Recommended Links of the Week (No. 688)

Traveling through the Planck scale, science fiction novels, nihilism, and color theory. If you want more, keep reading because there's little room here and the idea is discovery. Welcome to the Recommended Links. Enjoy!

Death Wish 3 (MSX) – When Charles Bronson jumped to computers: "A year after the film's release, Gremlin was tasked with adapting it for 8-bit screens with a simple but violence-packed action game, which the grateful player will appreciate. The people responsible for creating this title were Shaun Hollingworth, Peter M. Harrap, Marcos Duroe, Steven Kerry, Chris Kerry and Ben Dalglish, the same team that made games like Mask, Tecnocop or The Way Of The Tiger."

[Role-Playing Experiences] Fallout 1 and 2: "Another interesting aspect to consider is that the classic Fallout games were known but relatively niche, going from sales of less than a million units to the more than ten million that its "return" achieved with Bethesda's Fallout 3. Was it a better time to release such a game? Did the technical leap help? Or maybe it just needed a marketing engine as huge as Bethesda? Surely it's a bit of everything, but the point is that the two original Fallouts are, today, very difficult titles to recommend."

Eight great novels to get into science fiction: "Science fiction is one of the most sought-after literary genres by readers. That's no coincidence. The popularity of sci-fi is due to its wide variety of themes and narrative tools. Parallel worlds, intergalactic and time travel, characters with powers, robots, and even end-of-the-world projections, etc. If you want to get into science fiction and don't know where to start, here you'll find some of the most iconic, accessible, and exciting stories of the genre."

1982: The year of the masterpieces of fantasy and science fiction: "The 80s were years of change in general, but also specifically in the world of cinema. New young directors appeared, such as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, among others, who had arrived not only to transform the industry but to stay and bring fresh air, particularly to fantasy and science fiction films. Changes came in filmmaking techniques, special effects, and the way stories were told."

Journey to the world of the Planck scale: "The so-called "Planck scale" marks a fundamental limit beyond which the physical world as we know it ceases to make sense. In fact, it is expected that as we approach this scale, space-time itself begins to fluctuate according to the laws of quantum mechanics, producing a kind of "fuzzy" quantum structure. (...) In this article we will travel to the world of the Planck scale, a world where the physics we know ceases to exist and space-time itself loses its usual physical meaning."

The levies of the army in ancient Rome: "The basic requirement was to be a Roman citizen with a minimum income of four hundred drachmas, and you entered the infantry or heavy cavalry, or you could also be a citizen of some town under Roman rule, which contributed to the army having high morale and great patriotic fervor. Other factors such as religion or skin color were not considered. On the contrary, the norm among the peoples and civilizations of the time was an army made up of professional mercenaries regardless of their origin."

A brief history of nihilism: "To trace the origins of nihilism (from Latin, nothing) we must go back to the beginnings of written testimony. When the Mesopotamian king Gilgamesh, turned into a mythical epic character, goes before the gods to beg them to restore his friend's life, he receives a single gift: enjoy existence and earthly pleasures, for not even the gods can return breath to a mortal. The invitation to live in the present with absolute hedonism requires a nihilism that sustains the dissolution of morality."

They find a large statue of Hercules in the ancient Macedonian city of Philippi: "The ornamentation was completed with an impressive Roman-era statue (2nd century AD), larger than life, depicting a young Hercules. The club, which has been found broken into fragments, and the lion skin hanging from the hero's extended left hand attest to his identity. On his head he wears a crown of vine leaves held at the back with a ribbon whose ends fall on his shoulders."

What color theory is and how it helps you choose the color palette of your masterpiece sensibly: "We have all seen the color wheel at some point, with primary colors that mix to form secondary and then tertiary ones. But those combinations are not random; they follow basic rules. That's what is understood by color theory, and it explains how colors are formed and how they relate to each other: if we mix pigments or light in a certain way, we can achieve different effects. That's why it's a fundamental concept for any creative, designer, artist, or illustrator."

The wolves that devoured the heavens and the earth: "The main exponent of wolves in Norse myths was Fenrirsúlf, the wolf Fenrir or Hródvitnir/Hródrsvitnir, son of Loki and Angrboða, she of the forest Járnviðr of wolves and giants, and therefore brother of Hela and Jörmungandr. The fate of this monstrous offspring was a matter for the æsir to deal with, since the prophecies announced that they were a danger. The then-small Jörmungandr was thrown into the sea, while Hela was taken to the homonymous realm of the dead in Niflheimr."

The highest inflation rate of all time: "In these times of runaway inflation, we often hear about hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920s. How banknotes were burned because they were worth less than the firewood you could buy with them, how walls were papered with banknotes or they were transported in wheelbarrows to buy something to eat. But the highest inflation rate of all time is Hungary's in 1946, an absolute madness."

The largest immersed tunnel in the world is already underway. And it's being built without tunnel boring machines: "Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link. That's what the longest immersed tunnel in the world will be called. One that will also combine tunnels for trains and cars, thus cutting travel times between Germany and Denmark. Passenger and freight transport will gain a lot, and the project is a new achievement of European engineering."

VIDEOS: Slapping championship, killer whales hunting, backstage of Back to the Future 2, listen to a meteorite falling on Mars, the world of the Metabarons, joining a scammers' call center, Minecraft inside Minecraft, 20 useless mechanical principles, plane crashes after hitting a bird, the opioid crisis in the United States, a jet engine in a toy, regenerative agriculture, live-action role-playing in Germany, puppy raised in a bubble, Japanese women living alone in cybercafes, Olivia the rat, winning carnival games with science, the deer's leap, Moomin (reanimated), fake and dangerous tricks, Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train in Asian folk style, how globes were made, and the shorts: World of Tomorrow and Dystopia.

GALLERIES: Photos of endangered species, amazing award-winning astronomy photos, optical illusions in photos, a suitcase diving suit, fashion kimonos, pop characters reimagined as retro comics, funny pet photos, a 80s video club in your basement, the imagination of nature, combined photos, water and oil, the Animated Landfill and the Visual Dump.

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