Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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Nostalgia.
Gamasutra: Kyle Pittman’s Blog – CRT Simulation in Super Win the Game – It’s amazing how complicated it can be to simulate something older and low-tech.
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MOOMIN MADNESS
Things I learned today:
- There is an official Moomin Twitter account.
- The Moomins also have a blog.
- There are a number of apps and games involving the Moomins, including an upcoming Japanese-made role-playing Moomin game where, if you register early, you get a digital hattifattener boat. DIGITAL HATTIFATTENER BOAT, PEOPLE.
- There’s a new animated film out called Moomins on the Riviera, which I somehow managed to miss entirely last year.
- I need every damn thing in the Moomin online shop, but also especially Snorkmaiden and Hattifatteners beach towels, plush Groke, this stunning duvet set, and WHOA, laptop stickers!
- That image, by the way, is from the live action 1969 TV series that featured human actors in giant Moomin suits, sometimes appearing without their heads! “Taking of the heads caused a Moomin fear among children in Sweden and Moomins were considered as a scary characters. Nowadays it is not allowed Moomins to show up without the head.” I BET.
Edited 21/04/2025: Some of the shop links are dead and not archived.
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For the Snook.
How to Clean Out Your Spice Cabinet and Organize it-for Good | Serious Eats – We have a giant jar of ground cumin in the pantry that I swear we’ve been using for five years. Yeah, we should really throw that out.
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Tiny house.
Prefab for Two: A 290-Square-Foot House for $24,000: Remodelista – So twee! I love it. This would be great to have as a lake house.
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Loved it.
What if, when Petunia Dursley found a little boy… – This is wonderful. I wonder if fanfic can reclaim Petunia Dursley the way it did Susan Pevensie.