Imagine going on a walk in the park, but suddenly a voice from a manhole calls out to you. Imagine a world where snakes weren’t long but rather high, rising straight up into the sky. Imagine a master chef that has an emotional connection to his knife, and gives it a name. Imagine that name […]
Author: brainjam
How much easier does life have to be?
It seems as though the most basic of tasks have become too cumbersome for the average human. Let’s think about the way the acquisition of food has evolved throughout human history as an example. In the beginning of humanity, there were hunters and there were gatherers. They went out and procured food from the wilderness, […]
Being born in the wrong generation
At this point, it is mostly annoying when someone says that they think of themselves as being born in the wrong generation. This is because most people who say such a thing are inherently annoying to begin with, and want to seem like a cool, outsider type, who does not get along with today’s generation […]
Kuukiyomi: Consider it!
Kuukiyomi has been around since 2008, but only ten years later, in 2018, did G-Mode corporation finally release the first game in the series internationally, with English subtitles. The premise of the game is simple: You get put into various situations and have to think about which action is most considerate towards other people in […]
Perhaps my worst idea so far
There are some questions to which humans will never know the answer, no matter how hard they may try. But still, we do not give up. We try to come as close as we possibly can to an answer, for that is humanities greatest strength, the unbreaking willpower. One of these questions is how the […]
The Artistic Process
There are two things that I learned while graduating school with art as one of my major subjects. Number one is that having a tragic life bestows you with unlimited power, and number two is that every artist has their own process. There is something else to be said about wannabe artists, like myself, and […]
Thinking about the Bible as an atheist
Being raised non-religiously, there was never a point in my life at which I believed in God, fate, heaven, hell or any such thing. When I was four years old, I couldn’t sleep, because I was scared of being abducted and dissected by aliens – a topic for another time. In order to calm me […]
The Silver Case: an imperfectible medium
In 1999, the video game development company Grasshopper Manufacture released their first game, The Silver Case. It is also the game that would kickstart the Kill the Past line of games by now famous (and personally my favorite) game director Suda51. It’s original release on the PSX however, never left Japan. It would only be […]
Regarding meteorology
Due to circumstances unrelated to the matter at hand, my day had already been ruined when I decided to take a walk on one fateful February day in order to calm down. Being paranoid, I of course decided to take a look at the weather forecast before heading out. According to the forecast, rain was […]