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that is one bad song

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Rez is just Tetris at a vibrating rave party.

Rez is the point where rail shooters and music games collide. Designed by Tetsuya Mizuguchi of Lumines and Meteos fame, this 1998 Dreamcast/PlayStation 2 game was re-released in HD for Xbox Live Arcade a few years ago. And if you love ra… Continue reading

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this is a brilliant idea and if it were a free roa…

this is a brilliant idea and if it were a free roaming game the driving game play could resemble that of battlefield 3 driving or dead island. Continue reading

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The winter classic logo is awesome. So, I presume …

The winter classic logo is awesome. So, I presume the winter classic jerseys will be fantastic for sure. Continue reading

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Forget you and your Shark Hate, Street Sharks rule…

Forget you and your Shark Hate, Street Sharks rule! Continue reading

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[ Eejits and Sex Puppets ]

  Of everything we’re read this semester, the eejits in House of the Scorpion are strangely similar to the sex puppets from Neuromancer. Because House of the Scorpion is a young adult novel and, as far as I’ve read, does not feature any blatant sex, I feel a little strange comparing it to Neuromancer, which didn’t shy away from […] Continue reading

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The House of the Scorpion vs. Blindsight: paratext

Upon starting Nancy Farmer’s young adult novel The House of the Scorpion, I was taken aback by the wealth of information. Not at the end of the book, but at the beginning appears a short appendix: a cast of characters and family tree.This imm… Continue reading

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THOTS- Replication

I would say that the most compelling piece found in “the house of the Scorpion” by Nancy Farmer would be the theme of replicating human life/characteristics. This means that the authors in most of the science fiction works that we’ve examined so far have had a protagonist or MC in the story attempt to create […] Continue reading

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House of the Scorpion

The first big difference I noticed with this novel is how much it lacks typical sci-fi motifs.  There is no significant advancement of technology or any alien encounters.  The world is not in absolute disaster as people struggle to cope with how much the world has changed. There is especially a lack of weird sex as […] Continue reading

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House of Scorpion

Before I go into the difference in House of Scorpions, I wanted to note a couple of things. This book is fairytale-ish, yet it tackles the very thorny social issue of cloning. The names of the characters are particularly interesting because of their actual meanings compared to the meanings in the text/context: Matteo – gift […] Continue reading

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