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Unpacking the last hours of The Last of Us Part II

The Last of Us Part II Ending Explained

This article contains spoilers (As I hope you all could surmise from the title) Let’s start with genocide. That’s the final solution Isaac Dixon, Abby’s boss and leader of the Wolves, found for the Seraphite problem: if he kills every single member of this rival faction fighting him for land, then there will be no one left to take revenge. …

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Male Oppression in Carmilla

The novella Carmilla, written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, presents a female vampire who begins a peculiar relationship with her victim: instead of treating the young Laura just as prey, Carmilla tries to befriend her. For the female vampire, sucking blood is not enough; she must enter her victim’s private life, becoming a part of it. However, that intimacy, homosexual …

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Does Octopath Traveler have a bigger narrative?

  —> This article contains spoilers for Octopath Traveler. “The game is not your typical epic JRPG, ambitious and epic, but is very modest in scope, telling stories that never intertwine to form a big narrative” When I wrote my review of Octopath Traveler I thought this fragment merited a more in-depth analysis. After all, there is a late-game sidequest …

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