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Mr Schmid (on anchor and on facebook: search his name and/or The History of Western Thought) and I discuss play and competition, science and magic, and IQ in EarthBound and here at home. Apologies for a couple of audio outages due to psychic attacks.

Everdred's haiku and Welcome to Moonside--examining Bogost's Play Anything and Huizinga's Homo Ludens, with a brief detour through postmodernism as characterized in McGilchrist's Master and His Emissary before we're rescued from the Clumsy Robot by the Runaway Five

Venturing across the bridge with Jacques Maritain and Heidegger, Hart Crane and Walt Whitman, amassing the fragments of the fourfold in Fourside.

My friend Steve and I discuss speedruns, Blockbuster, game reviews, embodied memories of EarthBound and FF7, and virtual novels

Dusty Dunes Desert, its caves and sesame seeds, and St-Exupery's deserts in Wind, Sand, and Stars and The Little Prince

Saturn Valley, with its ladders, recalls Dante, Bosch, Chaucer, Goya. Look up the art and the coffee break! For more along these lines, check out Olsen's Signum U and Mythgard, Mazzotta's Yale Open Course on Dante, and the Alexander Schmid podcast.

Jeff from Winters, his friend Tony, and Montaigne's Essay "On Friendship"

Some questions and comments from a listener, Alexander Schmid. Welcome to Threed. The circus and the cemetery.

Full disclosure: we're getting married! We discuss games like Animal Crossing, Starbound and Stardew Valley, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and the games cats play. These are two of our cats.

And the Beatles, the Blues Brothers, and Mario Bros. Jazz, Blues, appropriation.

Twoson and Happy Happy Village, the cat and the cult, playing by yourself and being played with by Montaigne's cat

English poets and Easter readings; stars, ideals, projections; hints about a future series on Philip Pullman.

Moving from philosophy of language towards an ethics of discourse, touching on quests and play in works such as Zelda: Majora's Mask, Undertale, and Ready Player One more here: https://watchmanzeke33.wordpress.com/ and see the youtube description of this episode for more links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zEsXQBN51Q

On the library, the arcade, town hall and the police station, with reference to Ikiru and The Death of Ivan Ilych and a digression on the word chortle

The true third-strongest episode of Bookwarm Games. With three individuals in Onett, Lier X. Agerate, the trumpet-player, and Frank, we listen to the Largo from Dvorak’s New World. And in Legends of Localization by Clyde Mandelin, we get a bio and interview on Giygas from the creator of EarthBound, Shigesato Itoi.

On rules of the game; Ness' home and family; the sound stone and Proust's petite madeleine (pardon my French). Digression on a word: nostalgia.

Introductories and remarks on Buzz Buzz in EarthBound and Buzz, buzz in Hamlet. See the course page to learn more. Thanks for listening, sharing, or lending your support .