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My Changing Eternal Minecraft
Here’s an oddball sort of piece for you: my changing reactions to and thoughts on Minecraft. So you’re on the internet, I suppose you already know what Minecraft is. Just in case, it’s a...
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Thomas Covenant and the love of the unreal
Let’s talk about Thomas Covenant. I nearly don’t know how to start. My emotional experience of the first three Covenant novels is up there, rivaling nearly anything I’ve enjoyed in my life. I remember...
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Half Life 2, manshooters, and setting/UI interaction
Nearly seven years after I purchased it, in a Target in Memphis, TN, I finally beat Half Life 2. I know, shocking. How did I finish a game so quickly? I only had to re-start once, even. Madness,...
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On Lady Thor GodGender
So I’m about to put my foot in the latest fan mess on the internet: let’s talk a little about Thor. OK. So a lot of people are mad Thor’s going to be a lady now. I can’t empathize with the rage, but...
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Making Sense of Senselessness (in Jetman)
So this is a little different, even for what I’m used to. Tuesday I finished watching the Chojin Sentai Jetman, one of the odder entries in Toei’s sentai pantheon. This is going to end up being...
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Fictional Magic, Real Practice pt1
I’m fulfilling requests now, in a way. Pontifus has asked me about the difference between magic in theory and practice and magic as found in fiction of all sorts, particularly when it’s a plot device....
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Fictional Magic, Real Practice pt 2
It’s part two of my inquisition on the confluence of magical practice with fictional magic! Unfortunately, my list as it stands from last week does not break into the two easy divisions I want to use...
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Fictional Magic, Real Practice pt 3
My original interlocutor made a comment on my last piece, so we have some more to go on this week! Pontifus’s original question (which, shamefully, I have not even approached answering), was about the...
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Give Us Our Daily Evil Dead
Once again it is the greatest holiday-month-season in the land: Halloween! We have a storied history here, we do, with the season. It strikes me, sitting here, watching the light drown in the...
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The Naturalism Out of Space
This is it! In a few bare days the bones of the dead will shift from their earthen beds to crawl into our homes and tell us how boring it is to be buried in the ground all the time. Maybe we could put...
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Flagship 2015 has left the harbor! Also fairy tales
Happy New Year! I know we had ourselves a little hiatus there, but I’ll tell you all about it in the following paragraph. Also in this post: some other weird projects, Angela Carter, and possibly more...
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