It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince The time we spend on this earth is finite, limited, claustrophobic and constricted spite modern society claiming freedom is what we are born with, and that we can use this freedom to do …
Show that living holds worth enough to fight for! Seneschal, “Final Judgment” – Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen On my down time I replayed the cult classic Capcom game Dragon’s Dogma, the high fantasy, dark world classic from 2011 which I have vivid memories of when downloading the demo to repeatedly play the tutorial, kill the …
“In war, not everyone is a soldier.” Tagline, This War of Mine In a brutal winter night forecast by the clunky FM radio, I scavenge for the fourth night in a row, feeling less like a ninja and more of a rat trying to hide in dirt. The freezing wind rips through my already tattered …
What makes us human? What is the consciousness? Can an AI develop a consciousness? How human are we when we lose individuality? Part of our humanity is derived from a consciousness, or, the ability to perceive the world around us. Emotions and feelings are born through struggle and battle. In Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid …
When the end of the world arrives, will you be ready? An indeterminate amount of media and literature covers our impending doom, whether that be climate change, a supernova, aliens invading our earth and so on. The zombie, however, is noted to be a sudden onset of societal degradation. Their existence always provokes a catastrophe, …
Having played through Horizon: Zero Dawn leaves my mind wracked with contemplations. Admittedly, the tribal culture theme didn’t stick much with me as my interest lies more so in the technological developments of humanity’s preservation methods and… well, robots. This game was simply charming in its approach to uncovering secrets of the Old Ones and …
Questions without answers are tantamount to an ever-consuming black hole. On the surface, it is not knowing incites a great thrill in chasing the answer, in harboring the cornerstone of discovery. On a deeper level, we might find questions to have such weight and brevity to cause an existential crisis: where did reality come from? …
“I’m not religious but I can see why people would be, the privilege of being makes a strong case, every once in a while.” Dr. Chun. In completing Frictional Games’ latest horror-esque IP SOMA, I found myself burgeoning with questions and thoughts on the overall concept of “humanity” and what it means to exist in …