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Day 166: How it's all about story and what stories can do or Phill watches Julie watch Wrestling

July 8, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I’m an unapologetic wrestling fan. I almost wrote one of my major research projects on wrestling, but let’s all be honest here, it’s tough enough being the non-white guy who does games work. I was[…]

Day 165: My Earliest Memory

July 6, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

My earliest memory is of lying in a crib, watching a spider descend on a single thin strand, feeling its legs on my cheek, then feeling a warm, piercing sting. I can’t possibly really remember[…]

Day 164: Returning to an old core argument

July 6, 2017 phillgames

My friend Sam Blackmon posted this link on Facebook today. The article is well written, and it’s important. I applaud. I also want to use it as jumping on point for something that has become[…]

Day 163: FREEEEEEEEDOM

July 4, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

It’s the 4th of July. I’ve managed to keep myself blogging for almost a half-a-year (the midpoint will come this month). It’s been a good ride. Julie asked me last night how it feels to[…]

Day 162: Doing your Best

July 4, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Julie asked me a hard question today. More on that in a second. First, for anyone who hasn’t gleaned it from reading my posts here, I am a person who walks looking into the light[…]

Day 161: Why I sometimes seem a little at-odds with my discipline

July 3, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I have walked in a lightly defined circle around some of these issues in the past, but I was thinking today it might be worthwhile to lay this down in a post, sort of get[…]

Day 160: Understanding the Game: Some Video Game Theory to Help Understand Current Events

July 1, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

A weird tangent: Julie and I have started watching the OA on Netflix. We’re late, I know, to the party. Evs. We were discussing it during breakfast today (we’re on episode 3– not far in).[…]

Day 159: This NRA ad that is making the rounds and the rhetoric of violence

July 1, 2017 phillUncategorized

If you have any friends who are politically active in either direction, you’ve probably already seen this. If you’re having trouble cutting through the careful (ha, I made a funny) rhetoric, let me translate it[…]

Day 158: A hard day's work

June 30, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Today I spent my entire day– 12 hours straight– in the Esports Arena on campus. I lugged tables, I cleaned, I helped install new tables, I built things, I ran lights. I had some help,[…]

Day 157: Truths about Academic Work

June 28, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Julie posted this today on ye ol’ Facebook. If you read here regularly, you won’t be surprised to see that I chose to use it as a springboard today. I’ve talked at length about my[…]