Thoughts and Updates

  • Press Turn Providence: Power and Divine Virtue in the Reason of Yosuga

    On the day of the Conception, a boy and his two classmates Chiaki and Isamu visit their sick teacher, Ms. Takao, at the hospital. Chiaki intends to use the visit to ask for career advice. If confronted, she attempts to justify her selfishness by saying that the boys should be thinking about their futures, too.

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  • University Hall, Uppsala, June 8-11 Friday 10:00 HOPEPUNK AS A SPECULATIVE SUBGENRE in Sal X (scaffolding inside) Niels Dalgaard, Andrew Dana Hudson (Mod), Ian McDonald, Jane Mondrup, Örjan Westin Alexandra Rowland 2017 essay Question of the -punk suffix—not attached to technological means (does it matter?) What degree of things going well is needed to be

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  • This year, the Japanese role-playing game Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne celebrates its twentieth anniversary. The apocalyptic world of Nocturne revolves on the struggle of its many inhabitants, and yet, the game’s players can’t help but feel isolated among the ruins. (For a quick intro to SMT3, and to read the rest of the series,

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  • Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne is a Japanese role-playing video game first released in 2003 by Atlus for the Playstation 2. After all these years, it’s beloved for its challenging gameplay, chilling atmosphere, and unique post-apocalyptic story. The game is a puzzle box of strange people with strange ideas under strange conditions, with unsolvable questions—perfect

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