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Fun cover.

I think this makes some good points, but I don't know that the headline is all that accurate to the content, because of all of the caveats.

Apparently they decided to make the barrel sequence less sneaky and more actiony. But also, Lego.

Give the people good content, and they will give you money for it. Seems like a "duh", but apparently the industry has to keep being reminded.

I think it's pretty clear that part of the rise in costs in a perverse incentive of the huge amount of money coming from government aid.

A few short great points about games and parenting.

He uses a lot of algorithms to match an author that is more likely than random matching.

Turns out making female characters hinges mostly on making them characters.

"Climate change is not 'a story,' but a background condition for all future stories." Interesting point that part of why coverage gets sidelined is that it came out of niche coverage of environmental stories.

This makes some really great points about how to better depict a culture through games. I'll be curious to see if they include a lot of Inupiat dialogue. Avoid appropriation, sampling, or depicting; focus on infusing.

I'm sure they have no nefarious use for this at all.

The new draft report makes it sound even more dire.

Hahaha this is amazing.

Depressing. I can only hope that something gives before bambino needs an education.

This deployment process is *terrible*. This at least told me where to get the DLLs from in the Qt install.

Glad to see sulky come around. I don't see how this is anything but abuse, even if they believe David was carrying classified material you can't use a terrorism statute for that.

He's a liar, and I hate that Obama lets him lie for him to serve the national security state.

Cool, although unfortunately I think my mental visuals have been corrupted by the movie versions.

Cool if depressing clips. Mellower than his usual.

I love this description: "quadrillions of microscopic glutamate bombs". Annoyed that Myhrvold keeps getting quoted in food articles because of his gastro cachet, even though he's a patent troll.

I thought this was a great discussion of what alienates people from the church, or at least some churches.

Some unsurprising in kind but surprising in degree results about gender portrayals in film.

The third picture down really looks like some kind of villain.

Makes some great points. I have longer thoughts up on Goodreads.

Yet another cognitive flaw in humans when it comes to predicting the future.

Cool explanation from the chaplain at my high school.

Love it when observations confirm a model.

I think this might be a bit overwrought, but I agree with the point that a simple game can hook the player into a complex moral story.

What surprises me more is that none of these companies took the risk on resisting.

Cool old power plant pictures. Seems very retrofuturistic, with the art deco bits?