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@Harpers story about English carp thieves is part of the 2017 American Nonrequired Reading anthology:https://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Nonrequired-Reading-2017/dp/1328663809 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo -
“One big problem...is that the management of large media operations aren’t familiar with how social media works.”https://newrepublic.com/article/146117/weaponized-outrage-threat-journalists-free-speech …
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You might not have much sympathy for Russia’s authorities who devised the doping system, but spare a thought for the athletes. Harsh for many of them. Pic
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Geoffrey Boycott, celebrated shoutcaster.
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Why 'shoutcast' when you can 'commentate'?
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A good joke that Claire Foy's partner could make would be to, at every given opportunity, accuse her of being a "drama queen"pic.twitter.com/acJC7QPytq
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The rise and fall of the poinsettia empire:https://twitter.com/katbamkapow/status/805423425095397376 …
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Also: a good new logo for Twitter because, y’know, it shows both sides
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Ivan Chermayeff's 1974 poster for the stage production of War and Peace is *chef's kiss*:pic.twitter.com/2V14uiPUId
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ack, Ivan Chermayeff died yesterday.https://archpaper.com/2017/12/229498/
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(download the VR remake here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/638110/Desert_Bus_VR/ …)pic.twitter.com/tW5W5Ksp2y
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Desert Bus, Penn and Teller's wilfully tedious driving game, now has a virtual reality sequel, free to download on PC. Here's my
@NewYorker story on the original: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/desert-bus-the-very-worst-video-game-ever-created ….Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo -
(Thursday! Not today!)
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Anyway, many gems in this story, (did you know, for example, that, as a schoolboy, Nobuo Uematsu wanted to become a pro wrestler. His WWE name? The Scotch Piper), which should be in shops today.
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The company almost closed, not because it was hit-less, but because the CEO (also in his twenties at the time) decided to move the studio to Ginza in hope of being taken more seriously. The money evaporated in rent.
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A striking thing meeting these men and women was how unfeasibly young they were at the time; one described Square, whose first office opened in a hair salon in the mid-1980s, as a kind of student drop-in.
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Embarrassing but true, and explains something of the sense of excitement (and, maybe, of a loop closing) that I felt interviewing many of the series’ creators on its 30th anniversary for this month’s
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When I was a kid I’d take the train to Soho’s Golden Square and loiter outside Square-Enix’s London office in the hope of seeing (not even meeting!) one of the Final Fantasy team.
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Also: this is my final column as next year I’ll be writing a longer monthly print piece of game criticism for the New Review instead. So grateful for the Observer’s pioneering willingness to consider the medium in this way and context.
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While we worry about looming pandemics and the genocide of bees, more than fifty video game worlds have, to date, burned up in apocalyptic fires. My column in today's
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'A tale of decay': the frightful state of the Houses of Parliament. My
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