johnke.meI’ve mentioned this before, but I always find it weird when I read about these “hidden” places that I’ve visited in a videogame (in this case, I think a level of The Darkness took place in this subway station). It’s weird to have memories of places you’ve never visited before.
“Real tough guys don’t need guns, they just need a positive, can-do attitude”.
If Hotline Miami was a fishing game, it would probably look a lot like this. €2.89 on the iTunes store.
This site has broken down the 10 most popular porn search terms based on their country of origin. #1 in Ukraine is “Raincoat”. Wow.
I’m totally backing this. And if someone fancies launching a campaign to get a Rubicon or Terriers movie going, I’d be all for that too.
Dead End Thrills is a lovely blog that takes screenshots of beautiful games and presents them as best they can. For example, to generate this lovely image from Stalker, they used nine graphical mods. These are things you can add to the game to make it look even prettier. To produce the image from Kentucky Route Zero above? None. Just a bit of offline antialiasing in Photoshop to smooth some of the lines.
It’s a beautiful game. And now you can buy it on Steam.
Video game deaths in the style of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
I’ve been following this routine for a couple of weeks now and, so far, it seems to be working. I process my inbox a couple of times a day and then spend the rest of my time in the “starred” section, clearing out anything that needs some attention. One thing I’ve noticed about this is that I’m much more likely to reply to an email now, even if it’s just a two-word response. I’m usually prone to procrastinating about replying to people, especially if the answer is in the negative. Strange that this email strategy seems to have broken me of this.
Unfortunately, Sparrow seems to be the only desktop Mac mail client to support Gmail keyboard shortcuts. Mail client developers: support Gmail keyboard shortcuts!
Michael Heilemann’s site is to Star Wars what Lee Unkrich’s The Overlook Hotel is to The Shining. Exhaustive and written by a true obsessive. Beautiful.
