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“Have You No Decency?”: Homogeneity and the Cold War in Angels in America
Written by R. Brian Gomez. 2010 San Jose State University Dedicated to all my LGBTQ+ friends and family, with love. Pride Month 2025 Rocky Balboa wins over a biased Soviet audience in his match with Ivan Drago. A scrappy band of teenagers fight invading Russians to a standstill on U.S. soil. Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell…
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Doom 64: Save State the PickleBandit Way!
Wow. Nightdive Studios cannot fail at this point. I’ve played their updates for Quake, and Quake II and enjoyed them. My most recent journey into the foggy recesses of my early twenties comes in the form of the 2020 update to the underappreciated-in-its-day, but now totally appreciated, Doom 64. Originally created for the Nintendo 64…
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Quake II: Strogg and Slog
By The PickleBandit Screenshot captured by User:Ben_2082, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579986 Quality of Life Improvements Make Nightdive’s 2023 Update Friendly to Older Gamers In the context of the time it was released, I could see that Quake II must have been a narrative improvement over its predecessors Quake and Doom. Instead of the basic key-and-door flow of progress,…
