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Day 46: Those Bombas, tho

March 9, 2017 phillrealtalk

Not long ago, I decided to take a chance on some quasi-pricey socks after seeing numerous Facebook targeted ads for Bombas. No one paid me for this review or anything– I’m just a dude who[…]

Day 45: The real Game of Thrones

March 9, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

“When you play the game of thrones you win or you die.” -Cersei Lannister, to Ned Stark, season one of Game of Thrones (or somewhere in the first book) My friend/boss/mentor/totem spirit Glenn Platt recently made[…]

Day 44: The Simplistic Narrative Joy of Pro Wrestling

March 7, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

“That’s it. You (long pause) just made the List!” -Chris Jericho, on just about any WWE Raw in late 2016-early 2017 As far back as I can remember, I was a wrestling fan. I can[…]

Day 43: Teaching Character development

March 6, 2017 phillPedagogy

I’m going to do a little twofer today. I need to do a longer explanation of one of my assignments for my Writing for Games class, and I also wanted to talk a bit about[…]

Day 42: Mine!

March 5, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

“Don’t touch that. That’s mine!” -Larfleeze, the Orange Lantern from Green Lantern Earlier this week I wrote about the fact that Native American cultures, generally speaking, didn’t have the sense of ownership that Westerners have.[…]

Day 41: the Wolverine as metaphor

March 5, 2017 phillPop Culture

“I’ve hurt people.” -Logan, from Logan Julie and I went to see Logan tonight. I won’t spoil it, but it was a good film, easily the best non-Deadpool Marvel mutant film by a long shot. Other than[…]

Day 40: What you put in

March 4, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I’m exhausted from a long day (started awesome, though, as my amazing wife Julie got me a Nintendo Switch). I’ve been reflecting on one of my frequent refrains as a teacher. It seems far more[…]

Day 39: D&D part II: The 5 Players that Will Cross Your Path

March 3, 2017 phillDungeonsandDragons

Yesterday I pecked out a quick reflection on five types of DMs I’ve encountered in my time playing and studying D&D. To follow up, I want to reflect on the types of players I’ve seen.[…]

Day 38: the 5 DMs you meet in heaven

March 2, 2017 phillDungeonsandDragons

I will be describing these in more detail over the next several days in what I’m going to call a brief Dungeons & Dragons series. For now, my theory on the five types of Dungeon[…]

Day 37: Circles and Arrivals or 100 Ways to look at 1 thing

February 28, 2017 phillUncategorized

If you didn’t see Arrival, or you were lost, read this helpful Wikipedia entry on linguistic determinism. It’ll help with what I’m about to do here. So in Arrival, learning the heptapod language allows our[…]