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I'm doing a 366 Day Challenge, and am 310 days in! You can follow along on my PixelFed account.
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I started typing this newsletter up on Tuesday morning, wanting to get some before and after election thoughts out.
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The election has passed, but as I'm sure everyone knows, a winner has not been decided at this point. It seems fairly confident that the win will go to Biden, but I know not to depend upon anything happening until after it's happened.
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This was a very cool read. It gave me a lot of good ideas on how virtual events could be run to make them more engaging. It also really makes me want to come up with a virtual event space. I always think that the best games allow you to low-touch connect with other people, and the Roguelike Conference this year seems to have pulled that off.
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While the name, youtube-dl, makes it obvious as to the original intent, the scope of this command line tool has broadened immensely since creation. I envision a rebirth under a new name at some point. You can still download from their official website and lots of mirrors, though I wouldn't repost it to GitHub since you might have your account closed.
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I love computational art. I remember this episode of Clarissa Explains It All, from probably 25 years ago now, where she uses her trusty game dev computer to write a poem for class that goes on to win an award. I honestly think that should not have been the ethical dilemma that it became for her, since she crafted the code herself.
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Thinking back on that show, I'm amazed how unabashedly nerdy Clarissa was, and how cool it was that she worked through problems in her day-to-day via game development. I should find some episodes to watch...
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After reading through her guide to writing during the apocalypse, Never Say You Can't Survive, I decided to give some of Charlie Jane Anders short stories a try. Thankfully so many of them are up freely online. 'Six Months, Three Days' is a story about the collision of science and faith in a way, wrapped up in a romance.
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Philosophy Tube has been knocking it out of the park with productions lately. This was a great episode that taught me a lot that I didn't know about our newest Supreme Court justice, as well as the term Originalism.
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This is pretty much exactly how games of Among Us go.
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The final installment of the Monstrum series on zombies. You can go back and check out Part One and Part Two.
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I've been watching several friends play Hades, which looks too confusing for me to give it a go. I have new games to start already! But I am happy to see that one of Cerberus' heads will let you pet him after you die.
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A fun little reimagining of the birth of our solar system and the Moon in particular, and an ode to building passion in your work.
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It's (still) a spoopy weekend. Safely celebrate with friends, and prepare for a hard week next week. 💝
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