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Ministry of Broadcast Steam CD Key

Ministry of Broadcast Steam CD Key

Ministry of Broadcast is a narrative-driven single player cinematic platformer mixing Orwell’s 1984 with modern reality TV. Rife with dark humour, sarcastic quips, and a general absurdity of the system.Features:Cinematic platformer: Run, jump, crash, and climb your way through each Arena as the narrative unfolds around you. Much of the story is unveiled via smoothly integrated animation sequences, within the environment, or from NPCs muttering bits of dialogue as you dive and dodge around them.Environmental HUD: Rather than having a screen cluttered with overlaid indicators, HP bars, and minimaps, any information the player will need is incorporated into the environment. Hints and clues are meshed into the game’s art, subtle and specific, players will need a keen eye if they want to survive each Arena without breaking their legs.Puzzle-solving: Use your wits, and at times a dash of ruthlessness, to advance through the Arenas. You’ll have to interact with the environment itself to solve most of the puzzles: use the protagonist’s momentum to move platforms, flip the occasional lever, and sometimes you might have to sacrifice an NPC or two to cross a particularly spiky pit.Story and Personality: Featuring lots of impish humour, splendid sarcasm, and comic mischief, all balanced perfectly with the dark, heavy themes presented in this dystopian world.Animals: Besides traps, guards, cops and other enemies, try to outrun many animals of this world. Steve Irwin would be proud.Deaths: Survive more than 30 unique deaths.Secret locations: Discover all the secret locations and try to find your missing boots.

GBP 9.75
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The Game of Humor A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

The Game of Humor A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

Humor wit and laughter surround each person. From everyday quips to the carefully contrived comedy of literature newspapers and television we experience humor in many forms yet the impetus for our laughter is far from innocuous. Misfortune stupidity and moral or cultural defects however faintly revealed in others and ourselves seem to make us laugh. Although discomforting such negative terms as superiority aggression hostility ridicule or degradation can be applied to instances of humor. According to scholars Thomas Hobbes's superiority theory that humor arises from mischances infirmities and indecencies where there is no wit at all applies to most humor. With the exception of good-natured play Charles R. Gruner claims that humor is rarely as innocent as it first appears. Gruner's proposed superiority theory of humor is all-encompassing. In The Game of Humor he expands the scope of Hobbes's theory to include and explore the contest aspect of good-natured play. As such the author believes all instances of humor can be examined as games in terms of competition and keeping score winners and losers. Gruner draws on a broad spectrum of thought-provoking examples. Holocaust jokes sexual humor the racialist dialogue of such comic characters as Stepin Fetchit and Archie Bunker simple puns and many of the author's own encounters with everyday humor. Gruner challenges the reader to offer a single example of humor that cannot be de-humorized by its agonistic nature. The Game of Humor makes intriguing and enjoyable reading for people interested in humor and the aspects of human motivation. This book will also be valuable to professionals in communication and information studies sociologists literary critics and linguists and psychologists concerned with the conflicts and tensions of everyday life. | The Game of Humor A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

GBP 130.00
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