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Forest of Illusions: June 2012
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012. 8220;Seemed Like The Way Of The Future”: VR Mk. II and Video Game Narrative. Note: So clearly what I'm talking about here is the Oculus Rift. I'll leave this up as my larger points on VR are ones I still stand by, despite getting the details of the machine itself pitifully wrong. I hope to have a full review of the Oculus Rift once the consumer version ships, as well as a follow-up on the promise and potential of VR. Sometime later in the year (2013). Which I'm sure you'll find is...
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Forest of Illusions: “Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light”: Mí Bhealtaine and the Dream-Child
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Friday, May 4, 2012. 8220;Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light”: Mí Bhealtaine and the Dream-Child. A cat may look at a king.". A pet hobby of mine has always been studying the often-uncanny reoccurring patterns that surround different facets of history, mythology, folklore and language. Call it the result of synchronicity, “name games”, the emanation of a mysterious Fortean psycho-social “ Twilight Language. Speaking more broadly, the first week of May has traditionally held a very unique ...
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Forest of Illusions: "But, even in the west, the Rainmaker vanishes. No one needs him anymore.": Linkblogging at the end of Skyrim?
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013. But, even in the west, the Rainmaker vanishes. No one needs him anymore.": Linkblogging at the end of Skyrim? This isn't going to be a really massive update: I do have big plans for this site I'm busily working on behind the scenes to set in motion and I have a major blog project unrelated to this one I'm currently scrambling to get into a reasonably presentable form. But, there was one piece of recent game industry news I absolutely had to say something about. Alone a frighten...
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Forest of Illusions: February 2013
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Monday, February 11, 2013. Mythic Dimensions: Digital Technology and Performative Art. Recently, I went to go see Peter Jackson and Weda Digital's latest opus The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. In theatres. I enjoyed it, which should say something given what it takes to actually drag me *to* a movie theatre, let alone appreciate whatever's onscreen. I'm not going to talk about the movie itself here though: I'm far from a Tolkien fan so I have precious little investment in the plot. The fact it was shot.
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Forest of Illusions: Why 3D Matters
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011. As technophiles tend to love jumping on the bandwagon of digital progress as soon as possible, it is therefore difficult, and somewhat surprising, to think of a recent tech trend that’s met with as much consumer hostility and revulsion as the late-2000s and early-2010s reemergence of 3D. Seemingly coming out of nowhere, though most likely bolstered by the runaway success of James Cameron’s Avatar. Means the 3DS and its alleged usefulness are again in the news. As such, I felt...
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Forest of Illusions: May 2012
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Friday, May 11, 2012. You really are Mr. Hero! 8221;: World-Building and Role-Playing in The Elder Scrolls. Note: Being a writer I'm eternally critical of my older work. However, this piece I feel especially hostile towards as there's quite possibly no single work of fiction I feel I've misread quite as catastrophically badly and unjustly as The Elder Scrolls series, in particular the two games I highlight in this post,. I do not like J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The stories of many different.
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Forest of Illusions: January 2012
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012. 8220;But What Does It All Mean? 8221;: Lacanian Reading and Video Games (Part II). OK, let's back up and take a look at what I just did. In brief, I wrote a basic little analytical essay about Super Mario Bros. That is the unique set of preconceptions, associations and experiences that any given reader, and only that given reader, brings to the discussion table. What does the text mean to you? What did you, personally, take away from it? In many ways, this is the game that sing...
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Forest of Illusions: The Second Song of Queen Aliissá
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Sunday, May 4, 2014. The Second Song of Queen Aliissá. Queen of Summer" by Ida Larson. This is the song of Queen Aliissá Suncrown, beloved Highborn Stormbringer, Love of the North-Northwest. 8221; The Lady of the Rose didn't have an answer to that, so she left. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Second Song of Queen Aliissá. Goddess On The Mountain by Liquidd-1 May 4: Born on the first breath of summer, the Dream-Child finds the Walking Way. November 4: T. Elise Riggs: It’s Good To Be Back (Pa...
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Forest of Illusions: May 2013
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Saturday, May 4, 2013. An Account of Queen Alice's Meeting With The Young Adventurer. Join me atop the Sacred Rock, for here the All Thing resides. Then the Young Adventurer ascended the mountain and came upon the Law Stone, which stood within an open meadow. Atop the Stone sat Queen Alice, thrice-exalted usurper and Lady of the Green, her legs folded in the manner of a Lotus, her head adorned with a Crown. To see. I appear to you in this manner because I am expected to and am thus invoked, though I ...
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Forest of Illusions: An Account of Queen Alice's Meeting With The Young Adventurer
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Saturday, May 4, 2013. An Account of Queen Alice's Meeting With The Young Adventurer. Join me atop the Sacred Rock, for here the All Thing resides. Then the Young Adventurer ascended the mountain and came upon the Law Stone, which stood within an open meadow. Atop the Stone sat Queen Alice, thrice-exalted usurper and Lady of the Green, her legs folded in the manner of a Lotus, her head adorned with a Crown. To see. I appear to you in this manner because I am expected to and am thus invoked, though I ...