Your nice hosts bring deep topics to the clubhouse this week! Listen in as Stephen forgets the name of the Uncharted lead character (but remembers the voice actor), Ellen brings up Mass Effect many, many times and Mark describes more interesting tidbits about Widget Satchel's development.

Serious Play Conference
LumbearJack
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YouTube
Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer
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Steam
Max's award!
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Twitter
Reed the Robotanist
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Steam
Here's a CableACE award.

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Parasocial Relationships

Parasocial Interaction

Wikipedia

“The Player’s Parasocial Interaction with Digital Entities”

Katrine Kavli

IT University in Copenhagen

“Is It Weird for Adults to Have Imaginary Friends?”

Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth

No Stupid Questions

“Tragic but true: how podcasters replaced our real friends”

Rachel Aroesti

The Guardian

0:45:21

Narrative Pacing

"Kurt Vonnegut on the 8 'shapes' of stories"

Stephen Johnson

Big Think