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A random post as I wrap up my final paper...

Originally I was going to cover multiple types of fanfiction, but had to narrow that down. However in that stage of looking up fanfiction genres, I ran across Tetris fanfiction.

http://www.fanfiction.net/game/Tetris/

Now what I've read so far is not that great, but I thought it was interesting that people decided to write fanfiction about this particular game. We mentionged Tetris a while back and i never posted it, but... If you get bored, take a look. It can become quite amusing.

So I only got to two endings in the Abominable Snowman before Tuesday's class. Since I was a kid I felt like if I went back and chose another route, it'd be like cheating- I had to live with whatever choice I'd made. I couldn't chose another one just because I didn't like it.
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[soclosetome1980 wrote: I think that sometimes the feelings a narrative evokes within individuals can define it based on importance.]

I agree. I think any narrative's importance is based on the reaction from the audience (reader, viewer, etc.). Its effect on society is based on that importance, so really... we allow it to change our world.
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So this past Sunday, I went into D.C. to see a restoration play called The Way of the World with my History of Theatre class. One of the lines that got a big laugh was said by an old male character once almost every character was on stage in the final act: "Hey day!
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I've always loved the cover of Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters, because it must take skill to create an image that can be seen as either a clown or a woman. But you can't see both at once- you have to force your perspective to see it one way or the other. Looking at it 'right-side-up' as shown one the cover, it's a woman. If you look at it upside-down, it's a clown. I personally think that's fascinating how someone can draw two pictures in one, and how it's possible to know that there are two ways of seeing it, but only being able to see one at a time.
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Oh man.... That is quit possibly the most depressing game ever. Seriously, I didn't really get the point of it to begin with, but then I saw that the characters were getting older. But when the woman just DIED out of nowhere and the man was all hunched over and sad, I got depressed, too. So I played again, and they died right around the same area. I then had a friend from down the hall play, and he got them farther into a white-ish kind of background by collecting little colorful hearts or something. So I guess the premise is to collect life points and then they get to live longer.
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