monkeythoughts

I am, quite involuntarily, rather selective when it comes to the media I consume. There’s one factor in particular that I look for in every book I read, every movie I watch, and every game I play: immersion. For me, it is the heaviest influence on substance. If the immersion is good, it enhances...

Recurrent for some, rare for others, inevitable for all those whose hearts burn with that quiet passion driving them to fill pages with stories: the blank page is the dreaded enemy of writers.

Is it tied to age, culture, literary experience? Yes, to some extent. It happens to everyone,...

I would like to emphasize the importance of striking the right balance between clarity and optimism, as I believe it can lead to a more peaceful existence.

Recently, I mentioned to some friends the crazy amount of criminal "news" I see daily in the press and on social media—rapes, murders...

I had been hearing about this book for ages. I don't know why, but I always imagined it as a story in the style of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Maybe because of the author's name, Paulo Coelho (both have first and last names ending in -o), and...

I recently finished Deathloop. According to my Steam account, it took me around fifty hours to beat it, though I should subtract about fifteen of those because it took me three or four attempts to really get into it. Well, all those dropouts were due to performance issues. I first...

Game of Thrones. Some have read the books, most have devoured the series (only one of these groups has been disappointed by the ending, since the other hasn’t yet experienced it). But few people know that George R. R. Martin's major inspiration for his life's work was a French...

I feel that very few cinematic/ambient music artists manage to find their true sonic identity, especially within albums.

I know a few who have: leaving aside the ambient side, since a good half of his work leans more toward the uptempo dimension, the immense Arkana has...