“I refute it thus!” – Samuel Johnson Hello, friendly friends! It’s been a…
Chris Durston
“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”…
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead…
“Philosophy is common sense with big words. “ – James Madison Helloooooo! It’s…
“Wasn’t it you who told me “proof is everything”? Well, I was listening. And…
“I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.”…
“I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you…
Ring Fit Adventure review by the Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage: the latest in Nintendo’s proud tradition of exercise games with odd peripherals.
Mario Strikers Charged (Wii) joins the Super Mario Multiverse for MAR10, 2020: celebrating the history, inspiration, imagination, and joy of Super Mario!
For Mario Day, we take a look at New Super Luigi U. The Year of Luigi may be over chronologically, but it’ll never end in our hearts. Luigi forever.
“One good conversation can shift the direction of change forever.” – Linda Lambert …
On this episode of Philosophiraga, Pokemon and Justified True Belief electrify the conversation. Learn more about why you know if you know, you know?
“Nothing is wrong if it makes you happy.” – Bob Marley In the…
…it’s really rather strange living in a world that blurs the line between ‘finished product available to consumers’ and ‘work in progress’.
Philosophiraga, the video games and philosophy podcast, is here.
Demo Disk is a series of first impressions posts for new releases and quick opinions….
If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer. – Yogi…
La langue n’est pas une fonction du sujet parlant, elle est le produit que l’individu…
Some geese aren’t looking for anything logical … Some geese just want to watch the world burn.
-Alfred Pennyworth [paraphrased]
“In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.”
-Giacomo Leopardi
Running an item shop is harder than most games would have you believe, especially when you’re a young girl with no business experience. In this review, The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a look at what we can learn from this sweet animesque business sim about friendship, adventure, and hardcore capitalism.
Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a single truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
-Miguel Syjuco
As I’ve grown and my life’s changed and done all those things that lives tend to do as part of the inevitable passage of time, I’ve come to love games for different reasons.
With Gordon Ramsay-like culinary expertise and barely concealed existential rage, the Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a peek at Overcooked! 2, which may or may not be as good as the first one.
Above all, video games are meant to just be one thing: Fun for everyone.
-Satoru Iwata
The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage does his best to get to grips with Cultist Simulator, but gazing too long upon the Old Ones has been known to cause loosened grips…
Is Overcooked a fun couch co-op experience about the joy of creating delicious meals, or a treatise on the inevitable descent of all things into chaos? The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage says: why not both?
