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Some squirrel photography
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China threatened Sweden with unspecified counter measures if its culture minister attends a literary award ceremony for Gui Minhai
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How to build a forest
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DEF CON 27 conference - Nina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso money mule
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Let's rename some gaming genres to make them more accurate
A recent discussion got me thinking about how a lot of the standard genre descriptions for games are either opaque to the unfamiliar or seemingly incongruous with what they are describing. Almost...
A recent discussion got me thinking about how a lot of the standard genre descriptions for games are either opaque to the unfamiliar or seemingly incongruous with what they are describing. Almost any game can be described as a "role playing" game because you "play" the "role" of a given character. Adventure games often aren't very "adventurous" and often just mean that characters talk to each other instead of shoot each other. In survival games you survive; in racing games you race; in casual games you... well, usually match 3 but not always? Also why are we so focused on camera for some games (e.g. first-person shooter) but not for others (e.g. third-person sports)?
So, let's throw away everything we know about genres and start fresh. No baggage from gaming history; no widely understood conventions; no games that reference other games (e.g. "Souls-like"). Your goal is to make gaming genres as clear and accurate as possible, at the expense of convenience, tradition, and, in some cases, good taste.
Turn "roguelike" into "procedural death labyrinth". Turn "battle royale" into "shrinking-zone dead-is-dead killfest". Feel free to propose not just genre redefinitions but whole a whole taxonomy if you feel it's warranted. After all, some genres need a hierarchy of identifiers.
Be as formal or loose as you want, and the main purpose of this is to have fun, though if some great new terms happen to fall out of it you won't hear me complaining.
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David Siegel’s chocolate porn
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Tag formatting inconsistencies
I've been noticing a couple of weird formatting issues with tags on topics. For some posts, the first tag is shown before the metadata, then the rest of the tags are on a new line below. This...
I've been noticing a couple of weird formatting issues with tags on topics. For some posts, the first tag is shown before the metadata, then the rest of the tags are on a new line below. This isn't always the case, and so far I can't find any rhyme or reason for whether it does or not. It's not like some CSS float issue or anything, it's actually creating two <ul>'s. — example
The second issue I've noticed is sometimes the dangling part of a letter like lowercase "g" will be cut off by the footer. It seems like this is caused by
.label {line-height: 1.2;}
, but it's also inconsistent, and I haven't figured out why. In this example the "g" in "climate change" is not affected.Maybe it's just me, I dunno. Firefox 70 on linux. I'd create a gitlab issue, except I am very lazy.
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The trouble with the video game industry
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Why TikTok is now the number one social media app
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Only two road traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were reported in Norway in 2019, making it the best-performing country for road safety
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How a meteorite ruined an Alabama woman's afternoon sixty-five years ago
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Denmark's industrial pig farms are stunningly productive, but there is another side to their success
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In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group
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How to increase taxes on the rich (if you must)
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What are your favorite RSS feeds?
I particularly enjoy Voice of America for political news, Hacker News for tech news, and a Craig's list filter for particular cars in my area (since I might be getting one soon).
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Vulfpeck - Lost My Treble Long Ago (2018)
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Denmark has for the first time put mineral-rich Greenland top of its national security agenda, ahead of terrorism and cybercrime
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All you need to know about UEFA EURO 2020 Group B contenders Denmark, Finland, Belgium and Russia
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A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
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Adam Sandler’s everlasting shtick
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Snarky Puppy - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2019)
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The US FAA is examining whether the trend toward smaller seats and less personal space on today’s planes poses safety risks to those aboard in the event of an emergency
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Betsey and I Are Out
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Impostor Factory trailer - The third game in the To The Moon series
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Longevity linked to proteins that calm overexcited neurons
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Every way to cook a tomato | Bon Appétit
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How the right’s radical thinktanks reshaped the UK Conservative party
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Artificial Loneliness - Appreciating the rare moments of emptiness inside the busy worlds of modern gaming
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When James DeLine became a rural doctor, he had no experience treating the Amish, and no idea he'd be at the cutting edge of genetic medicine
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Your car doesn’t need a touchscreen in it
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In some towns in Finland, one-person households are now a majority
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Hong Kong protests: Trump signs Human Rights and Democracy Act into law
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Virgil Griffith, research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for advising North Korea on how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions
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Ambitious Freddie Ljungberg has a chance to keep it in the Arsenal family, and would relish taking the job on a permanent basis
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Are bankers scared of Corbyn? We asked them
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Downtown Oakland is booming
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Announcing our 2019 top charities
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Finland marks 80th anniversary of brutal conflict with the Soviet Union
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What are you doing this weekend?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend. If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend.
If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't done, or even if you just want to talk about how you're doing this weekend, this is a place for casual discussion about those things.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
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Beware of shell globs
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Ukraine has become the 100th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration – a Norwegian initiative to make schools safer even during war
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How Google is building a browser monopoly
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Man armed with Narwhal tusk confronts terrorist on London Bridge
@theamycoop: A guy who was with us at Fishmongers Hall took a 5' narwhale tusk from the wall and went out to confront the attacker. You can see him standing over the man (with what looks like a white pole) in the video.
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Ethos Capital paid $1.135 billion for the acquisition of Public Interest Registry (.org)
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Why selection bias is the most powerful force in education
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Donald Trump's "invisible wall": A small, dedicated crew of hardliners has put up bureaucratic barriers that are far harder to overcome than any hunk of concrete on the US-Mexico border
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I learned to play the piano without a piano
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Iraqi prime minister to resign in wake of deadly protests
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Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him
10 votes