A. Cathy Nguyen

@anhthu.bsky.social

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Kyoto ✦ games, tourism, memory ✦ en/de https://kaydenuen.com/

snap of a friend with my hometown in the background
Kyoto weather forecast with pretty much every day hovering at 37 or 38 degrees
match history in league of legends, showing 3 games played and all 3 games lost (with terrible stats!)
zu sehen: Haferflocken, Pumpernickel, Kinder Bueno
Video of a nutria rodent eating leaves
photo of an electric hand fan
jacke mit eingebauten ventilatoren
cherries from a local farmers market. sign says 5,40 euro for 500 grams of cherries
an in-game screenshot of baldur's gate 3 showcasing my party (left is astarion, middle me and my dog i mean wolf pet, right is shadowheart)
a photo of my working space area. full of different things hanging from the walls, figurines, plushies, key chains. many posters and postcards too. also a row of books
photo of a toro, a traditional lantern pillar at shimogamo shrine, Kyoto
photo of a knitted key chain in the shape of a very very voluptuous rose coloured peach with two leaves at the top
photo of a PS5 game box titled 007 First Light, it's got a sticker on to indicate it's currently sold out at this store
a photo of a life sized statue of Emet Selch, an antagonist in FFXIV Online
a screenshot of how many times I dialed the Disney phone number: 150 times. the time stamp is for 11:25am, i.e. I repeatedly rang the number for approx 25 mins
photo of a wedding venue at DisneySea's MiraCosta hotel, a hotel that is basically inside the theme park grounds of DisneySea. this venue is the chapel, used for the wedding ceremony
a screenshot of the official steamdeck seller in japan, left: the 512GB OLED model for 137,980 JPY and right the 1TB model for 167,980 JPY
screenshot of my zoom presentation at the mini conference organised and hosted by game studies group Ludobande titled "Merging Two Fields: Games and Tourism as a Framework for Game Analysis"
a photo of me in saigon in front of a statue of ho chi minh
two guest entries on my FFXIV estate that read "What a nice place, with such lovely details. Best regards" and "i love this house, very cute"
screenshot of the start menu for final fantasy 7 rebirth
the game deleting itself
a screen from Nier Automata with encouraging messages
a flower raft at philosopher's path, kyoto
view onto family courtyard, the shared space of a family compound. it's both a social and functional space - to hang up laundry, bicycle and moped parking, storage. or for pets to hang out
my aunt's cafe
a flower shop with a sign featuring characters of the movie and the flowers you can buy
top: Screenshot from movie, bottom: recreation of frame at the actual location
me standing in front of a board with a poster advertising my defense
a the guardian article that reads It's time to stop worshipping the liberal arts While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn't mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
garden entrance of the temple
screenshot of youtuber dogen and the thumbnail of his most recent video titled "On the Rise of Anti-Foreigner Sentiment in Japan"
screenshot of text from linked article, reads: And yet I yearned to hear the voices of ­Vietnamese ­people ­because, as an American, I understood how Americans saw and heard, or didn’t hear, ­ Vietnamese ­people, who ­were among the many ­others in the American imagination. I was an American, which meant that Amer­i­ca’s others ­were also mine, born from what the poet William Carlos Williams called the “orgy of blood” that is American history. But I also became aware of myself as an other through watching almost all of Hollywood’s Vietnam War movies, an exercise I recommend to no one, especially if you are Vietnamese. When Americans said Việt Nam, they really meant the Vietnam War, but ­whether they meant the country or the war, “Vietnam” for Americans was an American drama, an American civil war, a conflict in the American soul in which we ­were the extras. This was our country and this was our war, and yet our only place in American movies was to be killed, raped, threatened, or rescued. All we could do was scream, cry, beg, threaten, or curse, and if we could say anything at all, it was ­either “Me love you long time” or “thank you” for being rescued. Of course, we ­were never so rude as to mention, at least in English, that we ­wouldn’t have needed to be rescued by Americans if we ­hadn’t been invaded by them in the first place.
princess mononoke imax poster
screenshot from death stranding 2, showing a full moon with the silhouette of protagonist sam
Screenshot of pdf file icon on my desktop, all you see is "Nguyen_Lu... Tourism.pdf" but the full title is "Nguyen_Ludic Tourism"