ACFM Trip 25: Games

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🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Games are all around us. They let us escape from drudgery and experiment with other worlds and ways of being. But they can be traps too: apps designed to be addictive, producing only the most hollow sense of achievement. In this Trip, Nadia, Jeremy and Keir throw their polyhedral dice to explore how games shape […]

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0:00.5	Does Sonic even have a tune, Jeremy?
0:03.1	Yeah, but yeah, absolutely it does, the best.
0:04.9	Yeah, they're big students
0:06.4	Humming them
0:07.6	Ding dong dong do ding dong dong
0:10.4	Ding dong dong do ding dong
0:13.7	Ding dong dong do ding dong do ding dong
0:19.7	Video games contribute to violence in real life
0:22.6	Oh bloody
0:24.1	The only winning that one year is not true
0:28.5	to buy some of those games may not realise just how much violence they're getting.
0:33.5	Anyone who plays live-action role-playing games known as LARPS will recognise the gaming elements of QAnon.
0:39.5	The game is flawed. You're back in the game!
0:45.5	Welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.
0:49.5	I'm Nadia Idol, and today as usual I'm joined by Keir Milburn.
0:54.5	Hello.
0:55.5	And Jeremy Gilbert.
0:56.5	Hello.
0:57.5	And on this episode we are talking about games.
1:01.5	So Keir, this was your idea. Tell us a little bit about why you wanted to talk about games.
1:07.5	Well, it's partly because games have been occupying more and more of my headspace.
1:12.5	Over the last couple of years, but in particular over the last few months.
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