Best of the Web: Meta Filter Podcast

We discuss 2006's Game Cultures, an early and formative book of game studies by Dovey and Kennedy.Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Buy books from our Bookshop.org page!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Micha

187: Man, It's A Hot One

Aug 30th, 2022 1h 27m

Belated podcast for August, American summer is just like that. No idea what we talked about, but I know we had a good time. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Jobs Transfering faculty profiles (~150) into a new

49 – Hall – Cultural Studies 1983

Jul 29th, 2022 2h 31m

We discuss Stuart Hall's Cultural Studies 1983, published in 2016.Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Buy books from our Bookshop.org page!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Michael on Twitter.Chris Hunt created

186: Am I Being A User Right Now

Jul 5th, 2022 1h 33m

It's episode 186 of the MeFi podcast, with Jessamyn and I...and loup! Who joined us to talk a bit about their experiences with internet past and present and their last couple of years as they've been working here. The three of us have a long an

48 – Fine – Shared Fantasy

Jun 29th, 2022 2h 13m

We discuss Gary Alan Fine's foundational book Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds from 1983.Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Buy books from our Bookshop.org page!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Fo

185a: V Rising and Severance

Jun 15th, 2022 1h 1m

Random podcast bonus content! Jessamyn and I decided to do a mid-month episode to just chat about a couple media things we liked. Is it a FanFare podcast? I dunno! Will we keep doing it? I dunno! But it was fun and so here it is. We talk about

185: A very wearing my bathrobe all day day

May 31st, 2022 1h 39m

It's episode 185 of the MeFi Monthly Podcast, with Jessamyn and I talking for a good chunk up front about the whole process over the last couple months of figuring out transferring ownership of the site from me to her. We also talk about, like,

47 – White – Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge

May 31st, 2022 3h 44m

We discuss William J. White's Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, 2001-2012.Austin Walker joins us in this episode.Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Mich

184: Sentences are music

May 8th, 2022 1h 32m

I didn't edit or write this month's podcast (other than this little bit)! Thanks so much to eotvos for all his work on this; note his note at the end of the podcast about other possible contributions as well! In any case, Jessamyn and I talk ab

46 – Peterson – The Elusive Shift

Apr 28th, 2022 2h 13m

We discuss Jon Peterson's The Elusive Shift: How Role Playing Games Forged Their Identity.Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Michael on Twitter.Chris Hunt created the theme so

183: Severance, not Succession

Apr 11th, 2022 1h 35m

It was a very busy turn of the month so we're wandering in pretty late with this episode. I talk a little bit about my recent decision to transition away from running MetaFilter (but we'll, inter alia, keep podcasting); Jessamyn and I talk abou

45 – Schleiner – The Player's Power To Change the Game

Mar 31st, 2022 2h 1m

We discuss Anne-Marie Schleiner's The Player's Power To Change the Game – Ludic Mutation.Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Michael on Twitter.Chris Hunt created the theme son

182: too many trees, not enough goats

Mar 7th, 2022 1h 35m

Psst, hey kid, wanna buy a podcast? Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Misc - I've been enjoying dry British trivia show Only Connect - jessamyn watched The Sparks Brothers - move over Wordle, here comes Semant

44 – Cassidy – Vicious Games

Feb 28th, 2022 2h 14m

We discuss Rebecca Cassidy's Vicious Games: Capitalism and Gambling.Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Michael on Twitter.Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

181: Pivot Table the Calendar

Feb 4th, 2022 1h 34m

I love podcasts, woo woo woo! I love podcasts, how 'bout you? Here's episode 181, with jessamyn and I contemplating the idea of a week and a month and talking about misc. MetaFilterian stuff. Runs about 90 minutes. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Su

43 – Schüll – Addiction By Design

Jan 31st, 2022 2h 53m

We discuss Natasha Dow Schüll's Addiction By Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas.Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Michael on Twitter.Chris Hunt created the theme song for

180: Is Sunset A Local Phenomenon?

Jan 6th, 2022 1h 31m

I checked in with management and apparently we have to do a 2022 now even though we just finished wiht 2021. Jessamyn and I do our best to roll into the new year and talk about MetaFilter stuff and get in a philosophical discussion of the natur

42 – Saler – As If

Dec 31st, 2021 2h 16m

We discuss Michael Saler's As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality. Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Michael on Twitter.Chris Hunt created t

179: Calendrical Is Totally A Word

Nov 30th, 2021 1h 33m

In our triumphant return to posting podcasts at the turn of the month, Jess and I talk about time management and reminders, complicated conversational dynamics, the assassination of JFK (but only very briefly), and a bunch of somewhat more Meta

41 – Giddings – Gameworlds

Nov 30th, 2021 1h 47m

We discuss Seth Giddings' Gameworlds: Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play.Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Michael on Twitter.Chris Hunt created the theme song for th

178: Leisure Suit Larry's, Uh, Pixels

Nov 10th, 2021 1h 30m

We got a rootin' tootin' podcast here. Darn tootin'. Can you both rootin'- and darn'- something that's tootin' in the same paragraph like this? I don't know. I really don't know. I might be going to podcast jail. Before that happens, though, he

40 – Ranciere – The Ignorant Schoolmaster

Oct 27th, 2021 2h

We discuss Jacques Ranciere's The Ignorant Schoolmaster.Buy the shirt!Support this show on Patreon!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Michael on Twitter.Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

177: Good Soup

Oct 13th, 2021 1h 27m

I accidentally wrote "make a podcast" on a colander instead of the calendar, so on the downside this episode is pretty late but on the upside it has been thoroughly rinsed. Is that anything? Can we do anything with that? Anyway, here's a podcas

39 – Crogan – Gameplay Mode

Sep 30th, 2021 2h 6m

We talk about Patrick Crogan's Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture.Support this show on Patreon!Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter.Follow CMRN on Twitter.Follow Michael on Twitter.Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

176: Low-Key Podcast

Sep 2nd, 2021 1h 15m

Jessamyn and I managed to stumble our way into and through a podcast despite both having the needle pegged hard to E this afternoon, and here is recorded evidence of that fact, at about 75 minutes. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTun

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