Playing Valheim With The Boys

The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show – Playing Valheim With The Boys

Let’s talk about playing Valheim – the new Viking survival game I have been enjoying with my sons and an assortment of friends and family.

We have learned some important life lessons so far. Team work, strategic thinking skills, and how to fell trees without them dropping on your head – it’s all here, folks.

The graphics may not be anything to write home about. As many have pointed out, the game has a very Minecraft feel to it where textures are concerned. But the map to explore is huge and randomly generated. The score is relaxing and appropriately themed. And the lighting effects and scope of vision are downright breathtaking sometimes. Not only that, but the building, crafting, and requisite resource collection mechanics are deeply satisfying and engaging.

Also, more broadly, how do we think about videogames and computer games? As I have argued before, play can be more than entertainment. If we choose to utilize them this way, playing videogames can be an excellent medium for learning. But we have to be intentional and strategic about what games we play, as well as how and why we play them.

Listen to this episode of The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show to hear all about it.

If You Want to Be Truly Compassionate, Imitate the Compassion of God – The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

Therefore David blessed Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Yours, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.” – 1 Chronicles 29:10-13   This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 07:58 – Thoughts on the Reading 34:48 – What does the Bible say about compassion? – Got Questions 42:43 – Keyword Search: Compassion – BibleGateway — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/garrett-ashley-mullet/message

1. If You Want to Be Truly Compassionate, Imitate the Compassion of God 01:32:18
2. Providing Things Honest in the Sight of All Men 02:06:03
3. Magistrates and Ministers as Gatekeepers Employing Third Way Rhetoric 02:10:27
4. Big Tent Conservates, Arizona Republicans, Who to Blame for Inflation, and Strange Music 01:33:16
5. What We Are Preparing for the Next Generation 02:30:41