Category: Games and fandoms
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Baseball in Japan
This post is based on a “Baseball in Japan” presentation I’ve made for an anime convention—available here in Polish. This might still be a work in progress. ✧✧✧ Beginnings It is believed that baseball was introduced to Japan by American Christian missionaries. Horace Wilson, a teacher at (what is now) Tokyo University, familiarized his students…
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Gaming while travelling light
I decided to go for a one-year-long journey with an iPad, a camera, and a Kindle, but not any other form of electronic entertainment. And I do like games. Bringing a Switch with me would be great; yes, I contemplated that. But I wouldn’t feel comfortable travelling with yet another expensive thing on myself. Sure,…
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Pokémon Sleep Professor “discourse”
I started my Pokémon Sleep journey recently, as one way of reconnecting with the franchise after a break. Upon opening the game, I was greeted by Professor Neroli, which I found cute, and immediately searched for some fan art of him. But, aside from fan art, I also found this Reddit opinion which, surprisingly, got…
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ZPGs — games that play themselves
ZPG (zero-player game) is the kind of game that… plays itself. The player doesn’t have to use the keyboard, click, tap, or even visit the game regularly for it to progress. To start most ZPGs, a player only needs to set a few initial parameters and the rest happens on its own. Some ZPGs offer…