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Tuesday, July 18th, 2017
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"Just one thing I want to say. Fighting games are something so great." http://www.metafilter.com/168272/Just-one-thing-I-want-to-say-Fighting-games-are-something-so-great EVO 2017's Street Fighter 5 Grand Final Was Like the Last 15 Minutes of a Rocky Movie [PC Gamer] "You don't have to know anything about Street Fighter to follow this intense, exhilarating veteran vs. prodigy showdown. The three day, nine game event is perfectly engineered to generate amazing stories: anyone can enter, providing opportunity for surprises and upsets, and the double elimination format adds extra tension as one player inevitably battles their way through the loser's bracket to return for vengeance in the final match. It's a hyperconcentrated hit of everything that makes fighting games great, and that's why casual fans like me come away from EVO every year buzzing with excitement. As you watch EVO, you realize there's so much more to Street Fighter than the skill it takes to remember combos and execute special moves. Like any competitive sport, it's about strategy, timing, mind games, momentum, and the narrative we weave between matches. And all of that stuff is perfectly exemplified in this year's Street Fighter 5 grand finals, which came down to a match between veteran Japanese player Hajime "Tokido" Taniguchi and up-and-coming American Victor "Punk" Woodley." (Spoilers in thread) " Tokido vs. Filipino Champ [YouTube]
" Tokido vs. NuckleDu [YouTube]
" Tokido vs. Itabashi Zangief [YouTube]
" Tokido vs. Kazunoko [YouTube]
" Tokido vs. Punk [YouTube] [GRAND FINAL] | 2:35a |
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"Keep these safe. They are my whole life." Charlotte Salomon http://www.metafilter.com/168279/Keep-these-safe-They-are-my-whole-life-Charlotte-Salomon Over a period of less than two years before being murdered by the Nazis, Charlotte Salomon completed Life? or Theater? (Leben? oder Theater?), a massive work in images and writing, to document her life. Before embarking on this project, she had discovered that no fewer than eight of her family members had committed suicide. Shortly before her arrest, she handed Life? or Theater? over to Georges Moridis, who had encouraged her to paint, with the words: "Keep these safe. They are my whole life." In a new article, Toni Bentley discusses the work in the light of the Salomons' family history and, particularly, Salomon's written and drawn confession that she killed her grandfather. | 2:23p |
Looks like an ant, walks like an ant, but ... it's a spider? http://www.metafilter.com/168280/Looks-like-an-ant-walks-like-an-ant-but-its-a-spider Imagine you're a tiny spider, just trying to make it in a big world, a world where you're likely to be eaten. Oh hey, ants seem to do well, you notice. I'll pretend to be an ant! Apparently the tactic is so successful that there are a few types of ant mimic spiders, including some members of Castianeira sp., and more notably the jumping spider Myrmarachne formicaria, which moves like an ant, even waiving its front-most pair of legs like antenna ( full paper). Look closely in your neighborhood or local park, and you might even find a new species of spider that mimics ants. | 3:10p |
To become a reality, UBI needs to get detailed and stop being oversold http://www.metafilter.com/168281/To-become-a-reality-UBI-needs-to-get-detailed-and-stop-being-oversold In a little over a decade, basic income has gone from an idea about as fringe as #FullCommunism to something that could be benefiting 1.2 billion people imminently. It's an astonishing rise. But the very speed with which basic income took off has led the debate over it to become confused in a deep way. And it's particularly confused among its proponents, a group in which I include myself. [SLVox] | 3:30p |
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