James Stevens
@redwolfwhite
Well red and well read.
Came for the creativity. Stayed for the community.
James Stevens
Current read. Lovely stuff.
ideas and
I know a few things, but I still got a lot to learn.
“Words become work.” Nice.
This shift came because of what Nintendo called its “blue ocean” strategy. The idea was that the increasing technological complexity of games was actually making them less appealing to many consumers. We’d come a long way from the simplicity of making Mario run and jump in the original Super Mario Bros . Just looking at a GameCube controller could ... See more
Nintendo has moved beyond specs
Michael Lewis on how your narrative crafts your character:
If you listen to people, if you just sit around and listen, you’ll find there are patterns in the way they talk about themselves. Some people are always the victim. Some people always get unlucky. Some people are always in the middle of some impossible project... See more
“[...] I am quite the fan of Professor Randolph Nesse’s theory of depression. Nesse and his colleagues speculate that depression could act as a biological constraint system that helps to minimise wasted effort and loss by forcing the individual to slow down, reassess, and potentially change strategies.”
Somebody once said that a good science-fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.