— Michael Klamerus (@MichaelKlamerus) May 12, 2020
I love to blindly collect Japanese Saturn software, based entirely on the box art and nothing but; I have no idea what kind of game Mass Destruction actually is, and I honestly don’t care (via https://t.co/rj22as5Lsy) pic.twitter.com/r57y1VwcUq
.@nookazon is a website I’ve been using almost every day while I play Animal Crossing. With nine million listings and 270K active daily users, it’s a huge success. Here’s how it was built, and what it’s creator plans for its future. https://t.co/7y2SLEjlIk
I wrote an article about @TacomaGame, an interesting and varied examination of unions and labor in space. I played this game a few years ago but it hits different now.
people don't talk enough about how the staff roll for Wayforward's Aliens DS game features a corny-ass Nickelback ballad about xenomorphs https://t.co/v3Luv74TrX
Did you know that Midgar was modeled after a pizza? 🍕 Yes! But the pizza doesn't stop there, the mayor of Midgar is named Domino. Now, that guy must LOVE pizza! 🤤 pic.twitter.com/Rd65tutXcc
— Domino's Pizza Malaysia (@DominosMY) May 6, 2020
When I was 11, I sold bulk bundles of feathers (bows) to top-level archers in Runescape so they wouldn't have to walk back to the general store during battle. 🏹To get feathers, I hired a team of new players to fight chickens. They leveled up while I paid them in gold/armor! ⚔️🐓 https://t.co/lPeGibvVzL
To find employees, I went to the map area called Lumbridge where new players would spawn. I'd offer them a job. I did training sessions in nearby farms on how to battle creatures. It was useful, since they had to level up anyway. I just asked them save all the dropped feathers.
"If you got chills while watching 'Shattered,' the third part of The Clone Wars finale, there’s a good chance that the episode’s music [by Kevin Kiner] had something to do with that."
For context, sound trademarks are extremely rare. According to [a law review article], there are more than 2.6 million active trademark registrations in the United States. Of those, there are only about 250 active sensory trademark registrations. Of those, about 234 are sound trademarks, and of those, about 36 are "familiar sounds," or sounds without words, yet associated with a particular good or service.
To obtain Pitbull’s grito trademark, his legal team had to persuade the USPTO that his yell is so closely associated with the artist, that even if his name is not uttered, or he isn't present, people automatically think it's him.
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At least part of the motivation behind trademarking “EEEEEEEYOOOOOO” stems from a similar grito heard in J Balvin and Willy William’s hit “Mi Gente.”
The article defines a grito as “a loud shout of joy or excitement that is commonly associated with Mexican culture,” one Pitbull started using as early as 2002 in Miami clubs (to alert his friends that trouble might be escalating).
Playing Tales is the most satisfying kind of thrill: that of watching the thing that’s not supposed to work working better than just about anything else. It takes the benefit of the doubt and runs with it like Rocky up the art museum steps.
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As we started looking at Borderlands [like] maybe we don’t want to approach this the same way we’ve approached The Walking Dead, it became clear to me that this game shouldn’t be about two terrible choices, it should be about two great choices.
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The Walking Dead, while creatively satisfying, was a miserable development experience because you spend all day trying to figure out what the best way to make someone cry is, or the best way to gross someone out, or put them through the emotional wringer.
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Episode One had about three tracks that we had actually purchased, and had the rights to. We’d start with one and go “That’s the one,” and we bought the rights, and a week later we’d go “Oh, crap, that’s not right, we need a new track,” buy another one, “Oh, crap, that’s not right.” We made a lot of mistakes on Episode One.
With Jungle, Busy Earnin’, it was an album that had just come out, and we were about a week and a half away from shipping. Pierre heard the album and he sent me the track. I was like, “We’re going to change the track again? I don’t know, man. We’re costing people a lot of money, there’s a lot of emotional stress that people go through every time we make one of these changes.” But he played the track and I was laughing. Laughing, like, this is so crazy, this is so different from anything that we’ve been talking about. I realized how perfect it was.
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It also thematically made sense. I think that’s ultimately what my big pitch to people was: “Dude, it’s about getting money. How can you argue with this?” But that’s not really what mattered. That’s the argument you make, the intellectual argument for it, but really, no, it’s the energy. They could have been mumbling and it wouldn’t have mattered. It feels like it hits and when the horns kick in, it feels like: Let’s go.
On voice actor Troy Baker:
ERIN YVETTE
He posted a photo of his feet when he was flying somewhere and the only people who do that are girls at the beach and guys who like socks.
LAURA BAILEY
He always wears fun socks. It’s an interesting trait.
ADAM SARASOHN
There’s a scene in Episode Two [where] Rhys flies out [of Fiona’s caravan, losing] a shoe for the majority of the episode. Because we knew Troy was a sock guy, we took extra pains to design a suitably fancy sock.
NICK HERMAN
We were well aware that Troy was a sock nerd, so it made perfect sense that we should not only concept, model, and texture a Hyperion dress sock, but also rig and animate a shoe for one stupid, close up, slow motion shot of it coming off.
That might sound like a normal thing to do, but in game development, you actively go out of your way to avoid doing almost all of those things for something so inconsequential. In hindsight, it might be a microcosm of what it was like developing that whole season.
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NICK HERMAN
We made jokes along the way during production that we should get team socks instead of shirts, and he would just stay very quiet.
ADAM SARASOHN
I found a company that made custom stitched socks and made [Rhys’s Hyperion] socks for the entire studio. Then I made Borderlands holiday cards and sent a pair of socks to the voice actor leads.
Scrolling further down Spotify’s top music podcasts last week, you’d find “Bantal Empuk,” a self-described “collection of songs that aren’t available on Spotify,” featuring various non-album tracks by rappers Juice WRLD, XXXTentacion, and Lil Pump. Like all of the podcasts in question, it functions essentially like a playlist, with each song represented as a single “episode,”
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Like so much about contemporary culture that seems inexplicable to those over 30, the proliferation of all this unlicensed flotsam among professionally produced and distributed podcasts like “Song Exploder” may be partially attributable to every teenager’s favorite Chinese video-streaming app.
One of the greatest privileges of my life was that I was on shift on BBC World that day - this was our show. Behind the scenes were were all screaming at our monitors, blind with tears of laughter, completely incapable of saying or doing anything for a full ten minutes. https://t.co/WDPFnYkEJx
Just saw a teen carefully rip a “Wet Paint” sign in the subway station so it read “Pain” and then show it to another teen and then the two teens kissed so I’m excited to know that emo culture will be safely making it into the next decade.
Whenever she’s traveling, a breathless parent will stop her for a photo. They say, “Do you mind, my 3-year-old has watched it 7,000 times,” Feist said. “And I say yes, but I always joke: You notice me because you’re a grown-up — the 3-year-olds are really only interested in the puppets. And without fail, the kids are just sort of looking at me like, who is this weird lady in the airport?”
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“A diction coach was making me pronounce the words so specifically, because she said, ‘Imagine you don’t know how to talk yet, and this is how you learn to count.’
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“A subplot that was in no way being filmed, was that Telly was crushing out so hard on me. [Laughing] Like, the guy just had Telly nibbling on the tips of his fingers while he stared at me, nervously. And then I’d look, and he’d look away. And if you watch the video, there’s a couple of times where you’ll see Telly facing me, in profile, with this kind of awe. It was going on for, like, eight hours.
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