Joe Cecil

Confused stances? of submission and rebellion

I'm noticing a pattern of relating (which I want to call dysfunctional) that is about power. There is a subject and an authority. For example: A student and a teacher. A less-experienced person and a more-experienced person. A younger person and an older person. From the student/less-experienced/

Viewing utterances as open invitations

Visa has a thread about good reply game, and in that thread he brings in the idea of viewing utterances as invitations. A tricky thing here is — how? There are so many possibilities. Taking the thread collectively as an utterance — what does it invite? I can imagine lots of possibilities:

Zagreus is named in ancient Greek plays

I had thought that Hades' developers invented Zagreus to be the game's protagonist, but apparently not. Apparently he is referenced in surviving fragments of plays by a Greek playwright named Aeschylus and by another named Euripides.

Drawing of the Three's minor characters

(Spoilers for Drawing of the Three.) I'm slowly reading through The Dark Tower following the Kingslingers podcast (which is, yes, now three years old). I just finished Drawing of the Three. This book had a lot of great minor characters. To name a few: 1. Jane the flight

Yuppie Psycho has ~good endings, but no Good Ending

(Major spoilers for Yuppie Psycho, of course.) Yuppie Psycho has five or six different endings. Some of them are good. None is A Good Ending. Yuppie Psycho's endings include: 1. Getting fired by the asshole Hugo and leaving the company and everyone in it to rot, including all

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