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“The other aspect of narrative selfhood is correlative: I am not only accountable, I am one who can always ask others for an account, who can put others to the question. I am part of their story, as they are part of mine. The narrative of any one life is part of an interlocking setContinue reading “Blog Prompt 16”

I find Leonard’s statement of us requiring to have some sort of mirror to remind us of ourselves to be quite agreeable. Our memories are good enough on their own, but they’re definitely not perfect. Some of us have very dormant memories that can’t be called forth from our will. However something tangible like aContinue reading “Blog Prompt 15”

Hi, my full name is Martin Deocate Nguyen. If you’re rather attentive you’d notice that my blog’s name is just my first name in reverse. Story about that is just that I remember seeing an old Facebook post years ago saying your new name is your name in reverse. I found that Nitram had aContinue reading “Introduction”

Video games are an art form like no other. Because it takes many other forms of art such as visual art, story telling, sound design, animation and merges them into one spatial plane. These aspects are the basis of any game, but there is one more thing that is required for any game and that’sContinue reading “Why Video Games is an Art-Form”

Based on last paragraph of Pg 6 Having power is the ability of knowing factual/proven knowledge. Such knowledge is better for society. Knowledge with no sound basis is harmful to society. It is dutiful for society to filter out all unproven knowledge. C. Therefore all unapproved knowledge is not beneficial to society and must beContinue reading “Blog: William Clifford”

Tolstoy’s standard of art is to explain that it’s not as simple as it seems. He defines this standard as a work that evokes the same feeling the author had when creating his work. Paragraph 7 provides a good example of this, saying that when a boy encounters a frightful wolf and lives to retellContinue reading “Blog 11”

eXistenZ relates to Plato’s level concept of reality because the constant shift in realities in between the virtual world and real world. At the 1st level of reality, ideas and concept, the game is meant to be an alternate reality for users to live out another life as a different character archetype rather than theirContinue reading “Blog 6”

When it comes to movies we are often deceived by clichés. As an example, scene where a man is walking away from an explosion completely unscathed. In reality, the man’s back would be burnt quite severely. As for media, we’re heavily deceived/influenced based on the bias and or the author’s self-authenticized word. For example, IContinue reading “Prompt 4”