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How Ultima presents the Virtue of Honor (e.g. in the Gypsy questions) often fails to align with how Honor is defined in Ultima lore. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic This week's reflection was inspired, most directly, by a comment from

Have we been doing this for two years already? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon backers; thank you to everyone who supports Spam Spam Spam

On the importance of forgiveness...and of admitting fault. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic Spurred on by this touching, very reflective art

In which we discuss The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and how it hearkens back, in its own way, to Ultima 6. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon

Paradoxically, it's often easier to be virtuous when it comes to the big things, and much more difficult to be virtuous in the little, private details. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) This is partly a follow-up to last week's episode,

Let's talk about game music - the great, and the forgettable. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon backers; thank you to everyone who supports

Virtue is an interior disposition to do the good...but what if you don't always perceive that interior call? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) The liturgical season of Lent began last week with Ash Wednesday

For lack of any decided-upon topic, we instead talk about random bits of gaming news...notably, the Nintendo Switch and Mass Effect: Andromeda. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to y

A long-overdue interview with Zedex Dragon, the creator of U3.5: Pax Britannia. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon backers; thank you to everyon

The community and the judges have cast their votes; let's now reveal which Ultima fan project has been voted Fan Project of the Year for 2016! Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to yo

We take a look at PC Gamer's Ultimate RPG Handbook, and comment on its presentation of the history and influence of the *Ultima* series. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by o

How do our children — or our nieces, nephews, and other young children we know — respond to classic PC and console games? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our

When we were kids, at least, messing around with video games was at least as fun as playing them to pass them. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon

Let's take a look at the progress that various Ultima fan projects and Ultima-inspired projects made in 2016. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon

In which, somehow, we bring to a close this discussion of the Virtue of Spirituality and the anima technica vacua. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) It's never easy to wind down a season of Byte-Sized Virtue , especially not one

Deathblade Dragon chronicles his struggles with depression, fatherhood, and living according to the Eight Virtues. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) If there's one episode where we'd like to hear back from you, it's this one; De

How often do we miss perceiving the humanity of others around us, instead opting to distract ourselves with the fleeting and the ephemeral? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) In which the discussion with Paul comes to an

Where did it all start, our respective fascinations with computers and gaming consoles? What were the systems — and who were the people — along our technological journeys? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Sp

What is it about being human? And, more importantly, how should we respond — as humans — to other humans, simply by virtue of the fact that they're human? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) Paul and me contin

The Spam Spam Spam Humbug crew share personal recollections of our first gaming hardware/systems. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon backers; th

From a spiritual standpoint, progress can be a great thing; we should hope our spiritual journey moves us toward a telos, an ultimate end. But in other senses, progress doesn't always mean that. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s)

Let's talk about game bosses. The memorable ones, the hard ones, the dumb ones...and maybe even the absent ones. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon

How do you live out the ideal of Spirituality? It might be better to ask, first, how you live in relation to — and in relationship with — others. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) My friend Paul rejoins the podcast to discu

Let's talk about game bosses. The memorable ones, the hard ones, the dumb ones...and maybe even the absent ones. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon

It's the difference between looking at constellations in an app, and looking at a sky full of stars. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) For those of you that follow my Scouting-themed podcast