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Dodo, I think here's a good place. And I'm interested to hear other people's answers too. My single closest experience to reading a dictionary was reading Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries . It was marvelous. :) (And when I was a high school student, I generously helped myself to the ...

Contrast, подобно на Papo & Yo, съчетава зашеметяващо изобретателни пъзели с трогателна история за бащинството. Само че тук бащите са двама, а детето се опитва да ги догони, не да избяга от тях.

Или поне да ги спаси...

До 1 декември приятелите от Шадоуданс набират финансиране за първото си хартиено издание на тема „Киберпънк“: (...) Накратко, пиша ти с информация и молба за споделяне на сигурно най-амбициозното нещо, което сме почвали с ShadowDance - първо печатно издание :) Целим да започнем с него библиотека от п ...

Благодаря за „разширената версия“! Не знаех, че има и DLC-та.

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И понеже с Ани днес си говорихме за феминизма в клиширано-криворазбрания му вид: специален поздрав. Хихихи...

P.S. Gabriella is all about equal opportunity, though.

My review of Prometheus Rising : It's hard to rate this book. I didn't learn nearly as much from it as I expected from the raving recommendations friends had given me. At the same time, Wilson's enthusiasm is contagious (even if a bit rash: no, we still don't have the chemicals to alter our mental ...

My notes from The Digital Antiquarian, Vol. 11: 1989 : :) In “The Seventh Sally,” a story by the great Polish science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, a god-like “constructor” named Trurl comes upon a former tyrant named Excelsius, now exiled to a lonely asteroid by the peoples of the planets he used t ...

Отзив в Goodreads за Damnificados: A beautifully written book that unearths beauty in the most unexpected places. Such as: ~ The language often scintillates with wit: On the sixth day of the rains, a plague of mosquitoes arrives and the damnificados are struck by a mystery virus. Their eyeballs go b ...

С Ани изгледахме и третия, финален сезон на Legion . Въпреки опасенията ми, че ниски ...

До 15.07.: Събирам желаещи да гледаме Everything Everywhere All at Once Мили (: Вълнува ли ви темата за отношенията родители – деца? ... Знам, знам. Въпросът е реторичен. :D И служи само за да отведе към топлата ми препоръка за филма Everything Everywhere All at Once. От години не мога да се впечатл ...

Being the merge-itchy moderator here, I'll honor your request. :) I only moved the topic to this subforum, because Книгите is for the books in the Human Library series . I know where I would like you to start: by telling us about Russian books that 1) are new--written in the past 10 or at most 20 yea ...

Elsinore is a reimagining of Hamlet , the play, which focuses on everybody's hidden past (and many possible futures; it's built around time loops). The results are often surprising and meaningful--more than the original, at least for me. Here's an example: Marshall Dyer's playthrough of Elsinore ...

Отзив в Goodreads за Women Up to No Good: A varied--but invariably delightful--collection. It disabused me of the notion that Pat Murphy writes mostly cyberpunk. (Oh ... seems I mistook her for Pat Cadigan.) In fact, I can't peg a prevailing genre here; look at the excerpts below and tell me if you ...

What is lore? If you play video games, you already know about lore. For the uninitiated, I’ll try to explain it to you in a way that gives you the fullest picture. Imagine you are a level-one associate at the latest installment of a derivative yet beloved fast-food franchise. You lead a life of g ...

Отзив в Goodreads за Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games: A deeply personal account that dives into some unexpectedly dark waters. I wish the author had given more examples illustrating his design philosophy (the book's subtitle); often, "the fight for a ...

За любовта и чистенето:

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(Благодаря за находката на Screen Therapy.)

My review of Count to a Trillion : The text is densely packed with ideas, scientific concepts, and rare words of various registers. Reading often felt like wading through a jungle; I probably didn't choose the best time for this expedition. Some memorable moments: ~ So, certain things have changed ...

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Pathologic 2 заплашва да измести Planescape: Torment от личния ми пиедестал за (остросюжетна) игра, газеща в най-дълбоки философски теми. Многозначността, недоизказаността, а понякога и чистата непроницаемост на диалозите допълнително гъделичка оная част от мен, която не обича правия текст. В P:T на ...

Този пасаж от Golden Treasure: The Great Green спокойно м ...

Ако някога сте имали пререкания/разочарования/разкатания с родителите/децата си...

... гответе се да гледаме Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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Отзив в Goodreads за Science Fiction Video Games: While I appreciate the scope of this survey and the amount of research that went into it, I wish the tone was less dry. (Which holds for most academic writing, not just this book.) Notes: ~ Tringham's classification of videogame narratives, presen ...

Отзив в Goodreads за The Hermetic Millennia: Like the previous book, this one abounds with complex ideas and vocabulary. Eventually, I started skipping the more technical parts--and found myself enjoying the variety of clashing and complementing worldviews. The MC, thanks to showing some vulnera ...

Отзив в Goodreads за The Judge of Ages: There was a gruesomely violent part near the middle (so nudity is evil and sullies the soul, but gore is totally fine, eh?). Yet the surprising and optimistic ending made up for it--as well as the nagging feeling that the MC is constantly lecturing us the read ...

My review of Imagine 2020 : A varied anthology with a few hits and a few misses for me. Here're the hits: ~ Marissa Lingen's "A Worm to the Wise" regaled me with its pithy summary of cheap-o "investigative" journalism (as opposed to the proper kind): In the early days, she hoped for a scandal ...

Отзив в Goodreads за The Architect of Aeons: Wow, is the scale of this story cosmic. As far as I remember, the Golden Age trilogy had a similar time scale--but the distances and evolutionary changes and science advances covered here are staggering. The downside is that characters (except for the two ...

My review of The Interpretation of Cultures : TL;DR: Nothing (worth talking about) is simple or straightforward. *** This is probably the hardest book I've ever finished reading. And that after two false starts, when I realized I didn't understand enough of it, so I left it for "when I get smarter ...

Записки в Goodreads покрай Silent Hill: The Terror Engine: ~ Can games help with phobias? Using Max Payne and Half-Life against spiders phobia, Max Payne and Unreal Tournament for heights phobia, and Unreal Tournament for tight spaces phobia, the Cyberpsychology Laboratory of the University of Quebe ...

Отзив в Goodreads за Count to Infinity: The count came to a close that was spectacular but also somewhat self-centered: as if the whole universe revolved around the interactions of three people (or principles). Oddly, this reminded me of the issues I had with the first two Twilight books, and why I ...

Отзив в Goodreads за The Vindication of Man : There were too many ages in this volume, and so too many introductory descriptions of Montrose getting his bearings; and so I started skipping again. But if you like grand ideas, you'll love it as much as the previous ones, if not more. My favorite moment ...

Luckily, on the subject of aphorisms, I have a ready-made answer (the quotation by Aldous Huxley at the bottom). :) (I said "luckily" because my recent life has been too tiring to leave me enough headspace for engaging in non-trivial discussions. And trust me, the reasons for introducing the "anti ...