Posts tagged "video-games"

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  • Several playing cards fanned out face-up on a dark wood surface. Visible cards from left to right include the 8 of Hearts, 10 of Hearts, 10 of Clubs, 8 of Diamonds, 10 of Spades, 9 of Clubs, and 9 of Hearts. Prominently displayed near the center is a Joker card depicting a jester figure in a colorful blue, green, and gold costume with a red and black jester's cap, holding letter blocks. Additional Joker and number cards are partially visible beneath the spread. All cards bear the text '117 Anos — Cuidando de Você,' a branded Brazilian playing card deck.

    Video Games that Secretly Teach Mathematics

    · #personal essay #video games #mathematics #Cultural Criticism

    A love letter to the mathematics hiding inside video games, and a protest against the expression 'I'm just not a math person'. From parallel universes in Super Mario 64 to the technical exegetes mapping Animal Crossing, The Sims 2, Pokémon, and Paper Mario. Then Balatro and the IEEE 754 double-precision ceiling, tetration, Knuth's up-arrows, Conway chained arrows, Graham's number, TREE(3). A history of notation catching up to the infinite.

  • A composite image layering two public domain works. In the background, a desaturated version of Joe Rosenthal's iconic 1945 photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag on Iwo Jima. Overlaid in the foreground, a hand-drawn magenta sketch of a boxy computer monitor displaying a blue-and-yellow globe icon—the cover of a 1994 NIH poster titled 'Internet: Today and Tomorrow' in bold blue and yellow type, with a pink cursive subtitle. The computer screen replaces the raised flag, equating the internet with an act of triumphant planting.

    Memes, Metal Gear Solid, and You

    · #personal essay #internet culture #memes #writing #video games

    A history of the word 'meme'—from Richard Dawkins coining it in *The Selfish Gene* in 1976 to Advice Dog and the death of shared internet monoculture—and what happens when you take memetics seriously as a theory of culture. Metal Gear Rising's Monsoon delivers the most honest account of how memes shape who we become. The lyric essay resists this process by design.

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