The Present Alone is Our Sadness

16Apr16

For a plot summary you may go here. For another take see here. Firewatch has been generally praised as a playable narrative and less as a game. As a narrative, however, its ending has been critiqued as has the various details of its story. The supposedly anti-climatic ending is central to the theme of the […]

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Tags: affect, Bioshock, Firewatch, fps, William James

Affect vs Passion vs Emotion

01Jul12

In preparation for my comps I am marching slowly through the history of western thought and I am currently reading Spinoza’s Ethics. While I’ve read bits and pieces here and there I have never gone through the whole text which I’ve been meaning to do for some time given his discussion of nature and his […]

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Tags: affect, affectus, emotion, joy, negative affect, passion, spinoza