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"Games aren't just about moving, they are about rubbing against the surface of the world." http://gizmodo.com/5420545...
This guy is kind of a dick. But he talks about texture of video games in a way everyone should be able to respond to, as it's so very important. Shame he didn't mention the Lego games, where plain movement is also amazingly gratifying.
- Joff
"For the sky, we had the image of Sun Wukong from Monkey jumping between clouds." Great interview with Miyamoto. Mario was called Mr. Video and his inspiration was the irrepressible MONKEY! http://uk.wii.com/wii...
David Steer liked this
This is a designers' dream. He actually goes into the reasons for the whole first ten seconds of Super Mario Brothers. I am going to marry Shigeru Miyamoto when I find the mushroom that turns me into a princess.
- Joff
This thread on an exotic cats forum has lots of People. Hanging Out With. Tigers. SCARED NOW. For many reasons. http://www.exoticcatz.com/forum...
Steven Bailey and Tont Coles liked this
Why next-gen games went brown and grey. http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs...
David Steer liked this
"They also use saturated colors to make certain objects stand out so as to guide the player throughout the level" - I don't think this received the credit it deserved. It's one of those things that obviously had a huge amount of thought put into it but went largely unnoticed by the player - Exactly as it should have.
- David Steer
Bullshit. That was basically 'we did it because we could'. I smashed up a load of stuff now. Thanks joff.
- Mark Sorrell
The nutters who want to jump out of planes... without parachutes. They might even do it, too. http://www.newscientist.com/article...
A fantastic article about a party crasher that reads like a Fitzgerald story. Have a read. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert...
Napoleon Cyberdyne. http://gizmodo.com/5403466...
Barry Mitchelson, Tont Coles, Duncan and Huw Evans liked this
(L-R) Tont, Tont, Tont, Tont, Tont and Tont.
- Huw Evans
This is a sizeable article concerning James Cameron and Avatar. He's only 55. Now I feel old. http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
David Steer liked this
Clive James on drugs. Not amazing, but he makes the bizarrely taboo point that drugs can be very nice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
Another example of New Scientist greatness: why people become shortsighted. http://www.newscientist.com/article...
Jon Attaway and Steve liked this
Interesting stuff.
- Jon Attaway
You've seen Paranormal Activity, but did you even bother to read the demon's blog? http://paranormaldemon.wordpress.com/
You've tested positive for a disease that affects 1 in 10,000. The test is 99% accurate. Should you worry? Not so much. http://www.newscientist.com/article...
Mark Sorrell and Steve liked this
Top 100 characters in fiction since 1900 (according to a random list.) How many have you read? http://www.npr.org/program...
About 30, I think. You?
- Daniel Griliopoulos
Not many more than that actually. (But MORE yah boo). Lots of books still to read, shit/good.
- Joff
zero
- Huw Evans
That list seems to be made up from the characters from about 6 books, altogether. No Vonnegut, no party.
- Duncan
“There is a ‘ho belt‘ phenomenon nearly synonymous with the ‘Bible Belt’.” http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008...
John Leighton and the Curious Hexagonal Victorian London Town That Might Have Been. http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009...
Martin-Pierre, Steve and Barry Mitchelson liked this
Hairdressers with punning names. Don't even pretend you're not going to look. http://www.flickr.com/groups...
Have you seen this man in your dream? Art-hoax, but interesting. http://www.thisman.org/history...
Anyone at all interested in the art of creative writing should read this long article about the writer of NYPD Blue and Deadwood. Includes a long exposition about the spiritual meaning of a scene in which an 1870s chinaman repeatedly says 'cocksucker'. http://www.newyorker.com/archive...
"Chris Rock, for example, is 20 percent European. Don Cheadle is 19 percent European." Fascinating stuff about African-American DNA. http://www.theroot.com/views...
Tont Coles liked this
Oh, and also apparently Quincy Jones is a direct descendant of King Edward I. I kid you not.
- Joff
Tried to laugh at these tragic 'top tips'. About ten ones in, I started crying instead. http://heroofswitzerland.blogspot.com/search...
Benny, Tont Coles, Huw Evans and 5 other people liked this
:D
- Barry Mitchelson
I'm laughing, but am also secretly sneering at the plebs and their STUPID FUCKING IDEAS
- Duncan
"For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him." http://www.slate.com/id...
Reading GK Chesterton on Dickens' Christmas stories, and it's making me smile. http://www.gutenberg.org/files...
Playing the SG-1000, Sega’s First Game Machine - I had literally never heard of this. http://www.wired.com/gamelif...
Steve, Tont Coles, David Steer and Barry Mitchelson liked this
Flicky!
- Barry Mitchelson
Cute, isn't it? One before the Master System iirc.
- Tont Coles
Penn and Teller Vs Run DMC in the original video for 'It's Tricky'. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Barry Mitchelson liked this
"Do you know what happens when a normal person grabs the middle of a pool cue and smacks someone with the tip of it? Fucking nothing! It does so little damage that they actually get healthier." Seanbaby reviews self-defense vids. http://www.cracked.com/blog...
Tont Coles and Steven Bailey liked this
"What if some white man threw on a bowl-cut wig to try something new? Or an Asian lady got a weave?" Something different for Thursday afternoon. http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/2009...
Something shit, more like.
- Huw Evans
Sweaty, teary US media troll Glenn Beck is a useful barometer of US politics. Worth a read: http://www.salon.com/opinion...
The NES running in Chrome browser: http://benfirshman.com/project...
This is pretty much what iPhone life is like every day. http://www.explosm.net/comics...
fucken facepalm
- Huw Evans
It's cool - not everybody this goes to is you guys.
- Joff
Why didn't you just 'like' Mark's post then?
- Steve
Duh, I didn't see Mark's post. I saw it on Gizmodo. I expect they'll be in contact soon to complain about me reposting it too.
- Joff
Friendfeed needs a "one of your friends has already posted this" shame defense notification.
- Tont Coles
True dat.
- Joff
It needs hatred, agreement of outrage and so on. "RIAA obtains death warrant for file-sharing disabled single mom" doesn't suit a "Joff liked this" entry.
- Tont Coles
Speak for yourself Coles. But yeah. Also I'm not a fan of this commenting thing. It makes me feel obscurely like I'm in a queue for the toilet with you lot, making smalltalk.
- Joff
Michael Jackson, James Brown and Prince on stage. Bad weirdness go happen. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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