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#62 The Bitter Rind: Exploring the Paradoxical Attraction to Punishment and Extreme Difficulty

#62 The Bitter Rind: Exploring the Paradoxical Attraction to Punishment and Extreme Difficulty

Released Friday, 31st March 2023
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#62 The Bitter Rind: Exploring the Paradoxical Attraction to Punishment and Extreme Difficulty

#62 The Bitter Rind: Exploring the Paradoxical Attraction to Punishment and Extreme Difficulty

#62 The Bitter Rind: Exploring the Paradoxical Attraction to Punishment and Extreme Difficulty

#62 The Bitter Rind: Exploring the Paradoxical Attraction to Punishment and Extreme Difficulty

Friday, 31st March 2023
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This month Collin is joined by Aleks from our essays department as well as special guests Ruby (Codex Entry) and Spencer as they explore the very nature of art and entertainment as the concepts apply to the medium of video games. That is to say, do games need to be "fun" to be "good"?

With a special focus on Ice Pick Lodge's cult classic Pathologic, the conversation juxtaposes the subject at hand against the mediums of theatre and visual art and explores the value of unpleasantness when a piece of art "pushes back" against its audience.

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