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Playing Press at Watch The Skies Megagame
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4 comments on Playing Press at Watch The Skies MegagameI hadn’t anticipated becoming Chief Reporter for the Global News Network after signing up to play the Watch The Skies Megagame last week. Maybe I’d be the Chief Scientist for France, or perhaps the Chinese Premier, helping directing essential climate change research with the world’s leading scientists, or high-stakes diplomacy with India and America. Instead,…
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Longform, 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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