N.J. Folsom
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Tergoza War Excerpt: Dunis Excursion
“Tergoza Command Ship Advent, you are clear for landing at Pad B-23 when you arrive. Welcome to Dunis.” Zeema Jetrel stood behind the pilots in the cramped cockpit of her ship, the Advent, as it hit the atmosphere of the planet Dunis in the Toru system. Due to the Advent’s vaguely dragon-shaped outer hull design, it cut through the world’s thick atmosphere with little heat on the vital systems that kept the ship active.
By N.J. Folsom3 years ago in Futurism
The Sims: My Journey
In 1991, a fire raged across Oakland, California, destroying many homes in its path, and one such home belonged to a computer game developer named Will Wright. While constructing and decorating his new house, Wright was inspired to make a dollhouse simulator where a group of simulated people, named Sims, would walk through and evaluate the players' build. Eventually, the Sims themselves became the focus of the game and the eponymous series would go on to become a multi-billion dollar franchise over the course of many generations. In particular, the series may have very well changed my own life as it is.
By N.J. Folsom3 years ago in Gamers
Encounter at Apollo
EOE Apollo Archive Station, high orbit over planet Ares-560. July 19th, 2205 A large, red-colored gas giant hovered silently in the endless vacuum of space, easily dwarfing a twenty mile-wide, silver, multi-sectioned space station floating high above its atmosphere. Standing in a dark hallway within the station and looking down at the planet through a window was a young man with black hair. A name tag on a gray jacket he was holding in his hand said, “Lt. Benjamin Hall”, and he looked at the planet below with a fierce stare on his face, as through the gaseous world was his to control. He didn’t want to control it, however, despite being told that he did want to his entire life.
By N.J. Folsom3 years ago in Futurism
Retro Review: The Last Airbender
It is often hard to adapt one work to another, film adaptations are no exception to this. This is because when adapting a book, television series, or even video game to a medium such as film, it is very important to make sure of two things. The first is that the filmmakers should develop the adaptation with care to the fans of the original material. The second is that if the elements need to be changed from the source material, then those changes need to make sense to fit the story into a new, three-act structure. The developers of the 2010 film, The Last Airbender, did not seem to take either of these two things into account when they adapted a unanimously acclaimed animated television series called Avatar: The Last Airbender. The result was a blatantly rushed, nonsensical adaptation that not only fails to properly translate the source material to a new medium, but fails as a stand-alone film as well.
By N.J. Folsom3 years ago in Geeks
Whine and Dine
Kaitlyn Simmons did not know how to date. She had read all the romantic books in her library, she had seen all the cheesy romantic comedies, she even tried dating apps at unfortunate points in her life, but it was all to no avail. When it came time to meet the man of her dreams, a level of awkwardness raised in her like the ocean tides when the moon is at its perigee. And that tide came complete with all the wonderful horrors of H.P. Lovecraft's most famous sea-based deities.
By N.J. Folsom3 years ago in Humans
The Widow
It was six hours past-midday in early November as Kate Parker sat quietly in her kitchen, soaking in the endless boredom that had begun to settle into her mind as she stared down a glass of orange juice that was left on the table from earlier that day. Outside had become cold, dark, and gray, and a light drizzle took its time to settle in while the young woman simply stared at the glass, the sides of which began to show evidence of the former cool state of the glass as beads of water dripped down the side and onto the cloth which spread out across her old pinewood table. It had been nearly two years since a horrible day, the last day she saw her husband, and it was coming up on that particular day's anniversary within the week. Content with her day as it was, the young woman continued to sit at the table, staring down the glass of what used to be cold orange juice.
By N.J. Folsom3 years ago in Horror
Robotics: Looking to the Future
Disclaimer: This article is based on an unused essay I was going to turn into an English Composition class back in 2013. I had a bit of inspiration for a different area of study back then, so I saved this in my email for future use. I can try to cover the bibliography if requested.
By N.J. Folsom3 years ago in Futurism
Titanic: 'Based' on a true story.
Adapting a film from a true story is usually considered to be a difficult subject. It is difficult to collect information and eye-witness accounts on what actually happened during an event, especially if that event occurred multiple generations ago. Another difficulty in developing a film based on a true story is making characters within that film match up with the actual lives of the people they are portraying. Non-fiction films have existed since the beginning of the medium, telling stories of everything from the Civil War, to the sinking of the Titanic, to Pearl Harbor, and even modern films discussing the events surrounding September 11th, 2001. One relatively recent film which was critically lauded for its storytelling and broad scope was the James Cameron romantic drama, Titanic, based around the sinking of the eponymous ship. Released in 1997, Titanic tells the story of Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt Bukater, two star-crossed lovers who meet aboard the eponymous White Star Line cruise ship on its first and only journey across the northern Atlantic Ocean. Three days into its voyage, the cruise liner hits an iceberg and sinks below the waters, killing over 1500 people. While the film does its best to accurately portray the sinking of the ship itself, the portrayal of the people on board are depicted in an expressively fictional matter. Real-life historical figures are demonized as crooks and murderers, while other events and characters are made up entirely purely to push the action further and tell a story that, for all intents and purposes, was a product of Hollywood.
By N.J. Folsom3 years ago in Photography