Mark Sabalauskas Profile
Mark Sabalauskas

@MarkSab

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Indie tabletop roleplaying game designer, zine publisher. (he/him) "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."

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Mark Sabalauskas
7 years
I wrote Return to the Stars, a tabletop science fiction role playing game, which helps players create their own stories in an optimistic space opera setting. Pop culture collides with political machinations to determine the fate of the galaxy! #hopepunk https://t.co/rfBoAzhheS
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Mark Sabalauskas
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Lost in Translation: Beautiful, Messy, Enduring ▸ https://t.co/xfsUtGno1h
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But when they arrive at the remote, eerily isolated burial mound, the geomancer immediately senses a malevolent energy far darker than any ordinary restless spirit. Read more 👉 https://t.co/qAwAv7WHfC
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Mark Sabalauskas
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It's a charmingly unpolished 90s doc that exists to promote the Chan brand. https://t.co/Pkc0QtC3f3
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Google just revealed Personal Intelligence today, but I’ve been living with it for months as a Trusted Tester. Want to know what it’s actually like to have a "Digital Butler"? My thoughts: https://t.co/gcGOOnTEDp
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Can a film be deeply moving and carry real baggage? I talk through Lost in Translation’s beauty, its blind spots, and what it’s actually observing vs. endorsing. https://t.co/Pm913Pe6pn
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)That Tsui Hark centers three women—and makes their bond, not the angst of a lone male hero, the film’s emotional engine—was a real commercial risk in 1986. Read more 👉 https://t.co/wXD9h9liib
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Today, as new lines are drawn and old alliances are tested, Capra’s film serves as a powerful reminder of how narrative shapes reality, and how the allies of yesterday can become the adversaries of tomorrow Read more 👉 https://t.co/IqpLWNKkVv
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Mark Sabalauskas
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"This same tension animates A Better https://t.co/32tbQAk4L0 the beginning of the film we are shown the deep, affectionate love between brothers, familial and https://t.co/IWh7pdM6rb a romance, a misunderstanding or betrayal separates the lovers." https://t.co/e48IYv4djN
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Mark Sabalauskas
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What if I told you that the movie that created the cinematic grammar of violence used by action films like John Wick had the narrative structure of a romance novel?That film is John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow. Read more 👉 https://t.co/slslFLZJYN
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Mark Sabalauskas
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When John Woo Invented the Language of Modern Action Cinema: https://t.co/S6yR1gvIL5
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"This duality would later reach apotheosis in Swordsman II with Lin's legendary portrayal of Asia the Invincible.Our last protagonist is Sally Yeh as Bai Niu, daughter of an opera troupe owner and a would-be performer barred from the stage." https://t.co/htI4tEAv6H
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Mark Sabalauskas
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The term daomadan names a specific kind of dan, or female role, in Peking Opera: the woman warrior, a performer asked to do everything at once—act, sing, and fight with precision. Read more 👉 https://t.co/h6nis6VT3m
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Mark Sabalauskas
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Can an device replace a human touch? No. But it can extend it 8,000 miles. 🌍🩺 "The Umbilical" is a story about the future of maternal health—where geography doesn't dictate survival. My submission for the @1billionsummit AI Film Award: https://t.co/zYeb0r36Ny
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Mark Sabalauskas
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The Kinetic Brilliance of Tsui Hark’s Peking Opera Blues: https://t.co/z3CA2d1yyW
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Mark Sabalauskas
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Godzilla, an unstoppable, city-leveling force of nature, emerges from the depths, powered by, and a symbol of, the very atomic energy that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki less than a decade earlier. Read more 👉 https://t.co/Ag5uMjedwJ
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Mark Sabalauskas
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So, I had a bit of good fortune, my optimistic space opera TTRPG Return to the Stars was prominently featured in an article called “The Future of Tabletop Role-Play is Hope”  on Polygon, one of the largest gaming sites on the web. Read more 👉 https://t.co/xEQX1CnQFF #ttrpg
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Mark Sabalauskas
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What if the movie that gave us the "cinematic grammar of violence" used in John Wick was actually structured like a romance novel? Diving into the emotional engine of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow. 🎞️ https://t.co/1REkRNx2iz
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