Category: culture
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Batman Ninja Is Awesome
The moment when you recognize Grodd’s seiyuu in Batman Ninja as your favourite seiyuu of all time – Koyasu Takehito. Other voices sound familiar, so you check out the Wiki and discover…. THE LINEUP IS FANTASTIC FOR THE FILM!!!!!!! Batman – Koichi Yamadera (Cowboy Bebop, NGE, Hunter x Hunter) Joker – Takaru Watagi (Naruto Shippuuden’s…
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[thought piece] No Man’s Sky, Puddleglum, and Our Existential Need for Narrative
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Vox, believe it or not, made a pretty good point about No Man’s Sky in its article, No Man’s Sky is an existential crisis simulator disguised as a space exploration game: Okay, so the universe in No Man’s Sky is really, really big. But what, exactly, do you do in it? […] Even when the…
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https://quillette.com/2018/06/08/race-gender-trump-everything-think-know-wrong/
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[FB Video Response] Are we natural meat eaters? (Life Changing Videos)
LINK “Try to kill a pig without tools cuz animals don’t use tools”. UM. Animals DO use tools to get food – any of the primates, sea otters, raccoons, and birds among others. [1][2][3] This comment about only eating food you can gain with your hands bothered me so much because it is evidently untrue. I…
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[thought piece] The Price of Education
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A couple nights ago, I contemplated my upcoming first shift at a local candy factory. I was, as usual when beginning a job, nervous. It is during these moments that I wonder what job would be most suitable for me. After teaching in a variety of positions in China for the past none years or…
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[opinion] What Star Wars Disney Can Learn From TV Tokyo’s Boruto
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[Warning: Will Contain Spoilers!] Something that is hard for us to recognize nowadays is that the literature we call “classic”, such as Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales or Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, were, during their times, popular forms of culture. With that perspective in mind, when we look at current stories, myths, and cultural products, we have to…
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[YT] “Robin Hood, King Arthur, and Hollywood’s Problem with Public Domain Properties” (Willems)
A challenging YouTube commentary! I would also add that both of these myths/legends – King Arthur and Robin Hood – evoke a joyful masculinity, which was lost after the World Wars. Not only did the ideals of honour and chivalry die but also the blind belief in the ability of man (both figuratively and metaphorically)…
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[posting][university essay]Digitizing Nature: Negotiating and Mobilizing the Virtual
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Meet Hydria, my virtual succulent garden in a pot which is looking rather dry. I would like to think that if Hydria were located on my smartphone and not on my tablet, I would care for her better. The truth is that my forgetfulness has killed more than one plant before, and Hydria may be…
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https://quillette.com/2018/08/02/the-death-of-the-author-and-the-end-of-empathy/
-“The Death of the Author and the End of Empathy” by Heather Mac Donald
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