Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Parts I and II of this series examined ancient sightings and the physical and mechanical descriptions of so-called fire dragons across various cultures. We considered how distant civilizations described similar mechanical behaviors using comparable imagery. […]Read more at Ancient Pages
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Once a fictional town in Maine, Silent Hill has broken containment and become a transferable oral history mechanism, offered to videogame developers worldwide as a way of investigating, even celebrating local culture. I'm still in two minds about whether this licensing outreach project, begun with Silent Hill f, is more inspired than it is vampiric. I picture Konami's invitation being pushed under the door of potential collaborators like Mary's letter to James in Silent Hill 2: "in our restless dreams, we see that town… let's touch base there sometime, expand our concepts further."
There's opportunity and peril for any studio who answers the letter: opportunity, because Silent Hill is an uncommonly rich way of thinking about the past, with its parallel realities, monster metaphors, and woozy grounding in both mysticism and psychoanalysis. And peril, because licenses have a way of engulfing licensees, forcing them into a straitjacket of tropes: fog, sirens, antagonists with geometric heads. Thankfully, Silent Hill: Townfall's creators Screen Burn (previously No Code) haven't gotten lost in the murk, though I don't think Townfall is their finest creation, not least because it's overreliant on stealth. Like the makers of Silent Hill f, they've taken what they need from Silent Hill to tell a story of their own.
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More retro Nintendo goodies for you with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess reimplementation Dusklight version 2.0 bringing major new features.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Missing Thai woman found strangled in Taiwan freezer
A missing 37-year-old Thai woman has ben found dead, strangled, in a suitcase in an office freezer in Taichung city, Taiwan, a week after her reported disappearance. Her Taiwanese boyfriend, 43, has been arrested and charged with her murder.
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Most 'unfazed' by Senate case: poll
More than half of respondents to a Nida Poll survey are not worried that the Election Commission's decision to prosecute 77 people, including 26 sitting senators, over alleged collusion in the 2024 Senate election will cause political unrest.
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FTI advisor urges balanced use of AI
People should make smart and balanced use of artificial intelligence (AI) to avoid becoming overly dependent on the technology and developing a "rusty brain", despite its growing importance in manufacturing and business operations, according to Supant Mongkolsuthree, honorary chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries.
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