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  Mapping Kanto Region Over a Town Near You: Pokémon Go and Fantasy in the Everyday

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  Jamie Henthorn Catawba College

  December 15, 2017

  1 comment

  major prize for catching 3 billion pokémon was to have Farfetch’d, typically contained to East Asia ... players lacking the means or availability to travel to East Asia. Ultimately, the mapping of nostalgia ...
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  Re: From ‘Heroes’ to ‘Zeroes’: Producing Fan Vids without Fans

  Blurring Boundaries

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  Elizabeth Evans University of Nottingham

  Friday, February 20, 2009 — 2:55 pm

  I’m sure fans will inevitably become (and possibly already are) savvy about what is going on. Do they ... established boundaries. I realise I’m not the first to say this but it’s something that has become apparent in ...
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  Re: Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party

  Cinematic madness

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Monday, March 16, 2009 — 2:57 pm

  Jeff, this post and clip are so great! What I’m curious about is how this clip (and perhaps Lewis’ ... nauseating real toward which badfilm draws us is on some level a gut-wrenching lurch toward insanity.  I’m ... also are associated with the fringes not just of culture but of sanity—hence the possibility of ...
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  Otherworldly Comedic Legacies, or; Legends Waiting in the Wings

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  Meredith Bak Rutgers University-Camden

  March 25, 2025

  Repeated shots of the star-studded studio audience throughout the evening have hinted at possibilities ... articulating a multi-generational comedic legacy.[2]Instead, Streep strode onstage announcing “I’m here, I’m ... here, I’m here,” blaming her tardiness on bathroom troubles. Neither McKinnon’s contemporary, nor ...
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  Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

  I'm on your farm, stealing your vegetables

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  Alenda Chang University of California, Berkeley

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 10:55 pm

  Popular farm games in Asia (Happy Farm in China and Taiwan, Sunshine Ranch in Japan) have no problem ...
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  British Bhangra Album Sleeves as Artwork

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  Rajinder Dudrah University of Manchester (UK)

  April 16, 2008

  3 comments

  modern day Britons with diasporic heritages and routes from South Asia. Its fitting, then, that British ...
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  Intuition and Education: The Catch 22 of Improv

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  Al Natanagara Freelance

  September 15, 2015

  as badly as they do because I’m obsessed with intuitive improvisation, where every solo is ... guitar,—when I’m improvising over changes, where does the studied music end and the intuitive music begin?  Is ... it possible to separate the two and play on pure creative intuition? I ask that same question of the ...
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  Re: Bodies in Code, and in the Cultural Imaginary

  Taking back the street

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  Christine Mitchell McGill University

  Friday, June 24, 2011 — 3:14 pm

  given it a whirl with a childhood address and the one I’m currently living at. I agree, the marketing ... critical) attention to them (from “why is my street so fuzzy?” to “why is my street not included” to “I’m ... time, possibly bolstering a sense of responsibility for monitoring or managing that place, or that ...
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  Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born

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  Andrea Braithwaite University of Ontario Institute of Technology

  September 07, 2017

  Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born ... scholars call the “possibility space” – what a game makes possible, and impossible, through its design. For ... leave the biker bar, and we can’t say something conciliatory in response.It seems like less is possible ...
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  Re: A New Reconstruction Narrative: Race and BSG

  As with my response to the

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  Tuesday, July 10, 2007 — 2:44 pm

  As with my response to the post on Sharon's Asianess, I'd want to provide a couple of ...

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