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Post by mightyhegemol on Oct 23, 2017 19:47:45 GMT
I'm a grad student in Iceland, working on an MA in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies. So, nothing useful to literally anybody else on the planet. It does mean I've got at least a bit of a background in history, literature, linguistics, archaeology, theology, philosophy, education, etc. etc. So that's something.
When I'm not sleeping, drinking, or reading, I overthink video games (and board games too, I guess) an awful lot. Actually, I'm just starting up a writing gig on the site With A Terrible Fate, which does semi-academic analysis of game narrative (that probably gives away my real name if anyone actually cares to find out, but I'm generally unbothered by that).
I'd like to mostly help with research and writing scripts, since those are my experience.
And yeah, I think that's it. I'm excited to try and build off PBSIC, and geek out with people about stuff.
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vinico
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Post by vinico on Oct 27, 2017 12:29:29 GMT
Hey, hegelmol! Welcome! (I've been reading your nick as hegelmon for the longest time, I wonder what that digimon would look like) I'm a grad student in Iceland, working on an MA in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Whoa, this is rad! At least you didn't go to boring (and shitty, in my case) advertising school. What is something interesting about that subject that I might not know about? Speaking of semi-academic analysis of game narrative - have you played Heat Signature? I've been meaning to start a thread about it here ever since I registered but kinda forgot about it. I think it's narrative is quite interesting, if somewhat intentionally shallow.
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Post by mightyhegemol on Oct 27, 2017 21:09:53 GMT
Emm... let's see. Did you know that the Viking discovery of North America in 1000 is only attributed to Leifur Eriksson on account of 2 prose texts from around 1300? Or that archaeology has placed the probable field of exploration for that expidition from L'Anse aux Meadows south into the mouth of the St. Lawrence river, where climate studies have confirmed that wild grapes grew in the eleventh century? Or that a recent genetic analysis of Icelanders indicate that the Vikings (god I hate that term) may have brought back slaves from North America to Iceland?
(other rant: the people who created the program spent about an hour and a half explaining to us all why the term 'Viking' is absolute bs. We don't even know what the word means in Old Norse!)
Or another one I just learned today: the tree Yggdrasil from Norse mythology might explicitly refer to the Milky Way, not a tree growing through the world like the common depiction of it shows?
I haven't played Heat Signature. I'll be sure to check it out!
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Post by vinico on Oct 30, 2017 13:01:28 GMT
I think I've heard about the Iceland slaves thing? Not sure, but I certainly didn't know about about those other things. I've never been much into history but it's always interesting to hear how stuff people take for granted is an assumption based on, in some cases, weak evidence. That Yggdrasil tidbit is really interesting! I guess it kind of looks like a tree?
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