Podcasts by Not Just A Game
The dynamic duo behind PAX East’s most popular talk about chickens ever brings you Not Just A Game! Dr. Catherine Flick, a gamer and video games and social impact researcher, and Dr. Tyr Fothergill, a paleopathologist and archaeogamer, talk about the video games they’ve been playing. Sometimes there are special guests!
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Episode 23: Quitting from 2020-12-06T20:31:13
In which we discuss how, when, where, and why we might quit a game. It turns out we’ve both quit a lot of games for lots of different reasons! Tyr spins this into a beautiful archaeological metapho...
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Episode 22: Antiquarianism from 2020-10-11T22:22:22
In which Tyr, an archaeologist, discusses the Antiquarians Guild in Elder Scrolls Online with Catherine, who is not an archaeologist. Also: Baldur’s Gate 3, a crying baby, Hades, and why crunch suc...
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Episode 21: Black Lives Matter from 2020-08-17T21:34:51
Black Lives Matter. So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo Black Game Developers. Hire them. Buy their stuff. Never Alone. Games by Black creators: https://radmagpie.org/blog/2020/2/6/support...
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Episode 20: Travel from 2020-07-21T13:38:25
We’re back! No I can’t quite believe it either! Anyway, we are talking about travel in this episode. It’s very exciting. Also, I’ve had a baby (he’s now 1, and absolutely adorable), and Tyr has mov...
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Episode 19 Capital O Opinions from 2019-02-16T11:20:10
In this episode, Tyr and Catherine have opinions. No, we have Opinions. Capital O Opinions. Some of them are probably unpopular. Some of them we would defend with our lives. (Maybe.) Bad words are ...
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Episode 18: Obra Dinn from 2019-02-01T17:07:29
We’re back! In this episode, Tyr and Catherine play The Return of the Obra Dinn, and talk about it! Spoilers: It’s a very good game. Like our stuff? Please support us on our Patreon!
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Episode 17: It’s beginning to look a lot like Saturnalia! from 2018-11-27T17:19:06
In this episode we talk holidays! Why do we have certain holidays in games, and not others? Why is Christmas in games not quite Christmas, but a weird pagan version of Christmas? Is it only because...
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Episode 16: Let’s Talk about Pets! from 2018-11-09T16:50:54
In this episode we talk about pets! Particularly Fortnite Pets, being both dragon experts and not Fortnite players at all. We may or may not sing silly on-topic songs. We discuss taking cute things...
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Episode 15: Augmented Reality and social norms–with Andrew Adams from 2018-10-26T16:05:42
In which Catherine and Tyr wrangle another fascinating victim special guest at ETHICOMP 2018, Prof. Andrew Adams, to talk about Pokémon Go and augmented reality games more generally. (Yes, another ...
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Episode 14: Twinkle Ponies–with Erica Neely on Ethics of Lootboxes from 2018-10-13T09:40:58
Hello! In this episode I have to apologise for the sound quality; we were recording at ETHICOMP 2018 in Sopot, Poland and the room was a bit more echoey than expected (and noisier) and apparently I...
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