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Пишу об играх, кино и массовой культуре. Считаю, что в споре рождается если не истина, то как минимум мнение.
Name: Alexander Pushkov
Location: Санкт-Петербург
Registration: July 14, 2025
Last visit: August 16, 2026
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Why have videogames become so expensive, and will they get even more expensive?
Is $80 for GTA 6 a lot or a little? The price of the new installment is just as exciting as the details of the game itself. In this article, we examine how video game prices have changed over time, why they’re rising, how pricing and budgets are determined, and we predict how the price of GTA 6 will impact the industry.
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July 26, 2026
The Odyssey — Ending, Plot, and Finale Explained
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" significantly reimagines the ancient Greek epic. Its story blends motifs from Homer's works, modern historical theories about the Bronze Age collapse, and Nolan's signature preoccupation with great figures having to answer for the consequences of their own decisions. Today we'll break down the plot and ending of Nolan's "The Odyssey," explain what the finale means, the motivations behind the characters' actions, Athena's portrayal, the prophecy of the Sea Peoples, and the film's key differences from Homer's poem.
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July 17, 2026
Games Used to Be Harder, Now They're Easier: Blame Capitalism. Or Is It?
Instead of getting caught up in this never-ending debate, I suggest we look at the issue of difficulty from a different angle and figure out why games from the ’80s and ’90s were so difficult, why their creators opted for a hardcore approach, and how the “economics” of the gaming industry influenced game design. Simply put, why is it that, because of capitalism, Mario has only three lives, and in Castlevania, every hit threatens to send Belmont tumbling into the nearest abyss?
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July 12, 2026
Are Games Losing Men? Why There Are So Many Women in Video Games Now
Let’s take a closer look at whether there really are more women in video games, why the industry has changed, and who is responsible for the fact that it seems to us as if the “narrative” is to blame for everything.
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June 21, 2026
Opinion: Why the Current Generation of Consoles Is the Worst in History
In 1983, the console video game market suffered the most catastrophic collapse in its history — revenue fell nearly 97%, from $3.2 billion to $100 million a year. Dozens of companies closed, thousands of people were laid off, and millions of unsold cartridges ended up in landfills (the most famous one near the city of Alamogordo, where over 700,000 cartridges were secretly buried).
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June 7, 2026
The Rise and Fall of a Hollywood Star, or How a Single Meme Convinced Everyone That Ben Affleck Is a Bad Director
You've probably seen this meme: Halle Berry cheerfully announces from the stage, "The Golden Globe goes to Ben Affleck," and a stunned Quentin Tarantino spits out his champagne in the very next moment. I'm sure you never once doubted it was real. Tarantino's reaction looks natural, genuine, and clearly unscripted — and Affleck has long been branded a mediocre star with a "brick-face" acting range, the worst Batman in history, who got famous thanks to his romance with Jennifer Lopez and a string of romantic comedies. And they gave him a Golden Globe — for directing, no less? Anyone in Tarantino's position would have reacted the same way!
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May 24, 2026