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We Talked About The Last Jedi

The holidays have really messed up our schedule, but we took out some time to talk about The Last Jedi. Do you want to know what we thought of it? Listen to what we thought about it!

We're ...

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January 2018 Podcast

Hello! Thank you for supporting this podcast and us. We got together to talk about the things that we liked in 2017. It's a fun time! We talk about a lot of stuff, and there's no list because it's a S...

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December 2017 Podcast

I FORGOT TO WRITE DOWN THE DISCUSSION TOPICS THIS TIME.

WE SPEND A LONG TIME TALKING ABOUT DESTINY 2.

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December 2017 Newsletter

 This is our new newsletter. Are you excited to read it?

Sorry for the long delay! The holidays delayed us a little, but I promise that it’s worth it. 

CMRN’s Part

I’ve r...

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November 2017 Newsletter

Hello!

CMRN here. I have had one of the busiest months in my entire life! So I don't have much Excellent Newsletter Content for you. Luckily, Danni has a great review for you below. I will give you ...

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November 2017 Podcast

We talk about:

DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN NEW TRAILER

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October 2017 Podcast

I forgot to write down all the things we talk about! Here are some I remember:

PUMPKINHEAD
IT
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
DRIZZT DOURDEN
FIRST LAW TRILOGY
THE STEEL REMAINS
SHADOWRUN ...

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October 2017 Newsletter

 

Hello! Here is this month’s newsletter!

10 Quick Names for NPCs in your Tabletop Game

1. Pem Glenwing
2. Score “Hammer” Mantle
3. Parity-With-Scorn He...

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September 2017 Podcast

Wow! This is the first Ranged Touch podcast. A sampling of stuff that we talk about is below: 

To the Finland Station
The Dark Elf Trilogy
Lucifer comics + Sandman comics
The Unwritten...

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September 2017 Newsletter

 

Hello! Here is this month’s newsletter.

Four NPCs for Any Inn

1. Pepper the Golden Elf

You see an elf of medium height who appears to be ...

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May 2017

Hello all!

I hope that you are doing well. I've just posted the May essays, one on the video game Pool Nation and the other on a collection of science fiction biographies, and I think those will be ...

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On Hell's Cartographers

I stumbled on Hell's Cartographers in the strangest way. I was looking for some book about speculation, and I discovered th...

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On Pool Nation

I've never been a "pool person." I've played it a few times, for sure, and recently I probably played a dozen games of it over the course of a three day period. Pool has the same mystery for me that b...

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April 2017

Whoa! Last month was probably one of the most busy of the last few years of my life! I got married! I traveled to various places! I didn't get as much work done as I would like!

That also means that...

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On Battlefield 1's Storytelling Method

 

I've slowly (very slowly) been working my way through Battlefield 1's campaign over the past couple weeks after having exclusively playing its multiplayer mode in the past, and I hav...

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March 2017

Wow! Thanks for bearing with me over the past couple days -- I've been profoundly busy, and it took me an extra couple days to polish off the essays for this month.

The $3 essay is on a mission in <...

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On Eye in the Sky (1957)

 

Eye in the Sky is a Philip K. Dick novel about worlds. Like much of Dick's fiction, the novel is concerned about how we come to know the conditions of the world around us. Eye View Post

On Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's "One Shot, One Kill"

 

I've recently been making my way (slowly) through the "remaster" of Modern Warfare. It's a weird romp of a time, and one gets the feeling while playing through it that there were two...

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February 2017

Whoa hell I have been profoundly busy, but things are trucking here on the Patreon. Last month's posts went up today (I foolishly messed up my calendar).

The $3 post is about Crusader Kings II and w...

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The Shining and the Annihilated Face

I recently re-read The Shining after reading Doctor Sleep, and I wa...

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Crusader Kings 2 and the Gritty Past

 

I've taken a deep dive into Crusader Kings 2 for an article that I'm working on, and I've been way into trying to unite the Kingdom of Wales into a powerhouse of violence an...

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The Technics of the Contemporary Funeral

 

Roger Caillois is mostly known in game studies as the guy who created  the typology of games. Within his four types, each resting on a scale  of pure play to pure rules, he created ...

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Bad Affect as Game Design, Or It Feels Good For Overwatch To Feel Bad

 

There's a lot of talk in game design about how to make people feel things.

For  the Skinner Box people, the ones who are trying to psychologically dial  in exactly how good it...

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September 2016

Hello!

I've been so incredibly busy this past month! Danni and I have been making more View Post

August 2016

Hello!

I hope that all of you are doing well. Sorry for the delay on this post -- I am in the middle of reading for the comprehensive exams of my PhD, and I have been jam-packed with things to do fo...

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July 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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July 2016

Wow! Hello! 

It's been a weird early summer for me, and there wasn't an update last month! Oh no! But in reality that is a-okay. You can watch this video I made about the design of Overwatc...

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June 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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May 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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May 2016

Hello everyone!

Player/Knowledge is a little late this month due to some unforeseen problems, but we're back with a shorter video that goes into some small pieces of Hitman Absolution that I thi...

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