Might be good. Probably won’t. But the idea of a seventies sort of retrofuture O’Neill space station comedy is intrigueing. (Via File 770.)
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You had me at “retro space sim”
Wings of Saint Nazaire is “a retro space combat sim in the vein of Wing Commander and X-Wing” and the alpha version can be played right now if you have unity installed in your browser, or downloaded in Linux, Mac or Windows versions. X-Wing and Tie-Fighter were games I played a lot as a kid and a new space sim like that would be welcome indeed.
Get pissed. Destroy
Most polite version ever?
On italicising “foreign” languages
Daniel José Older talks about why you shouldn’t italicise foreign language use in English, but he forgets that it’s only thanks to italisation that we know when spaghetti was still considered an exotic, foreign dish in America!
Internet dialects
I find this guy fascinating, those dead eyes in that handsomely bland face, slightly nasal voice and the overcompensating with the hands and the bobbing and moving from side to side. It can distract somewhat from his point, which is of the well, duh, variety but argued quickly. Sort of a refresher course for internet culture.