Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few -
Robert B. Reich presents a paradigm-shifting, clear-eyed examination of a political and economic status quo that no longer serves the people.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022
quote [ After the second titles in both Kyrandia and Lands of Lore there was a big big push for us to start using 3D art and that was a tough time. Westwood had all these 2D artists and I had to go tell them to go learn 3D Studio. Some of them did a good job in trying to adapt to the changing times, while others didn?t. It was a time of flux. ]
Interesting interview about writing and producing games in the 90s, including anecdotes about the Virgin-Westwood relation and the upbringing of some of the game concepts.
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Monday, 17 January 2022
quote [ After falling in love with an obscure anime rhythm game, I became obsessed with obtaining a machine of my own?or finding the people who could. ]
DDR, come on, come on
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Sunday, 16 January 2022
quote [ Just a few years after The Waste Land appeared ? a poem whose difficulty critics compared to some ?pompous cross-word puzzle? ? Edward Powys Mathers (alias: Torquemada) pioneered the cryptic: a puzzle form that, like modernist poetry, unwove language and rewove it anew. Roddy Howland Jackson reveals the pleasures and imaginative creatures lurking in Torquemada's lively grids. ]
Crosswords puzzle me
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Wednesday, 12 January 2022
quote [ Clean a big nasty foot ]
Japanese hygiene folklore ? in VR, no less!
Not tested ? posting for your amusement.
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quote [ A pair of LAPD officers lost their jobs after ignoring a robbery to play Pokémon Go instead. ]
Sleepin' on me like I'm Snorlax
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You Are Not So Smart -
Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
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Wednesday, 5 January 2022
quote [ World Worsening Simulators, i.e. Player Mainly Runs Around Destroying Stuff And Decreasing Biodiversity, Few To No Pettable Animals/Growable Plants/Huggable NPCs/etc:
Cattails, Mindustry, Minecraft, Terraria, Skyrim ] Very interesting case for narrow game tastes and sensibilities. If you need some review opinions this year.
Thumb via Clawmarks blog.
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Thursday, 30 December 2021
quote [ The legendary anti-RPG ''moon'' is now available as a port under the complete supervision of the staff of the original version. RPGs without battles, NPCs with their own time-based behaviour patterns, and an MD system that lets you play your favorite music. ]
This is an interesting project from 18 years ago, recently ported and revived. It's, amongst others, an inspiration for Undertale.
Hardcoregaming 101 has an extensive piece on the untranslated original. And here's a recent announcement for the PC version with several links.
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Tuesday, 28 December 2021
quote [ Take Me To A Random Video Game Site ]
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Sunday, 19 December 2021
quote [ The player character is thrown into an enclosed world filled with sewage, with decaying wooden buildings and rusted metals. And he discovers that his body has been changed into something in between a machine and a living creature. He wanders around this structurally complex maze-like world in search of a way out. ]
A gloomy Japanese horror/body puppet game of sorts from two decades ago. Many people praising it, never heard of it myself. But look, it's available as a remaster on mobile.
Moby Games has some background information together with an extensive sketch gallery whose entirety would fit in the SE thumb column rotation.
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Friday, 17 December 2021
quote [ But are these games a brave new world or a FOMO-driven gold rush bubble? ]
But I got to say....screw the fomo machine
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid -
Think about thinking.
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