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Category: Essay

  • Essay

How We Like Our Geniuses: Unemotional Except for When They’re Very Emotional

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on February 4, 2018February 4, 2018

A look at the well worn Emotionally Detached Genius character archetype, and what necessary to make it work and keep it from being just another douchebag.

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  • Essay

Favorite Five: Stories of Characters Accepting Their Mortality and Death

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on February 3, 2018February 3, 2018

My favorite stories of characters facing their own mortality and deaths.

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  • Essay

Save Yourself – The Dangers of the Depressive Hero Complex

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 31, 2018April 7, 2019

How Bojack and Doki Doki Literature Club show us the perils of trying to “save” someone with depression

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  • Essay

Watching the Oscars: My Advice

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 24, 2018January 24, 2018

A tip on watching the Oscars: go into it the same way you would an episode of MST3K

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  • Essay

The Well Balanced Media Diet & The Case for Cheesy Melodrama

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 16, 2018

On my love of Riverdale and the importance of just enjoying what you enjoy, without apology.

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  • Essay

The Buried Narrative – Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild v. Bloodborne

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 11, 2018March 18, 2019

Taking a look at how the “medium is the message,” by way of a story telling method that is completely unique to video games.

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  • Essay

The End of the F***ing World Review – Unsurprisingly Bleak

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 9, 2018February 23, 2019

Full review of Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World, not for everyone but still recommended.

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The End of the F***ing World As I Know It (and I Feel like S***)

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 8, 2018

Netflix keeps up a strong track record of accurately and empathetically representing depression with The End of the F***ing World (so far).

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