Experience: I've played a game of tag for 23 years
Joe Tombari: 'Now we are grown men, we don't run like Usain Bolt, so subterfuge and collusion have become our weapons'
Hasnain says:
I saw the trailer but I thought this part was exaggerated until I read it
“Perhaps one of the most unexpected tags was during Mike's father's funeral. During the service, he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to find Joe mouthing, "You're it." Afterwards, he said his father would have approved, because he found our game hilarious.”
Posted on 2018-04-16T00:02:19+0000
Why South Asia’s majorities act like persecuted minorities
No conspiracy theory about minorities is too implausible to cause outrage
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Posted on 2018-04-14T01:29:32+0000
The NFL’s plan to protect America from witches | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The NFL’s cheerleader problem shows exactly what’s wrong with the league’s management: They insist on being the self-appointed guardians of America’s mythological vision of itself
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Posted on 2018-04-08T23:06:08+0000
My Father, in Four Visits over Thirty Years
I know that Baba will never live in the West with us. It would end him, his big personality, his glorious sense of himself.
Hasnain says:
This was a sad but interesting human interest story
Posted on 2018-04-01T21:05:45+0000
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine postmortem
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is out! I served as the game’s editor and staff writer. It was an incredibly complicated project: twenty-four writers worked on it. The game is so large and s…
Hasnain says:
"There is really nothing like actually seeing what the player will see! Please make your video game editors useful text tools!"
Posted on 2018-04-01T17:28:15+0000
Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
A deep look back at PlayStation’s blockbuster 1996 platformer, as told by those who were there.
Hasnain says:
This was an amazing read.
"The game we designed for ourselves we called "Sonic's Ass," because it was turning Sonic into the screen, in which case you'd be looking a lot at his ass. "
Posted on 2018-04-01T03:43:45+0000
This Secretive Billionaire Makes The Cheese For Pizza Hut, Domino's And Papa John's
From Pizza Hut and Domino's to Little Caesars and Papa John's, the vast majority of pizzas in America feature mozzarella from one company. For the first time, secretive billionaire James Leprino explains how he built a cheese juggernaut.
Hasnain says:
"Quality is listed first intentionally. It's easy to mock his product (Frankencheese, anyone?), but Leprino Foods is one of the few dairy giants that have never had a recall. Every Monday at 11:30 a.m., Leprino walks down to the test kitchen along with two dozen of his most trusted executives for the weekly Monday Melts meeting like the one I attended. The executives test samples of the cheese produced for some 300 clients in 40 countries and check every complaint received the week before. "Your employees have got to know you're not a phony," he says. "They've got to believe in you."
Posted on 2018-04-01T01:55:07+0000
How I Learned to Stop Ordering 'Thai Spicy'
There's a myth that Thai food has to be unbearably spicy. It doesn't and shouldn't. Here's how I learned that more spice doesn't always equal a better, more authentic meal.
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Posted on 2018-03-30T03:48:33+0000
Are We Having Too Much Fun?
In 1985, Neil Postman observed an America imprisoned by its own need for amusement. He was, it turns out, extremely prescient.
Hasnain says:
"But Postman was a critic of more than TV alone. He mistrusted entertainment, not as a situation but as a political tool; he worried that Americans’ great capacity for distraction had compromised their ability to think, and to want, for themselves. He resented the tyranny of the lol. His great observation, and his great warning, was a newly relevant kind of bummer: There are dangers that can come with having too much fun."
Posted on 2018-03-27T05:45:47+0000
The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society
A new survey report looks at attitudes among Muslims in 39 countries on a wide range of topics, from science to sharia, polygamy to popular culture. The survey finds that overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many countries want Islamic law to be the official law of their land, but there is also wi...
Hasnain says:
I've only read two chapters so far, bookmarking this for future reading. Survey from 2013 which covers Muslim beliefs about various things. Goes into some detail, and it was interesting to see how attitudes vary by country (and especially getting data to back up some intuition)
Posted on 2018-03-24T20:48:36+0000