Robinson L maintains a livejournal account under the handle Arkan2, where he reviews and/or rants about books, movies, tv shows, his college, and politics. Reportedly crashed into an asteroid in late 2004 and died a fiery death. He got better. He aspires to be (in no particular order) a successful author, an activist, and a parent.
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2014-03-05 20:00 - A Glass of Dickness -
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I forgot about this for like, ever, but it's too good an observation to pass up.
Corith grew up in privilege in a society where people who look like him are in charge and his own tribe is one of the most powerful, in a culture which po...
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2014-03-05 15:00 - The White Wolf's Rehash -
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Always enjoy another Moorcock review (kinda sad the series is nearing completion).
the Rose speaks overtly about there being functional and dysfunctional versions of Law and Chaos and gives specific names to the dysfunctional versions ...
- 2014-03-03 16:00 - We're Gonna Have a Pirate Party Tonight (Well Alright!) - link Sorry, impossible to tell if you're being serious or facetious over the internet - in the review, you say "the experience of being a pirate" is supported to an equal or greater extent than itself. Which I can only presume is either a joke that I don't get,...
- 2014-03-03 15:30 - We're Gonna Have a Pirate Party Tonight (Well Alright!) - link Okay, so I'm a little bit familiar with the Assassin's Creed series, though I've never played them and didn't even know this particular game even existed previously. My sisters got the first two games shortly after Christmas, and seem to be...
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2014-03-01 22:36 - So Is Monopoly Crap, or What? -
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The second reason there's nothing ironic about the Landlord's Game winding up as Monopoly is that there is no reason on Earth to assume that a board game endorses the core behaviours of its gameplay.
Assuming for the sake of ar... - 2014-01-29 15:15 - Look Upon My Pigs, Ye Mighty, and Despair - link Yes, sorry for the confusion, there; I was playing around with an ambiguity in one of Arthur's earlier comments. I considered linking to another post I'd made after getting my Ferretbrain id which expressed similar sentiments, but the old comment ...
- 2014-01-29 03:30 - Look Upon My Pigs, Ye Mighty, and Despair - link I do believe in fairies! I do! I do! In any case, Arthur, I take your vote of confidence in the accuracy of my self-assessment in the spirit it was intended ... whatever that s...
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2014-01-29 00:30 - Look Upon My Pigs, Ye Mighty, and Despair -
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This didn't work, but that's because Naziism has more in common with a paranoid fantasy than a political philosophy.
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2014-01-28 15:30 - Look Upon My Pigs, Ye Mighty, and Despair -
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arguably the Holocaust was in perfect alignment with their self-interest from their point of view.
Sure, you could say that, although in context I understood "self-interest" to be interpreted very much in the Machiavellian r... - 2014-01-24 15:30 - The Stereotype Business - link Interesting argument, Dan. You make good points, but I'm also inclined to sympathize with the arguments put forward by Abigail and others above. I think one of the consequences of capitalism's hyper-rational ethos (or is it mythos?) is that the extent ...
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2014-01-24 15:00 - Look Upon My Pigs, Ye Mighty, and Despair -
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Coming in for yet another installment of Robinson Comments on a Review of a
MovieBookGame he has Never and Probably Will NeverWatchReadPlay:whilst the World Wars...
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2014-01-16 15:00 - Rethinking Prometheus -
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No, you are misunderstanding my take on alchemy.
Ah, I see. When you saidpaired with religious, mystical symbology we have all been immersed in our entire lives, it looks "right and justified". You don't k...
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2014-01-16 03:30 - Rethinking Prometheus -
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Re: protagonists from non-alchemical works whose actions are terrible and get a pass on them
musings and scribblings: Austen's Mansfield Park, perhaps? Henry Crawford is an idiot but a large part of the book's audience believes he was reall...
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2014-01-15 20:36 - Rethinking Prometheus -
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Musings and Scribblings: I have read plenty of paperback Fantasy hard boilers with Alchemical symbolism. I can't bring to mind any that stumbled into the symbols accidentally.
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2014-01-15 00:36 - Rethinking Prometheus -
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James D: The neat thing about LotR is that Tolkien allows for different people preferring different specific systems
While this is true, in The Hobbit and the "Lord of the Rings," at least, among the societies that do ha... - 2014-01-09 22:30 - Rethinking Prometheus - link Sorry I've been so long with my follow-up - been busy with stuff related to holidays and my sister's time off school. Anyway, Re: Tolkien I'll cop to being overly flippant on this one. I've only read The Silmarillion once, several years...
