Paulo Seabra

On the 30th of september, two thousand and twenty-one years after the birth of a fella went by the name of Jesus Christ, I wrote a comment on a YouTube video about Joshua Graham, a video simply titled after Joshua's famous quote – In the end, there is light in the darkness. The video clocks in at a brief but powerful one minute and thirty-eight seconds, and it consists of various aesthetically-pleasing images from various sources, such as Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, and a few others I don't exactly recognize, all shown along the tune of spliced dialogue lines from Joshua Graham, all in honor and remembrance of the filmmaker's sister sometime after her untimely death. It is my understanding that the filmmaker made the video for very personal purposes, expecting to reach a whopping ten views, five likes, and one comment, but somehow it instead reached, at the time of writing, over three million views. I suppose that's just the internet, and that's just the ga...

This will be one of those posts that kinda defies classification. Is it gonna be about video game storytelling? Or more about a bunch of religion and morality stuff? When the game in question is the insanely good Fallout: New Vegas it's often hard to tell the difference because it's a game that does so much so darn well... In a world filled with misery and uncertainty and deathclaws, we find multiple tribes trying to live life the best way they know how. Some of them have fallen into utter nihilism, others have given way to their violent desires, and others still believe in God's love... Though different tribes have very different ideas it is still true that all of them have to contend with the sheer brutality of the wasteland, but naturally this proves more complicated for the godly tribes. For how can you love and obey God, as well as love your fellow men and women, when the world around you is so brutal? How can you truly love and seek to preserve, or at least to refrai...

Ainda assim, quero ser feliz, mesmo entendendo toda a realidade como incoerente com os desejos dos seres humanos, dos quais, infelizmente, eu faço parte... Sim, mesmo assim quero ser feliz, mas e se fosse? E se a partir de agora aparecesse na minha vida tudo aquilo que quero? Se eu tivesse agora uma casa grande e bonita só para mim, tão calma e sossegada, ficaria eventualmente aborrecido. Não teria qualquer interesse ou vontade em a manter bonita, e o sossego azul de estar sozinho eventualmente tornar-se-ia mais do mesmo, dia após dia após dia, e talvez de noite eu quisesse abdicar de qualquer sossego em troca de alguma companhia. Se eu tivesse agora um bom emprego, algo no qual me sentisse confiante e útil para com o mundo, porque produziria algo mais relevante do que os meus livros, ficaria frustrado ao fim de duas ou três semanas, ou talvez nem isso, porque a ideia de ter de acordar todos os dias à mesma hora e deslocar-me ao mesmo sítio e fazer a mesma coisa para o resto da minha v...