- “Good” news! You can now buy Hatoful Boyfriend, the world’s only pigeon dating sim, legally in English for $1.50. If you haven’t heard, it’s a hilariously homicidal game in which you play as a human girl attending a posh school for birds.
- It’s almost Halloween and nobody can spell “spooky” correctly. It’s not that Tumblr has turned into a horde of zombies. It’s a meme, of course.
- This Guardian article about how young people in Japan have apparently stopped having sex has been brought to my attention three times now. Is it too sensational to be real news? That’s what Brian Ashcraft thinks.
- “I don’t see gender, only enemies who have not yet begun to lament the day they choose to face me.” Magic: The Gathering players on gender diversity.
- Gathering Magic is my favorite M:TG news site because only they would publish a list of lazy costumes based on magic cards.
- Wanted to let you guys know that I now work full time for ReadWrite, which means you can read even more of my reporting on social media, robots, Bitcoins, and the future in general here. It’s been a crazy ride this year going from unemployed to freelance to full time, and I’ll be sure to write about it in more detail soon.
(Screenshot via Hatoful Boyfriend.)
3 Comments.
I was glad to see the analysis of those articles and the lack of relationships and intimacy in Japan. I’d read one yesterday that a friend had posted to FB and it just seemed… Like it was lacking.
And now I know, bad translations and statistics and we all know what they say about statistics.
Hmmmm… I really need to learn to play M:TG. I have a huge game store near me that I haven’t gone in for over two years now. I should see if they have any starter lessons/games or head in on last Thursday to hit their back room bar (Critical Sips) for open gaming night sometime. Be interesting to see how I’m treated as well.
And a big ol’ congratulations on landing that full time gig! I think your two parter on how to make use of Github is the gold standard on the topic.
While data is useful, the problem is misinterpretations of that data to please certain types of audiences. Even psychology is guilty of this now. Money definitely talks. It’s sad.
What’s funny is that Kotaku (which is under Gawker) is sometimes guilty of this as well.
Also, congratulations for being a full-time writer!
Good point. I recall being lectured on misinterpreting data many times in my research classes. And ran into that in my last corporate job — They did online marketing research.