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...players of Final Fantasy video games have been caring about pixels ever since the series debuted in 1987. These are 60-hour games with tangled epic storylines, each set in a completely different visual universe which usually combines magic and technology, spells and broadswords with the semi-salvaged husks of tarnished chrome machinery. Your character is always a thief or a disillusioned soldier, caught between well-meaning extremists and omnipotent conglomerates on a landscape of moral ambiguity. You play to watch the animation, to find out what happens next...
From what can be glimpsed of the costume design, some interesting choices in anachronistic and semi-nude dress have been made. The reason for the choices is never made apparent by the production. The guess is that they were supposed to look cool but, again because of the lighting, it’s hard to tell...
...Kit’s poems by making them the product of a high-school student, and of Falin’s by presenting them only in translations—which are, we understand, far inferior to the rhymed, rhythmic originals. But if the reader is to share the semi-religious experiences of Kit and Falin, the poetry in question must be more than mere scaffolding to advance the author’s themes...
This year’s April Fools Day brought its usual dose of idiocy, along with some semi-amusing pranks, some good one-liners, and one of two jokes that were actually convincing, if only for a minute or two. But I think my favorite of this year’s crop of April Fools jokes has to be the article the Yale Daily News (YDN) ran, in which reporter “Art Anderson” (a reference, of course, to the beleaguered accounting firm involved in the Enron debacle) reported that Yale’s endowment had taken...
Whether the railways should be completely privatized or whether it should remain a semi-governmental operation, it must be given the best opportunity to improve its service. This will not be achieved through the current national-government-controlled-company design...