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No comments onLongform, my favourite journalism podcast, gets into videogames with Tom Bissell. Along with his magazine and non-fiction writing, there’s some honest insights into the business and reality of writing for triple-A videogames.
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Fascinating yet depressing piece about The Rise in Self-Proclaimed Time Travellers. I can’t help but think this could make for a truly excellent ARG or videogame.
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The Cultures Ep 242: Chinese Censorship and Fake News, Racism in Films, Wolf Warrior 2
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Listen to episode 242 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: China, internet censorship, fake news Hollywood always expects China to be much more racist than China actually is Wolf Warrior 2
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The Nile Hilton Incident, 2017 – ★★★½
Stylish with fantastic acting and an incredible setting. The plot falls apart under the lightest of inspections, and the trope of murdered women rather tiring, and yet it was approximately a million times better than The Night Manager. Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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I’m planning a longish blog post about playing as the Press team in the Watch The Skies megagame – if you have any questions, hit me up!
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Do not let the Twilight Saga ruin Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” for you. The use of this piano piece over the ending of Ocean’s Eleven is bar-none the most beautiful execution of it in its 132-year history. For a movie as fun and bombastic and sharp as it is, there’s no reason why it…
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Paint colours from Farrow & Ball, or invented swearwords from The Inbetweeners?
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The FCC’s crest is metal! Check out the eagle harnessing the vast power of the wires and the waves. I like to think the white dots and stars are LEO and GEO comms sats.
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How anyone could have believed that Mars One wasn’t garbage, if not a complete scam, is beyond me. Part of the problem was that it suited many publications to pretend that the venture was maybe possible.
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Dǎoháng, or how to navigate in China
When you request an Uber in Shanghai, chances are they’ll call or text to find out where you’d like to be picked up. This poses a problem for people who can’t speak Mandarin, like myself. What to do? Reply with a single word: Dǎoháng. Supposedly, this means “just go where your mobile phone map tells you…
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