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Tunic – 03
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Tunic – 02
After adjusting/toggling the combat difficulty to easy and opening my mind I have now spent nine and a half hours playing tunic. I am seeing its internal logic and finding it charming. I have cleared the east forest and completed the first major task. I have gotten lamp, which feels like a shout out to…
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Tunic 01
I’ve started playing Tunic. It was recommended as a Zelda play-alike. Thirty minutes in I’ve restarted once and am ready to abandon. It is visually very pretty. It foregrounds learning precision combat combos which is antithetical to my jam, my aesthetic. Story is obscured in an invented glyphic language and intermittent cut scenes. I prefer…
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Strange Toys – remotedevice.net
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Having leisure time is now a marker for poverty, not riches
mostlysignssomeportents: In Post-Industrious Society: Why Work Time will not Disappear for our Grandchildren, researchers from Oxford’s Centre for Time Use Research argue that there has been a radical shift in the relationship between leisure, work and income. Where once leisure time was a mark of affluence, now it is a marker for poverty. The richer…
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“For decades the military has been using video-game technology,” says Nina Huntemann, associate professor of communication and journalism at Suffolk University in Boston and a computer games specialist. “Every branch of the US armed forces and many, many police departments are using retooled video games to train their personnel.” Like much of early computing, nascent…
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Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace
Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace essayist: …Of course, in men’s sports no one ever talks about beauty or grace or the body. Men may profess their “love” of sports, but that love must always be cast and enacted in the symbology of war: elimination vs. advance, hierarchy of rank and standing, obsessive…
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These MultiBlocks remind me of the colored math blocks we had in school in Switzerland when I was a whopping 7 years old. I vividly remember enjoying playing with them. Little did I know that they were tricking me into learning math! Ha! These MultiBlocks will find their way to casa swissmiss this holiday season.…