Recent content by RichCMidas

Hey that reminds me - anyone else remember when "The Last Samurai" came out, with Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe? America was relatively subdued about the film (perhaps being in the early phases of seeing it as another example of whitewashing) and saw the characters as fairly uninspired and...

Ouch. Funny, but ouch. :D I'll bear that in mind for whatever next big project I do.

Well then, speaking as a Greco-Brazilian whose experience with North America was limited to subtitled* Friends reruns for the first twenty years of my life, you, gyor, are exotic! Hey, someone wants to be considered exotic, who am I to deny them? :) *Poorly subtitled, I was to find out later...

Ah, ok, I've got a better understanding now. Yeah, I can see why what I said is probably not the best way to answer that concern. Well, I do not think it was not so much a grab bag as I made it sound, though there is certainly an element of that involved. I can only educate myself so much on...

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Hi all, Farland's pet author for this project here. Thought I'd drop a couple of cents into this mixture. At worst, probably only Orientalism when it comes to the land of Yrrkune, since I believe the 'original' Orient, so to speak, was the Sino-Japanese portion of Asia; and Yrrkune takes a few...