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For the Benefit of Mankind
Something I came across recently that seemed interesting in a terrifying way was this article about religion and technology, by Kelly Hayes. It discusses the popularity in the technology industry of transhumanism, a philosophy that technological advances will lead to … Continue reading →
Posted in Capitalism, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Current Events, Economics, Global Warming, Philosophy, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, Science, Technology | Tagged apocalypse, artificial intelligence, bible, computers, elon musk, fascism, friedrich nietzsche, galatians, j.d. vance, kelly hayes, mars, nationalism, peter thiel, robots, transhumanism, ubermensch |
Focused on the Future
We’ve now seen all of Season Twelve of Futurama, which I think is part of the ninth production season because of all the weirdness with how the show was originally aired. I noticed that, while there were still some commentaries … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Big Bang, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Current Events, Futurama, Games, Humor, Monsters, Science, Technology, Television, The Simpsons, Toys | Tagged aliens, amy wong, beanie babies, bender bending rodriguez, bender's game, bill nye, buggalo, cara delevigne, chatbots, coffee, encyclopedia brown, fashion, hardy boys, hedonism bot, hermes conrad, hypnosis, jack-in-the-box, john steinbeck, kif kroker, kyle mclachlan, levar burton, lrrr, mermaids, moths, nancy drew, ndnd, philip j. fry, pin the tail on the donkey, planet express, professor hubert farnsworth, robert burns, robots, scruffy the janitor, starbucks, tim gunn, tintin, turanga leela, vampires |
She Sees Color
Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures, by Walter Moers – Rumo of Zamonia made a brief appearance in the first book in the Zamonia series, but this story does not intersect with that one, although it takes place in the same … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Ethnicity, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Language, Magic, Monsters, Names, Oz, Plays, Politics, Relationships, Technology, William Shakespeare | Tagged a feast for crows, a song of ice and fire, arya stark, cersei lannister, chromatacia, demons, george r.r. martin, lindworms, lura, red side story, robots, romeo and juliet, rumo and his miraculous adventures, rumo of zamonia, sansa stark, shades of grey: the road to high saffron, the 13 1/2 lives of captain bluebear, the monstrous misses mai, tommen baratheon, trolls, van hoang, walter moers, westeros, wolpertinger, zamonia |
Zeromus Mission
Since I finally managed to beat Zeromus (and I was kind of surprised when I did), I suppose I should say some more about Final Fantasy IV. This was the second game in the series to be released in North … Continue reading →
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Final Fantasy, Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Technology, Video Games | Tagged bards, black mages, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, classical elements, crystals, dark knight, dragoons, edward geraldine, eidolons, elemental fiends, fabul, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, four fiends, game boy advance, giant of babil, golbez, jupiter, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, lunarians, mars, monks, moon, mysidia, ninjas, odin, paladin, robots, rosa joanna farrell, rydia of mist, sages, summoned monsters, super nintendo entertainment system, tellah, troia, white mages, yang fang leiden, zemus, zeromus |
Let Me Kluya In
I’ve reached Zeromus, the final boss in Final Fantasy IV (the Game Boy Advance version), but haven’t been able to beat him. I can’t really think of anything to do other than just leveling up some more, but I suppose … Continue reading →
Posted in Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Technology, Video Games | Tagged a.e. van vogt, airships, black destroyer, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cid pollendina, coeurl, damcyan, displacer beasts, dragoons, dungeons and dragons, fabul, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy vi, fusoya, game boy advance, gil, golbez, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, kluya, lunar whale, lunarians, minwu, moon, mysidia, palamecian empire, pigs, ricard highwind, robots, toads, tower of zot, transformation, weapons, zemus, zeromus |
Follow the Improbable Road
Thistlefoot, by GennaRose Nethercott – This is a retelling of the Baba Yaga legend specifically linking it to the pogroms against Russian Jews. In New Orleans in the present, the witch’s descendants, a shapeshifting street performer and a woodworker who can … Continue reading →
Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology, up-and-under, Video Games | Tagged a. deborah baker, airships, angels, baba yaga, bahamut, bible, bikke, dan frey, dawn of souls, demons, dr. unne, dreambound, dwarves, elves, esther j. hamori, flitz stewart, flying fortress, four fiends, gennarose nethercott, giants, god's monsters, green man, impossible city, improbable road, kaimeiji yuu, kraken, leviathan, lufenia, manga, marilith, matoya, nephilim, noah's ark, princess sara, puffy tolte, robots, satan, seraphim, thistlefoot, tiamat, under the smokestrewn sky, unicorns, witches |
You’ve Got a Fiend in Me
I wrote a bit about the Four Fiends from Final Fantasy before, but I’ve since thought of more to say. Four of the main bosses in the first games, they’re associated with the four classical elements, and are causing the destruction … Continue reading →
Posted in Babylonian, Buddhism, Comics, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Gender, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Religion, Technology, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 8-bit theater, ahriman, archfiends, bahamut, baramos, barbariccia, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cerberus, chaos, classical elements, dante alighieri, demons, dhuran, dinosaurs, divine comedy, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragons, dualhead hydra, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, echidna, elemental fiends, enuma elish, excalibur, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy stranger of paradise, final fantasy vi, flamerus rex, four fiends, four heavenly kings, game boy advance, gardner fox, garland, gary gygax, general beatrix, golbez, golems, guardians of terra, gutsco, hans christian andersen, hydra, ice golem, inferno, kaimeiji yuu, kain highwind, kali, kary, kingdom of baron, kraken, kuja, land turtle, lich, light warriors, lilith, lufenia, malebranche, mara, marduk, marilith, mermaids, mortamor, mount ordeals, nagas, orthros, pazuzu, phylactery, quena quen, ramayana, robots, rubicante, salamanders, scarmiglione, siddhartha gautama, skullrus rex, stone golem, tataka, the little mermaid, the sword of the sorcerer, tiamat, time loops, titans, twinhead wyvern, two-headed dragon, ultros, vile four, wyverns, yang fang leiden, zidane tribal, zoma, zuh |
Going to the Temple and We’re Gonna Kill Chaos
I recently played through the original Final Fantasy on Game Boy Advance. That game was important to me growing up; I received the NES cartridge for my thirteenth birthday, and eventually made it through the whole thing, underleveled throughout most of it … Continue reading →
Posted in Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Names, Technology, Video Games | Tagged airships, beavers, cagnazzo, chaos, chaos shrine, chupon, dawn of souls, dragons, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elemental fiends, elves, fairies, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, flying fortress, four fiends, game boy advance, garland, gilgamesh, koppe, lufenia, mermaids, nintendo entertainment system, nintendo power, onrac, orthros, piscodemons, robots, typhon, ultros |
A Game of Clones
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – I’ve been watching this series on and off for a few years now, in between other things when I could find the time. It’s been so long since I watched the earlier episodes that … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Conspiracy Theories, Magic, Names, Star Wars, Technology, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged admiral trench, ahsoka tano, anakin skywalker, attack of the clones, c-3po, cad bane, clone wars, darth maul, dathomir, duchess satine of mandalore, emperor palpatine, jedi, mandalore, obi-wan kenobi, r2-d2, robots, sith, the clone wars, witchcraft |
Wyld Stallyns Rule!
Since so many long-dormant franchises have been resurfacing as of late, it’s not all that surprising that we got a new Bill and Ted movie. It came out three years ago now, but we only just got around to watching … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Celebrities, History, Humor, Language, Music, Technology, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged afterlife, alex winter, aliens, bill and ted, bill and ted face the music, bill and ted's bogus journey, bill and ted's excellent adventure, chuck de nomolos, death, genghis khan, go-go's, grim reaper, heaven, hell, jane wiedlin, jimi hendrix, joan of arc, keanu reeves, ling lun, Louis Armstrong, mars, napoleon bonaparte, poison, robots, sigmund freud, st. dismas, the seventh seal, time travel, wolfgang amadeus mozart, wyld stallyns |