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We take a look at PC Gamer's Ultimate RPG Handbook, and comment on its presentation of the history and influence of the *Ultima* series. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by o --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

How do our children — or our nieces, nephews, and other young children we know — respond to classic PC and console games? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

When we were kids, at least, messing around with video games was at least as fun as playing them to pass them. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon

Let's take a look at the progress that various Ultima fan projects and Ultima-inspired projects made in 2016. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon

In which, somehow, we bring to a close this discussion of the Virtue of Spirituality and the anima technica vacua. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) It's never easy to wind down a season of Byte-Sized Virtue, especially not one --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

Deathblade Dragon chronicles his struggles with depression, fatherhood, and living according to the Eight Virtues. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) If there's one episode where we'd like to hear back from you, it's this one; De --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

How often do we miss perceiving the humanity of others around us, instead opting to distract ourselves with the fleeting and the ephemeral? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) In which the discussion with Paul comes to an --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

Where did it all start, our respective fascinations with computers and gaming consoles? What were the systems — and who were the people — along our technological journeys? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Sp --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

What is it about being human? And, more importantly, how should we respond — as humans — to other humans, simply by virtue of the fact that they're human? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) Paul and me contin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

The Spam Spam Spam Humbug crew share personal recollections of our first gaming hardware/systems. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon backers; th --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

From a spiritual standpoint, progress can be a great thing; we should hope our spiritual journey moves us toward a telos, an ultimate end. But in other senses, progress doesn't always mean that. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s)

Let's talk about game bosses. The memorable ones, the hard ones, the dumb ones...and maybe even the absent ones. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon

How do you live out the ideal of Spirituality? It might be better to ask, first, how you live in relation to — and in relationship with — others. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) My friend Paul rejoins the podcast to discu --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

Let's talk about game bosses. The memorable ones, the hard ones, the dumb ones...and maybe even the absent ones. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon

It's the difference between looking at constellations in an app, and looking at a sky full of stars. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) For those of you that follow my Scouting-themed podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

Gallara Dragon joins us to discuss the latest news about the Ultima Dragons 25th anniversary bash. And then a bunch of us disucss random things. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

Why do we still use arbitrary, numeric systems to review and rate games? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon backers; thank you to everyone who s --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

What's the best way to design a game: solidify the story first, or get the underlying tech in place and then craft a story around it? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on AndroidCo-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon

What even makes dialogue interesting in RPGs? What works, and what doesn't? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on AndroidCo-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought to you by our Patreon backers; thank you to everyone who supports Spam Spa --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message

In which we discuss voiceovers in games, how difficult they are, why it would be a bad idea to crowdsource voiceover work...and then eventually we get into crowdsourced NPC dialogue in general. Sort of. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on AndroidCo-Producers This episode of Spam S --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ssshpodcast/message