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Symposium: Marvel’s Midnight Suns, 1 February 2024
We’ll return to the genre-bending Marvel’s Midnight Suns for this month’s symposium, in large part because I have to get ready to give a talk about it in the middle of March and I’d like to gauge symposiasts responses to … Continue reading
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Symposium, November 2nd – Frostpunk
The survivalism at the heart of 11 Bit’s Frostpunk is far from a triumphant indulgence of rugged individualism. Cold and desperate, the settlers that collectively attempt to forge a New London in the midst of an unthinkable blizzard are confronted … Continue reading
Symposium 7 September 2023: Bastion
From Captain Quasar, who’ll moderate our discussion. While the other members of the initiative have their nostalgic games that reminded them of a certain era, a la Mario or Mega Man, I had Supergiant Games’ Bastion, released in 2011. It … Continue reading
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Symposium, 3 August 2023: Marvel’s Midnight Suns
The question I keep coming back to as I try to get to the end of my apparently endlessly ongoing playthrough of Marvel’s Midnight Suns is, alas, probably going to sound boring at best and trivial at worst, but I … Continue reading
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Symposium, May 4th – Against the Storm
The magic word for so many descriptions and writeups of Against the Storm is “roguelite” – even the game’s developer can’t resist using the term when asked to describe their work in this city-builder. If we push ourselves to escape … Continue reading
Symposium: Vampire Survivors, March 2, 2023
This month, we’re discussing Vampire Survivors, with Ariel leading the discussion. Some questions that Ariel proposes to discuss: We’re meeting at 8:30pm EST / 7:30pm CST / 5:30pm PST, voice chat over Discord.
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Symposium 2 February 2023: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game (redux)
For this month’s symposium, I’d like to revisit LOTRTCG through the lens of our experiences playing it over the last few months. In particular, how does the experience of playing a cooperative adventure card game influence our understanding of any … Continue reading
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Gaming Session: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, April 14, 2022
Our LotR game fell through last Thursday, so we’ll try again this Thursday. (Voice chat over Discord at 8:30pm EDT / 7:30pm CDT / 5:30pm PDT, game play on DragnCards.)
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Gaming Session: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, April 7, 2022
We made it partway through the second Moria mission on Thursday, ending with a glorious defeat of a cave troll; we’ll continue our quest this coming Thursday as well. (Voice chat over Discord at 8:30pm EDT / 7:30pm CDT / … Continue reading
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Gaming Session: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, March 31, 2022
We’re continuing our exploration of Moria in the Lord of the Rings card game. Thursday at 8:30pm EST / 7:30pm CST / 5:30pm PST, voice chat over Discord, gameplay on DragnCards.
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