Category: video games
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The Definition of Genius
Ashton Applewhite has an article for the New York Times about ageism in hiring preventing good workers from working. In it is this incredible story of a former Apple engineering lead who couldn’t get a tech support job at Apple’s retail stores: I’m lucky enough to get my tech support from JK Scheinberg, the engineer at…
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Spaceplan
Spaceplan is a fantastic free idle clicker for your web browser from Jake Hollands. It’s similar in style to the original popular idle clicker, Orteil’s Cookie Clicker. Cookie Clicker is probably inspired by Progress Quest, which involved no clicking and instead was more of a parody of your classic online MMORPG. These are games where…
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Grow Up Already
That sequel to the lovely Grow Home, Grow Up, is now available. It’s on Steam for Windows at just $10. I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, but I’m expecting good things in this 3D platformer sequel. The original was such a great surprise. Previously, previously.
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No Man’s Sky Notes
No Man’s Sky is such a strange game, I love it, but it really is odd. The trailers before the game was released advertised it as featuring different types of gameplay, but what I’ve played so far makes it clear that this is a sci-fi exploration game with a major element of resource gathering. There…
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Evan Lahti Calls C-Key Crouchers Hopeless Degenerates
Evan Lahti has an article up titled “Anyone who uses the C key to crouch is a hopeless degenerate“: However someone who uses the C key to crouch is not welcome, and they do not deserve our respect. The C key is the bastion of fools, and as a community we need to shame its…