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The Cultures Ep 252: Zelda BOTW’s Story, Get Paid to Write a Novel
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No comments on The Cultures Ep 252: Zelda BOTW’s Story, Get Paid to Write a NovelListen to episode 252 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s narrative mechanic, how it works and doesn’t work (hot take: 1.5 years too late!) Get paid to write a novel (sort of)
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The Cultures Ep 251: Gallup Careers Coaching, Not Following Politics, Gamify Everything
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Listen to episode 251 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Gallup careers coaching The experience of not following politics Gamify everything
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Solo: A Star Wars Story, 2018 – ★★★
Better than my very low expectations. Decent soundtrack. Awful robot. Good, if criminally underused, Lando. Clearly meant to be the beginning of a trilogy that will never see the light of day. Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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From Justice Leagues to Solos: The birth of a new Box Office meme
Last weekend, a torch was passed in modern box office history. No longer would Justice League, Warner Bros’ supremely expensive $300 million superhero team-up that grossed an astoundingly low $657 million worldwide (and only $229 million in the US) be used by box office aficionados as the standard unit of measurement for other, better movies,…
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The Cultures Ep 250: Rituals for Secular People, Incels
Listen to episode 250 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Rituals for secular people Incels (Reply All episode) Note: No Andrea this ep
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The Cultures Ep 249: Tesla’s Predictions, What Do You Love?
Listen to episode 249 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Tesla’s predictions of the future What do you love that other people hate? Note: No Andrea this ep
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle, 2017 – ★★½
Watched at 2x on a flight back from the west coast. Decent action but basically nonsense. Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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The Cultures Ep 248: Speaker Fees, Is Disobedience “Authentic”?, “Effortless” is a Toxic Illusion
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Listen to episode 248 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Speaker fees Is Disobedience “authentic”? “Effortless” is a toxic illusion (“I know my place” video)
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Reassessing Persuasive Games
https://twitter.com/ibogost/status/994361277169524736 Sadly, I’ve always thought persuasive/serious games were more about generating good PR than actually persuading anyone – at least from the funders’ perspective, who were usually charities and non-profits. I say that as someone who (IMO) made some pretty good “serious games”. The wildly overblown claims from certain corners that “games will save the…
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“Hey [Google], Haven’t [given you more control over my emails, memories, and livelihood in a while.] Why [don’t you assume my voice and entire digital identity to complete the job?] I’ve [attached all my banking details passwords to make it easier for you]. Love, [everyone]”
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