If you missed the previous reading list, you can find it here.
Links
- Like A Dragon’s localisation team explain how they bring the series’ singular storytelling to the west by Nic Reuben in Rock Paper Shotgun
- Riders in the Smog by Zuha Siddiqui, Samriddhi Sakunia and Faisal Mahmud for Rest of World.
- Playing to a Deadline by Rob Zacny for Remap Radio
- In His Right Mind by Keira Havens for Current Affairs
- Bring Back the Big, Comfortable Bookstore Reading Chair by Casey Johnston for LitHub
- Ichiban Kasuga And The Power Of Friendship by Luke Plunkett for Aftermath
- Pivot to Decimation by Rob Zacny for Remap Radio
- Project Titan’s Cancellation Seems to Have Broken Some Brains by Nick Heer
- A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day by Jason Koebler and Samantha Cole
- Jakob Nielsen’s Bad Ideas about Accessibility by Brian DeConinck
Notes
Lots of good stuff to read in this list. Both of Rob Zacny’s pieces are very good, glad to have the blogger Rob back.
Art of Rally is a vibes game, with nothing but long ribbons of dirt road and tarmac stretching through stylized low-poly landscapes, the buzz of old engines, and the pulse of an incredible electronic soundtrack. I might go months without playing it and it’ll always be exactly the same as I left it, ready for me to pick back up without taking note of where I’ve been. Of my current racing game obsessions, it’s the only one that doesn’t make me question my motivations and the one that offers the purest sense of escape. It’s not a live service, but it’s a great service.
Rob Zacny, Playing to a Deadline
Keira Havens comments on Aaron Bushnell’s sacrifice are important reading.
The Vietnam war did not end with Thích Quảng Đức’s self-immolation. There were twelve more years of horrific bombing, of protests, of My Lai and Tet Offensives. Kent State wouldn’t happen for another seven years. This is a long, long fight we are in. Let Bushnell’s final act draw you closer to your convictions and to the people that share them. Let his cry echo through you and your actions for all the years to come.
Keira Haves, In His Right Mind
Meanwhile over in the “dunks” corner, both Nick Heer and Brian DeConinck’s blog posts are worth a read.
These are all writers who cover Apple closely. They are familiar with the company’s products and strategies. These takes feel like they were written without any of that context or understanding, and it truly confuses me how any of them finished writing these paragraphs and thought they accurately captured a business they know so much about.
Nick Heer, Project Titan’s Cancellation Seems to Have Broken Some Brains
The reality of the world we live in is that disability matters to people’s lived experiences. It isn’t the only thing that matters, and it may not matter in every situation or every context. But your disability may impact your ability to earn a living, your legal status, how you interact with others socially, and how you use technology.
This is true for every marginalized group. This is human diversity. Collapsing everything down into “all users are just users and the only thing that matters is task completion” ignores reality. And if you put in the effort to understand your users and their needs, you might not notice when your designs fail them.
Brian DeConinck, Jakob Nielsen’s Bad Ideas about Accessibility
That’s all from me, see y’all next time!