Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 8 – Virtues and Anti-Virtues, Sheep and Goats
Ultima doesn’t adequately represent all of the opposition that exists to each Virtue. Not that it handles anti-virtue badly…it just handles it incompletely.
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Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Now Available on the Google Play Podcast Portal
Spam Spam Spam Humbug is now available on Google Play’s podcast portal.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 40 – The Ageing Gamer II
Gone are the days when we could play games at whim, for what duration pleased us. How, as gamers, do we deal with changes in the gaming industry?
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 7 – Virtue and Pharisees and Laws, Oh My!
In which we take a look at the origins of the Eight Virtues of Ultima lore, and discuss the intersection of virtue and law.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 39 – The Ageing Gamer
Gone are the days when we could play games at whim, for what duration pleased us. How, as gamers, do we deal with getting older and having less time for our passtime?
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 6 – Love, Compassion, and Mercy
The Ultima series depicts love in a very philosophically interesting way, one which is very much in line with real-world ideals of mercy.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 5 – It’s Oddly Fitting to Discuss Violence During Holy Week
In which we wrap up the discussion with Paul and look at violence in a real-world context.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 38 – RPG Stories
Stories in RPGs…what makes them good, and are they even necessary?
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 4 – Gameplay, Violence, and VR
What starts as a discussion about story and gameplay mechanics morphs into discussion of the depiction of violence in video games, and how violence might end up being depicted in VR.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 3 – What If All the Starbucks Closed?
Is post-secondary education all it’s cracked up to be? Is STEM education the be-all and end-all of education? Why can’t China make ball-point pens?
