Author: Bronson O’Quinn
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What Book, Film, Video Game, or Album Lived up to the Hype?
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What piece of art “lived up to the hype” or even exceeded your expectations?
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How I Made My Hero Section Video
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This post is primarily to give more information about the video clips I’m using, especially to credit the original videographers. I think it’s important for everyone to give credit where it’s due, especially for artists who are kind enough to donate their craft for our personal use. Also, from a more personal perspective, I don’t…
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Another Millennial on Jon Stewart’s Return
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Jon Stewart made a career of calling out media bias while occasionally falling for the same traps as the mainstream outlets he criticized.
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Video Game Haiku #21: Slay the Spire
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The heart is attacked. Each action, a reaction. Do we try again?
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How I Really Feel About AI
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I have a lot of thoughts about so-called “artificial intelligence” in the form of language learning models. Sometimes I like them. Other times I don’t. But it’s also pretty disingenuous to pretend it’s so simple. Even though I’ve written on the topic before, here’s everything I have to say (right now) about the machine learning…
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Video Game Haiku #20: Stardew Valley
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You named our chickens nonsense words. But then again we were named them, too.
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Video Game Haiku #18: Picross
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Boxes make pictures arranged by calloused fingers attached to no one. Originally published during Lexington Poetry Month 2023
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Video Game Haiku #8: The Last of Us
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Stray too much off-path, game over. The makers want their story, not yours. Originally published during Lexington Poetry Month 2023
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Video Game Haiku #6: Pac-Man
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To chase and be chased. Even if you catch your ghosts, they always come back. Originally published during Lexington Poetry Month 2020.
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The Mausoleum of Gratuitous Fear
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What is this? The Mausoleum of Gratuitous Fear is an homage to EC Comics, like Vault of Horror or Tales from the Crypt. A story is told through three different perspectives, much like how those books would have a “Crypt Keeper” or a “Vault Dweller.” The main difference is that my story is extremely mundane, taking place on a…
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How to Tell a Story: Don’t Look Back & Narrative Gameplay
Terry Cavanagh’s Don’t Look Back is a masterpiece by telling an emotionally resonate story without text, voiceovers, or cinematics.