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cinoh: “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.” Kurt Vonnegut.
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Then suddenly, there are these other games where you’re just telling your own story. You ask a kid what they’re doing when they play Minecraft and they can’t even tell you – they’re doing dozens of things no one has told them to. They’re just playing. As a veteran gamer, you almost feel guilty doing…
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What Murray laments is the way mainstream titles tend to restrict the gaming experience. “Games are obsessed with having no breathing space – they never let the player walk around and enjoy something,” he says. “With Call of Duty, it feels like they sit there with a stopwatch and if an explosion hasn’t gone off…
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“For the Victorians, the future, as terra incognita, was ripe for exploration (and colonisation). For someone like me – who grew up reading the science fiction of Robert Heinlein and watching Star Trek – this makes looking at how the Victorians imagined us today just as interesting as looking at the way our imagined futures…
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brucesterling: http://www.nicolasnova.net/pasta-and-vinegar/2014/12/10/8-bit-reggae-an-interview-with-goto80 *”8-Bit Reggae” is a remarkably interesting culture-studies book, considering how utterly obscure that form of music is
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emergentfutures: The Board’s Role In Complex and Uncertain Environments – Part One A couple of weeks ago delivered a Master Class Workshop for Not for Profit Organisations as part of the Leadership Victoria Director Dynamics Master Class Series : How do successful boards manage the“unknown unknowns? As part of that process I re-examined my own thinking on what board’s should be…
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Adapting a telenovela with Jane The Virgin showrunner Jennie Urman
Adapting a telenovela with Jane The Virgin showrunner Jennie Urman oliversava: In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music festival lineups. While the public sees the end product on TVs, movie screens, paper, or radio dials, they don’t see what it took to get there.…
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Because I, a mestiza; continually walk out of one culture and into another. because I am in all cultures at the same time, alma entre dos mundos, tres, cuatro, me zumba La cabeza con lo contradictorio. Estoy norteada por todas las voces que me hablan simultáneamente. Gloria Anzaldúa (via multiversalist)
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hangingfire: Can anyone help me identify/remember a short story I read once in Omni magazine? It would have been in the late 1980s or early 1990s, and was about a human settlement on another planet populated by friendly, ever so helpful natives. The settlement was afflicted by some pest or other, and the aliens brought…
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likeapairofbottlerockets: ras-al-ghul-is-dead: A silent protest in Love Park, downtown Philadelphia orchestrated by performance artists protesting the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The onslaught of passerby’s wanting to take photos with the statue exemplifies the disconnect in American society. Simply frame out the dead body, and it doesn’t exist. Here are some observations by…