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A Life Well Wasted Robert Ashley
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A Life Well Wasted is an internet radio show about videogames and the people who love them.
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Memory
Robert Ashley finds out what it takes to speedrun games in a blindfold, visits a museum in Moscow dedicated to Soviet-era arcade machines, and talks to a group of friends about a childhood summer spent dreaming up a game of their own.
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Work
Robert Ashley talks to a developer at a big game studio about his strange trip from blue collar work to video game work, gets a lesson in work ethic from legendary game designer John Romero, finds out what can happen when you give your work away for free, and profiles Nick Smith (aka Ulillillia), whose body of work includes one of the Internet's most monumental--and strange--personal websites.
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ALWW update: Eternal Life Vol 2
Robert Ashley returns from the mysterious deep with another musical offering that won't satisfy your desire for more episodes of A Life Well Wasted, but might hold you off for a while longer.
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ALWW update: Eternal Life Vol 1
Robert Ashley checks in with you to see how you've been. Oh, did you hear that he has a new album coming out? Want to hear it?
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Big Ideas
Robert Ashley edits listener-submitted game ideas into one big, crazy game, talks to the guy who owns the rights to Tetris about his plans to save the world, gets a lecture on the future of games from a New York University professor, and meets a struggling game blogger who happens to possess freakishly enormous genitalia.
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Help
Robert Ashley helps people in videogames instead of helping people in real life, meets a comedy group who spend hundreds of hours every year playing the most boring videogame ever created, talks to a guy who quit playing games for a year, and profiles the best selling pinball designer of all time.
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A treat
This is hard to categorise. Yes, it’s about gaming and it’s done by interviewing people. But its breadth is so vast. From magazine writers’ highs and lows to professors saving the experience of gaming to American pinball makers and Soviet arcade memories to game designers trying to be self sufficient on a farm, you never know what’s next. But it’s always good.
The conversations are good, relevant, funny. You hear something unfold you had no idea about. And with Robert Ashley’s great voice, always friendly and inquisitive, it’s just a smooth ride through those unknown places.
And I haven’t even mentioned the music, the sounds and the audio-trickery employed throughout each episode. It’s just the best to listen to.
So, is there a negative? Yep. There aren’t enough episodes.
Go listen, you’ll like it.
Unique and awesome
One of the best in the business. It's not talk radio, each episode is like a good magazine article. Ashley interviews a wide variety of people that have something to say about a subject and takes the best pieces of each interview and ties them together with narration and music from his band. It comes together perfectly each time. It's a miracle this guy doesn't charge for journalism this great.