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Understanding otaku-hood, I think, is one of the keys to understanding the culture of the Web. There is something profoundly postnational about it, extra-geographic. We are all curators, in the postmodern world, whether we want to be or not.
Distrust That Particular Flavor
William Gibson
well, Parker and Stone explained that as they storyboard each scene in their show, they have found that they must be able to connect the scenes (they refer to them as beats) with a but or a therefore for the next scene to work. If the words and then can be placed between any two scenes, Parker says, "You're fucked.
Matt Stone says it's this "causation between each scene that makes a story." This happens, therefore that happens, but then this happens, therefore that happens.
Storyworthy
Matthew Dicks and Dan Kennedy
She understood realpolitik. Principles were important, but all of them cracked at the extremes. At some point, under some circumstances, everyone became a pragmatist.
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