Ray Mazza's Website
Ray's Favorite Articles & Media
A collection of things I enjoy from across the web
Writing
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★ 13 Ways to Create Compelling Characters by Justine Musk on Tribal Writer
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Curt Vonnegut's 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story on The Atlantic
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Gary Provost on Sentence Length (This Sentence Has Five Words) on robmacdougall.com
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Wise Old Sayings on WiseOldSayings.com, a well-organized database of quotes
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[Video, 2 min] Ira Glass on Storytelling on David-Shiyang.com
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57 Tips for Writers (and counting) on Daring to Live Fully (includes the Vonnegut tips from above)
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Tips for Writers by Cliff Pickover
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Writing Advice by Chuck Palahniuk (From now on, you may not...) on 1000WordsEveryDay.com
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10 Ways to Drive Mass Exposure for your Indie Books by Ingrid Ricks
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The Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Post on BufferApp
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What Non-Fiction Books Changed You? Thread on Reddit
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How Long Should it Take to Write an Epic Post? on writetodone.com
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Neil Gaiman Response to 50 Shades of Grey Craziness on tumblr
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How to Stop Telling the Same Old Stories on NewsCred.com
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Short Story: The Egg, by Andy Weir; also animated here by Kurzgesagt
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Discussion about Quotes that have left Lasting Impressions on Reddit
Screenwriting & Cinema
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[Video - 45 mins] Star Wars Force Awakens ALL Easter Eggs & References ( FULL MOVIE ) on YouTube
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[Video] 10 Star Wars The Force Awakens Scenes You've Never Seen on YouTube
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty trailer cinematography analysis on imgur (mostly about the rule of threes)
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An Analysis of Lighting in Cinema on imgur
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35 Beautifully Animated Photographs on InspirationFeed
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[Thread] What is a Good Screw-With-Your-Mind Movie to Watch? on Reddit
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[Video] How Film Uses Color to Manipulate Emotions on YouTube (good, except the end is more influenced by music than color)
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Why Every Movie Looks Sort Of Orange and Blue on priceonomics
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All About "Intimacy Coordinators" for films & shows on The Guardian
Photography, Art, & Music
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★ Using Neural Networks to Restyle Images in the form of Art on BoredPanda.com, and Ostagram.ru
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★ Touch Pianist -- play wonderful classical music however you like it, just by tapping or clicking your mouse
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Recommendmeabook -- Shows the first page of random books so you can see what you want to keep reading
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Space Truffle - Very cool fractal objects
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Illegal Drone Photos of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth - on Business Insider.com
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Fukushima Photos -- The aftermath of the Fukushima meltdown
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Soap Bubbles Blown in Freezing Temperatures on Weather.com
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Using 3D Printing to Blend Art with Life (cement stairs made of legos?) on Vimeo
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[Video] Beethoven Symphony Flash Mob on YouTube
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[Video] The Photo Man on Vimeo (a man who has collected and sold millions of found photos)
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9000 Body Sand Stencils on Normandy Beach on Peace Day on dailymail.co.uk
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Self-Suspending Sculptures on Wired
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[Video] Artisanal Pencil Sharpening (seriously!) on YouTube
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Silent Reading Parties at the Sorrento Hotel -- yes, this is a thing! (on thestranger.com)
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FLRN GIF and Loading Icons on Reddit -- Lots of Loading Icons
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Banksy Artwork Shreds Itself Immediately after being Purchased at Auction for over £1 Million on Standard.co.uk
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Highest Resolution Photo that exists
Creativity & Design
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[Video] The Gap by Ira Glass on Vimeo
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[Video] Brett Cohen, Fake Celebrity tricks people into thinking he's a celeb by playing the role on YouTube
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50 Brilliant Designs on Bored Panda
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★ Podcast, Start at 19:00] Creating Moments of Joy & The Disney Paradox on Motley Fool Money Podcast
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The Shepard Tone -- Creating the illusion of ever-increasing tone sequences on StudioBinder.com
Misc Awesome
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Functioning Iron Man Helmets and other high quality cosplay gear on joetoyss.com
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[Video 45m] "I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers" techniques in gaining entry on YouTube
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Virtual Eyedropper in AR that Applies Color to Real Life Smart Bulbs on Twitter
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Mystery on 5th Avenue on New York Times (about a home designed with secrets, ciphers, and hidden mechanisms)
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Sapphire Mining on Imgur and Gem Mining Website
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Roman Booteen's incredible hand-made mechanical coins, on Instagram
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[Video] Halloween Doorbell on Video on Reddit
Economics & Money
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[Video] We The Economy - Lemonade War with Patton Oswalt
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Talking Stocks by Mark Cuban
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How Bundling Benefits Buyers and Sellers on Chris Dixon's Blog
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Arbitrage and Equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 Economy (Incredibly dense, stable, volumetric storage) on Valve Economics
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F2P and the Death of Consumer Surplus on AndrewRussell.net
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Author who studies millionaires: 240 minutes a day separates the rich from everyone else on CNBC.com
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[Video]
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The Federal Reserve: Biggest Scam in The History of Mankind on YouTube (Dramatic, yes, but interesting)
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LeanFIRE vs. FatFIRE (FIRE = Financially Independent, Retire Early) on minafi.com
Business & Startup
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Price's Law - The Square Root of your Employees Generate 1/2 the total Value on dariusforoux.com
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Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Basecamp
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Silicon Valley Legend Creates Pitch Deck Template for Entrepreneurs on alejandrocremades.com
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How Humble Leadership Really Works by Dan Cable on hbr.org
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[Video] Vinod Khosla on How to Build a Future on YouTube (34 mins)
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The Ladder of Proof (Uncovering how VCs see your Startup) on NFX.com
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Jeff Bezos Replaced PowerPoint in Meetings at Amazon with Narratives and Emotional Storytelling on Inc.com
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[Podcast] Startup by Alex Blumberg. "When someone who knows nothing about business starts one."
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FounderDating.com, for that time when you need a CoFounder or Advisor
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Will Harbin tells Developers why they Don't Need Publishers on VentureBeat
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Why AAA Devs are Going Indie, and why Indie aren't going AAA on VentureBeat
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Publishing Your First Game in 40 Not-So-Easy Steps on Mugshot Games
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[Video] Information Flow: The Secret to Studio Structure by Jesse Schell
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The Only Thing That Matters (the main reason startups fail) on The Pmarca Guide to Startups
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Startup Killer: the Cost of Acquisition on For Entrepreneurs
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Lean Startups Fail for These Reasons by Francis Pedraza
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Lessons Learned in Viral Marketing on For Entrepreneurs
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Founder of Twitter & Blogger has figured out the Internet on Wired
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How to Tell if your Mobile Game will Make $1 Million+ on VentureBeat
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The Games Investor Checklist: Hunting the next Supercell on PocketGamer.biz
Science and Technology
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★ If the Moon were only 1 Pixel -- incredibly eye-opening interactive model of light escaping the solar system
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★ Scale of the Universe & Scale of the Universe 2, & Scale Images of Cosmological Bodies
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100,000 Stars (interactive web page visualizing nearby stars)
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[Video 4m] How to Build a Cloud Chamber on YouTube
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Formation of the Moon (by Theia collision with Earth) brought Water to the Earth on Science Daily
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China Communicates with Satellite through Quantum Entanglement on BBC
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[GIFs] Gallery of Math Concepts explained Visually on Wikipedia
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The "Wow!" Signal - The most likely candidate for extraterrestrial transmission we've received on Wikipedia
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[Video] "Awesome Machines Compilation #1" on YouTube
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[Video] SoundHound's Speech & Semantic Recognition Makes Siri Look Like a Preschooler on YouTube
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[Video] Boston Dynamics Qaudriped Robot, and the full lineup: [LS3] - [Atlas] - [Petman] - [Cheetah] - [Big Dog] - [SandFlea] - [RHex]
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Massive Ocean Discovered toward Earth's Core on New Scientist
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Hype Curve for Emerging Technologies (2013) on Gartner.com
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Fun Science Explanation Videos for Elementary Students by Tyler DeWitt
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Harvard Uses DNA to Encode 700 Terabytes of Data in 1 Gram on Extreme Tech
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How to Design Video Games That Support Good Math Learning (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) by Dr. Keith Devlin of Stanford
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3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Image on YouTube
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The Future of Industrial Design on YouTube by Elon Musk
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[Videos] The Fabric of the Cosmos, a 4-hour series by Brian Greene on Nova
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The 10 Most Amazing Ancient Objects of Mystery in History on Web Urbanist, best read hand-in-hand with Wikipedia (next link)
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Out of Place Artifacts on Wikipedia
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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (Parable about Aging and Immortality) on nickbostrom.com
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Chemistry 3D Printer Can Synthesize [Some] Molecules from Scratch on PopularMechanics.com
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Lockheed Martin Thinks Sustainable Fusion is Within its Grasp on EWeek.com
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The Barometer Fable on lhup.edu
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Is the Universe a Hologram? on Science Daily, Holographic Principle on Wikipedia, and Evidence our Universe is a Hologram on Motherboard
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Researchers image matter that is Half Wave, Half Particle called Exciton-Polaritons, on Reddit
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The Big Hack - How a Tiny Chip Helped China Infiltrate America's Top Companies - on Bloomberg
Longevity & Health
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InsideTracker -- a biomarker monitoring system
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David Sinclair's longevity regimen on fastlifehacks.com
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ISRIB Drug Reverses Age Related Mental Decline Within Days in Mice on Good News Network
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You're Not Getting Enough Sleep, and it's Killing You on ArsTechnica
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Nobiletin (basically, why you should eat citrus peels) on ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Using Flashing Lights to Treat & Prevent Alzheimer's Disease on Reddit
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Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice (by using an injection to stimulate T cells that have penetrated the tumor) on med.stanford.edu
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CRISPR-based Genome Editing Destroys Cancer Cells on ScienceDaily
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Telomeres Elongated & Senescent Cells Reduced in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Reddit
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[Video] The Science of Fasting, and the portion about Fasting to make Chemotherapy more effective and eliminate side effects on YouTube
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Reversal of Again within 10 Years? on NextBigFuture.com
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Brain's Stem Cells Transplanted Offers Middle Aged Rodents Increased Lifespan on Reddit
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"Chronic Heat Treatment" health benefits on sciencedirect.com
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High-Frequency Neuro-Modulation Improves Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior on Nature.com
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CRISPRoff on InterestingEngineering.com
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Anti-Aging Diet study on Aging-US.com
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Portland Doctors "First in the World" to Apply New Cancer Therapy, Resulting in Tumor Reduction on KGW8
Virtual, Augmented, & Enhanced Reality
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[Video] Holoportation with the HoloLens on youtube.com
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Lucidcam - Stereoscopic 180 degree camera for VR.
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360 degree Stereoscopic video camera on izugar.com
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[Video] MIT's Dynamic Shape Display from the Tangible Media Lab on YouTube
Nature
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Cool Morphing Southern White-Faced Scops Owl Turns Shapes in Reaction to Other Owls on YouTube
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Mimic Octopus on YouTube
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The Deep Sea -- a page showing the creatures of the sea as you scroll down through the depths
The Mind
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Reason Won't Save Us, about the illusion of consciousness, it its relationship to reasoning, on Nautilus
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A Game Designer's Analysis of QAnon by Rabbit Rabbit on Medium
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★ [PDF] The Psychology of Pricing by Nick Kolenda
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Prospect Theory and Loss Aversion: How Users Make Decisions on nngroup.com
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Project Implicit on Harvard.edu (test your implicit biases about gender, race, etc)
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Yes Ladders on PhoneBurner.com (but "No" may actually be better, See Never Split the Difference)
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Negotiation Resources on Black Swan
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This is the Amount of Money You Need to be Happy on Time.com
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8 Ways that Money Can Buy Happiness on Time.com
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Cialdini's 6 Principles of Influence on Wikipedia
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[Video] Riding a Reverse Bike - Learning & Unlearning on YouTube from the Smarter Every Day Channel
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[Thread] What is Something Someone Said that Forever Changed Your Way of Thinking? on Reddit
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[Video 36m] John Cleese on Creativity on YouTube
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Fun vs. Engagement by Henry Jenkins
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The Completion Principle on kmscubreporter.com
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★ The Grand Master in the Corner Office (Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Deliberate Practice) by Cal Newport
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TDCS: Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation on Wikipedia
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[Book] Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
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Person-Action-Object (PAO) memory system and Forum of Memory Techniques on ArtofMemory.com
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★ Joshua Foer on Deliberate Practice (How to Keep Getting Better at Something) on SupplySideLiberal.com
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The Time Trials (an exploration of the brain's sense of time) and other "Doodle Brains" on tomlum.com
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect on Wikipedia
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The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories like Spaces (location uses a Hex grid!) on QuantamMagazine.org
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[Video] See a Black and White Video in Full Color on YouTube
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Question: Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? on Stack Exchange
Video Game Design & Dev
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[PDF] ★ My Collection of Game Design Columns (Better by Design / Game Shui / 400 Project) by Noah Falstein in Game Developer Magazine
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[Video 29m] Design by Chaos on GDC Vault 2019 by Seth Coster
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[PDF] Four Ways to use Symbols to add Emotional Depth to your Game article from Game Developer Magazine
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The Best Vision is Insight -- How Do You Measure a Player's Fun? on Medium.com
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[IMAGE] Player Motivations & Tastes by Quantic Foundry
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[PPT] Practical Techniques for Implementing Emergent Gameplay by Randy & Harvey Smith on RoninGameDeveloper.com's Materials Page
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[Video] Governance in F2P Multiplayer Games by Dan Cook of Spry Fox. From GDC on YouTube
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[Video] Game Design Theory I Wish I Had Known When I Started by Dan Cook of Spry Fox, on YouTube
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Game Design Patters for Building Friendships by Dan Cook of Spry Fox, on Lost Garden
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★ Designing Friendships, GDC 2017 by Dan Cook
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[Video] The Psychology of Games on YouTube
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Game Dev Tricks on Twitter
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How Analogue Remade the Super Nintendo on Polygon
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Ultima Online is 20 Years Old Today by Rich Vogel (UO IGN: Dupre)
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★ Awesome Tuesday Game Dev Lecture Video Collection curated by Schell Games
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Why You Can't Brainstorm Creative Ideas on designschool.canva
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The Rational Design Handbook: Four Primary Metrics (a complete tuning model for games) by Luke McMillan on Gamasutra
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Commandments of Game Design by Kellee Santiago (these particularly resonate with my game design beliefs)
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Skyrim's Modular Level Design (GDC 2013 Transcript) by Joel Burgess
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Extra Credits videos on YouTube
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★ Behavioral Game Design on Gamasutra
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Ethos Before Analytics on Gamasutra
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★ Good Design, Bad Design, Great Design by Raph Koster
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Doing Things is Okay by Ian Bogost, paired like a fine wine with Fuck Videogames by Darius Kazemi
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Finishing a Game on Make Games
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Opinion: What I Learned from Submitting to the GDC on Gamasutra
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Revisiting Zork: What We Lost in the Transition to Visual Games on The Atlantic
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4 Player Types (a classic categorization) by Richard Bartle
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Insomniac's 4 Pillars of Making a Truly Great Game by Frank Cifaldi
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★ Saving Zelda by Tevis Thompson
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★ Our Attention Spans are Changing, and so Must our Game Design on Polygon (media saturation, attention)
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The 50 Most Memorable Moments in Video Game History on Crave Online
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What is the Most Addictive Game Ever? on PopSci
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51 Things Every Game Student Should Know by Kaye Elling
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How 13 Classic Video Games got their Names on Mental Floss
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11 Tips for Making a Fun Platformer by Diorgo Jonkers
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7 Psychological Sins of SimCity Social by Jamie Madigan (Yes, I worked on this game, but it's a good read.)
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Jenova Chen: "Social Games should be about an Exchange of Emotions, not Numbers" on Polygon.com
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Our Growing Fuckwad Culture Problem by Damion Schubert
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A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art on dinofarmgames.com
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Indiepocalypse? on Butterscotch-Shenanigans.com
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Video Game Art Styles on Tumblr
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Quit my job. Built an iOS game. It became #1. Revenue & learnings on Reddit
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The Complexity Fallacy on Gamasutra
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The Secrets of Machine Zone's Success - Part 2 - Design (Game of War) on DeconstructorOfFun.com
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Mark Cerny & Rich Hilleman Q&A on YouTube
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[Video] Shader Case Study - Dead Cell's Character Art Pipeline on YouTube (rendering models to pixel art with normals in Unity)
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Choice vs. Agency (through the lens of World of Warcraft) on Reddit
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Its Time We Stopped Encouraging Indies by John Warner, and Responses ("Devs Weigh In") on gamesindustry.biz
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[Video 8m] How to Make Indie Game Music for Beginners on 8 minute video on Reddit
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The Future of 2D Games on gamesindustry.biz (a great look at 2D vs. 3D)
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It's Time to Rethink AB Testing on mobiledevmo.com (for a Bayesian approach over traditional null-hypothesis/p-value testing)
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Inside Supercell (a look at the bottom-up organization and creative process) on pocketgamer.biz
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How Bioware's Anthem Went Wrong on Kotaku (A study in the effects of inability of design & leadership to make decisions)
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The Heavy Toll of Making Games in the Bay Area on GamesIndustry.Biz
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Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users on nngroup.com
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Game Design Patterns that Facilitate Strangers Becoming Friends on Project Horseshoe
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[PDF] A History of Tile-Matching Games on Scholar Works
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[Video 6m] Fortnite is Over? End of Season 10 Black Hole on YouTube and on Article on Kotaku
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40 Years on: The Making of Rogue with Glenn Wichman on GameReactor.eu
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[Video 1h 23m] Achievement Relocked book launch discussion on YouTube (about Loss Aversion)
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How to Make Progress Bars Feel Faster to Users on uxmovement.com
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The Design Secrets Powering Habby's Hit Machine on MobileGamer.biz
Unity
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Some Excellent Shader Graph Tutorials on Reddit
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Performance Benchmarking in Unity on Unity Blog
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A tool to find code references to Game Objects discussion on Reddit, [source here] on GitHub
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iOS Runtime Memory Tracking on Unity Support
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"Glorified Texture Panner Shader" for Unity on Reddit
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[Video 43m] Async vs. Coroutines in Unity (and avoiding "Callback Hell") on YouTube
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Updating your GUI for the iPhone X and other "Notched" Devices on Unity Connect
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[Video 3m] Simple way to change a material color from script in Unity
Games
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The Decision Problem -- Buying and Selling Paperclips
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Agar.io -- a web game where you're a blob trying to eat other people, who are also blobs. Lots of fun.
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Star Citizen -- Space Simulation like you've never seen it
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No Man's Sky -- Infinitely Procedural Universe by Hello Games
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GeoGuessr -- A game about trying to guess where in the world you are when dropped in a random Google street view location.
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Cookie Clicker on DashNet.Org -- A game that is great for reflecting on the psychology of compulsion in games.
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Evoland -- An evolving game that takes you on a journey through RPG history.
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Depression Quest by Zoe Quinn -- A serious game about living with depression.
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NES Zelda in Minecraft (a work in progress) on ZeldaInformer.com
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Snailboat (web version) by Michael Schmitt & Jon Miller
Artificial Intelligence
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Runway.ML -- Create and edit content using Machine Learning
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[Video] Tesla Autonomy Day 2019 on YouTube
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NVidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on PetaPixel
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[Video] Video to Video Synthesis -- Using low-detail input video to synthesize high detail, high resolutionoutput video on YouTube
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Deep Dream Generator & Ostagram -- AI repaints images in the style of others
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Deep Painterly Harmonization on Github -- AI fixes quick image composites to look natural
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[2017] Using Machine Learning to Explore Neural Network Architecture on GoogleBlog
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[Video] Amazon's Robotic Warehouses on chonday.com
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The AI Revolution: The Road To Superintelligence [Part 1] [Part 2] on WaitButWhy.com
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Deep Learning to Reconstruct Masked Areas of Photos on NVidia
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[Video] The First AI-Rendered Interactive Virtual World on YouTube
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Thoughts after taking the Deeplearning.ai courses on Medium.com
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks on Github.io
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A Resurgence in Neural Networks on tjake.blog
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Using Neural Networks to Generate Magic The Gathering Cards on mtgsalvation.com
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A Harsh Guide to Machine Learning on Reddit
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Scientists Implant an Artificial Memory in a Mouse on Interesting Engineering
Programming
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New Features in C# 6 on Microsoft devblogs
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Animated Raytracing on Reddit
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Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated on pragmaticengineer.com
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[PDF] Code Inflation by Gerard J. Holzmann on computer.org
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Microsoft's take on Quantum Computing on TechCrunch
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Id Software's source code on GitHub
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A Hacker Stole $31M of Ether--How it Happened, and What it Means for Ethereum on FreeCodeCamp.com
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DeepMind by Google
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How a 64k Demo is Made on lofibucket
- [Video] What's an Arduino on YouTube channel I like to Make Stuff
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The Beauty of Programming by Linus Torvalds
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iOS Maximum Memory Budget per Device List on Stack Overflow
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[Video] Continuum Damage Material Point Methods for Dynamic Fracture Animations on YouTube; for more details, see the research author's site
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HSV Shader Transformation on beesbuzz.biz
Tabletop Game Design
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Jay Treat Interview on Bellwether Games
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Redesigning Wits and Wagers on BoardGameGeek by Dominick Crapuchettes
Social Games & F2P
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[Video] Raising ARPPU & Conversion in your F2P Game on YouTube by Teut Weidemann
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[Video] How to Use Lootboxes Without Upsetting Players on YouTube by Teut Weidemann
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Advice from the Game Maker that Made GungHo Worth $14B: "Listen to your Wife" (Puzzles and Dragons) on TechCrunch
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Current Social Games are Not Fun by Richard Bartle on Gamasutra
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Improving F2P by Raph Koster
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The Return of Arcades in Social Games on GameSpot
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40 Social Mechanics for Social Games (Slides on Slideshare) by Raph Koster
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Your Game is a Graph on WhatGamesAre
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Nobody Needs FarmVille 2 on What Games Are
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Top Mobile Game Genres by In-App Purchases & Engagement on Apsalar
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This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (One Star Reviews flood Monument Valley after Paid Expansion Release) on TouchArcade
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Chinese Developers Layer a Game on top of Monetization System - Interview on Venture Beat
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How do you Evaluate a Mobile Game's Profit Potential? (About graphing D0 minutes played vs. D1 retention as a strong indicator of the game's potential to be a success) on GameIndustry.biz
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Why the first 10 minutes are crucial if you want to keep your players coming back on Medium.com
Fun
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Steam Review Watch on Tumblr (Negative reviews by players who spent hundreds or thousands of hours in the game)
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1,138 Behind the Scenes Photos of the Star Wars Trilogy on imgur
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Arrested Development -- NPR's Map of the running gags on the show
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★ Where the Hell is Matt? (Videos of Matt dancing from around the world.)
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[GIFs] The Reality of a Developer's Life on Java Code Geeks
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[Videos] Bad Lip Reading (Videos re-dubbed with new words that look accurate, and are hilarious) Try (1) Twilight, and (2) The NFL
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Adding Monsters to Thrift Store Paintings on TwistedSifter.com
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What if Animals were Round? Funny animation shorts on Rollin' Wild.
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Building a Colorful Ice Fort on imgur
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35 Secret Passages Built into Houses on Twisted Sifter
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California Couple finds $10M of Buried Treasure in their Back Yard on ABC News
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21 Clever 1-Liners on tickld
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[Video] Explanation of Lord of the Rings Wizards and Other Beings on YouTube
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[Video] Jersey Man Meets Nature (a Sunfish) on Facebook
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[Video] Bowling for Charity on YouTube
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The 30 Clickbait Phrases that get the Most Shares on Facebook on imgur
Funny
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Spurious Correlations on Tyler Vigen's site
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Succession of Terrible Events Fails to Befall 33-Year-Old Riding Longboard to Digital Media Job on TheOnion.com
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What's a Joke that So Stupid it's Funny? on Reddit
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Kirby Jenner Photoshops himself into professional photography of his sister, whom is a model on Imgur
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"They noticed there was an empty wall at McDonald's, so they made an ad for it..." on Reddit
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Trailer for BattleBlock Theater on YouTube is one of the best narrations I've ever heard
The Sims
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Sims 3 Fashion Magazine on Issuu
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Alice and Kev, the super-funny story of a homeless man and his daughter
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"Did you know how hilarious the patch notes to The Sims are?" on tumblr
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The Sims Design Documents on Don Hopkin's website
Life
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The Evolution of Trust (an interactive experience) on ncase.me
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To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This, and Quiz: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love on nytimes.com
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36 Rare Photographs from History on Imgur
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Three Qualities of People I Most Enjoy Working With posted by the CEO of LinkedIn
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[Thread] What Free Stuff on the Internet Should be Taken Advantage Of? on Reddit
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The Task - an eight part series about cleaning out the home your family grew up in, on New York Times (thank you, Dad, for article)
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Your Many Lives: The Chances you Have Before You Die on LifeHack
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[Video] Woman Endures 10 Endless Catcalls during 10 Hour Walk in NYC on Gothamist
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How Penn (of Penn and Teller) Lost Weight on People.com
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The Arrival Fallacy -- You Accomplished Something Great... So Now What? on nytimes.com
Life Lessons
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[Video] Float to Live to get through cold water shock on YouTube
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[Video] A Boy Ate 25 Laxative Brownies in 1 Hour and This is What Happened to His Kidneys on Reddit
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[Video] Just 1 Reason Why Motorcycles Are Dangerous: Guy Hit in Head with Loose Tire on Reddit
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[GIF] Why you should lift your feet when exiting an escalator on Reddit
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[Video] Don't drive like a moron and try and hit speed bumps to get air on Reddit
Parenting & Kids
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The Power of Defeat: How to Raise a Kid with Grit on Scholastic (perhaps the most important characteristic for success in life)
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Are iPads and Tablets Bad for Young Children? On The Guardian
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ReadingBear.com A phonics site for young kids
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[Book] How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough on Amazon
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[Book] Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson on Amazon
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[Book] How to Be a High School Superstar by Cal Newport
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How to Deal With Toddler Violence on AhaParenting.com
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You Just Broke Your Child on danoah.com
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Sesame Street and its Surprisingly Powerful Effects on How Children Learn on WashingtonPost.com
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Cardboard Kid Armor on Reddit
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5 Brutal Truths Your Parents Probably Didn't Tell You Growing Up on theladders.com
Other
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Simulated Heart Failure Rescue Training on HeartRescueNow.com (Learn to use an AED in a neat branching video simulation)
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Food Poisoning & Drinking Alcohol by David J. Hanson, Ph. D. (I found this after eating raw chicken from a restaurant, which I decided to battle by taking 4 shots of whiskey.)
Favorite Websites & Resources
A collection of enjoyable sites, blogs, and resources
Shopping
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Good Karmal caramels -- These are incredible.
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Elemental LED -- Lighting & Lighting Design for spaces
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InkBox -- Long-lasting, but temporary tattoos
Design Tools
Programming / Coding
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Catlike Coding - Unity/C# tutorials; plus a node-based procedural texture generator
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Regex 101 - Online Regular Expression Editor & Debugger
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Xamarin iOS & Android app development platform
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Learning Resources for Shaders on halisavakis.com
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HackerOne - Hack for good! Find exploits for bounties, and help companies remain secure.
Learning & Mind
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Fun Science Explanation Videos for Elementary Students by Tyler DeWitt
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Quirky -- Collaborative Innovation & Product Design
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Brilliant.org -- Master concepts through fun, guided problem solving
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Crash Course -- YouTube Channel with huge catalog of high production value learning videos
Games
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Day 9 TV gamecasting
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MS DOS Games Collection playable online
Writing
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Scrivener (a fantastic program that seamlessly combines outlining, storyboarding, research, and writing to completion)
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WriterSolo (great, free, script writing software on web, Mac, and Windows)
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The Black List (a meeting place for writers and filmmakers)
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HemmingwayApp (an app that critiques and helps you edit your writing)
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East of the Web: Short Stories (public pieces, contests, submissions)
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201 Stories all by Anton Chekhov
Tabletop Games
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Hyperbole Games / Grant Rodiek
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Shut Up Show / Quinns & Paul give hilarious game reviews
TV
Movies & Cinema
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MIT's "The Film Experience" video lectures on MIT's Open Courseware (teaches how to watch films like a critic)
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Prop Movie Money - https://propmoviemoney.com/ -- High quality movie prop money
Photography & Art
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Google Arts & Culture -- A wide variety of virtual tours of historical & cultural locations
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Max Pixel -- A fantastic resource of curated free-to-use images
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UnSplash -- Free, High Resolution Photos. Creative Commons no attribution
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Photography Mad (Photography Tips & Tricks)
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Piper Thibodeau daily creative creature paintings on Art Station
Web Development
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Bootstrap -- Build responsive, mobile-first projects on the web with the world's most popular front-end component library
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SumoMe.com -- Smart app widgets for growing your website reach
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FaveIcon.io -- A nice generator for fav icons
Game Dev Resources
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Graphics: Free Silhouettes on All-Silhouettes.com
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Graphics: Black and White Icons for Everything on The Noun Project
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Maps: Tiled Map Editor on MapEditor.org
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Sprites: Shoebox Sprite Packer, Photoshop Splitter, & UI Tools on renderhjs.net
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How to Explain Your Game to an Asshole on Petadact
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List of Indie-Friendly Publishers on Medium.com
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Open Source "Deveo" Emoji Sprite Sheets on GitHub
Misc Tools & Resources
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PrivateBin -- An encrypted paste-bin for sharing text and attachments securely online.
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Never10 -- Prevent Win 7 & 8 from forcing Windows 10 nags and updates on you. On GRC.com.
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VitalsSmartShopper.com -- Awesome initiative! Directs you to cost-effective medical procedures, then pays you.
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StreamPocket.com -- Give it a link to any streaming content, and it will download it for you (youtube, soundcloud, etc)
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HTML5 UP -- Spiffy HTML 5 Site Templates that are customizable and fully responsive. Fully Free / Creative Commons no attribution.
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Button Optimizer -- A great online button creator.
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How to Google Search -- Infographic Instructional