Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 21st from 11:46 to 22:21:

• Space Sims: Get In ‘Ter Interstellaria, It Looks Stellar | Rock, Paper, Shotgun – As we rush torwards some sort of videogame genre singularity, it becomes harder to write brief descriptive sentences which aren’t just lists of adjectives. Let’s do Interstellaria. It’s a side-srolling 2D space simulation sandbox role-playing game where you can land on planet surfaces to perform puzzle and action platforming. “Ohh,” you say. “One of those.” It’s also on Kickstarter. “Oh,” you say. “One of those.”
• Housebroken: The Very Organized Thief –
• Interview: Spector On Cartoons, Cyberpunk And Failure –
• Interview: Spector On Fears, Legacies and Returning To PC –
• Tear It Down – Rands in Repose –
• Apple – iPad – Life on iPad – Interesting new direction for Apple to take with their site…
• Twitter / katiepiatt: Games, Learning, Museums and … – Games, Learning, Museums and sunsets – enjoying my trip to Portsmouth with #altglsig
• Gamasutra – Video: Adam Orth on dealing with the internet mob – All you over-sharers should watch this from @adam_orth on the internet's ability to unearth the worst side of people
• Iceland has the highest rate of antidepressant use in the world—by a long shot – Quartz – True story, rates of depression correlate directly with latitude. Related: Iceland is pretty elfin' depressed.
• Twitter / EmergencyPuppy: http://t.co/mxEto64ZvE – one of my favorite kaiju battles RT @EmergencyPuppy