![]() Were all blunt and broken, except the red Pues tuve la certeza de que él había llegado por fin Miré fijamente y reflexioné sobre la caja Luego, más tarde, con la respiración contenida Se dice que un gallo cantó cuando Cristo nacióĮl único día en que los animales pudieron hablarĪsí que fui al gallinero de nuestro vecino It’s said that a rooster crowed when Christ was born Inspired by the archetypes found in the Mexican bingo game called lotería, these poems reflect the history-of family, culture and war-rooted in the Southwest for hundreds of years. In “The Hand,” she writes: “In the morning I arrived at my first grade class / knowing no English / at noon I got smacked by the teacher / for speaking Spanish outside, in the playground.” Texas museums, just like its textbooks, feature cowboy boots worn by Texas Rangers, but have no “clue or sign of the vaqueros, the original cowboys / or the Tejas, the native Indians there.” And some childhood memories aren’t so happy. San Martín de Porres, or “El Negrito,” was her grandmother’s favorite saint, “for although she was pale too / she’d lived through the vestiges of the Mexican war / the loss of land, culture, language, and control / and it was El Negrito to whom she turned for hope” to bring enemies together.įond childhood memories of climbing mesquite trees and eating raspas are juxtaposed with an awareness of the disdain with which Mexican Americans are regarded. The community’s Catholic tradition is ever-present holy days, customs and saints are staples of daily life. Do you only play open world map games now? I was more turned off by all the seemingly tedious resource management than I was by the fact that it's not open world.In her ode to “The Umbrella,” Viola Canales remembers a family story about her mother, who every Saturday as a child “popped open her prized child’s bright umbrella / as did her little sister / and followed their mother’s adult one / from their Paloma barrio home / to downtown Main Street McAllen / walking like ducks in a row / street after street,” until one Saturday “the littlest one disappeared / inside the wilderness of Woolworth’s.” Warm-hearted recollections of family members are woven through this collection of 54 poems, in English and Spanish, which uses the images from lotería cards to pay homage to small-town, Mexican-American life along the Texas-Mexico border.Ĭultural traditions permeate these verses, from the curanderas who cure every affliction to the daily ritual of the afternoon merienda, or snack of sweet breads and hot chocolate. Seems like an odd reason to NOT play the game. The narrator helps set the tone of this 19th century era game (1800's). I like challenging games, but not ones that punish the player by making them restart from scratch almost. Then reading it's roguelike, and survival based, not the types of games I want to experience due to the punishment factor often required to endure. I guess that helps vary up the game or break up any loading issues, but it also breaks the immersion into the game's perspective that seemed more effective from the closer 3rd person view. I was initially interested in this one, but may pass after watching the latest video where the world is not continuous, but broken up into different sections by that world map with the tiny icons. There are also survival game elements, like cooking food, cutting cactus for water to survive thirst, and stuff like that. The different explorable areas are broken up by an RPG world map, where you must move along a path and deal with invading enemies on your path, sheep that get in the way, and your cart breaking down. I read that this will be a roguelike type game, where if you die, you have to collect your supplies from the death location for another character. I truly believe the "woke" or cancel culture phenomenon is a direct result of people having way too much idle time on their hands. If something as stupid as THIS offends you, then you might want to re-evaluate your priorities and ask what you're doing with your life! Me personally, between work, marriage, kids, etc I don't have TIME to be offended by anything, LOL. ![]() I laugh at people like that because I often wonder if they have lives of any kind outside of social media. I think some people just get off on exercising their power/influence to affect change just to see if they can get away with it. My hypothesis is that most aren't truly "offended" by anything. Most all in culture can be looked at as referencing or being inspired from something else in artistic pursuits such as movies or gaming. If culture is referenced in movies, literature or games that’s being inspired by/honoured. ![]() It’s more and more peculiar and could stunt creativity. ![]() Why do some people rush to take offence like that. ![]()
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