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And now... Other Stuff From The Internet!!!
The history of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
I hope you can take a moment today to reflect.
Your daily dose of sudoku
This sudoku is themed after the game, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, which Simon and Mark have played on their stream. Worth checking out if you haven't already.
Dark Souls speedrun at AGDQ 2022
This Dark Souls speedrun is a race between two 'runners! It's quite interesting to see how their paths diverge as they use different strategies.
An astrophysicist answers some questions
I would love to hear these clever people talk about the universe some more, please.
Thinking about time travel in FromSoftware titles
Thinking about how FromSoft games have time travel...
— Mordecai (@EldenRingUpdate) January 7, 2022
DS1 has Artorias of the Abyss time thing
DS2 has giant memories
DS3 has Untended Graves
Bloodborne has Old Hunters DLC
Sekiro has memories (eg Hirata)
And Demon's Souls takes you back to 2009; when life was still good
Far out, how good is Demon's Souls?
Speaking of Dark Souls...
souls guy who sleeps to the sound of majula
— Make Up A Souls Guy (@MakeSouls) January 7, 2022
The theme of Majula is probably one of the best pieces of music in the series.
Check out these circles
Rotating, inscribed circles produce Fibonacci spirals along the envelope curve [https://t.co/2FJqqOcanF] [source of the gif: https://t.co/EG2CDxzgNT] pic.twitter.com/UmFAZZh5ZP
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 7, 2022
Pretty neat.
The mystery has been solved
BREAKING: China’s lunar rover finally made it to the “cube-shaped anomaly” it photographed last month
— Latest in space (@latestinspace) January 7, 2022
It was just a moon rock pic.twitter.com/9nwbogzuAD
Reckon we'll find anything unusual on the Moon?
This is quite the crossover
brain wouldn't let me rest till i did this pic.twitter.com/eUzgOCxklL
— Rose (@modernmodron) January 7, 2022
Definitely a more wholesome Disco Elysium.
The rock feud continues
Elmo/Rocco feud getting me through the week pic.twitter.com/bUB5B4GUrJ
— Jeff Zhang 张佶润 (@strangeharbors) January 6, 2022
Seeing Elmo deal with Rocko has been pure bliss.
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Sam Chandler posted a new article, Evening Reading - January 17, 2022 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day