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SocraTetris Classic

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Gold Years of SocraTetris - 2021 to 2026

156 Lessons

Bad Dinners & Existential Crisis - Slay The Princess (ft. @KatieandCatburger)

There is No Borderlands Without Friends

Sword of the Sea Hits Different

Climbing Games Have Changed

If You Hate Your Job... Play This Game - Death's Door

How to Design a PUNISHING Game

SilkSong's "Bloodborne Problem"

What Even Was Slay The Princess?

The WORST Way to Analyze a Game

Elden Ring & "Jolly Cooperation"

Elden Ring: A Story in Seasons

Best DAD in Video Games?

Comparison is the Death of Joy

Open Worlds that Truly Live

The UNKNOWN Gaming Genre You Already Love

Tabletop Aesthetics: Voice of Cards

Playing All Difficulties At Once

Rejecting the God of War: Ragnarok

Tora no Hideo Kojima & Memes

ReWriting Past Wrongs - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The Elder Scrolls is Final Fantasy, Actually

All Video Games Are RPGs

Can A Dialogue System Feel "Organic"?

Social Link Shortcuts - Tales of Arise

Is Vampire Survivors a Video Game?

Is Flow Harmful Game Design?

What Happens When Gamers Can't Consent?

Can Gamers Consent To Be Harmed?

Is Video Game Gambling Bad?

Golden Order: Christendom in Elden Ring

Cold Nihilism: Elden Ring's Dark Moon

Burning Gnosticism: Elden Ring's Frenzied Flame

Manifest Destiny: Elden Lord of Blood

Dead Men Tell Tall Tales - ft. Sting

Video Game Demos - Standalone or Integrated?

How I Became a Soulslike Boy

Reddit Philosophers Talking About Video Games

Devilish Humanity: Comparative Analysis of Ninja Theory & Capcom's Devil May Cry DMC

Nothing Without the Furies - Disco Elysium

Playing with Homo Ludens - Johan Huizinga

Inversion of Power in Shadow of the Colossus

Pro Fighting Game Controls?

Hold Back to Block... Like A Coward

The Best Buttons in Video Games

Time Diversion Therapy, Fishing, and You

Body Language in Video Games

What Even Is an Indie Game?

The Role of Babble in Language and Games

Is Game Over a Failure of Game Design?

Those English Platformers like Mario

Liminal Space Boss Fights

How Hit Stop Was Invented

The Beauty of Pre-Rendered Backgrounds

The Paratext of My Favorite Games

What Even is Conveyance?

Keep Tilting on Games

The Worst Visual in All Video Games

Complexity is NOT Quality

Freedom is Contingent

Product Placement Ethics in Video Games

Monkey Island Reinvented Ludonarrative

Jedi Fallen Order is Afraid of Art

Index Languages for Video Games

The BEST Level in Katamari Damacy

Resonance of the Ocean; Dissonance in Me

The Gaslighting of AI the Somnium Files - Uchikoshi Kotaru

Classic Game Battle Royale Are Dead

LoveLive Games are WAY AHEAD of Rhythm Game Design

I Cannot Trust Myself

Mobile Games on Consoles?

Teaching Happiness Economics with Neon White

Card Games Have Changed...

State of Mind: White Knights Perpetuate Violence

Yoku's Pinball Platformer

The First Tree, The Last Tweet

Books About Video Games YOU Should READ

The Agonist Quality of Play

Are Chain Letters a Video Game?

"Gamer Is My Personality"

Seeing Myself For The First Time in Mafia 3

How to Write A Language for Games?

Tell Me Your Value!

Meaningful Permadeath

Heroic Motherhood in Video Games

What Makes a Game Funny?

Map Size is Meaningless

Can Lies Be Game Design?

Balenciaga Age of Tomorrow

I wish Elden Ring's player character was nice

Mass Effect is Anti-Racist

Is Blasphemous for Catholics?

Console Selling Games: Spiders

Forgotten Key's Mid-Poly Aesthetic

Kingdom Hearts is Daoist

Journey to The Savage Capitalism

Translating One Sentence In Psychonauts 2

Best Thing About Nintendo Switch

Trials Within Sacrifice

Kingdom Hearts Xehanort is an Objectivist Villain

Tic Tac Toe: Winning On Offense

Moonlighter For A Fair Price

True Space Economics in a Rebel Galaxy

The Relic of Social Games

Kingdom Hearts Fully Explained in Less Than 2 Minutes

The Ahimsa of Undertale

The Comedy of Disco Elysium

The Level Design of Limbo

Death From Above - Carmella Garuda Build - Warframe

The Easiest Best Way to BEAT Malenia Blade of Miquella

Is Dark Souls Obsolete?

The Cultural Impact of Sekiro

The Zen of Isaac, with Ludiscere

VR Anime Girls & Player Stories, with Straszfilms

Basmu - The Mass Effect Rifle in WARFRAME

The Dread of Waiting

NATARUK Design Fixes Bows! | WARFRAME

Idle RPGs - The Aesthetics of lofi

Windbound - A Game About Death

Was Elden Ring Too Big?

The Tarnished are Plant People - An Elden Ring Theory

Elden Ring is a Professional Nightmare

My Issue with SOMA

ELDEN RING : What's so good about it?

Comfort from Kegare - A Tales of Zestiria Restrospective

Getting Over It - Struggles With The Absurdist Lens

Horizon: Zero Dawn - The Ethics of Drone Warfare and AI

Identifying With Our Games, with Afterthoughts!

Lizards Are Important! - Shadow of the Colossus

Haven: Freedom Through Bonds

Ghost of Tsushima Evolved Open World Games

A Practical Dark Souls Easy Mode

Is speedrunning a waste of time?

MMO Combat is basically Bullet Hell

Skyrim Doesn't Have This... Forgotten City Does

Why Aren't Games More Poetic?

Double Fine is Top Of Mind! with Arcadology / PixelLit

How To Design Flight for Games - Gravity Rush

Multiplayer Game Anxiety?

Multiplayer Games & Anger

My Golden Record Game, with Chariot_Rider

Bloodborne's Easy Mode? (Megaman Design Philosophy)

Persona 5: Are the Phantom Thieves Still Just?

Are Exclusive Games Anti-Consumer?

No Love for Roguelikes

Are Game Loops RUINING Your Games?

The Most Useless Term in Games Journalism - Nintendo Polish

Minimaps, What Are They Good For?

A Critique of Global Level Scaling

ALL Action Games Are Rhythm Games!

Why I Love Fighting Games

Video Games Cause Violence, Maybe?

You Should Play Short Games

Anthem Next's Destiny was FAILURE

Unremarkable Heroes in Halo ODST, with The Checkpoints Show!

The Silver Years - 2019 & 2020

35 Lessons

The Signifier - Perception is Value Laden

GreedFall : Colonizer Diplomacy

Senua's Sacrifice - Rational Delusions

Final Fantasy X's Buddhism and Hinduism Worldbuilding

The Unfinished Swan : A Fairytale for a Midlife Crisis

Pop Danger - The Existentialism of Control

Justice or Peace? - Final Fantasy XII

Furi : Freedom Isn't First

Pure Individualism - Remnant From The Ashes

Crisis of Faith: A Red Dead Redemption Story

When Socrates Appeared in Assassin's Creed

The Price of Freedom - Politics & War in Code Vein

Three Games That Inspired Me

Super Mario 64, with Game Wisdom!

Metal Gear Solid 3's Cold War, with Tom O'Regan!

Banjo Kazooie is Persona 4, with Designing For!

Games for Miserable Times

Joel's Survival Ethics

Journey - Connection in Isolation

Pat Holleman on XenoGears

Games Get NO Respect

Soft Rating Systems in Games

Bloodborne's Better Treasure Chests

Game Overanalyser on Shadow of the Colossus

Mortal Ethics of Sekiro

Kaihatsu on Minecraft

Sexual Ethics as Explored in Catherine: Full Body

Mind Over Medicine. A Bloodborne Theory

Dead Fox on Night In The Woods

Mono No Aware... in Dauntless??

Review of Console Wars by Blake Harris

What's Missing from Sekiro?

The Rule of Cool

Death Bed Dialogues - Boethias in Skyrim

How Warframe Evolved the "Headshot"

Finding a Style 2018

22 Lessons

The Banner Saga: Leadership in Survival

The Tyranny of Fun

CAPOEIRA & BOXING STYLE! | DMC5's Balrog

Devil May Cry : Faith in Humanity

Kingdom Hearts 3 Therapy (Fan Retrospective)

Arcade Nostalgia in High Score Girl

The Ethics of Peter Parker in Insomniac Games Spider-Man

Kingdom Hearts: Emotional Intelligence as Storytelling

The Philosophy of Axiom Verge

What is a Masterpiece?

Plato's Allegory of the Cave in Atelier Firis

Study of Rhetoric in Pillars of Eternity

American Pragmatism in God of War

Philosophy as Lifestyle - Yakuza Kiwami

Just War Theory in Valkyria Revolution

Utilitarianism in God Eater Burst

Great Men Theory - Valkyria Revolution

Final Fantasy 13 Retrospective

Cappadocian Philosophy in Atelia Sophie

Cynicism & Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy

What Qualifies for Philosophy in Anime and Games?

Seeing Myself in Assassin's Creed Origins

Found Footing 2017

10 Lessons

Aristotle in Atelier Sophie

Absurdism in The Yakuza Series

Is Geralt of Rivia a Cynic or a Stoic?

Issues with Kishoutenketsu - Persona 5's Plot Twists

Religious Science in Mass Effect: Andromeda

Persona 5 On Ambition

Persona 5: On Justice

Sophism in Persona 5

Mind Body Dualism in Bloodborne

The Proxy War of Horizon: Zero Dawn

Early Works - 2017 & Earlier

16 Lessons

Noblesse Oblige in Final Fantasy XV

Zelda, The Witcher, and Open World Game Standards

The Philosophy of SAO | Bartel's Taxonomy

Meaning in a Dog Tag - Final Fantasy XV

The Underground Railroad - Freedom in Fallout 4

How War Unites People in Valkyria Chronicles

Racism in Valkyria Chronicles

The Philosophy of Dark Souls 3

The Philosophy of Freedom Wars

Philosophy of BioShock: How 2K Made Players Live A Randian Philosophy In A World That Embraces It

XCOM2 is Controlling your Mind!

KRATOS, NOSTALGIA, & SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS ~ Tales of Symphonia

Sentient AI and Video Games

DON'T TALK ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT! ~ A Small Talk at the Back of Beyond

ALICE MADNESS RETURNS, TONS OF QUESTIONS!

7 DAYS IS DESCARTES' DILEMMA!

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