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andrewducker- Headline of the day: Children evacuated from swimming pool after prosthetic leg mistaken for paedophile
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- When up means down: why do so many video game players invert their controls?
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- How testing gets autistic children wrong
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- All the ways life has improved since the 1990s
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- Gett: Israeli taxi app sued for service used to avoid Arab drivers
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- Gorgie farm welcomes the Dalry llama
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- Finally, a fix for the Mercator projection!
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Date: 2020-02-29 12:31 pm (UTC)It was winter, and she liked the way the dead leaves looked in the water.
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Date: 2020-03-05 07:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-02-29 12:34 pm (UTC)Great read, thank you. As an inverter (and someone with left-right confusion) I'm fairly in the camp of it's natural to me and I do think of the avatar as a puppet I control :) I usually can't play games where I don't see them on the screen. But saying it's the only way to play is ridiculous. I'm just grateful when inversion is an option.
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Date: 2020-02-29 11:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-03-02 11:12 am (UTC)Definitely 3D ones, though. For some reason, when I pan the camera I do it the opposite way around to the default.
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Date: 2020-02-29 04:28 pm (UTC)On the small scale: language learning is way more accessible and I just bought two books of poetry from my phone at the end of a talk, which I only attended because of online Irish courses.
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Date: 2020-03-01 05:47 pm (UTC)And I'm glad you're alive. (My ex-wife had chronic myeloid leukemia. Which in 2000 was a death sentence in about 5 years. And nowadays is almost entirely controllable. Technology is marvellous.)
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Date: 2020-02-29 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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