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Emotive Pixels — Marginalia on Videogames

Author: Nate, Craig, Will, and sometimes Pauly

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A one-game-at-a-time deep dive podcast where we treat videogames like texts worth reading closely. Each episode, we pick a game, spoil its story, and dig into it the way you would with a book club—except we’re usually reading an academic book alongside it and using it as a lens for discussion. Season 5 focuses on AAA games and what that label actually means in practice. Friendly to listeners who haven’t played the games, but unapologetically spoil-heavy and discussion-driven.
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Three white guys find themselves wanting more Blackness from a story that is definitely trying.
We decide to start a series with its eighth entry, and find surprising life circumstance relevance. Nate gameworms David Chapman's "Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity".
We, as gamers, conflate labor and free time. But more importantly, we explore another chapter of Will.Wasting Time: Human Idleness and Durational Mechanics in Idle Games, Liam Kelly, Game Studies, volume 26 issue 1
We explore the empty procedural rhetoric of changing Eve's clothes, and probe if we have *feelings* about the matter. We also cover two books, Elise Hu's "Flawless" and "Practicing Feminism in South Korea: The women's movement against sexual violence" by Kyungja Jung.
We find more in common between two seemingly different tiers of 2024 games than we expected, generating questions about interactivity and polish.
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