Interesting Links for 08-12-2020

[andrewducker]

Driverless taxi rides are rolling out slowly. Very slowly

(tags:cars automation taxi )

We still don't know that quantum physics "means". That may never change.

(tags:physics knowledge philosophy failure )

The Secret To The Success Of Bastion, Pyre, And Hades: No Forced Crunch, Yes Forced Vacations

(tags:work working_hours games )

A classic SF short story about the future of vat grown food

(tags:food scifi ArthurCClarke )

Unidentified illness hospitalizes more than 300 people in India

(tags:India disease )

The trailer for the Colonel Sanders movie is just amazing

(tags:movies chicken trailer kfc wtf )

So you want a career in computer games tournaments?

Did you know the computer games business is bigger than film, TV and music combined?
(tags:games education )

British celebrity chefs as Greek gods

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1335584701965332481.html

Cyberpunk 2077 is basically designed to trigger epilepsy

(tags:games brain disability OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I enjoyed the Greek Gods / British chefs list. I mostly agree. I'm probably taking it too seriously but I think Posiedon is a bit too grumpy to be representated by the Hairy Bikers and and I'm not sure Ainsley Harriet is book-smart enough to be Apollo.

Not sure where I would actually put those three or who would take their places.

[naath]

intrigueing that Clarke could im agine vat meat but not women senators...

The Secret To The Success Of Bastion, Pyre, And Hades: No Forced Crunch, Yes Forced Vacations

[jducoeur]

Good to see people learning those lessons. We came to many of the same conclusions after the death of Looking Glass Studios: a bunch of us wound up creating a tiny company called Buzzpad, which was built around the then-nascent concept of "Extreme Programming" (which would later get corrupted into Scrum). The high concept was very much, "Okay, we're all burnt-out. How do we make a company that doesn't do that to us?" Sustainability was the name of the game.

Great little company: fun to work at, hugely productive, overall fabulous. Its only problem was bad timing -- we were ready for our exit-from-startup in early 2002, at the height of the Internet Nuclear Winter, which drove us out of business just when we thought we were all set...