May 2021 – With A Terrible Fate

With a Terrible Fate Podcast Episode 5: Duties to the Self and Avatars

Join us for a conversation with Daniel Muñoz and our founder on the intersection of self-directed ethics and gamers’ duties to avatars.

Join a conversation about the wild experiences and interpretive impact of glitches—plus explorations of Disco Elysium and Final Fantasy IX.

We interview Anh-Thu Nguyen on Kingdom Hearts as a digital Disneyland and discuss Dan Hughes’ latest article on the nature of Xemnas in KH2.

Analyzing one of Xemnas’ most puzzling lines in Kingdom Hearts II opens the path to understanding his character and the nature of Nobodies.

Episode 2 of WaTF’s podcast covers origin stories, player-avatar relations, the challenges of Valhalla, and the ethics of game libraries.

In the first episode of WaTF’s podcast, we introduce ourselves and the project and discuss Nier, Returnal, and “games as rent.”