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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

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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?

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This article contains spoilers for Octopath Traveler (as I hope you would have guessed). “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, …

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