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The Day The Laughter Stopped
masterworksinteractive: busylittleb: A game developed for Ludum Dare #28 that holds a pretty heavy and powerful message. Simple design and mechanics speak volumes in this Indie game. **TRIGGER WARNING** Without giving away what happens, I will say that it is based on a very heavy subject material. There is a trigger warning on the game…
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theatlantic: How Color Shapes Our Lives The social, historical, and evolutionary signals of colors. Plus, a video that shows how Newton arbitrarily named the colors of the rainbow. Read more. [Image: I_believe_/flickr]
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kochalka: You should download HELLO WORLD For iOS. It’s a wonderful and strange first-person-adventure, about an alternate universe named Fred. (I originally downloaded it because it looked like it might be “so bad it’s good”… But it’s actually great and I totally fell in love with it.) The great thing about gaming on you phone…
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(via https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/429274877884121089)
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laughingsquid: Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen Prepare for Super Bowl XLVIII sports ball ftw!
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prostheticknowledge: The TekkenPiano Arduino project turns a piano into a gaming controller for fighting game Tekken, put together by Vimeo user Mc Cool – video embedded below: Heyho, This is the final product of my project for interaction design. Took the whole semester, to get this to work but it was worth it. How it…
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playfulsystems: “Not Vincent Ocasla though. Vince spent four years wallowing in equations and graph paper building a totalitarian Sim City hellscape called Magnasanti, racking up a population of six million and claiming to beat an otherwise unbeatable game. Watch this and get scared.” (via The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City | VICE United States)…
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playfulsystems: “Over the course of the season, I’ve discovered lots of different ways to hack Madden NFL 25 into a thing that no longer resembles football as we know it. I’ve played around with rules, injury settings, all manner of player ratings, player dimensions, and anything else the game’s developers have made available to us.…
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So often, we assume that excellence requires a monumental effort and that our lofty goals demand incredible doses of willpower and motivation. But really, all we need is dedication to small, manageable tasks. Mastery follows consistency. How to Stop Procrastinating by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy” (via jonnyskov)
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nprfreshair: Tennis legend Billie Jean King was a pioneer for women’s sports. In addition to winning 20 Wimbledon titles, she founded the Women’s Tennis Association. King is best known for her win against self-proclaimed male chauvinist Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes” in 1973. In the interview she spoke to Fresh Air’s Dave Davies about how…