Moving Pixels Podcast: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection in Soma

Video games and philosophy. Philosophy and video games.

Moving Pixels Podcast: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection in Soma

Small Radios Big Televisions: Small Game Short Review

Small Radios Big Televisions: Small Game Short Review

The Moving Pixels Podcast Explores A Machine for Pigs

Are pigs scary? No, not really.

There are things to like about Machine for Pigs, though.

The Moving Pixels Podcast Explores A Machine for Pigs

Zero Time Dilemma Argues for the Necessity of Trauma

Everybody hurts. Everybody cries. Everybody gets locked in a bomb shelter under the Nevada desert by a madman who forces you into a deadly game of kill-or-be-killed sometimes.

Zero Time Dilemma Argues for the Necessity of Trauma

The title song from Cohen's final album. Really amazing, I think. What has always impressed me about Cohen is how he confronts legitimate theological and spiritual issues in his work with real depth and understanding. He raises important philosophical concerns, transcending cultural influence and just focusing on that which is very, very human.

Beautiful and tragic at moments, merely brutal at others. It's hard to look away from.

(Just an fyi, hineni means, "Here I am." It's what the priest Eli told Samuel to say in response to a voice that woke him in the night, the voice of God. It is also what Abraham responds to God when asked for his commitment to his covenant, right before Abraham is then instructed to sacrifice his son Isaac to prove that commitment. Heavy stuff.)

Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016

Rarely has the Silent Generation spoken so loudly (with a tone so deep and gravelly).

Thumper Requires Only One Word to Describe It: Brutal

Minimalistic, pretty, brutal.

That's three words.

Thumper Requires Only One Word to Describe It: Brutal

The Moving Pixels Podcast Finally Gets Amnesia

It's hard to remember if Amesia is good.

The Moving Pixels Podcast Finally Gets Amnesia

a tiny world has ended