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Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Tuesday, 28 January 2025
— Stimulation Clicker is a fun new app by digital artist Neal Agarwal. This one grabs your attention and magically sucks you in. You keep playing the game, clicking the button, engaging with everything presented to you. The more attention you pay, the more useless features the app will add until it becomes a completely pointless mess of videos, sound, and things flying around. And before you know it, you’ve spent thirty minutes on the site and accomplished absolutely nothing. Just like most websites today.
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
— Unzoomed is another fun game by Benjamin Td, maker of the London Tube memory game. You guess the city from a satellite image. You start at a large zoom level, the more you guess the further the map zooms out.
Wednesday, 06 December 2023
The long anticipated trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI. No surprises here: We’re back in Vice City, there’s a female lead character, and the game looks very good. (Although game trailers always look very good.) The game’s release is vaguely scheduled as 2025. Yes, 2025. It gives you enough time to ask Santa for a new gaming console, because GTA VI will only be available on PS5 and Xbox S and X.
Monday, 23 October 2023
— The London Tube Memory Game is very addictive. I wasted the better part of a weekend but only remembered about 50% of all London transport stations.
Friday, 14 July 2023
— Mianzhi Wang’s PhD simulator very much resembles reality. In the game, my hope score was way down after three years, just as it was when I quit my PhD program after years of mediocre results and failed attempts to get funding. (via)
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
— Choose a password, but the requirements are getting more and more ridiculous. I created an account on a website the other day where the password length was limited to 20 characters but the site didn’t tell you and just cut off everything exceeding the 20 characters; so you create the account but your password wouldn’t work. Here at least, the requirements are clear.
Thursday, 06 April 2023
Tetris
— A dutch video game developer, a greedy media mogul from England, the Soviet KGB, and the inventor of Tetris all get entangled in a wild story of politics, backstabbing, and contract breaching to secure the distribution rights of the game. I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected; it’s an entertaining film with a dense plot, fun and gripping.
The depiction of a country behind the iron curtain, here it’s the Soviet Union, follows a familiar pattern: Filmed using a filter that taints everything in a cold, blue hue, the landscape devoid of any colour, and there are never any trees. Here’s a surprising fact for American film makers from Southern California: We did have summers before 1989 and sunshine, lush green landscapes, even trees in cities.
(2023) Director: Jon S. Baird. Screenplay: Noah Pink Cast: Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, Anthony Boyle, Toby Jones.
Wednesday, 08 March 2023
— Lander is another simple but very addictive browser game. [via]
Sunday, 18 December 2022
— Six video games from the USSR:
A few of you probably won’t believe it, but the USSR also had video games. They existed either in arcade form, or had to be played on do-it-yourself game consoles.
Yes, Tetris is on the list.
Monday, 24 October 2022
— Just spent an hour playing slow roads, a very simple but strangely addictive racing game in the browser.