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The history of animation, the practice of sequencing images to create films, dates back to the 19th century...
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[edit]Composition
[edit]"Juicy" is a hip-hop song[1] with a duration of 5 minutes and 3 seconds;[2] it is built around a sample of Mtume’s 1983 song “Juicy Fruit". Biggie raps about his life growing up as a Black man in Brooklyn, reflecting on his struggles and prior life as a drug dealer while .
Scholarly analysis
[edit]Essayist Sean Travers in the Journal of Popular Culture described Undertale as a critique of the violent nature of mainstream role-playing video games, where players kills enemies in exchange for experience points. She noted the game's rather punitive nature towards those who choose to play through the Genocide route and ignore warnings, citing its progressive change in tone and disturbing imagery. Travers interprets this as the player becoming the antagonist or a "postmodern psychopath", which is described as a character who commits immoral actions for the sole reason being their consequences. She believed that Undertale is innovative in such games, due to the player's "degree of choice."[3] Kevin Vale of Convergence...[4]
- ^ Krishnamurthy, Sowmya (8 October 2019). "Why this Biggie track is the greatest hip-hop song". BBC News. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ The Notorious B.I.G. (1994). Ready to Die (Media notes). Bad Boy Records.
- ^ Travers, Sean (April 2022). "Nihilism, Violence, and Popular Culture: The Postmodern Psychopath in Toby Fox's Undertale". The Journal of Popular Culture. 55 (2). Wiley: 411–431. doi:10.1111/jpcu.13120.
- ^ Veale, Kevin (1 April 2022). "'If anyone's going to ruin your night, it should be you': Responsibility and affective materiality in Undertale and Night in the Woods". Convergence. 28 (2): 451–467. doi:10.1177/13548565211014434. ISSN 1354-8565. Retrieved 9 January 2025.