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October 9, 2011
Joyce Carol Vincent, 38, died in her North London flat in 2003; her skeleton was found three years later, on the sofa; the television was still on, and a pile of unopened Christmas presents lay on the floor. The story was mentioned briefly in the press, but then forgotten. Now, filmmaker Carol Morley has tracked down and interviewed people who knew her before she retreated and
reconstructed her story, all the more tragic because of the deceptively promising life it showed.
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posted by acb at 6:12 PM PST - 64 comments
As he sings, the walls of the apartment begin to move off, and
the city walls surrounding them begin to close in on them. Then
the apartment it self goes, and the two lovers begin to run,
battering against the walls of the city, beginning to break
through as chaotic figures of the gangs, of violence, fail around
them. But they do break through, and suddenly-they are in a world
of space and air and sun. They stop, looking at it, pleased,
startled, as boys and girls both sides come on. And they, too,
stop and stare, happy, pleased. Their clothes are soft and pastel
versions of what they have worn before. They begin to dance, to
play: no sides, no hostility now; join, making a world that Tony
and Maria want to be in, belong to, share their love with. As
they go into the steps of a gentle love dance, a voice is heard
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posted by silby at 2:24 PM PST - 11 comments
In 1992, MicroProse published their first and only CRPG:
Darklands. Set in medieval Germany, the game gives a lot of immersion,
from its innovative lifepath system for
character generation, to its use of
period music, to the importance of knowing your
saints, to tatzelwurms, quite fearsome
dragons and
raubritters. The
game play is good, with lots of different ways of handling any conflict and a semi-realtime
combat system. The game is also fundamentally open-ended; while there is a main plot (
spoilers), it's possible to ignore that thread and keep playing for years.
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posted by jiawen at 9:58 AM PST - 35 comments
As the protests begun by
Occupy Wall Street begin to spread and gain a foothold in the public consciousness, many question the movement's apparent unwillingness to focus its outrage into a coherent platform of demands. Meanwhile, others question whether the demographics of the protesters themselves are truly representative of the so-called
99 percent (previously). Why the lack of focus, and what is to be done to keep the movement growing and moving forward?
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posted by Scientist at 8:54 AM PST - 548 comments
