Hello and welcome to the Canaan Rinse podcast.

This is Volume 14, Issue 667, Ummerangi Generation.

We'll get straight into introductions.

I'm James Carter, your host.

Joining me in this issue are Jesse Fuchs.

Hello.

And Thomas Pelfeld.

This game makes me feel guilty.

We will get into that and much more.

At first, I thought it was probably worth just acknowledging that we are certainly three members of the

Canron's weird game crew, not weird in any kind of negative way, just in terms of games that

are slightly off the wall or oblique or lesser known. Ryan is a fourth member of that crew,

I would say, and he's not here, strangely. Feels like he should be. Instead,

he has recently had a, he's been published recently. A book has been released. The Fundamentals

of Video Game Literacy, and I'm going to take this opportunity and weird segue to plug that

for him. It's available on Amazon and Routledge, the publisher's website,

and is an academic text. I think it's fair to say, and I hope you would agree with that.

Yeah. And it is, on the downside, academically price, which I know Ryan's not delighted with,

but that's how it works. But because it is an academic text,

if you are or know someone who is a teacher or student in an institution, I was able to get it

free through my NYU, you know, web, whatever, on the Rutledge website as a PDF. So I started

reading it. I'm really enjoying it. I look forward to that it's definitely in my

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