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139 weeks
Haze's Haunted School for Haiku

Long ago in an ancient era, I promised to post my own advice guide on writing haiku, since I'd written a couple for a story. People liked some of them, so maybe I knew a few things that might be helpful. And I really wanted to examine some of the rules of the form, how they're used, how they're broken.
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162 weeks
Studio Ghibli, Part 1: How Miyazaki Directs Slapstick

I used to think quality animation entirely boiled down to how detailed and smooth the character drawings were. In other words, time and effort, so it's simply about getting as much funding as possible. I blame the animation elitists for this attitude. If not for them, I might've wanted to become an animator myself. They killed all my interest.
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205 weeks
Can't think of a title.

For years, every time someone says "All Lives Matter" I'm reminded of this quote:
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207 weeks
I first heard of this from that weird 90s PC game

Not long ago I discovered that archive.org has free videos of every episode from Connections: An Alternative View of Change.
https://archive.org/details/ConnectionsByJamesBurke
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213 weeks
fairness

This is a good video (hopefully it works in all browsers, GDC's site is weird) about fairness in games. And by extension, stories.
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025683/Board-Game-Design-Day-King
Preferences are preferences, but some of them are much stronger than that. Things that feel wrong to us. Like we want to say, "that's not how stories should go!"
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Sep

11th

2018

9/10 · 3:06am Sep 11th, 2018

it's my birthday

I never keep New Year's Resolutions, because I never make any. Something about that time of year feels wrong for meaningful changes, because it's like the big RESET back to our routines after all those holidays. But maybe my birthday is a more fitting time for a bold new beginning. It's always felt that way to me.

I'm pretending like it's my tradition, but I only decided on it last night. I'll make it my tradition now.

AND THEN one of my friends informs me it's currently Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. Whaaaaat?
I feel like Sun Wukong, unable to escape the Buddha's palm.