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url 2020-04-02 01:54
Something nice: A tale of cross-species romance

The link goes to a Twitter thread about Napoleon (a small rooster) and Turkey Girl (a turkey), who love each other. It's sweet.

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url 2018-07-18 02:45
"An entomologist rates ant emojis"

The Apple ant was rated the highest, but I prefer the Facebook ant, which doesn't look like it has a weird bomb for a head.

 

I'll say this is sort of related to books because I recently read The Lives of Ants.

 

...Okay, so it has nothing to do with books but I thought it was funny.

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url 2018-07-12 18:39
The Verge: "This sun-chasing robot looks after the plant on its head"

This is the cutest thing. (And also, if succulents need to be moved around I now have at least part of an explanation why I could never keep one alive for long. Oops.)

 

The design makes me think a little of Ghost in the Shell's Tachikoma.

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url 2018-03-20 20:31
Humble Jumbo Bundle (not books, but good)

I've played a couple games in this bundle and consider both of them to be good, if you're into puzzle-solving.

 

Rusty Lake: Roots - A point-and-click adventure game with lots of weird little puzzles. I think it started life as a phone or tablet game. It's a family saga that takes you from the family's beginnings, through a few generations, and up to what is almost the series' present. It's one of my top favorite entries in the Rusty Lake/Cube Escape series and works perfectly fine as a standalone. If you'd like a taste of the gameplay style, most of the games in the series are available for free - search "Cube Escape" in whatever app store you use. My favorite of the free ones is probably Cube Escape: Birthday (although, be warned, there's some sudden violence, a moment when

a shooter comes and kills the main character's whole family

(spoiler show)

). All the games have varying degrees of gross or violent moments, but the characters involved are generally pretty emotionally detached from those moments, if that helps.

 

Obduction - If you have the same Myst nostalgia that I have, you might already own this. I haven't finished it yet - I've gotten through two of what I think are probably three total connected worlds. It has some of the same issues as the Myst games - times when it's difficult to tell what you should be doing next or whether you're even on the right track - but it also has many of the elements that made the Myst games so good. My favorite thing so far has been the moment when I learned that the world of Obduction is actually much, much larger than it at first appears to be.

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url 2017-10-26 16:59
Boyfriend Dungeon - Kind of a cross between a dungeon crawler and a Soul Eater dating sim?

It won't be out until 2019 (!), but apparently Boyfriend Dungeon is supposed to be a cross between a dungeon crawler and a dating sim. You can defeat enemies and date your weapon.

 

I've only read a couple articles on it, and none of them have mentioned Soul Eater, but they really should. It's a series (manga, anime) set in a world where two or more people (mostly pairs) team up to collect the souls of evil humans and witches. At least one person in each team has the ability to transform into a weapon that another person in the team uses. The main characters are a girl and her scythe partner.

 

It'll be interesting to see how Boyfriend Dungeon works out. It'd be nice if it were a little further along and actually had a release date.

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