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How Season 1 Set Up Season 2 for Failure | Arcane
Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Literary Machine! On today’s episode, I explain how Season 1 set up Season 2 to not be anywhere near as good. To address that asterisk, failure is a strong word and, no, I don’t think Season 2 is a failure at all. It’s incredibly difficult to strike lightning…
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Assassin’s Creed: Why Video Game Adaptations Fail
Good day, everyone! This is K.O. Lynn and we’re going to talk about another one of Ubisoft’s foibles. I know you’re excited. My sincere condolences to all those who have been affected by Ubisoft’s recent layoffs. I know how unfair that all feels and Ubisoft has had a rather awful track record as a business…
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The Tragically Undercooked Story of Final Fantasy XVI
Good day, everyone, and welcome to the first podcast in Season 2! I am your host K.O. Lynn and this podcast is a means of deconstructing stories from pop culture, noting their strengths and pinpointing their weaknesses via constructive criticism. This week’s podcast is about Final Fantasy 16. I describe the story as ‘undercooked’ because…
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Ep 10. The Creator – Story Analysis
Amidst all of the new hubbub about this AI generation stuff, a new film, The Creator, saw its release. In this movie, AI developed from mere algorithms spitting back facsimile of human intelligence to outright humanistic androids/robots. The premise of the story is that the ‘West’ (the US) decided AI had gone too far and…
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