Nick Bestor

Graduate Student in Media StudiesUniversity of Texas at Austin

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Selling Magic Through Spellslingers

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Nick Bestor University of Texas at Austin

June 08, 2016
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Selling Magic Through Spellslingers Spellslingers Magic Geek & Sundry Curator's Note Geek & Sundry, launched in 2012, promotes a range of geeky pastimes, with tabletop gaming featured in several of the channel’s series. In TableTop, one of t ...

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Re: Selling Magic Through Spellslingers

Barnett

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Nick Bestor University of Texas at Austin

Friday, June 10, 2016 — 7:54 am
I had cut out some reference to Barnett's episode from an earlier draft; his video for Vice' Fightland site is also quite interesting in how it tries to reconcile these seemingly disparate activitites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YadkXp7cac ...
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Re: Selling Magic Through Spellslingers

Follow the Money

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Nick Bestor University of Texas at Austin

Friday, June 10, 2016 — 7:57 am
I would definitely be interested to know precisely what sort of sponsorship or money comes into play for Spellslingers and other G&S series. Episodes of the first season of Spellslingers end with Day[9] ceremoniously presenting his guests with a gift ...
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Re: Magic as Aesthetic Event

Kibler

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Nick Bestor University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, June 9, 2016 — 4:55 pm
I think Brian Kibler is such an entertaining player precisely because he excels so well at "losing well." He's probably my favorite Hearthstone streamer to watch, and I cannot recall ever seeing him get tilted over the randomness inherent i ...