Trying To Be Kind

Season 9, Episode 2: Bazinga

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:34:03 -0500

Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press.

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Season 9, Episode 1: Asteroids or Whatever

Tue, 13 May 2025 21:49:26 -0500

Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press.

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Season 9, Episode 0: I Stay Noided

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:12:11 -0500

Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press.

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Season 8, Episode 3: Foucault Is In This One

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:42:46 -0600

The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.

Season 8, Episode 2: Feelings Are Facts

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:36:20 -0600

The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.

Season 8, Episode 1: Something You'd Like To Have, But Didn't Know You Wanted

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:31:49 -0600

The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.

Season 7, Episode 2: I Read Ulysses For Fun

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 13:31:16 -0500

"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design, Cole Wehrle, GDC, 2019.

Season 7, Episode 1: Manly Pride Offended

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 22:25:37 -0500

"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design, Cole Wehrle, GDC, 2019.

Season 7, Episode 0: The First TTRPG

Sun, 04 Aug 2024 20:32:52 -0500

As usual, a buffer episode to lead into the new season. In which we discuss some texts we might tackle, baseball stadiums, shame rooms, and social media.

Season 6, Episode 4: Fishsticks

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:56:34 -0500

With special guest, Sam Sorensen, author of Seas of Sand and Time After Time.

Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.

Season 6, Episode 3: According to Very Reliable Psychological Sources

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 19:23:03 -0500

There's some intermittent noise in the first few minutes of this episode, my apologies, but it clears up after a bit. Thanks for bearing with us in this difficult time.

Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.

Season 6, Episode 2: I'm Just Built Different

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:08:25 -0500

Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.

Raph Koster's Star Wars Galaxies Post-Mortem.

Season 6, Episode 1: Mixed Martial Argument

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 19:28:27 -0600

Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.

The audio is a little sketchy this episode, that's my bad. I'm aware, and I'm working on it for next time. Sorry! - Jared

Season 6, Episode 0: I’m Here, I’m Vibing

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 20:38:40 -0600

A buffer episode before we start the next season. Just three friends chatting about nothing, don't expect any big ideas. (And the audio is a little sketchy, forgive me.)

Season 5, Episode 6: Lesbians On Ice

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:34:16 -0500

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Season 5, Episode 5: Our Animal Desires

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 14:10:31 -0500

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Season 5, Episode 4: How Do You Pronounce ’Hegel’?

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:36:00 -0500

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Season 5, Episode 3: Jared’s Tinfoil Hat

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:30:09 -0500

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Season 5, Episode 2: ”Otaku Culture”

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:11:27 -0500

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Season 5, Episode 1: It’s Been A While

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 23:51:35 -0600

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Season 4, Episode 7: He Got In The Robot

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 12:11:41 -0600

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.

Season 4, Episode 6: Stunt On Your Double

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:01:24 -0500

This recording is a little noisier than normal at parts. Apologies!

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.

With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Season 4, Episode 5: Canadian Thankful

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:14:53 -0500

A casual, breezy episode, in which we don't talk about the book at all. Instead, we ask each other questions of various cruelty and reflect on the last two years of this silly podcast.

Thanks for listening! We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next month.

Season 4, Episode 4: I Suggest Therapy

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:02:19 -0500

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.

With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Season 4, Episode 3: Dong Theory

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 15:34:12 -0500

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.

With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Season 4, Episode 2: Dexterity

Sun, 03 Jul 2022 20:16:06 -0500

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.

With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Season 4, Episode 1: Religion Is Interesting To Me

Sun, 15 May 2022 19:50:50 -0500

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.

With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Season 3, Episode 2: Swamplet Johansson

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:21:39 -0500

In which we continue to discuss that time Critical Role played Monsterhearts.

With special guest Vi Huntsman of Collabs Without Permission.

Music by Kelley Mangahas and Chris Zabriskie.

Season 3, Episode 1: Critical Hearts, A Monster Role Story

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:08:34 -0600

In which we begin to discuss that time Critical Role played Monsterhearts.

With special guest Vi Huntsman of Collabs Without Permission.

Music by Kelley Mangahas.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Elusive Wrap-Up

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:24:20 -0600

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.

Music by Kelley Mangahas.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Sauna Episode

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 23:39:52 -0600

Don't worry, this episode is content free. Just taking a breather to shoot the shoot. Happy holidays!

Music by Kelley Mangahas.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Elusive Shift, The Role of the GM

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 21:45:46 -0500

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.

Music by Joshua Cerdenia and Kelley Mangahas.

Season 2, Episode 1: The Elusive Shift, Communities

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 19:07:14 -0500

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.

Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Season 2, Episode 0: The Elusive Shift

Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:35:01 -0500

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.

Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Episode 8: The Episode with a Content Warning

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:47:01 -0500

CW: Discussion of insensitive remarks made by others regarding mental health, neurotype, and disability.

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Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.

Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Episode 7: The Phenomenology of Being Ron Edwards

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 01:56:00 -0500

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.

Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Episode 6: Suffused with a Jaunty Arrow

Sun, 02 May 2021 15:47:13 -0500

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.

Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Episode 5: Hashtag Influencers

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 21:27:43 -0500

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.

https://www.across-rpgsea.com/

https://momatoes.itch.io/the-magus

https://dropbear-games.itch.io/fragments

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RPGLATAM&src=typed_query

https://metalsnail.itch.io/colouring-book-dungeons

https://dastardlydave.itch.io/eat-trash-be-free

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ming

Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod
Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys
License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Episode 4: Contrary Energy

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 20:46:56 -0600

Discussing Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.

Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod
Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua
License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Episode 3: Activate Discourse

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:23:51 -0600

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.

Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Episode 2: Implausible and Invidious

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:57:07 -0600

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.

Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Episode 1: Ethics and Dragonlance

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:48:52 -0600

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.

Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod
Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys
License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Episode 0: Forgetting the Forge

Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:21:21 -0500

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.

Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/