Super Metroid released on the Wii U Virtual Console today. This is the result.
I figured that shit out when I was about 6. I 99% it on my SNES when I was wee.
Gamers have it too easy these days grumble grumbleI’m usually for streamlined game design, and I can empathize with casual gamers struggling to get into more complex games.. but this is ridiculous.
They come upon their first hurdle, and they just shot down then and there. It’s almost comical.
Kids these days… ;-)
A woman working on an all-female team of data scientists in the gaming industry pulls an ingenious prank on her male CEO and replaces the scantily clad female comic character he has a soft (hard?) spot for with another kind of poster.
But lest we forget, one of the brave everyday women at the helm of the Second Wave of Feminism did the exact same thing 40 years ago and shared it on the “social media” of her day.
(↬ MetaFilter)
Brilliant.
Welcome Home to the first ‘Space Tumblrist’: Chris Hadfield
- The Russian Soyuz space capsule, carrying US astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, descends about 90 miles south-east of the town of Dzhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan, this morning. Photograph: Sergei Remizov/AP
- And here’s Canadian spaceman, photographer and sometime singer Chris Hadfield giving a thumbs up shortly after the landing. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty Images
Welcome back, Commander!
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Space Oddity in Space (by Chris Hadfield)
Caution: Onions
Singing “Major Tom to Ground Control” with a guitar in your hand and the blue globe behind your back. Brilliant.
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Andy Phelps nearly died in a car accident that killed his friends. Here’s what he did next.
One of the best Firefly and Mal moments.
Great Show.
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Alexander Chen spent an afternoon improvising melodies on viola, and recording them through Google Glass. This resulting song is composed completely from 8-second video loops, stitched together into a film. Chen says, “You can see all the layers of the song, like a first-person orchestra.”
I love the elements of his everyday life in the background (dog, kid).
Great idea.
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Woah.
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Blacksad by Juanjo Guarnido
Blacksad. A Noir comic starring anthropomorphic characters. And what would be more fitting for the classic role of beat-down PI than a black tomcat? Blacksad features amazing artwork, beautiful, atmospheric scenarios and skillfully executed Noir tales. Good Read!
Nature Trail at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital
The Nature Trail is a project by lighting designer Jason Bruges, which has turned the otherwise nondescript corridor route from ward to surgery into an adventure through a forest, complete with glimpses of glowing animals snatched through the trees. [via]
What a beautiful idea.
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Caffeine and humour - served black.
Espresso shots on Twitter, too.
12 Monkeys
“Hello.”
The soft, froggy voice startled me. I turned around to face an approaching figure. It...
FOUR PLUS ONE
* I wanted to show you guys this sweet Game of Thrones tee I got for my birthday...
