment, gender, government, Herman Cain, income tax, Marxism, Michael Moore, Occupy Wall Street, politics, protesting, public speaking, sales tax, student loans, taxes, United States, Wage Slave's Glossary, We Are the 99%
15 August 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Ever get the urge to just go out with a few friends and completely wreck your entire neighborhood, steal some crap, and set it all on fire when you’re done? No? Congratulations! You may not be among the 11,000 feral, uneducated, illiterate, uncultured under-citizens of the U.K. who took part in the country’s worst riots […]
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anarchy, causality, crime, David Cameron, determination, drugs, economics, England Riots, entitlement, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Growing Pains, harm principle, John Stuart Mill, Kevin, London, marijuana, Max Hastings, morality, paternalism, police, poverty, race relations, rational anarchy, riots, Saved By The Bell, social services, speed, Stephen, Tottenham, U-Box, UK Riots, United Kingdom, V for Vendetta, Wayne Rooney, Will Smith
31 March 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Do you like money? Sure! Have you ever asked yourself why money is valuable? Maybe. Perhaps you’ve even asked yourself how you could make money better. Well, a few years ago a guy named Satoshi Nakamoto did that and more. He invented Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer digital currency that’s taking the Interwebs by storm. Here to […]
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500 Days of Summer, alchemy, Amanda Seyfried, Android, Bitcoin, Blue Moon, Buffy Summers, Cryptonomicon, currency, cyberpunk, Darrell Duane, digital currency, Discovery Channel, Dwalla, eCache, eCash, economics, fan fiction, Federal Reserve, Gavin Andresen, Glenn Beck, gold, inflation, Jean-Luc Picard, Joseph Gorden-Levitt, Kevin, Kiki, Liberty Reserve, mining, money, Neal Stephenson, Omega Tau, p2p, Pat Robertson, PayPal, Planet Money, Ron Paul, Security Now, sex, slash fiction, Slashdot, Square, Stephen, The Internet, value, Venmo
