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[psychhound]

hey yall!! itch summer sale time!!!

7 games including solo journals, duet games, competitive multiplayers, and a larp + 3 d&d classes, 3 subclasses, and a ghibli inspired pack are all 60% off right now!!

or you can get all 14 items for $20 total!!

want to be a witch's familiar causing mayhem out in the village? want to conduct a tabloid interview with the woman who ate the minotaur for a college thesis? roam around the land collecting cowboy tales? or maybe you want more challenge in your d&d magic casting, or want to bring a little monlike magic to the game?

if any of those sound appealing - please check out the sale! :D

and while you're there, i also have my first zine up - a queer weird west zine with poems, essays, and collages!

happy summer sale everyone!

[trainingdummyrabbit]

I forgot you were into pokemon for a bit and so didn’t mention cassette beasts

It’s like gayer pokemon

You even turn into the creatures you’re fighting as

OHH I REMBER THIS ive seen lil bits and pieces of th game, it seems really neat... its on my list of stuff t look at for suresies, ihear good things :]

[littleeyesofpallas]

I've mentioned the gate guardians once before as kind of a tangent in a follow up on my post about Soul Society landmarks. But I realize I never bothered with their names. So why not, here we go...

Ikkanzaka Jidanbo[一貫坂 兕丹坊]. Family name Ikkanzaka breaks down as

[一]: 1

[貫]: "kan" (a measurement of weight = 3.75 kg/8.25lbs?) or alternatively "volume(as in a book in a series)" and

[坂]: "Hill"

As far as family names go it seems like a pretty straight forward locational name? I think it's just describing the first in a series of hills? It doesn't seem to carry with it much of a theme or any word play that I can catch.

The private name Jidanbo reads,

[兕]: "(female)Rhinoceros"

[丹]: "RedEarth/Cinnabar" and

[坊]: "Monk" or "Boy/Son."

The common suffix for a boy's name aside the "Rhino" bit feels weird... It's actually a Chinese reading as I couldn't seem to find any uses of the kanji in more conventional Japanese. An interesting note in the wiktionary entry specifies,

a kind of bovine-like animal; traditionally often thought of as a female rhinoceros (Bencao Gangmu), modern research suggests it probably originally referred to wild water buffalo (Schuessler 2007). 

Which all in all seems to just tie into his giant size. Although in conjunction with the Cinnabar bit it all seems a little off considering his is the East gate associated with Byakko the White Tiger, and even before it was brought up later, it's still implied that there is a Red South gate that would better fit the Cinnabar thing...

Just to get it out of the way, his little brother Jirobo's name is

[慈]: "Mercy,"

[楼]: "Floor(of a building)" implies a tall building, and again

[坊]: "Monk" or "Boy/Son."

A little weird given his personality, but the implication of something like a tall watchtower makes sense since he's a projectile user with a crow zanpakutou. (It's the same kanji that's part of Rojuro's name and also implies a tall tower there.) It's not about the name, but the little brother wears several buddhist bead chains, which is a little odd when his persona does not seem to adhere to buddhist values much...

And while I'm here... his zanpakutou Tsunzakigarasu[劈烏] means "split/divide/cleave/break off" + [烏]: "crow" and several other situational synonyms. It's a little hard to tell if that's meant to be "a crow that splits things" or "a crow that is (itself) split apart" since his shikai does "split" the single katana blade into a bunch of shuriken.

But moving on to the real point of this point, the tragically glossed over other gate guardians! None of them seem to have a surname that way Jidanbo does, which is a little odd, so these are all just the private names.

Higanyudo[比鉅入道] is the guardian of the South gate, associated with the Vermillion Bird, Suzuaku.

[比]: "Equal/Match"

[鉅]: "Steel/Iron" or in some contexts "Great"

[入道]: "Priest/Monk" or just a person with a bald or shaven head (i.e. someone who looks like a monk.)

It basically reads as "Monk Equal (to) Steel" which is appropriate enough for a giant as well as a guard, and it evokes some familiar tropes of old wushu lore and kungfu film genre surrounding "iron skin" techniques.

He has a kind of vaguely Chinese look about him and a distinctive monk's hood and what seems like a buddhist shawl(?) (the bit they wear over the more central robe itself, or sometimes over a bear chest) And alternatively it could indicate that he's tied to the Kido Corp, who wear similar monlike face covering. I do not agree with the digital colorist's choices here...

Next up is Kaiwan[嵬腕], the bearded and barechested guardian of the Eastern gate, associated with the Blue Dragon, Seiryu.

[嵬]: "Rugged/Towering" again dipping into Chinese for the meaning as it's a seemingly irregular kanji.

[腕]: "Ability/Talent"

So to clarify some context, [嵬] is comprised of [山]: mountain and [鬼]: oni as radicals and I feel like that makes more sense of the kind of awkward attempts at English translations. It's a Devil/Ogre/Monster-like Mountain quality that it describes, one that is jagged, rugged, towering, and looming; high and uneven cliffs. Thus his name describes someone whose talent or abilities are monstrously imposing.

And appropriately Kaiwan is kind of a messy, scary looking dude. The other 3 guardians are big but still reasonably human in demeanor, even if Jidanbo comes across as a little dim witted. But Kaiwan looks almost feral. The whole hair situation does absolutely scream dragon though, so that's actually a solid match.

And finally Danzomaru[斷蔵丸] guardian of the Northern Gate, associated with Genbu the Black Tortoise(+Snake).

[斷]: "Cut off/partition/interrupt" but also "(a) judgement/decision"

[蔵]: "warehouse" or alternatively "to store/to hide"

[丸]: just indicates a (typically) boy's name

I don't know how to parse this one really... A "cut-off warehouse boy" doesn't impart much character, but it would be a literal name you might find for, say, an orphaned kid hiding out in a remote storage building, one "cut off" from a central property. But maybe more obtusely "hidden judgement boy" does at least feel like it has more heft to it, but it's hard to say what it could ""mean"" when there are no character details to compare it against.

Also, Danzomaru has a funky hair(?) style that seems like it's meant to evoke tiger stripes?? (that or maybe it's a tattoo?) But again that feels like it would be better suited for a Byakko motif.

I do love the nio-dasuki in place of the normal belt. Very appropriate for a gate guardian given the obvious direct associations with the ni-o, agyo and ungyo. Technically TBtP Kensei also had a tasuki belt too, but not worn in the distinctive style associated with kabuki and the ni-o statues.

[hogwartsprofessors]

When you know, you know.

[ermaldonado-blog]

Realidad Virtual

Escartín (2000), nos menciona que la tecnología de la Realidad Virtual (RV) ha sido ampliamente señalada como un desarrollo tecnológico importante que puede apoyar al proceso de enseñanza – aprendizaje de varias formas. Algunas de sus excepcionales capacidades son la posibilidad de permitir a los estudiantes la visualización de conceptos abstractos, observar eventos a escalas atómicas o planetarias, o visitar ambientes e interactuar con eventos que la distancia, el tiempo o los factores de seguridad los hacen completamente inalcanzables en condiciones reales. Ahora bien, si lo definimos en palabras simples es una manera de extender o reemplazar uno o más sentidos, sobrepasando limitaciones del cuerpo humano.

William Winn, uno de propulsores del uso de la realidad virtual en la educación, sostenía que la realidad virtual puede promover la creatividad entre los estudiantes ya que son expuestos a una educación mediante construccionismo, es decir, del origen activo en el proceso de aprendizaje.

Dentro de las características de la realidad virtual se encuentran, pero no se limitan a:

·         Hace que el aprendizaje sea más intenso. 

·         Ofrece una experiencia interactiva y multisensorial.

·         Puede ser utilizada en toda la industria de la capacitación y                                  entrenamiento.

·         Abre las alternativas donde el único límite es la imaginación. 

·         Hace de 3D una herramienta dinámica e interactiva.

·         Permite experiencias controladas.

·         Su comportamiento es dinámico y opera en tiempo real.

Dentro de las ventajas que ofrece al incorporarlo en la educación está:

·         Los estudiantes exploran y analizan información utilizando sus sentidos.

·         La realidad virtual facilita la manipulación y análisis de modelos complejos  grandes, que se pueden analizar desde cualquier ángulo y punto de vista.

·         La información multisensorial puede apoyar diversos estilos de                            aprendizaje.

·         Los estudiantes pueden realizar actividades y aprender ciertos conceptos científicos más fácil y rápidamente.

Referencias

Escartín, E.R. (2000). La realidad virtual, una tecnología educativa a nuestro alcance. Pixel-Bit.  Revista de Medios y Educación, 15, 5-21

Fundación Rayuelarte. (2016, agosto 26). Realidad Virtual y Educación [Archivo de video]. Recuperado de https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckNucc_zuX8&index=2&list=PLmMuvVwpuCP9YHas_KHSStz8MzCdzpaDc

 Saldarriaga, J. (monlike 920). (2017, febrero 13). Realidad Virtual y Educación [Archivo de video]. Recuperado de https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0yETWVlPfU&index=1&list=PLmMuvVwpuCP9YHas_KHSStz8MzCdzpaDc