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I too tried out McVideogame over break. I tend to not really excel in games akin to SimCity without a cheat. And since this game didn't have a cheat, corporate fired me several times for bankrupting the company. All I have to say is "I didn't want the job anyway, McDonalds!"

Truth is this videogame is kind of a force to be reckoned with. I mean the subject matter is intense even if it comes off as a bit sarcastic and passive aggressive, it's what I would think to be a very economically and socially accurate representation of the production tank that is McDonalds.
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I tried. I really genuinely tried very hard to make it to the end of this game. But I got lost beyond my own abilities in the "Sky-Blue" part. And I really like the color sky-blue so that just added insult to injury right there.
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I really have nothing to say about ELIZA besides the fact that I appreciated having a good laugh and doing a little bit of "Interactivity" research for my English class at the same time. Down side, she kind of drove me nuts and my conclusions seem a bit vague.
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I really liked our discussion last class about reality TV. I feel like these are some "narratives" that go unnoticed. It was good that we divided it up into different forms though. And even after our discussion, I still can't help but feel like there should be a clear cut-off distinction between scripted reality and un-scripted reality. Even though there are constructions within all reality (scripted or not) that signify to the audience that this show is to be taken to be real, some shows are more obvious than others when it comes to the real vs. scripted aspects.
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So I thought last class was really really mind boggling. I mean it was a very cool new way of thinking about a "narrative" but it kind of pushed the envelope so much that I had a hard time getting my head across some concepts.
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I figured the lecture would initiate a facinating blog topic discussion. I mean I never really thought of mash-ups, political or otherwise, as a form of narrative separate from what they orrigionally began as. I suppose the same could be said about most things. Once a type of media is taken and reconstructed to a certain creator (author) bias, it's no longer viewed or considered simply a peice of media, but now has a story with character all it's own. It's a really interesting concept.
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When reading the first chapter of Avatars of Story, I found myself a bit confused early on. The quote in the beginning made by Roland Barthes that talks about the many different types of media where a narrative is present. All really made sense to me except maybe painting and news item, perhaps because a painting can be so abstract, and a news item is relating a peice of factual information rather than a fictional occurance. But I suppose I became confused at Ryan's explanation thereafter about how far we've come in "narratology";
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Last class I think cleared up a lot of difficulties I was having with this class in general. Breaking down narrative vocab between the Story and the Discourse helped me understand and recognize the individual nuances of not only the narratives we've been required to read, but also those around me everyday.
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So I'm totally being an overachiever right now, but I figured I'd get the easy hw done first...just played passage. Wow. I mean that video game kind of takes perverse pleasure in slapping you in the face at the end. Of course it'd really pretty beautiful and artistic, but my God, I was soo depressed at the end when I died. Shoot, I started getting depressed when I realized I was ageing. No fun. I guess we all get pretty caught up in normal video games where everyone's superhuman, and when you die you just regenerate.
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