July 29, 2023
"Now this, I like."
More of these games should have ended with the monkey hugging the dog
YouTuber oddheader recruited his wife Mrs. odd to review and rank nearly 60 Barbie video games. I played Every Barbie game. HELP ME. (Ft. Mrs Odd) [1h16m] presents them in low-to-high ranking, so it jumps around in time, but grows in quality as it goes on. It's a fascinating and insightful look through the prism that is current rampant Barbie commentary. It's also much less pink than you're expecting.
4X games have a lot of colonial ideology just kind of baked in.
Can you make an anti-imperial empire game? [Eurogamer] The 4Xperts behind Civilization, Syphilisation and Victoria 3 discuss eXperimental 4X design. [more inside]
The Power of Provocative Copywriting
Throughout our conversations over the past year, Runner maintained that neither he nor his businesses ever crossed a legal line. Many people, his attitude projected, want to believe in something magical—be it the power of a weight-loss drug or the power of a psychic. And inherent in that belief is a measure of accepted deceit. If that wasn’t the case, Runner insisted, people would have asked for their money back. from The Greatest Scam Ever Written
We're in this !Ploosh! together
The 2023 Wife-carrying World Championships were held in Sonkajärvi FI a month ago. "The minimum weight of the wife to be carried is 49 kilos. If she weighs less, she will be burdened with such a heavy rucksack to reach the desired minimum weight.". Watch executive summary [13m YT + results in ShowMore]. MetaPrev 2012. Regular participants Elliot and Giana Storey of Westbrook ME placed 5th. No cheese was injured in these events.
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