Random Analogies
Cat Scratching Behavior
a: Scent marking ~
b: writing to a person
What: "The olfactory component of scratching adds a more subtle component to this marking behavior. Scent marking to a cat is like writing to a person, conveying a message long after the sender has gone. "
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Writer: Dr. Nicholas Dodman
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Date: Jun 15 2010 11:11 PM
# 479 Critique Analogy
Game Design
a: Didactic art ~
b: a man on a street corner
What:
"The alternative is to be didactic. Grab the player's attention, force him to listen to what you have to say. Have the characters talk at his doll. Make them emotional. Make him feel. Didactic art is like a man on a street corner holding up a sign saying Repent Your Sins. It's boring, like school, or a tedious sermon in church. Didactic lecturing doesn't tug on the heart strings in the way that its deliverer intends. And the more he does it, the more the player becomes antipathetic toward the art rather than sympathetic."
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Writer: Tadhg Kelly
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Date: Mar 27 2014 12:04 PM
# 5359 Critique Analogy
a: Snowflake ~
b: my child
What:
"The snowflake is like my child
As well it is like my grief
Both singular and personal
Universal and yet unique"
The rest of the poem is in the link...
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Writer: Corinne O'Flynn
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Date: Sep 14 2014 6:51 PM
# 6384 Critique Analogy
