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The Terminator seems to be an ideal candidate for being a horror monster under Carroll’s conception. Why then does it not inspire horror from the start? And possibly more importantly, when does it become horrific?
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(This was an abstract I wrote for a conference paper that has not been accepted yet.) “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they
As an exercise in learning game design, I hand each student some paper and a D6 and ask them to come up with a game
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I walked into work this morning while listening to the lectures on a set of bluetooth headphones. I sat under a tree outside my office