Welcome back! It’s the summer and that means it is time for the Overthinking It Book Club. We are Overthinking the comic book series “Saga,” and this is Week 6, covering Chapters 16–18 of the series. Join Ben, Richard, Ryan, and Matt as we discuss the opposite of war and the role of creative work in the Sagaverse, and wrap up the book club with some thoughts on what it all means and who the good guys actually are. And, as promised, are are links to Saga Volume 4 and Volume 5. → Download...

Welcome back! It’s the summer and that means it is time for the Overthinking It Book Club. We are Overthinking the comic book series “Saga,” and this is Week 5, covering Chapters 13–15 of the series. Join Ben, Richard, Ryan, and Matt as we discuss the ancillary characters who make Saga great, the ritual of propaganda, the meaning of the geometry of the lighthouse, and the structure of games beside games within games. → Download the Saga Book Club Podcast Subscribe to the Book Club...

Welcome back! It’s the summer and that means it is time for the Overthinking It Book Club. We are Overthinking the comic book series “Saga,” and this is Week 4, covering Chapters 10-12 of the series. Join Ben, Richard, Ryan, Jordan, and Matt as we discuss narrative structure, how you never go full allegory, and how the author might not be dead, but has been shot in the knee. → Download the Saga Book Club Podcast Subscribe to the Book Club Podcast Get new episodes of the Book Club Podcast...

Welcome back! It’s the summer and that means it is time for the Overthinking It Book Club. We are Overthinking the comic book series “Saga,” and this is Week 1, covering Chapters 7–9 of the series. Join Pete, Richard, Jordan, and Matt as we discuss family, memory, credibility, and whether all acts of goodness are pointless. → Download the Saga Book Club Podcast Subscribe to the Book Club Podcast Get new episodes of the Book Club Podcast automatically when they are published! Subscribe...

Welcome back! It’s the summer and that means it is time for the Overthinking It Book Club. We are Overthinking the comic book series “Saga,” and this is Week 1, covering Chapters 4–6 of the series. Join Ben, Richard, Jordan, and Matt as we discuss head smashing on Sextillion, violence vs. pacifism, what different characters will do for their families, and who is really the monster. → Download the Saga Book Club Podcast Subscribe to the Book Club Podcast Get new episodes of the Book Club...

Welcome back! It’s the summer and that means it is time for the Overthinking It Book Club. We are Overthinking the comic book series “Saga,” and this is Week 1, covering Chapters 1–3 of the series. Join Ben, Richard, Ryan, and Matt as we discuss the subversive nature of alligator butlers, why parenting is like an art project, subsidiarity, and the principal agent problem, and begin our love affair with Lying Cat. → Download the Saga Book Club Podcast Subscribe to the Book Club Podcast Get...

This is it: the final week of the Final Fantasy  VI Book Club! To take on this final boss of a podcast, we have an epic crew of Ben, Justin, Shana, Richard, John and Jordan.  Join them for a discussion of airships, existentialism, the game’s (*gasp*) Christ symbolism, the Divine Comedy, the power of love, and an answer to the question: What is Game? [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-8/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-8.mp3] →...

The party is back together after the end of the world, and they are ready to take us through Week 5 of our Final Fantasy VI Book Club!  Join Ben, Shana, Richard, John and Justin as they discuss the symbolism of birds, the viability of a GP-based economy after the apocalypse, Terra’s decision to abandon (and then join) your quest, and religion in a magical...

Ben Adams and Shana Mlawski take a two-hander on a Side Quest to the very ends of the Earth. After the tramautic events that lead us to the World  of Ruin, our Book Club has been scattered to the four winds, leaving only two intrepid podcasters.  So instead of tackling all of Week 5 (which is coming, never fear), join Ben and Shana for a discussion of their favorite Ends of the World, the world of balanced video games, the image of the Last Man on Earth and other video game...

Peter Fenzel guest hosts as John Perich, Richard Rosenbaum, Jordan Stokes, and Red Pages Podcast’s Justin Bortnick take the Final Fantasy VI book club through week 4, from the nobility of General Leo to the madness of Kefka, from the isolation of Thamasa to the overreach of Vector, and from the magitek research facility to the end of the world. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-5/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-5.mp3] → Download...

Ben Adams, John Perich, Richard Rosenbaum, Shana Mlawski and Red Pages Podcast’s Justin Bortnick continue the Final Fantasy VI book club with Week 3! Join us for a discussion of the Opera, Ultros and the tension between narrative and gameplay. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-4/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-4.mp3] → Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast Possible Episode Titles “Nobody Puts Ultros in the Corner” “Kefke...

Ben Adams, John Perich, Jordan Stokes, and Red Pages Podcast’s Justin Bortnick continue the Final Fantasy VI book club with Week 2! Join us for a discussion of avatar-as-identity, the narrative-as-chaperone and rivers-as-infinite-loops. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-3/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-3.mp3] → Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast Possible Episode Titles “Once Again, Video Games Prove Their Superiority To...

Ben Adams, Shana Mlawski, John Perich, Richard Rosenbaum, and Red Pages Podcast’s Justin Bortnick continue the Final Fantasy VI book club with Week 1! Join us for a discussion of musical rewards, Six-Sigma Optimized Character Builds, and the bourgeois. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-2/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-2.mp3] → Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast Possible Episode Titles: “As a lady, I enjoy narrative.” “The...

Ben Adams, Shana Mlawski, John Perich and Red Pages Podcast‘s Justin Bortnick kick off the Overthinking It Book Club with an introduction to FINAL FANTASY VI. Join us for a discussion of video games as art, artisanal hand-crafted emulators, video game auteuers and more! [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download//oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-1/oti-book-club-final-fantasy-vi-1.mp3] → Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast The Overthinking It Book Club The book...

Ben Adams, Shana Mlawski, and Matthew Wrather watch and discuss the 1972 film adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five, directed by George Roy Hill and starring Michael Sacks. (Looks like there may be another adaptation on the way.) [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-slaughterhosue-five-6/oti-book-club-slaughterhosue-five-6.mp3] → Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast Discuss this Section We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It...

Ben Adams, Shana Mlawski, Richard Rosenbaum, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather read and discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapter 9–10. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-slaughterhosue-five-5/oti-book-club-slaughterhosue-five-5.mp3] → Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast Discuss this Section We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion. Get the Book Club...

Ben Adams, Shana Mlawski, John Perich, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather read and discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapter 6-8. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-slaughterhosue-five-4/oti-book-club-slaughterhosue-five-4.mp3] → Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast Discuss this Section We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion. Get the Book Club Podcast Subscribe...

Ben Adams, Shana Mlawski, John Perich, and Matthew Wrather read and discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapter 5. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-slaughterhouse-five-3/oti-book-club-slaughterhouse-five-3.mp3] → Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast Discuss this Section We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion. Get the Book Club Podcast Subscribe to download new...

Ben Adams, Shana Mlawski, John Perich, Richard Rosenbaum, Ryan Sheely, and Jordan Stokes read and discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapters 3-4. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-slaughterhouse-five-2/oti-book-club-slaughterhouse-five-2.mp3] → Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast Discuss this Section We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion. Get the Book Club...

Ben Adams, Shana Mlawski, John Perich, Richard Rosenbaum, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather read and discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapters 1–2. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/oti-book-club-slaughterhosue-five-1/oti-book-club-slaughterhosue-five-1.mp3] → Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast Discuss this Section We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion. Get the Book Club...

Ben Adams and Matthew Wrather read and discuss Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, Chapter 15, and close out the book club by considering the whole book. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/OtiBookClubEndersGame6/oti-book-club-enders-game-6.mp3] → Download the Ender’s Game Book Club Podcast Discuss this Section Instead of having comments below, we’ve opened a special area of the Forums for discussion Chapters 15, and another for discussion of the whole book. (That...

Ben Adams and Matthew Wrather convene Overthinking It Book Club to consider Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game chapters 13 – 14. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/OtiBookClubEndersGame5/oti-book-club-enders-game-5.mp3] → Download the Ender’s Game Book Club Podcast Discuss this Section Instead of having comments below, we’ve opened a special area of the Forums for discussion Chapters 13-14. No spoilers for later chapters, please — put those in the Whole Book...

Ben Adams and Matthew Wrather convene Overthinking It Book Club to consider Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game chapters 11 – 12. Perhaps you’d also like to read up on the Powell Doctrine. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/OtiBookClubEndersGame4/oti-book-club-enders-game-4.mp3] → Download the Ender’s Game Book Club Podcast Discuss this Section Instead of having comments below, we’ve opened a special area of the Forums for discussion Chapters 11-12. No spoilers...

Ben Adams and Matthew Wrather convene Overthinking It Book Club to consider Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game chapters 9 – 10. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/OtiBookClubEndersGame3/oti-book-club-enders-game-3.mp3] → Download the Ender’s Game Book Club Podcast Discuss this Section Instead of having comments below, we’ve opened a special area of the Forums for discussion Chapters 9-10. No spoilers for later chapters, please. Get the Book Club Podcast Subscribe...