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The Rise of the Chinese Game Development Industry It is ironic as an American who has started a game studio here in Korea in a move that obviously I think is advantageous for me and my company...
Harmony and Conflict in Korean MMOs Starcraft. Lineage II. In this month’s column I will share with you my working theory of why these games are so successful with Koreans. ...
Nine Months in Poeedong Just last November, I moved here to Korea with my wife and son to setup a new studio to make games here in Korea. I have spent nine months now learning Korean, eating...
**MARX for Beginners** by Rius http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375714618/qid=1079172954/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-0194971-3527801?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Edwardo del Rio...
**The Deer and the Cauldron** by Louis Cha (Jin Yong in Asia) ...
대국 Tae-guk This is an awesome movie and a terrible movie. What I mean is it is a movie that is full of terror and a movie you must awe. We forget that the words awesome and terrible...
Tuna Snacks! Tuna Snacks are Scoobie snacks for me. A Tuna snack is a triangular snack is composed of a triangular wedge of sticky (sushi-style) rice with some sort of filling wrapped in...
Taiwan should declare independence by adopting the US Constitution and daring America to live up to its own values. A cheeky geopolitical thought experiment with a rapid-fire history of US-China-Taiwan relations.
A short, pointed rebuttal: criticizing the President doesn't make you un-American — hiding financial ties to the bin Ladens and gutting the 4th Amendment does.
A provocative proposal for Palestinian nonviolent resistance — using Gandhian tactics and deliberate Holocaust symbolism to force the world's cameras to confront the reality of occupation.
A raw dump of geopolitical facts rattling around in my head — from Unocal executives running Afghanistan to Fannie Mae's 100:1 leverage ratio to the bin Laden family flying out of the US two days after 9/11.
The Goering quote from the Nuremberg Diary that perfectly explains how patriotism is weaponized to silence dissent — paired with Al Franken's devastating parody of the post-9/11 'national dialogue.'
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