Interesting Links for 28-09-2024

[andrewducker]

1. In case you were wondering what Lord Alli gets in exchange for donations to Starmer...

(tags:politics money corruption uk labour )

2. Why Video Games Are Tough For Storytelling

(tags:games stories )

3. People who had two COVID-19 infections were more than twice as likely—and those who had three or more COVID-19 infections were almost four times more likely—to report long COVID as those with one infection.

(tags:pandemic doom )

4. Mathematician unravels Shakespeare-era card trick (with a little help from his ten year old)

(tags:children mathematics shakespeare magic cards history )

Comments

[vivdunstan]

4. I bought the book by the Weymouth man’s friend about Shakespeare and maths, just the other day! As a birthday present for Martin! It’s called Much Ado About Numbers.

[toothycat]

4. The real trick is writing a whole article about a magic trick without, at any point, actually describing the trick. The readers, too, would like a go working out the maths behind it!

Why Video Games Are Tough For Storytelling

[jack]

That makes sense. Although I always have the caveat that people usually mean something more like narrative, because that's the main way of telling stories in non-interactive mediums. I think games can have very effective stories not told through narrative: e.g. no-one has much idea of a sequence of events from doom, but it conveys very very effectively "Hell demons invade space, but can they defeat one marine?!"