Joshua on June 18th, 2009

It is rather strange – whenever I think of marriage, I don’t really think about what I expect my wife to be like. Other people may have dreams and expectations about what their perfect wife would be like, but I don’t do that very much. Instead, I find myself pondering more about it means to [...]

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Joshua on June 6th, 2009

Lately, I’ve been seriously thinking about changing my Master’s thesis topic away from “Nonverbal Communication Channels for NPC Interaction” to “Video Games as a tool for Christian Education”. In other words, I’m thinking about making the object of my research and the object of my hobby the same thing – make a Christian video game, [...]

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Joshua on June 2nd, 2009

I was browsing through Scott McCloud’s books the other day. Scott McCloud is a Western comics artist, and he has authored a graphic novel called Understanding Comics, which is considered to be the classic and best textbook reference for the study of comics as a medium. Anyway, I just skimmed through some of his ideas, [...]

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Joshua on May 16th, 2009

I recently finished reading the Ender saga novels by Orson Scott Card. However, apart from the powerful stories and themes in the novels themselves, what struck me the most was his philosophy and thoughts about writing, which he put into the preface of his books. Very thought-provoking insights into the nature of how to write [...]

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Joshua on May 14th, 2009

Whoa.
I just had an eye-opening experience.
I was reading a typical Korean shoujo manhwa (Korean comicĀ  aimed at teenage girls – usually featuring one ordinary but pretty girl caught in a love triangle between two guys. Best-known example would probably be Goong/Gung/Princess Hours.) In this case, the manhwa My Girl was about a sports-loving girl who [...]

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