Bookwarm Games

My friend Steve and I discuss speedruns, Blockbuster, game reviews, embodied memories of EarthBound and FF7, and virtual novels --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Dusty Dunes Desert, its caves and sesame seeds, and St-Exupery's deserts in Wind, Sand, and Stars and The Little Prince --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Saturn Valley, with its ladders, recalls Dante, Bosch, Chaucer, Goya. Look up the art and the coffee break! For more along these lines, check out Olsen's Signum U and Mythgard, Mazzotta's Yale Open Course on Dante, and the Alexander Schmid podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Jeff from Winters, his friend Tony, and Montaigne's Essay "On Friendship" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Some questions and comments from a listener, Alexander Schmid. Welcome to Threed. The circus and the cemetery. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Full disclosure: we're getting married! We discuss games like Animal Crossing, Starbound and Stardew Valley, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and the games cats play. These are two of our cats. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

And the Beatles, the Blues Brothers, and Mario Bros. Jazz, Blues, appropriation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Twoson and Happy Happy Village, the cat and the cult, playing by yourself and being played with by Montaigne's cat --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

English poets and Easter readings; stars, ideals, projections; hints about a future series on Philip Pullman. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Moving from philosophy of language towards an ethics of discourse, touching on quests and play in works such as Zelda: Majora's Mask, Undertale, and Ready Player One more here: https://watchmanzeke33.wordpress.com/ and see the youtube description of this episode for more links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zEsXQBN51Q --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

On the library, the arcade, town hall and the police station, with reference to Ikiru and The Death of Ivan Ilych and a digression on the word chortle --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

The true third-strongest episode of Bookwarm Games. With three individuals in Onett, Lier X. Agerate, the trumpet-player, and Frank, we listen to the Largo from Dvorak’s New World. And in Legends of Localization by Clyde Mandelin, we get a bio and interview on Giygas from the creator of EarthBound, Shigesato Itoi. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

On rules of the game; Ness' home and family; the sound stone and Proust's petite madeleine (pardon my French). Digression on a word: nostalgia. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Bookwarm Games 1: Welcome to EarthBound Introductories and remarks on Buzz Buzz in EarthBound and Buzz, buzz in Hamlet --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support