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E poi un giorno arriva un tizio che nel 2017 dice: voglio fare un gioco per il Game Boy. Perché no?

Money quote: "Everyone has childhood dreams. Mine was to make a game for my first console: the Nintendo Game Boy. Today, I fulfilled this dream, by releasing my first Game Boy game on a actual cartridge: Sheep It Up!

In this article, I'll present the tools I used, and some pitfalls a newcomer like me had to overcome to make this project a reality!"

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DoctorLudos/20171207/311143/Making_a_Game_Boy_game_in_2017_A_quotSheep_It_Upquot_PostMortem_part_12.php
Tutti i problemi di “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” - la mia recensione (no spoiler) per Fumettologica

Money quote: "Poi c’è un tema di casting: è piuttosto evidente che Sophie Turner è un problema ambulante. La povera (e brava) attrice cerca di smarcarsi dal ruolo di Sansa Stark di Game of Thrones, anche se a 23 anni è diventata una specie di Marlon Brando in gonnella: costantemente sull’orlo di una crisi di rabbia gelida, di una soffocante paura, con gli occhi che si specchiano in un abisso di disperazione senza mai realmente precipitarci. Di tutti i personaggi del film, è il più genuinamente da fumetto, anche se in realtà nei comics Jean Grey sarebbe la meno “umana” tra i buoni/cattivi."

https://www.fumettologica.it/2019/06/x-men-dark-phoenix-recensione-film/
Il miele amato dagli antichi romani oggi si può assaggiare solo in Australia. Pensa te.

Money quote: "Ancient Romans loved it, Australian law protects it, and modern epicures travel across continents to taste it. Ligurian honey is as sweet as it is rare. Native to the Italian Alps, where they were famous for their productivity and docile natures, purebred Ligurian bees have been eliminated from their homeland as a result of interbreeding and disease. Now, it’s believed that the only remaining purebred population of Ligurians lives on Kangaroo Island, a sunny island about 10 miles off the southern coast of Australia. The entire island has been a bee sanctuary, perhaps the world’s first, since a group of Ligurian queen bees was let loose there in the 1880s"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/ligurian-honey
Susie Johnson, la prima ragazza a uscire fuori (nuda) da una torta di compleanno e lo spaccato di un'epoca selvaggia per quanto riguarda le donne ma per il resto apparentemente civile e vicina.

Money quote: "In the 1890s, New York was a city with a fever. The slip of island between the Hudson and East River was plush with cash. It poured in from shipyards, freight trains, and factories. It flooded the Manhattan streets. Carriages bounced, crowds pressed, electricity glittered. From Pittsburgh and Omaha, Secaucus and Cincinnati, young women flocked to the city, hoping to make it under the newly electrified lights of the Broadway stage. They ended up modeling for the burgeoning print advertisement industry or working in the chorus line, the factory line, or the line of sex workers on the streets."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-women-jump-out-pies
La spettacolare guerra tra gli asciugamanini e gli asciugatori. Violenza e disperazione nelle toilette

Money quote: "Public bathrooms offer three primary options to dry a pair of wet hands. First, there is the venerable crisp-pleated paper towel. Second, the old-style warm-air dryer: those indestructible metal carapaces that, through their snouts, breathe down upon our hands. And finally, the jet dryer sub-species of the sort Dyson makes, whose gale-force winds promise to shear away every drop of moisture rather than slowly evaporating it. In the quest to dominate the world’s restrooms, Campbell discovered, Dryer v Towel is a pitched contest of business strategy and public relations. “Expect to be lied to a lot,” Campbell told me. “It’s almost like the cola wars. You have Pepsi v Coke, and you have hand dryers v paper towels.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/25/hand-dryers-paper-towels-hygiene-dyson-airblade
È dal 1600 che alle Hawaii si pratica il surf. E soprattutto le donne

Money quote: "Prior to European arrival, surfing was a communal activity on the islands for men, women and children of all social classes. Stories about the mythical Maui Princess Kelea describe her as one of the best surfers in the Hawaiian kingdom. The demi-god Mamala is depicted as a half-woman, half-shark who rode the waves. The oldest known papa he’e nalu, or surfboard, dates to the 1600s and comes from Princess Kaneamuna’s burial cave in Ho’okena on the Big Island, according to the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center in San Clemente."

https://www.history.com/news/women-surfers-1600s-hawaii-princess-gidget
Cosa succede quando avviate il vostro Mac? Ecco una infografica che lo racconta

Money quote: "The sequence starts at the top, with user inputs in green at the left, processes in pink next, actions etc. to the right of the centre, and interactions in blue at the right. Key sources of data are shown in red. Macs equipped with T2 processors are rather different: their main differences are shown in boxes with heavy black outlines."

https://eclecticlight.co/2018/08/25/booting-the-mac-visual-summary/