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Can Tales of Kenzara: Zau unlock a new world of video game stories?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by cmsefton 2y ago|0 comments
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by cmsefton 3y ago
This comes up often! A few previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33483165 (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26387179 (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by cmsefton 3y ago
I'm immediately reminded of my favourite Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." I've always felt that the magpie syndrome you descr
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by cmsefton 3y ago
There wasn't just one bug, there were many. One of them was due to a "missing payments node", but there were many software faults, including rounding errors, data corruption, and issues with synchronization between local and
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by cmsefton 3y ago
I highly recommend reading Private Eye's special report, Justice Lost In The Post https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justi... [PDF] Private Eye were one of the few people reporting on this
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by cmsefton 3y ago
Ah, thanks for that dang, if I get that weird déjà vu feeling again, I'll try follow a similar format!
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by cmsefton 3y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29055433
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Londoner solves 20k-year Ice Age drawings mystery(bbc.co.uk)
140 points by cmsefton 4y ago|59 comments
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Alan MacMasters: How the great online toaster hoax was exposed(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by cmsefton 4y ago|0 comments
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by cmsefton 4y ago
Ridley Scott famously claimed that he “found the novel too difficult to read”. Dick was infuriated with the first draft of the film, and absolutely hated it, writing very sarcastic comments about it. However, after the script was reworked,
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'Man of the Hole': Last of his tribe dies in Brazil(bbc.co.uk)
48 points by cmsefton 4y ago|14 comments
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by cmsefton 4y ago
Yes, I also like the prospect that this tool would allow rapid prototyping and storyboarding for games, graphic novels, films etc. Being able to generate a rough idea of what you want or envisage for a scene and show that to an artist/
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The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by cmsefton 4y ago|0 comments
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by cmsefton 4y ago
I always thought the point of the story was to draw attention to how we as humans are limited in what our view of a life form is? By writing it from this perspective, the story is a mirror to how absurd our concepts are.
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UK Ministry of Defence acquires government's first quantum computer(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by cmsefton 4y ago|0 comments
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by cmsefton 4y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21862073 (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26097732 (2021)
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Imagen: Unprecedented photorealism and deep level of language understanding(imagen.research.google)
3 points by cmsefton 4y ago|0 comments
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Australia election: How climate is making Australia more unliveable(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by cmsefton 4y ago|0 comments
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by cmsefton 4y ago
Yes, they have a whole page about it: http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/ww2seeinthedark.html EDIT: Just to add, carrots are good for your eyes, but they don't help you see in the dark, which is what the specific propaganda
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Carrot History – Carrots in the Second World War (2008)(carrotmuseum.co.uk)
23 points by cmsefton 4y ago|14 comments
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The film the KLF didn’t want you to see(theguardian.com)
9 points by cmsefton 5y ago|3 comments
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Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by cmsefton 5y ago|2 comments
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Ericsson workers kidnapped after being sent to negotiate with IS(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by cmsefton 5y ago|0 comments
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The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency(bbc.co.uk)
43 points by cmsefton 5y ago|18 comments
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by cmsefton 5y ago
Too many draws is not a new criticism. Capablanca believed in the risk of "draw death", in that the majority of grandmaster games would eventually end in draws. He proposed a change to chess boards introducing two new pieces, the
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by cmsefton 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22533484
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His voice became my constant companion(bbc.co.uk)
25 points by cmsefton 5y ago|7 comments
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UK Census 1921 – 100-year-old secrets revealed(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by cmsefton 5y ago|0 comments
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by cmsefton 5y ago
I remember Quest for Glory 2 from Sierra Games had a sequence where you could purchase X-Ray glasses and you could wear them to see Zayishah, one of the central characters, naked in the game (rather pixelated it must be said).
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Employees Discover That Their Ex-Coworker Was a Genius(boredpanda.com)
5 points by cmsefton 5y ago|2 comments

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