contemporary history
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12 Time-Looping Video Games You’ll Want to Play Over and Over
Groundhog Day-esque time loops are having a moment in video games. In the last year or so, two AAA games (Deathloop, Returnal) and one beloved critical-darling (Forgotten City) have used “time-repeating endlessly” as a central element. But in-game time loops go back to the very first video games. What is a video game, after all,…
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11 Size Comparison Videos That Will Give You a New Sense of Scale
1I first heard about the genre of “size comparison” videos on YouTube from this article in the New York Times, written by a mum whose seven-year-old son had become obsessed with them. He’s at a developmental age where kids are finally able to sort things by size or quantify with more ease, so it makes…
