Nintendo Direct
An oddly specific thing about Tetris 99: the format and presentation look exactly like how Puzzle Pirates did its naval battles (except using Tetris instead of clones of Puzzle Bobble and Super Puzzle Fighter).
I know of a few people that this appeals to specifically, and I kind of wonder if Nintendo hired them or any former Three Rings employees.
Nintendo Direct
Nintendo: Here are games where you can be a Yoshi. Here is a game where you can give gifts and belly rubs to your friendly neighborhood dragon. Here is a glorious remaster of your favorite childhood game. Fire Emblem now has deep character customization. Oh, and Tetris now has 99 players, because why not.
I... huh.
A possibly related phenomenon is called crown shyness – certain species of trees will very politely avoid overshadowing each other in a forest canopy, leaving gaps between each others' branches.
Mostly trees of the same species will do this, but different species of tree have been observed doing this too.
Again, no one's entirely sure how the trees do this, and some botanists are probably arguing about it somewhere right now.
more on Warframe Fortuna, mild spoilers
In a game that is 95% about things being loud and shooty, someone decided “what if we made this into a nature documentary that you can play”, and I think that is wonderful.
Don't forget to take care of the beacons of happiness in your community.
And the people who are there to cheer you up.
And the people who are there to listen to your ill.
They do need care too, but are often forgotten or overlooked, because they seem happy/strong/good. Truth is, they have their own struggles and if you don't take care if them, they are gone, eventually.
Been thinking ‘bout them c h a r r lately. So here are some studies of one of my dudes. Actually extremely happy about that foot study. I want to draw more cat monsters so I’m offering a small markdown on any commission that features charr in it! #GW2fanart #mastoart
inferring spelling from phonetic feature sequences zoomed along the timeseries axis. (basically, smooshing and stretching the sound of the word and getting the neural network to try to spell out the sound)
Black History Month, Internet preservation, Copyright, Destroy Capitalism, GDrive Link.
Charles Preston runs a free Black History and Black Authors archive hosted on Google Drive and curated with 2$ donations. After receiving a C&D, Charles has decided to close the archive. It will stay up until the end of February 2019
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync
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