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Concord Shows That The Triple-A Pivot To Live Service Was Always Doomed
Nathan writes about the short life of Sony's latest live service game, and why it was doomed to fail.
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You Don't Need AI To Write A Novel
I write about why National Novel Writing Month's AI statement is misguided.
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The Tulip Is A Tiny, Open-Source Music Making Computer For Cheap
Chris writes about his latest hardware find.
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How Do You Remember That Book You Liked?
This week, in addition to reading a very good graphic novel, I also read a very good book: The Axeman's Carnival, by Catherine Chidgey. When I finished it, I looked at it and said "Boy, that was a great book!"--and then put it on my bookshelf, where I will probably completely forget about it in the scrum of read and unread books.
I read a lot of books, though nowhere near as many as I feel like I should, but oftentimes if I'm asked for a book recommendation, I freeze, unable to remember if I've ever read anything in my life. Last New Year's, I made an attempt to record all the books I read for the year, but I only entered a couple in my notes app before completely forgetting about it. I know some people keep spreadsheets, and lord knows I love a good spreadsheet, but I've never been able to rise to that level of meticulousness.
My ebook app keeps track of what I've read in a year, but it also keeps all the ebooks I get from the library even after I've returned them, which has led to a clutter of books I can't remember if I ever actually finished. (My habit of getting ebooks from the library and then never reading them is one I really want to break; I have at least gotten better at returning the ones people are waiting for once it becomes obvious to me that I'm not going to read them.) And of course that's only ebooks, and doesn't encompass the print books I borrow or buy and pile around my house.
Ultimately, none of this is that important, but it would be nice not to totally memory hole a book the moment after I'm done reading it, and to be able to actually answer the question "What have you read lately?" instead of going "Uuuhh..." until someone changes the subject.
In the spirit of honesty, you should know that in the middle of writing this little blog, I took out an ebook from the library (a book about Waco, which I watched a documentary about this week and realized that, despite being a scholar of cults, I didn't know very much about it.) 50/50 on whether I actually read it before the due date. |
Here's some good stuff from around the internet:
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