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
30 December 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
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
14 December 2010
By KevSaund
In Uncategorized
I don’t normally use this forum to review products, but I’m making an exception based on a tweet by Gordon McAlpin (@gmcalpin.) He was lamenting the number of review copies sent out of his recent book release of the first collection of strips for his webcomic Multiplex (www.multiplexcomic.com) The book is called Multiplex: Enjoy your [...]
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comic, FOX News, Kevin, Left 4 Dead, Multiplex, review, video games, webcomic, zombies
25 May 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
It was supposed to be the wave of the future, so what happened? Why aren’t we all living in holodecks already? And where’s my virtual haircut? We’ll try to answer all this and more before the singularity hits, so strap in and have a listen!
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Apple, Cisco Telepresence, Cory Doctorow, Crysis, Dark Forces, Disney, Dolby, Dollhouse, Dungeons and Dragons, eBooks, Facebook, good and evil, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, holodeck, holophonics, home automation, Jediah, Jonathan Coulton, Kevin, Kindle, Matt, Michael Crichton, military, MMORPGs, Neal Stephenson, Nintendo, Ray Kurzweil, Second Life, simulation, singularity, Star Trek, Stephen, technology, theatre, Twitter, video games, Virtual Boy, virtual reality, Wario, Wii, Wikipedia, World of Warcraft, XKCD
19 February 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
When a man and a woman love each other very much… they listen to Bad Philosophy together! This week neither panelist woes nor audio troubles nor the relentless Lubbock wind could keep us from recording BF. Numero Uno fanboy Jed brought Danielle, a [female] friend from Colorado, onto the show to talk about BABIES. You [...]
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adoption, babies, bureaucracy, cell phones, child support, children, college, Colorado, Cricket, Danielle, destiny, determinism, Digital TV Transition, education, electromagnetic spectrum, ethics, fate, FCC, free will, government, GRE, He's Just Not That Into You, high school, India, Jed, Kevin, love, Lubbock, mafia, mathematics, maturity, Mrs. Baird's, New Year's resolutions, non sequitur, pregnancy, romance, sex, Slumdog Millionaire, smoking, socioeconomic status, standardized testing, Stephen, TAAS, TAKS, Texas Tech University, thermodynamics, Valentine's Day, video games, water, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire