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Interesting Links for 08-02-2023
Feb. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. This pretty much sums up how I feel about computer games that prioritise narrative over, well, being a game
- (tags:games narrative writing design video )
- 2. As kids become teens, mom's voice matters less to their brains
- (tags:teenagers voice psychology children )
- 3. Nintendo Switch Surpasses PS4 and Game Boy to Become 3rd Best Selling Console of All Time
- (tags:Nintendo consoles )
- 4. What Happened On The Day the Dinosaurs Died?
- (tags:video dinosaurs apocalypse )
- 5. I think Atari might have overestimated the level of nostalgia people have for their consoles
- (tags:games nostalgia history technology consoles money )
- 6. Noting a chain of evidence for the next time someone claims that JK Rowling isn't transphobic
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry jkrowling )
- 7. Google advertises its AI - which manages to get facts wrong *in the advert*
- (tags:ai OhForFucksSake google )
Tags:
- ai,
- apocalypse,
- bigotry,
- children,
- consoles,
- design,
- dinosaurs,
- games,
- google,
- history,
- jkrowling,
- lgbt,
- links,
- money,
- narrative,
- nintendo,
- nostalgia,
- ohforfuckssake,
- psychology,
- technology,
- teenagers,
- transgender,
- video,
- voice,
- writing
Interesting Links for 03-09-2022
Sep. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Dreamwidth are moving away from Cloudflare, after Cloudflare refused to stop supporting sites that threaten people's physical safety
- (tags:dreamwidth freespeech GoodNews abuse )
- 2. What would it be like for you if your life had a sports commentator?
- (tags:sports narrative life )
- 3. Everywhere, no matter how boring it looks, has a history
- (tags:edinburgh history scotland viaSwampers )
- 4. Russian oil energy price cap agreed by G7
- (tags:russia oil )
- 5. Diablo Immortal whales face massive orb debt after third-party refunds (I find all of this hilarious, in-between wishing I didn't know what it meant)
- (tags:viaSwampers games diablo fraud )
- 6. The UK welfare system is cruel, disgusting, and murderous
- (tags:UK welfare murder OhForFucksSake conservatives )
- 7. Nuclear explosions in the style of various artists
- (tags:nuclearweapons art ai viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Modern cars are much safer than old ones
- (tags:safety cars )
- 9. AI is getting better at generating porn.
- (tags:porn ai )
- 10. Worker says her job would rather replace her with 6 people than give her a raise,
- (tags:work OhForFucksSake )
- 11. Entrance to forgotten square revealed by huge fire in Edinburgh
- (tags:history Edinburgh architecture viaPatrickHadfield )
- 12. Valve bars Steam developer who posted anti-trans rant in patch notes
- (tags:games bigotry LGBT valve Steam transgender )
Tags:
- abuse,
- ai,
- architecture,
- art,
- bigotry,
- cars,
- conservatives,
- diablo,
- dreamwidth,
- edinburgh,
- fraud,
- freespeech,
- games,
- goodnews,
- history,
- lgbt,
- life,
- links,
- murder,
- narrative,
- nuclearweapons,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oil,
- porn,
- russia,
- safety,
- scotland,
- sports,
- steam,
- transgender,
- uk,
- valve,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- viaswampers,
- welfare,
- work
Interesting Links for 16-02-2014
Feb. 16th, 2014 11:00 am- Who's the most embarassing person to take to Lars von Trier's sexfest Nymphomaniac?
- What is a coder's love like?
- Norwegian shooter threatens hunger strike to get a PS3 in prison
- The "South Park: The Stick of Truth" RPG is a thing of beauty
- Valentine's Day in Middle Earth
- Science Confirms: Internet Trolls Really Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic
- It's time for Netflix to stop acting like television
- Passwords leaked on live TV as UK responds to flood emergency
Interesting Links for 10-09-2012
Sep. 10th, 2012 12:00 pm- Fascinating discussion of narrative in game with one of the people behind Portal and Portal 2.
- Amanda Palmer asks the worst thing that's happened in your bedroom. There are many answers.
- On Canon, Dr Who, and the geekish tendency to fence in stories
260th
- Meet Dan Spitz, Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker
- 5 True Stories Cut from Movies for Being Too Unrealistic
- Every time I read about Valve I want to work there more...
- Heterogeneous parallel programming - an explanation for laypeople
- NHS watchdog claimed that whistleblower Kay Sheldon was mentally ill
- DRAGONCON 2012 - Gangnam Style Music Video. Oh, the costumes.
- The dark secret of arcade crane games: 17 times out of 18, you will lose
- The Tragedy of the European Union and How to Resolve It
- A virus that kills cancer: languishing due to lack of £1m for further testing
- Mischief Managed: the Harry Potter Retrospective - the whole series in 13 minutes.
Cue people complaining that their favourite moment wasn't in there.
- 34.5% of US Internet Population not using Facebook/Twitter - a further 31% won't use them to sign in.
- The fire-retardant in your sofa is probably giving you cancer. And not preventing fires.
- How To See The Future (If you are not _blown away_ by the present day, you are not paying attention)
- A Terrifying Way to Discipline Children (What century are these people living in???)
- Making people log in to unsubscribe from email is against Federal Law
- Okay, why did nobody tell me of "Pythagosaurus"? Bill Bailey, maths _and_dinosaurs?
- 60% of MSPs believe that drug policy isn't working
- The Green Party has just committed to the right of workers to buy out companies and turn them into co-ops.
- New research reveals tap water could explain some of Scotland's liver-disease problems.
Tags:
- alcohol,
- amandapalmer,
- bed,
- billbailey,
- business,
- cancer,
- canon,
- cheating,
- children,
- clock,
- computers,
- convention,
- cooperation,
- cosplay,
- currency,
- dinosaurs,
- drugs,
- drwho,
- economics,
- email,
- epicfail,
- europe,
- facebook,
- finance,
- fire,
- funny,
- games,
- green,
- harrypotter,
- health,
- law,
- life,
- links,
- liver,
- mathematics,
- mentalhealth,
- movies,
- music,
- narrative,
- nhs,
- politics,
- punishment,
- school,
- scifi,
- scotland,
- security,
- storytelling,
- technology,
- thefuture,
- time,
- true_story,
- truth,
- twitter,
- usa,
- valve,
- viafanf,
- viaskreidle,
- video,
- virus,
- watches,
- water
Interesting Links for 07-02-2012
Feb. 7th, 2012 11:00 am- The 25 Most Awkward Cat Sleeping Positions (The Cuteness - it burns!)
- U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners
- Government rejects pardon request for Alan Turing
- Narrative is not a game mechanic - on computer games, feedback and structure. Fascinating stuff.
- You Can’t Copyright Porn, Harassed BitTorrent Defendant Insists (May even have a case too)
- Zap your brain into the zone: transcranial direct current stimulation has some very interesting effects
