Quackcast 676 - Baby it's cold outside, cultural context

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 27, 2024

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Oh baby it's cold outside… That's a tricky song, well it's not really but a few years ago the silly pop-culture warriors on Twitter started acting as if the song was all “rapey” with ...


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Character Upbringing

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 17, 2023



In the whole “show don't tell” thing that is the holy grail of ‘good storytelling’ (yes but not always, this is for a newspost of another time) what they usually don't tell you is that behavioral patterns are your friend.

To show rather than tell, you need to ...



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Quackcast 634 - Boomer-myth

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 9, 2023

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Generational tensions are a cultural constant. It's popular to pick on the young and say they're lazy, irresponsible, stupid, changing things in silly ways etc ...



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Quackcast 634 - Boomer-myth

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 9, 2023

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Generational tensions are a cultural constant. It's popular to pick on the young and say they're lazy, irresponsible, stupid, changing things in silly ways etc ...



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Quackcast 631 - Entitlements

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 18, 2023

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What rights are people actually entitled to? That question is a lot bigger than you think!
The Quackcast today is sequel to last week's about entitled ...




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Tough Love vs. Abuse

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2023



Tough love is so cool, eh? It's going to magic the “whining” right out of you, won't it? You just need to stick out through the harshness, and then when you reap the benefits, you'll realize your tough loving benefactor had the right idea. You'll be ...

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Your politics vs. Your characters' politics

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 10, 2022



Okay, this is a semi-rant and train of thought post, because I've had a couple whiskey and I'm Having Thoughts About Things. You have been warned.

There was one thing that always bothered me in villains that monologue in movies (I also see it in how social media ...



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Our Relationship With Death

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 29, 2022



It's almost Halloween!

…and it isn't part of my culture. It's only recently started to become a “novelty thing” in Greece, and we totally don't quite get it the way people who actually celebrate it likely do. So I don't want to talk about Halloween ...



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Fantastic Bestiary 13: The Galerian

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Sept. 18, 2022



This is gonna be a bit of an obscure pop cultural Fantastic Bestiary rundown, but heck with it, it’s my article series and I’m doing it anyway. I’m gonna talk about the Galerians today. To start off, Galerians is a tank-control style survival horror video game for ...

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Bond villains vs. Batman villains

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Sept. 4, 2022



This is just a curious little topic that have recently come to my mind. From time to time I’ve seen people in popular media make comparisons between James Bond and Batman. First time I encountered this comparison was in an episode of Friends long ago. And I see people ...

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