Jean-Luc Picard: Starship captain, diplomat, flautist, archaeologist, lover of Gilbert and Sullivan, devotee of Shakespeare, and drinker of Earl Grey…
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Episode 6
Dungeons & Dragons is the archetypal roleplaying game, the progenitor of much nerd culture – and right now it’s having…
Episode 5
“The Witcher” has become a phenomenon. The character was born in the short stories of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, popularized…
Episode 4
What do you do when you discover that your favorite author, movie director, or game designer is a terrible person?…
Episode 3
What does it mean to treat a nonreligious book like “Harry Potter” as “sacred,” and what can we learn when…
Episode 2
What do you think? Would you give your child to the Jedi?
Episode 1
What are the philosophies of the Jedi and the Sith, and do those philosophies make sense? Are the Jedi perhaps…