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The Cash-grab Modern Fantasy

The Cash-grab Modern Fantasy

A criticism addressed to modern media, especially concerning fantasy narratives. I wrote this article and criticism, because I love and care about the genre. I want it to thrive, adapt and improve, which can only be achieved through constructive criticism from which we can build.

Food for Thought: Hellenic View of Labour

Food for Thought: Hellenic View of Labour

During the ancient days, if you were working for yourself then you were a free man, up for your own advancement and betterment; however, if you were working for others that was always seen as servitude, you were a slave – a dependant.

Food for Thought: The Illusion of History

Food for Thought: The Illusion of History

History is a narrative, our retelling of reality, of events. And it is a simulacrum, because it is only our relationship between reality and also the retelling of our experiences; thus it is not a direct link to reality, but only a simulation of it.

What is Localisation?

What is Localisation?

In short: it is a step of the translation process. Regarding films, series or video games, this step tends to be categorised as a separate process or activity. However, it is still translation, but with an additional focus on the target culture. For example, it is one thing to translate symbols, metonymy, metaphors or allegory from one language to another, it is a totally different thing to carry over the feelings and the hidden meanings behind them. Mostly, symbolism is very different between cultures and may totally mean opposite things. As a result, it is an important step in translation, for this ensures that the true meaning is conveyed.

Neon-Budapest Book Review

Neon-Budapest Book Review

Neon-Budapest written by Neon Genesis Kunság is a perfect satire of today’s Hungary and to a degree of the Western World. For some it can prove scary, for it represents and stands for all the horrors that extreme notions and ideologies represent. It puts to the test...

Guidance of the Wind

Guidance of the Wind

Meditation is a key or a path to the inner self. To reach the inner sanctum of a human being born through losses.
Steering the wheel by yourself — being the master of your own fate — is the hardest of challenges.

Coronation Day

Coronation Day

A fine and remarkable day it is today. We could witness a very prominent event in British history, which was last witnessed only by our grandparents and great-grandparents. The coronation of III Charles. But allow me to raise two questions: why is it important and what does it stand for?

AI Generated Pictures — Follow-up Essay

AI Generated Pictures — Follow-up Essay

Since my last blogpost about AI art, I decided to write a follow up on the matter, because there are many things I see differently now. I also understood why a lot of people are against it. So here I am again, and now I would like to offer a new perspective, meshed from two very different, but somehow connected worlds.

AI Generated Pictures

AI Generated Pictures

My feelings about the AI made or created artworks are very mixed to say the least. It is a highly debated topic on the internet, at least what I have read about it so far. On the one hand, I can understand others and say the same: AI cannot create real art. On the other hand, I can also say that it indeed can… And this duality regarding the topic comes from a single question: do the creations of AI have any soul?

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