Interference by Default: The Hegemony and Hypocrisy of the Prime Directive
Is the non-interference mandated by the Prime Directive worse than the interference that it tries to prevent?
Imperialism on Overthinking It
Episode 249: WrestleMania is Being Undertaken
The Overthinkers tackle the meaning of Game of Thrones Season 3, WrestleMania, and Rudyard Kipling.
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Episode 60: Reasons not Rules
Sheely and Wrather return to Gossip Girl, address the possibility of change in the social order, and consider whether The Hunger Games is a TFT-worthy franchise.
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Dockingjay: Logistics in the Hunger Games
At Overthinking It, we’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on an excerpt from the upcoming Hunger Games Extended Universe novella about a brave young woman who dares to dream of independence and the open road, set against the backdrop of the nation of Panem’s trucking, shipping, supply management and logistics industry.
Overthinking “Temple Run”
Temple Run is an insanely popular iPhone game with an insanely simple premise: like Indiana Jones from the first scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, you play the part of an adventurer who “takes the idol” from the eponymous temple, … Continued
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Commander Shepard and the Effective Agenda
[Enjoy this guest post by Rob Mackie! —Ed.] As a fundamentally interactive medium, video games use the actions of the game’s players to tell the stories of fictional agents. Every playing of a game is a new telling of the … Continued
Think Tank: The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction
How does Death Star planet destruction affect the Empire’s GGP? (That’s Gross Galactic Product.)
Bad Enough Dudes: The Realpolitik of Video Games
Are you a bad enough dude to side with the great against the powerless?