it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman
So "Backrooms" is a post-internet adaptation of "Piranesi", huh?
So "Backrooms" is a post-internet adaptation of "Piranesi", huh?
An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron. From Mörigen, 900-800 BC. 📷️ me
I can't stop thinking about the "vegetal uncanny"🥦👻
Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026
"Russia" doesn't exist. It's a prison of nations, an imperial colony spanning dozens of would-be states. A bunch of real, existing nations have already escaped this prison and started great lives in freedom. It has been truly great for the world, not "bad".
Day 1600 of my 3 day war. I remain a master strategist.
On Oath: New Foundations, we spent a lot of time with the game's core systems and making some structural adjustments both for the sake of the expansion and because we had a unique opportunity to make Oath better. You can learn more about what we did and why in today's video: youtu.be/EZZZi6Y1qM0
Why we changed the Actions in Oath: New Foundations
YouTube video by Buried Giant Studios
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'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab www.livescience.com/physics-math...
'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab
By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.
livescience.com
One of the best recent books on the philosophy of language. The comparative angle really puts things in perspective. #philsky #philosophy
Rein Raud@reinraud.bsky.social · 9mo ago"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!
Is analytic philosophy even philosophy? The table of contents for "The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" can be found here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/linguisti... #Philsky
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📣 Most ancient quasars ever found! Euclid has discovered 31 ancient quasars. Two of them shone with the light of a trillion Suns back when the Universe was 670 million years old – just 5% of its current age. Discover more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☄️
every religion has a god who runs about causing mischief and farting and getting all up in everyone’s business. if you don’t know who that god is then it’s you, you’re that god
Looked at another way, the Baltic is a Mediterranean of the north - with Sweden as North Africa, Finland as Iberia, Estonia as Italy, Latvia as the Balkans, Lithuania as Greece and Poland as Turkey. Gotland is Crete…
One of the best recent books on the philosophy of language. The comparative angle really puts things in perspective. #philsky #philosophy
Rein Raud@reinraud.bsky.social · 9mo ago"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!
Not consciously, although I devoured a lot of Zelazny as a kid. I remember Lord of Light best, and don't remember Isle of the Dead at all. --But I know there are no new ideas, and wouldn't be surprised to find that some Zelaznyan cryptomnesia went into Lockstep. Glad you liked it either way.
@karlschroeder.bsky.social I just finished reading LOCKSTEP (absolutely loved it!) & wondered if Roger Zelazny's ISLE OF THE DEAD was an influence on it in any way? (It's one of my favorite novels so this question is very much meant as a a compliment. 😸)
An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity
Possible signs of ancient life on Mars are rich in complex carbon
An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
It's a huge influence but only in a strange, backwards kind of way. I want players to be generating their own little "Dictionaries" after the game, so the book is sorta reverse-engineered. The expansion does a lot more work at the level of lineage and institution so the influence is more pronounced.
For a while I've been noodling on a taxonomy of decision types. I'm not convinced it's fully baked, but I already have been using it successfully in my design process, so I thought I might share it here in its current form. At the moment there's 5 types.
A new season is in! Yesterday, Earth marked the June solstice when, at 08:24 UTC (10:24 CEST), the Sun reached its most northerly point in the sky. Just minutes later, the MTG‑I1 satellite captured this view of Earth from 36,000 km above — pretty far away! Credits: @esa.int - @eumetsat.int
