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136 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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159 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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202 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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204 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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211 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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