Brunei

I am in Brunei presently, for reasons best left unsaid; that being said, it’s a moderately interesting place, filled with pirated DVD stores, a single, well stocked mall (that I would rate as being on par with, say, Jurong Point) some nice cybercafes, and not much else. Nice place, really. The city we are near, [...]

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Fear

Recently I satisfied a long craving for subtle horror and played F.E.A.R, a self-described John Woo style action shooter mixed with elements of Asian horror. It’s interesting how the human mind can trick itself into believing in perceptions that are so self-evidently synthetic, especially given the bias of it being aware of this artificiality in [...]

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