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Although it draws on local cultural elements with deep roots, its liberal appropriation of international cultural markers and storytelling conventions has spared it to an extent from associations with Chinese nationalism. Indeed, when developers can’t find appropriate visual reference material for elements of the xianxia canon, they often default to “Westernizing” it.
How Video Games Fueled the Rise of Chinese Fantasy
sixthtone.com
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System Integrity Protection: The Misunderstood Setting
khronokernel.github.io
But, for connoisseurs of C-SPAN, serial failure made for riveting television, at least by that network’s normal production standards, which veer more toward vintage Soviet broadcasts than toward “Real Housewives” or the N.F.L. on Fox. The usual approach features locked-down cameras focussed tightly on individual speechmakers, a rigid mise en scène only occasionally enlivened by a wide-angle shot of the House floor, as if cutting to security-camera footage. But as the G.O.P. butted heads with its own rump faction, humiliating the Party’s nominal head Kevin McCarthy through round after round of losses, C-SPAN’s cameras, freed from their normal strictures for reasons we’ll get to in a moment, were panning and zooming and cutting back and forth with an almost cinematic brio.
C-Span Unleashes Its Inner Scorsese
newyorker.com
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