Weird superheroes, solo role-playing, human misery, and a blind beast that can live 400 years. Intrigued? Then keep reading, because all this and much more await the brave souls who venture into the heart of this week’s Recommended Links. Enjoy!
The 20 Weirdest and Strangest Movie Superheroes: Among the vast number of superheroes that populate our screens every month, there is room for parody, exaggeration, the most absurd powers, silly alternate versions... And, of course, at the end, also for resounding flops that those responsible hope we forget as soon as possible. But sometimes, finding an original and distinct hero, no matter how outlandish, works out well.
The Birth of The Sims: How a Firestorm That Left 25 Victims and Over a Hundred Injured Sparked the Game's Creation: Usually it's unexpected situations or desperate measures that provide that push. For example, how a game as colorful, joyful, and influential as The Sims arose from a catastrophe that took 25 lives, left over 150 injured, and destroyed the homes of more than 3,000 families. That's how a firestorm led to the creation of The Sims.
Those Persistent Worlds of Neverwinter Nights: The pen-and-paper role-playing game, the primordial one, the one of eating chips and wearing Megadeth t-shirts, has tried to adapt to the interactive entertainment world in many ways. While the biggest successes in depicting virtual worlds are governed by dense and immersive single-player campaigns, the world of MMORPGs had, a few years ago, a much purer split more akin to the true idiosyncrasy of cooperative role-playing. Let's talk about Bioware and the persistent worlds of Neverwinter Nights.
Solo Roleplaying: How Do I Start?: Playing solo role-playing may seem like a crazy idea, and there are even many people who would argue that role-playing is not meant to be played alone, but surprise! It can be done, and there are even games specially designed for it. Whether they are board games, video games, miniature games, wargames... solo role-playing is just another hobby like any other. But you might have a doubt: how do I start?
Whatever Happened to Palm PDAs, the Missing Link of Smartphones That Shone in the '90s: If the 90s and the first decade of the 2000s caught you at the right age — and with enough money in your pocket — you probably remember them perfectly. Also that there was a time when talking about PDAs was almost synonymous with talking about Palm, one of the brands without which consumer technology of 20 years ago can hardly be understood.
'Big Trouble in Little China', by John Carpenter: Talking about John Carpenter is talking about one of the masters of horror, and that is indisputable. With 'Halloween', 'The Thing', 'In the Mouth of Madness', and even 'Christine', it has been more than proven. But Carpenter has always had a mischievous point and a lot of humor. So if we add his 'muse', Kurt Russell, we get (in my opinion) one of the five most entertaining films in his filmography. 'Big Trouble in Little China' (1986), is an adventure with magic, martial arts, and one of the cockiest characters of the 80s, Jack Burton.
The Cause of Human Misery, by Carl Sagan: We have built a global civilization in which the most crucial elements — transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, leisure, environmental protection, and even the key democratic institution of elections — deeply depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that no one understands science and technology. That is a guarantee of disaster. We could go on like this for a while, but sooner or later, this combustible mixture of ignorance and power will blow up in our faces.
The Three Engines We Need to Conquer the Solar System and the Stars: We need to colonize other worlds as soon as possible so that humanity can survive any extinction event on Earth. But, as experts point out and no matter how much Elon Musk insists, colonizing Mars will be extremely difficult with current chemical engine technology. Beyond the red planet, it will be impossible. We must accelerate the speed of our spacecraft.
Plants Grown in Lunar Soil Grow with Stunted Roots and Smaller Stems and Leaves: Now, in the context of new human plans to return to the satellite to stay, a group of researchers has used part of the dust brought back 50 years ago to grow plants for the first time in lunar soil. They have verified that yes, plants germinate and grow, but they do so much worse than on terrestrial soil.
When a Normal Person Becomes an Art Thief: The double life of the alleged art thieves came to fame in 2017, after the missing de Kooning painting was identified. Now, a documentary about them titled The Thief Collector tries to answer the great enigma of this whole story: what leads a completely normal person to become an art thief?
Ramanujan, the Man Who Saw the Number Pi in Dreams: The reputable British mathematician G. H. Hardy was the astonished recipient of the document. It contained 120 formulas, among which he identified one to know how many prime numbers there are between 1 and a given number, and others that allowed to calculate at great speed the infinite decimals of pi. In some cases, Ramanujan had unknowingly reached conclusions already achieved by Western mathematicians.
Meet the Greenland Shark, the Blind Beast That Can Live Over 400 Years: Despite its heavy appearance, its skin is remarkably sensitive. It is almost completely blind, and it navigates using Earth's magnetic field to swim through the depths of the icy Arctic seas. It can rarely be spotted, as it does not approach the surface. On the contrary, it prefers darkness and quiet environments. This is the Greenland shark: the longest-lived species on record on the planet.
VIDEOS: This Station Does Not Exist, survival myths, history of cursors, testing an "Xbox Series X Development Kit", tornado in Andover, who made these circles in the Sahara?, drawing Michael Jordan, truck with trailer takes everything with it, "Voices from the Attic" (with a spectral instrumental), China is killing its third largest lake, Project Cambria preview, saves an antelope because an elephant warns him, "Preacher Of A Down", a human centipede with gummy bears, surviving an encounter with an eel, gingerbread sculpture, symphony with camera noises, coral under the microscope, "Suicide Is Painless" by Gayageum, bagpipe duck, how to make a chaotic sphere, pretty song with puppet, rock and metal intros with crazy instruments, the tallest dog in the world, ski madness, a documentary about the Florida mermaids of 1961, a black and white short about a puppy called "Nipper Runs Amok!", an experimental work from 1962, an animated short, and a surprise.
GALLERIES: Not much, but okay. Salvador Dalí's crazy faces, photos of yesterday and today in Argentina, miniature photography, the precise moment the moon passes through the Arc de Triomphe, the arcades of the future, coral crochet, godmothers from 1920, skeletal light band, transcendental sculptures, Animated Dump and Visual Dump.
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