The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter (2015; Review)

Posted by Curtis C. in Book Reviews, Modern Culture, Non-Medieval, Pedagogy

Game-based learning is “Gamification’s” cousin from around the bend. Sure, they are mighty similar and come from the same family, but each are drastically different; where one, Gamification, takes the non-gaming and turns it into a game, the other, Game-based learning, centers around pre-made games meant to explicitly function as games. Sometimes, the two don’t…Read more »

January 8, 2019August 10, 2018

Wizards & Warriors (Game Impressions)

Posted by Curtis C. in Game Impressions, Game Reviews, Undergraduate Posts

I was on YouTube recently and I watched a speedrun for Awesome Games Done Quickly (AGDQ). For those who do not know, speed running is when players, using a variety of tips and tricks, “run” through a game as quickly as they can; sometimes special conditions are applied to the run, other times not. Regardless,…Read more »

December 3, 2018October 13, 2018

The Stronghold (2017;Yuri Kovalev)

Posted by Curtis C. in Film Reviews, Modern Culture, Undergraduate Posts

As a palate cleanser from the low-budget drivial I force myself to consume, I decided to watch The Stronghold, a 2017 film by director Yuri Kovalev. Did it perform its necessary role and remove the sludge from my mouth? Yes, for the most part; aside from the Racism (?), more on that later. First things…Read more »

September 7, 2018August 27, 2018

Disenchantment (Season 1 Review)

Posted by Curtis C. in Film Reviews, Modern Culture, Undergraduate Posts

I guess I’ll never be a top-notch review superstar since it took me several days to work my way through Matt Groening’s new Netflix exclusive series Disenchantment. To be fair, I had a good reason– the show was meh. Now, let me be honest, as a child I, like many others, grew up on Growning’s…Read more »

August 27, 2018

Initial Thoughts on “Graveyard Keeper”

Posted by Curtis C. in Game Impressions, Modern Culture, Musings, Undergraduate Posts

Graveyard Keeper was on my mind ever since I heard about it a couple of months before its August 15 release. It sounded interesting– a more challenging Stardew Valley clone centered on “historically inaccurate” village life. It sounded neat; even more so since it took place in the middle ages. Since this blog is centered…Read more »

February 27, 2018January 7, 2018

Bleach and the Feudal System of the Spirit Society

Posted by Curtis C. in Modern Culture, Undergraduate Posts

Another Anime I enjoyed when I was younger, Bleach was a show which I only gradually came to appreciate in the second season when Ichigo– our default male protagonist– launches an incursion into the Soul Society, that place where all Soul Reapers live and work. Done to save the life of Yukia, the reaper who saved him…Read more »

February 4, 2018July 25, 2018

Warrior-Poets: a new breed of champion!

Posted by Curtis C. in Culture of Days Gone By, Minutia, Undergraduate Posts

When we think of poets in contemporary times, what do we imagine? Maybe if we are conservative then a liberal or hippy liberal arts college student, someone spouting fluffy ideas of social-democratic intent; if we are liberal, then maybe we think of the romantic allure of poetry as an art form, foregoing its deeper roots…Read more »

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