Sundays are for luxuriating in the chill of the September air and hoping for more of the drenching rain that's ended the summer heat. Though, it's a luxuriating that's quickly pierced by the worry that we've seen the last warm weather of the year. Winter isn't far off and all the gaps around the windows in the living room are going to start making themselves known again.
Put those worries off for now, and distract yourself with some Sunday reading.
There are far too few articles from writers going wandering in an online game. That deserter prince who founded a poor mimicry of our magnificent treehouse, Brendan, has been doing a fine job of it over at the other place. But it's Kotaku's Rebekah Valentine's search for John Bigwalk in Big Walk that's been the delight of my week
I’m in the tutorial area of Big Walk, on hour seven of a day-long vigil. I’ve been sitting on this little yellow stool for hours, a glowing orb light in front of me at the center of a circle of stools. Also arranged in the circle are the bodies of three other players, stiff and abandoned by their hosts hours before. I’m tired. I’m bored. I’m ready to log off.
Then, I see it. Coming out of one of the starting doors. A glint of silver. A flash of red.
It’s him at last. It’s John Bigwalk.
There are almost as many articles analysing the growing wave of remakes as there are remakes. But I did enjoy Barrett Courtney's argument for remakes to treat the original source material more like a new staging of an old play. He remembers seeing a performance of Taming of the Shrew that didn't ignore its misogyny, but flipped it through witty performance.
We were all really impressed by that production and the lengths of what could be done to take the conversation around an original work of art in a new direction. I remember my drama teacher having to take some time to parse through what she got out of that particular production for a play she had very strong feelings about.
سەرچاوەی فەرمی بە زمانی ئینگلیزی: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-papers-826
