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120: Making a Case for Intuition with Andrejs Kļaviņš (The Case of the Golden Idol)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Political Relevance of Gideon's Death

I find the satire in this game really really powerful and direct and relevant um you know cults ofUm greedy vain white men. Having a stupid little ceremonial cabal to do it from is really not far fetched and not to be taken lightly. The payoff of doing the math for everyone to everyone's demerits is itself funny. I just feel like maybe some of the elements of this political of the storytelling are a little more native to you or you might have more familiarity than us growing up in the United States. It definitely influenced me as an adult because there was so much cynicism that people who grow up in these authoritarian regimes had. You have to learn to still communicate some kind of fun

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