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Portraits in Pixel

·15 hours ago

Great Games: Dragon Quest V

Slime family values — NOTE: For this review I played the DS version of Dragon Quest V in Japanese. I encourage anyone who wants to play this game to pirate it through an emulator. SPOILER ALERT: Plot details for Dragon Quest V and Final Fantasy IV follow. Dragon Quest V is a rip-roaring adventure…

Dragon Quest

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Great Games: Dragon Quest V
Great Games: Dragon Quest V
Dragon Quest

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Politics & Discourse

·May 21

Solidarity With Japanese Ex-Moonies

From an American Ex-Moonie — I once read a book called The Middle East Crisis Factory, which was written by Palestinian Arab Spring activist Iyad El-Baghdadi and British-Libyan Arab Spring activist Ahmed Gatnash. The aim of the book is to look at the roots of the problems plaguing the Middle East and provide democratic, human…

Unification Church

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Solidarity With Japanese Ex-Moonies
Solidarity With Japanese Ex-Moonies
Unification Church

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Portraits in Pixel

·May 12

Mario Levels Up!

Maybe the best video game movie ever! — The Super Mario Bros Movie is a pure sugar rush, like watching an exciting Saturday morning cartoon with a fresh bowl of Lucky Charms. I cannot think of any other film which has so perfectly captured the thrill of playing a video game. The Mario movie is a near-perfect celebration…

Super Mario Bros

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Mario Levels Up!
Mario Levels Up!
Super Mario Bros

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Club Cybelle

·Feb 25

2023 NFR Nominees: Men In Black, The Karate Kid, Gladiator, and More

My other nominees include How To Play Football, Seven, and But I’m A Cheerleader — NOTE: This year, I decided to remove four of my selections from The Mind’s Eye series. The reason being that I discovered that these films were exclusively released on VHS. While home video recordings are not expressly forbidden by the National Film Registry, they are not prioritized, so I made…

Film

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2023 NFR Nominees: Men In Black, The Karate Kid, Gladiator, and More
2023 NFR Nominees: Men In Black, The Karate Kid, Gladiator, and More
Film

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Politics & Discourse

·Jan 20

The Robot’s Canvas

Will human creativity survive the 21st century? — The Chef, the Runner, and the Chessmaster “Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology. …

Ai Art

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The Robot’s Canvas
The Robot’s Canvas
Ai Art

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Politics & Discourse

·Dec 29, 2022

In Defense of the Open Library

You can support the Internet Archive and authors at the same time — Introduction I would like to amend my previous criticism of the Internet Archive (IA). While I praised the IA for preserving invaluable artifacts, such as old websites, Grateful Dead concerts, and Balinese writings, I criticized its Open Library (OL) for not acquiring official licenses for ebooks which are still in-print and…

Internet Archive

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In Defense of the Open Library
In Defense of the Open Library
Internet Archive

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Portraits in Pixel

·Dec 16, 2022

Like Father, Like Son

“Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light” is an inspiring story about how a video game brought a father and son together one last time — SPOILER ALERT: Plot details for FFXIV: Dad of Light follow. NOTE: In this essay, I will sometimes quote or refer to a 2015 interview in the online magazine Inside Games. The interview was originally in Japanese and I translated it myself. My Japanese is far from perfect, so I cannot…

Videogames

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Like Father, Like Son
Like Father, Like Son
Videogames

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Seven Questions

·Oct 10, 2022

To the Moon and Back: Seven Questions for Lisa Kohn

I spoke with the author Lisa Kohn about her memoir of her life in the Moonies — I found a lot to relate to in Lisa Kohn’s memoir, To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under The Influence. Like me, she was an ex-member of a cult known as the Unification Church. The cult was founded by the late Korean billionaire Sun Myung Moon, in 1954, where…

Unification Church

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To the Moon and Back: Seven Questions for Lisa Kohn
To the Moon and Back: Seven Questions for Lisa Kohn
Unification Church

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Club Cybelle

·Aug 13, 2022

2022 NRR Nominees: Coolio, Ween, and Green Day

Gangsta’s Paradise, The Mollusk, and American Idiot — It’s that time of year again, folks. Every year, the Library of Congress selects 25 American recordings to be preserved in its National Recording Registry (NRR), which are historically, culturally, or aesthetically significant to American life. …

Music

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2022 NRR Nominees: Coolio, Ween, and Green Day
2022 NRR Nominees: Coolio, Ween, and Green Day
Music

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Portraits in Pixel

·May 14, 2022

Great Games: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Zelda’s revolutionary debut on the Wii — SPOILER WARNING: Plot details for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess follow. PLEASE NOTE: For the purposes of this review, I played the Nintendo Wii version of Twilight Princess. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is one of the few Wii games that fully utilized the revolutionary motion controls of…

Zelda

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Great Games: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Great Games: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Zelda

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Sansu the Cat

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I write about art, life, and humanity. M.A. Japanese Literature. B.A. Spanish & Japanese. email: sansuthecat@yahoo.com

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