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8 - Mass Effect 1: Shepard, the Geth, and Dangerous AI
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https://youtu.be/pclSdgXOufc
Mass Effect 1 opens the trilogy with Spectre politics and a Citadel ban on AI research. Shepard faces the…
1 year, 3 months ago
7 - Legend of Zelda: Mythopoeia, Tolkien, and the Triforce
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https://youtu.be/vU3OBUUitis
The Legend of Zelda can feel like playing Tolkien: home, adventure, and a return that leaves you looking …
1 year, 3 months ago
6 - Legend of Zelda: Triforce Virtues and the Cyclical Hero
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https://youtu.be/kuyYT_8nsiM
The Legend of Zelda keeps returning because it works like a modern mythology: a public dream of courage, …
1 year, 3 months ago
5 - Red Dead Redemption 2: Honor, Loyalty & Arthur's Redemption (feat. Master Samwise & Jeremy Kee)
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https://youtu.be/WpViR-BQwCg
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a story about honor and redemption under Dutch van der Linde's noble lie of free…
1 year, 3 months ago
4 - Red Dead Redemption 2: Arthur Morgan, Ivan Ilyich & Memento Mori
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https://youtu.be/ynV50tCh6oc
Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan and Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich both teach memento mori: facing death can…
1 year, 4 months ago
3 - SWTOR: Jedi, Sith, and the Moral Nature of MMO Gameplay
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https://youtu.be/hQmsrDFgmUE
Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) closes the Old Republic mini-series: eight fully voiced Jedi and Sith…
1 year, 4 months ago
2 - KOTOR II: Kreia, the Exile, and Killing the Force
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https://youtu.be/rXsm7IzC1Z8
Andrew, Josh, and Ian continue the Old Republic mini-series with Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith…
1 year, 4 months ago
1 - Video Games as Fairy-Stories: Tolkien and Subcreation
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https://youtu.be/lYzzMFDus9U
Can video games be more than empty amusement? Tolkien's On Fairy-Stories suggests they can: as secondary …
1 year, 5 months ago