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Life is Strange
I have fallen in love with this game, despite making the wrong choice at the end of episode 2 and having my heart ripped out.
I wish I had chosen this game to play for my communications class this term because there is a lot of dialog paths that lead you to different story lines. It’s beautiful.
I love how each thing you examine is unique, minus those posters and whathaveyous, and each thing has some sort of importance.
10/2/15 - Terrified
I've just done something that I have never done before... Ask for a grade bump. I am .55% away from an A- in my communications class, and it's not necessary to receive this change other than to say I got all A's for the first time in my college career.... I am terrified for the response, even though the worst result is a no.
I don’t know anything about the game this is from (Dishonored), however this song tells a story. I can only assume that it mirrors the game.
The excerpt I’ve taken out is the least straight forward of the bunch. However, it elicits emotions with the words it uses.
Love is a distant aroma at best - This line paints the picture for the rest of the verse. We are talking about something that has faded, it’s not strong but it’s something we can identify.
The next like emphasizes and clarifies this same point, it was there at one point and it was something you know.
Your body it shakes from the now distant sound - This is something you miss, you didn’t necessarily want it to go
But it’s a memory you’ll never forget...
Complete Lyrics
Love is a distant aroma at best, A withering smile that's stuck deep within your vest, At night air it wraps its fingers around, Your body it shakes from the now distant sound, Of the sound of her voice, A sweet symphony, played over and over Until' you are free
GREEK!
I am part Greek by blood on my mothers side, my Great-Grandfather was an immigrant. So I decided to use Greek culture as my culture of choice for my memo paper and I’m reading about business edtiquette...
~Meetings are often interrupted. Several people may speak at the same time.
~Greeks will deviate from agendas. They view agendas as starting points for discussions and will then follow the discussion to the next logical place.
~Imposing a deadline on reaching a decision may end the negotiations.
I am often the one interrupting the meetings, I deviate from agendas, and give me a time to make a decision by and I’ve already left the room. Now, these aren’t the only things on the list that apply, but as I was reading the list I slowly realized how much I belong to my heritage!
Things I’ve noticed...
I’ve been watching Rick and Morty with a friend of mine, and have noticed that this show has quite the number of undertone messages. The favorite is how the even though you may think that your family hates you, or that your grandfather his a bitter asshole, they love you and would do anything for you (in most cases). This is primarily shown in the interactions between Rick and Morty themselves.
Season 1: Episode 5
Rick, Morty’s grandfather, outwardly presents himself with a lack of affection for his grandson. He is, generally, very rude to his family and speaks outright with his thoughts. While he has this hard exterior, there are several moments in the series where Rick demonstrates that, deep down, he truly does care about his grandson.
This is most painfully obvious in this particular scene ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t5Lkk0hl4w ). I apologize for the vulgarness of this scene, however at ~1:30 Rick does what he can for his grandson to make the situation better without making a scene.
The creators of this show use both Rick’s and Morty’s facial expressions (as visual rhetoric) to show the audience how each individual is feeling in the scene without either one saying, or even eluding to, their emotions and what they are possibly thinking.
Try this with a strange crowed...
“Before you walk in front of people of a different culture or social group, try to reach a member of the audience a few days before. Ask, ‘What are the five stupidest things you’d expect a person like me to do?’ If they expect a badly dressed faux pas spewer, then you might try the unexpected...” - Thank You For Arguing, Page 67
I’ll take note of how this works later because I plan on asking Harry this questions before I fly over in a few months! However, the response I anticipate from him is that
They would expect me to not understand or misuse any common slang
Talk about guns and freedom (joking response from him)
I would LOVE to use this in class for my presentation, however I’m on the fence of it’s appropriateness. This is a very bootyful video that does a swell job of making a claim of your booty being you with solid examples to support said claim. However, it does not do a very good job supporting it’s claim of which butts define our culture.
UPDATE: I used this for my class presentation and the reactions were pretty amusing. This was the first presentation that I feel was not talked to death about.
Try this if you’re short...
“When a microphone is too high for you, don’t lower it yourself. Get someone else to do it, then say, ‘The great thing about being short is you get good at making people do things for you.’ ” - Thank You For Arguing, Page 85
Make EVVERYONE do your bidding! Bwahahaha!
