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Trying To Be Kind
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43 episodes
2 months ago
Mahar, Fiona, and Jared do their best to say insightful things about one book or another in the tabletop RPG space.
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Mahar, Fiona, and Jared do their best to say insightful things about one book or another in the tabletop RPG space.
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Trying To Be Kind
Season 9, Episode 2: Bazinga
Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press. ttbk dot mailbag at gmail dot com
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3 months ago
57 minutes 9 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 9, Episode 1: Asteroids or Whatever
Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press. ttbk dot mailbag at gmail dot com
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5 months ago
55 minutes 16 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 9, Episode 0: I Stay Noided
Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press. ttbk.mailbag at gmail dot com
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6 months ago
42 minutes 36 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 8, Episode 3: Foucault Is In This One
The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.
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9 months ago
1 hour 9 minutes 10 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 8, Episode 2: Feelings Are Facts
The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.
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11 months ago
59 minutes 34 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 8, Episode 1: Something You'd Like To Have, But Didn't Know You Wanted
The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.
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11 months ago
42 minutes 57 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 7, Episode 2: I Read Ulysses For Fun
"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design, Cole Wehrle, GDC, 2019.  
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1 year ago
1 hour 5 minutes 43 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 7, Episode 1: Manly Pride Offended
"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design, Cole Wehrle, GDC, 2019.  
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1 year ago
53 minutes 34 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 7, Episode 0: The First TTRPG
As usual, a buffer episode to lead into the new season. In which we discuss some texts we might tackle, baseball stadiums, shame rooms, and social media.
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1 year ago
40 minutes 35 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 6, Episode 4: Fishsticks
With special guest, Sam Sorensen, author of Seas of Sand and Time After Time. Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.
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1 year ago
1 hour 5 minutes 18 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 6, Episode 3: According to Very Reliable Psychological Sources
There's some intermittent noise in the first few minutes of this episode, my apologies, but it clears up after a bit. Thanks for bearing with us in this difficult time. Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.
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1 year ago
53 minutes 46 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 6, Episode 2: I'm Just Built Different
Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009. Raph Koster's Star Wars Galaxies Post-Mortem.
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1 year ago
1 hour 2 minutes 5 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 6, Episode 1: Mixed Martial Argument
Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.   The audio is a little sketchy this episode, that's my bad. I'm aware, and I'm working on it for next time. Sorry! - Jared
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1 year ago
1 hour 3 minutes 49 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 6, Episode 0: I’m Here, I’m Vibing
A buffer episode before we start the next season. Just three friends chatting about nothing, don't expect any big ideas. (And the audio is a little sketchy, forgive me.)
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1 year ago
57 minutes 4 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 5, Episode 6: Lesbians On Ice
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.
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2 years ago
1 hour

Trying To Be Kind
Season 5, Episode 5: Our Animal Desires
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.
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2 years ago
1 hour 2 minutes 25 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 5, Episode 4: How Do You Pronounce ’Hegel’?
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.
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2 years ago
1 hour 1 minute 28 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 5, Episode 3: Jared’s Tinfoil Hat
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.
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2 years ago
1 hour 9 minutes 30 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 5, Episode 2: ”Otaku Culture”
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.
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2 years ago
1 hour 15 minutes 46 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Season 5, Episode 1: It’s Been A While
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.
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2 years ago
50 minutes 29 seconds

Trying To Be Kind
Mahar, Fiona, and Jared do their best to say insightful things about one book or another in the tabletop RPG space.