Castle Paradox

[slayer]

This mag hasn't been up for a long time... I'm really interested in this...

[Tamaria]

Hey, Rinku...the new mag sounds kewl! Yeah, you can never please everyone so don't even try. Just do what you enjoy and it will be worthwhile, is how I feel about it.

So I will try to dig up that spelling list...it's been a while but I know I still have it around. Good to know that was helpful!

Well, I've got some work to get to, so laterz!

---Tamaria
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There is no darkness without light, or light without darkness...

[Rolling Stone]

The only worry I have is that the broadening focus will be about subjects that you only have limited knowledge in. I've never heard of you being interested in making film, so I wonder whether you can give it the same level of thought as you do video games. I mean you know video games all the way through and that makes you more than a critic or an expert, but also something of a sage on them. But if your only interest in movies is watching them then I probably won't enjoy your film reviews nearly as much as your game articles.

Septa was really the only video game magazine I ever read, perhaps the only one in existence. Gamepro isn't a video game magazine, it's gamers pornography. They show pretty pictures and give us info that's about as deep as a list of turn ons and turn offs. Since Septa was written by people in the heart of underground game development it felt more honest and had better subject matter. Septa was about what went into and came out of a game. So I'm worried that a broadened focus will reduce the entire magazine to little more than a book of reviews, good reviews even, but still, if it's just reviews then I haven't a reason to read it.
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[Rinku]

no, i'm not doing it alone. i'm games editor. film editor is jsangspar. visual art editor is komera. manga editor is harlock. literature editor is someone you don't know. for more on how it works, see http://www.livejournal.com/users/heroists

you'll notice there that it's not just about reviews, either. reviews are only one-third of the content. another third is 'aesthetics' which conists of articles. another third is new artistic content, such as manga and novel serializations (like those old 1800s novels that were published one chapter at a time).

[Rolling Stone]

(This post is about movies, so skip down if you don't care)

I scrolled down a little, you guys over analysed Spirited Away. The theme is obvious from the second we're intoduced to the main character really. I glanced at the back of the box and saw that it was something of an adventure story, and then I saw that the main character was a sissy really, not much of an adventurous type. So by the time the dad decided to stop and see the "abandoned theme park" I already knew that the moral of the story was "explore", and that the theme was "adventure".

It was made with a young audience in mind, but because it's non-Hollywood it wasn't imprisoned by that. It was intelligent and even challenging in it's own way. I was surprised when evil acts perpetrated in the movie were forgiven. I liked that though, I enjoy a movie that ends with everyone learning to live in peace with one another. Dirty Harry and Mad Max always have to go and kill everyone who so much as jaywalks or farts in an elevator, so it was nice to see the crime of people-eating forgiven for the sake of peace and friendship.

Hm.. maybe I should have posted this on the lj entry itself.

P.S. Anything can serve as an allegory for anything when you look at it right. I'm pretty sure Monsters Inc. is a direct allegory for the way that the W. Bush administration handled the power crisis (which is to say "they didn't even attempt to pretend to handle it") but real allegories are incredibly rare. Probably because doing an allegory is stupid as hell when you consider that you could be telling your own stories. I loved Monsters Inc. but the allegory was too heavy and would definitely go above most kids heads. I was politically aware at a young age, and when I was six I wrote a letter to George Bush asking him to do something about the policemen who beat up homeless people for fun and also why he didn't like broccoli, but I don't know a single kid under ten right now with an opinion in politics besides, occasionally, what their parents tell them.
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[Uncommon]

You mentioned the Human Day contest earlier...

I'm still waiting for the official results of the 2001 H-day. I was told by Harlock or Rinku (one of them, I don't remember which) that I was the winner. So... Where's my prize?