A new kind of episode!

Lighter and more current, as we talk about what we've been playing, some things we've been thinking about, and the new Left Page Book Club!

Time stamps
00:00:00 - 00:40:40 Intro + What are we watching, reading, playing
00:40:40 - 01:27:45 AI In Video Games
01:27:45 - 02: 23:45 Left Page Book Club

We deploy Critical Harvest Theory in this episode, when we ask:

What happens when we don't look critically at escapist fantasies? We then try to answer this question by looking at two video games: Stardew Valley (2015) and Citizen Sleeper (2022 & 2025)

Going into the ways of how these games create their realities and end up surviving in or attempting to sideline capitalism, which will surely go well, right? Right? That, and more, in this episode about capital, land, time and space!

Enjoy!

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Outro Music: Don't Leave! · El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. From the Album: Zareef ℗ 2006 El-Funoun

Wolfenstein is a fascinating series of games, so let's talk about the recent Machine Games' iterations.

Asking the fundamental question of how to properly kill fascism and how this game is presenting it, or not.

Enjoy!

Check out Jon's stuff: Horror Vanguard & The Haunt Blog

Morris Rosenfeld's poem In The Factory from 1914

Intro song: Machine, Machine. Nits. 2019, Werf & V2 Records

Outro song: Nazi raus. Marti Fischer. 2024, ContentView GmbH