September 28, 2015 Eric Swain External Sources

Life Gets Stranger

Episode 3 of our look through Life is Strange. This might be one of my favorite podcast episodes I’ve been on. A good 45 minutes, a good half of the episode, is spent discussing the theoretical and philosophical nature of photography as a medium and its relation back to the … (This post is lost beyond this point.) Moving Pixels Podcast: Life Gets Stranger » PopMatters "Max Caulfield, moral avenger. Or self-righteous hypocrite?" | more

September 21, 2015 Eric Swain External Sources

Critical Distance Confab – Shoot Them!

This month I interviewed the conceivers and editors of the anthology book Shooter. We had a neat idea with this one in an effort to shake things up. Because it wasn’t just a single person writing a book, we thought, that is Kris and I, it might be a good … (This post is lost beyond this point.) Episode 29 – Shoot Them! – Critical Distance | more

September 14, 2015 Eric Swain External Sources

Sometimes It’s Hard to Discover That ‘Life is Strange’

We continue our series on the episodic adventure game Life is Strange, with episode 2. This episode of the podcast does deserve a trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault, rape and suicide. Not necessarily connected or in that order. The discussion got a bit heated in the middle over one of the choices in the game and the implications several of us felt that they reflected in the real world. | more

September 8, 2015 Eric Swain External Sources

How Artificial Intelligence Views Humans in ‘The Fall’

In my last PopMatters post I wrote about how humans view AI, this time I reverse the position and explore how AI views us in The Fall. I had some idea about where I was going with this as I was writing it. In fact, it would have gone up two weeks earlier, but I had to rewrite a majority of it so that many of the new insights that I gleened during the process of logically thinking through each character would fit into a more nuanced and detailed thesis that had emerged. | more