“A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too.”
EarthBound
…it struck me on playing through this time that Paula is the only one of your four friends you don’t play as independently prior to their joining the quest.
Aristotle comes to the point where he says friendship is sort of the best model for what genuine truth-seeking and genuine ethics would look like.
Socratic is a term which gets thrown around a lot in education circles, but I still think it can be a helpful one for distinguishing a kind of philosophical ideal–a community of learners pursuing truth in honesty, sincerely, in friendship and with courage…
Serialized specially for The Well-Red Mage, based on the podcast by Wesley Schantz
Serialized specially for The Well-Red Mage, based on the podcast by Wesley Schantz
Serialized specially for The Well-Red Mage, based on the podcast by Wesley Schantz “The…
In this EarthBound episode, the idyllic vision of America, the death of innocence, the lost art of memorable NPCs, and more.
The point of me writing on this game over 25 years after its initial release is not to determine if it’s a good game or not, but rather, to spark discussion on its context in the wider setting of digital play, how its heartfelt story might resonate with players across cultures and generations, what its themes are trying to communicate.
“Always winter but never Christmas.”
-C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” -James Truslow Adams, Epic of America
