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Daily Link Roundup: So I have some articles here. They are interesting and you may like them.

Gaming

GameSetWatch
-Analysis: The Problem of Timing

Gamasutra:
-Blog: Demarcation - An Objective Metric for Skills in Games
-Blog: Slow disc loads

Kotaku:
-Wait -- New Game Plus is in Mass Effect 2?

Film

io9:
-5 Entertainment Lessons We Hope 2009 Has Taught the Future

Curios

io9:
-I want this Princess Leia/Rosie the Riveter shirt
-Smart Walls, Morphing Chairs, and the Living Environments of Neri Oxman
-Real-Life Synthehol Will Get You Buzzed, But Never Drunk

Oh God the Sky is Falling

Gizmodo:
-Mysterious Earth's Core Plume Shifting the Magnetic North Pole
-The Unofficial Guide to Flying After the Underwear Bomb

Causes

Boing Boing:
-Meanwhile, a revolution unfolds in Iran

Tags: daily link roundup, film, politics go!, science!, television, videogames

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Daily Link Roundup: welp, so much for ending this year on a sane note.

Gaming

GameSetWatch:
-Interview: Level-5 on White Knight Chronicles and RPG Gamer Taste

Tynan Sylvester:
-Skill Ceiling

IndieGames:
-Interviews: Team Meat, Charlie's Games and More

Kotaku:
-A Conversation with a Game? Devs Seek to Break the Ice

Film

The Guardian:
-Week in geek: Where should sci-fi boldly go in 2010?

io9:
-Sherlock Holmes Brings on the Steampunk Tweed Hotness

Comics

io9:
-The Truth About Pirate Batman

Curios

io9:
-MIT Goes Back to the Drawing Board on Artificial Intelligence

Srs Bzns

Gizmodo:
-The New, Terrifying, No-Electronics US Flight Security Rules

Tags: daily link roundup, film, science!, videogames, what

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Daily Link Roundup: And a surprising close contender; wow.

Gaming

GameSetWatch:
-Best of 2009: Top 10 Games of the Year

Kotaku:
-Final Fantasy XIII Impressions: 15 Years Later, 25 Hours In

Film

Wired Underwire:
-Mind-Game Movies Mark '00s Cinema of Paranoia

io9:
-8 Mesmerizing Sci-Fi Flavored Tracking Shots

Curios

io9:
-What If Batman Were a Unicorn?
-The Case for Aliens Who are Truly Alien

Gizmodo:
-Undress a Woman Using Radio Frequencies [NSFW]

Tags: comics, daily link roundup, film, science!, videogames, what

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Daily Link Roundup: Not enough holiday wine.

Gaming

Wired GameLife:
-The 15 Most Influential Games of the Decade

Kotaku:
-White Knight Chronicles English trailer is one of the most pitiful things ever.
-Adorable Army of Two ad.

Film

io9:
-The Concept Art that Sold Sherlock Holmes to Warner Bros.

Literature

io9:
-Bringing the Worm Home Dune concept art

Comics

xkcd:
-I know so many Christmas babies who this is for.

Curios

io9:
-10 Remarkable Monsters Named in the Last Ten Years
-The Larger-than-Life Sex Lives of Giant Women [NSFW]

Tags: comics, daily link roundup, film, science!, videogames, whoa what

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Daily Link Roundup: Hi guys.

Gaming

GameSetWatch:
-Forever Hero: Segata Sanshiro Figures I need this.

Wired GameLife:
-Stripped-Down Final Fantasy XIII is More Movie than Game

Kotaku:
-The Year, NSFW

Film

io9:
-The Epic Movie-Making Adventures of James Cameron

Literature

io9:
-William Gibson Explains the Secret of SF Writing Success to Paolo Bacigalupi
-It's a Wonderful Life Takes a Trip Through the Multiverse

Curios

io9:
-Female Ducks Have Evolved a Vagina Dentata
-The 2009 Science Fiction Power List

Gizmodo:
-The Antivirus Kitten
-Federal Aviation Administration Officially Says Who to Call After UFO Contact
-Tales of Holiday Techno-Horror

Tags: daily link roundup, film, reading, science!, videogames

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Daily Link Roundup: Nomura is steadily turning into Genesis, I see.

...I'm sorry! I didn't mean to be late, I just, er, forgot.

Gaming

GameSetWatch:
-Best of 2009: Top 5 Disappointments

Kotaku:
-Final Fantasy XIV Features Robust Character Generator ...Yes, guess what pun he proceeds to make.
-Tetsuya Nomura Working on Two Unannounced Titles
-Realism's Place in the Legend of Zelda
-The Magic Obelisk: Game Arts' First Original Title in 10 Years
-PS3 Gets Its Last Rebellion in February
-UMD sequel to Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! will contain both games on one disc.
-Mass Effect 2's Cinematic Trailer in Full
-Ubisoft Want to Make... a JRPG? ...well doesn't that sum up Ubisoft so very succinctly.
-2009 in Review: The Disappointments
-See Nintendo's Zagenki no Reginleiv in Bloody, Limb Chopping Action

Animation

io9:
-Despicable Me's Disturbing Minions are the Antithesis of Pixar

Film

io9:
-Imaginarium Concept Art is Like Monty Python Without Giant Feet

Literature

io9:
-Connie Willis Explains How Science Fiction Came Back from Its Near-Death Experience

Comics

xkcd:
-Christmas Plans

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Weirdly sexual abstract "fetish objects"

io9:
-Rare In Utero Images Glimpse Animals Inside the Womb
-Reason #23 Not to Move to Another Planet: Comets

Gizmodo:
-The Ray Guns of War: I Fought in a Laser Tag Nerd Platoon
-It's Time to Reclaim "Geek"
-This Sublimely Trippy Floor Responds to My Every Captivated Step
-The More Pollution in the Air, the More this Dress Glows
-Can You Find Every Internet Meme Hidden in This Picture?

Oh Japan

GamePolitics:
-Erotic Japanese Title Lampoons Rape Game Ban

Tags: animation, comics, daily link roundup, film, reading, science!, still not funny, the internet, videogames

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Daily Link Roundup: This might be the shortest roundup of the year!

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Out Outs the 'Gayest' Video Games

Comics

io9:
-Comics' Best Combo Platters
-The Most Important Events of 2000-2009, Comic Style

Curios

Boing Boing:
-America can't make things because manages all learn finance instead of production

Tags: comics, cory doctorow gets his own tag, daily link roundup, videogames

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Daily Link Roundup: I'd have more to report today if everyone wasn't off watching Avatar.

Gaming

GameSetWatch:
-Design Diversions: Stay Classy

One Dimensional Man:
-Freedom is Dead, and Why It Doesn't Matter

Film

Gizmodo:
-Orson Welles and His Brief Passionate Betacam Love Affair

Shadow Locked:
-How to avoid getting a 3D headache while watching Avatar

Curios

Boing Boing:
-How undercover cops get suspects' DNA

Tags: animation, daily link roundup, film, science!, videogames

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Daily Link Roundup: Back to not having my respect, Quantic Dream. How's that feel?

Media Studies

Henry Jenkins:
-How Fictional Story Worlds Influence Real World Politics

Gaming

Wired GameLife:
-Hands On: Mass Effect 2, The Ultimate Do-Over

Kotaku:
-These are the most adorable Final Fantasy cosplayers ever!
-Just How Straight are FFXIII's First Five~Six Hours?
-First Heavy Rain Chronicles Episode is Yours Free (If You Pre-order)
-High Moon Clears Up All This Gears of War Talk About Transformers
-New NieR Trailer Will Make You Its Bitch
-Mass Effect 3 Will End Story Arc

Film

Gizmodo:
-Avatar Review: Yes, It Changed Everything After All
-It's Time for Us to Fight Back Against Movie Theater Talkers

io9:
-How Many Paid Vacation Days Would You Get If You Worked at Cyberdyne?
-When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like Avatar?

Writing

Tribal Writer (via

lady_ganesh):
-why you need to write like a bad girl

Music

Kotaku:
-Final Fantasy (the Band) Has a New, Less Trademark Infringing Name

Curios

Gizmodo:
-The First Picture of a Lake Outside Earth
-10 Strange Gadget Situations Caught on Camera

Boing Boing:
-What "Kills 99.9% of germs" really means
-Video is the Paint: a guest art-dispatch from Kristen Philipkoski
-Know Your Meme: Om Nom Nom

io9:
-If Websites Were Nations, Digg and Reddit Would Go to War
-How Close Are We to Colonizing Space?
-When Stars Orbit Black Holes
-Ten Science Stories That Changed Our Decade

What the Hell

Boing Boing:
-Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises

FAIL

Kotaku:
-Heavy Rain's "progressive" approach to character identity and mature storytelling completely undercuts itself by having its female protagonist appear as a Playboy nude and I am not even kidding.

Tags: animation, buncha savages in this town, daily link roundup, film, mass effect, o academia, politics go!, science!, still not funny, the internet, videogames

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Daily Link Roundup: Cameron wants a time-displacement twittering device.

Gaming

Kotaku:
-Home Produces Sodium
-Konami Gives Fans a Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Demo for Christmas
-Heavy Rain will not be censored in America
-2010: The Year of Better Xbox 360 Games?

Film

io9:
-James Cameron Sold The Terminator Movie Rights for $1

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Hacking the Predator drone: Cheaper than dinner and a movie

Gizmodo:
-Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video

Tags: daily link roundup, film, science!, the internet, videogames

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Daily Link Roundup: Not reading this review.

Gaming

GameSetWatch:
-The Best of 2009: Top 10 Overlooked Games

GamePolitics:
-One Mom's Influence on a Gamer

Kotaku:
-Explore the End of the World with Post Script
-Interviews with Ex-Hardcore Gamers ... And New Casual Ones Jesper Juul
-What Makes Mass Effect 2 'Mature'? Future Blouses, Alien Pole Dancing and Drugs
-2010: The Year of Better PlayStation 3 Games?
-Dungeons & Dragons for Microsoft Surface Has Come a Long Way

Film

io9:
-Avatar review

Gizmodo:
-The Physics of Space Battles

Curios

Boing Boing:
-Brain on the Sistine Chapel?

io9:
-We Can Replace Your Blood Cells with Synthetics

Gizmodo:
-I <3 You necklace

Tags: animation, daily link roundup, film, science!, the internet, videogames

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