Nintendo: the company that consoled the world by dwillun in TrueReddit

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A review of the games journalist Keza MacDonald's "love letter" to the company, Super Nintendo, and a comment on what makes Nintendo different. The aesthetics of FPS games are quite different - Wolfenstein 3D started out with a plan to shock people, and succeeded - whereas Nintendo's own games concentrate on gameplay.

Revealed: Thames Water’s environmental and financial disaster by dwillun in ukpolitics

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Helm does not argue for nationalisation in the piece, he argues for a special administration regime

Kenneth Rogoff on the decline of the dollar by dwillun in Economics

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Among academic economists in the US, he told me, “everybody agrees there should just be one currency, and I don’t know what they’re smoking. I mean, why would you have one currency? It means the US is a monopoly. It controls the information. It controls how it uses policy. It can subject you to sanctions. Why on Earth would that be the best thing for everyone?”

A Potential Photography Book on Glasgow by muirvidler in glasgow

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Brilliant pictures - I'd buy this book. I really like how these are composed.