Have you tried the death stranding series? I just finished 2 yesterday. It was fantastic. In both, you can tailor your experience - skip cut scenes, drop difficulty to ‘story’ for frustrating fights, etc. But those games tell a story in a way only video games can. And all the little flourishes that emotionally connect you to your character, like rocking the controller to sooth the baby sealed in your chest pod, are so charming and affecting.
If ‘the curse’ looks good to you, Rachel Deerling’s Anathema is another take.
Alan Moore’s The Curse is in that direction.
For math, I think 3blue1brown does an incredible job. Here is his take on the essence of calculus. If you prefer textbooks, there are many open-source options. MIT is a good source of open lectures, texts, and problem sets.
For general expert suggestions about a variety of subjects, I like five books, for example here are some suggested books on linguistics, religious studies, international relations, and art theory.
It is pretty tough to follow the derivation, but the vee in the first term of eq 22 (friction force integral) is the plate velocity (see eq 5). Is that the ‘in terms of velocity’ you had in mind?
Twine is a tool for writing nonlinear, choose-your-own-adventure type stories. Outputs to html, so it super-portable. It might fit your needs, depending upon what you had in mind for game play outside the dialog. Still might be useful for story-boarding, and mapping out the narrative.
I got a lot out of Saundra Yancy McGuire’s books “teach students how to learn” and “teach yourself how to learn”. If your library has them, that might be the way to go. Not sure they’re meaty enough to justify a purchase.
But that said, her illustration of Bloom’s taxonomy using the story of Goldilocks could provide a week’s-worth of lessons.
I am not your negro is incredible. Not a film, but Ta-Nehesi Coates Between the world and me carries on James Baldwin’s legacy.
You could try asking here. What’s on your mind?
Deb Perelman’s blog is incredible. She’s a delight, and any recipe I’ve tried has been a hit.
I think Mega Man 2 (1988, NES) is marvelous, and still holds up. If you’re interested in arcade emulation (eg Mame), NewZealand Story is fantastic (also 1988). Good graphics for the time, great music, and cute character design.
I totally agree, but I’m not sure OPs notion of ‘cold’ is the same as ours.
You might like the OST from Chocolat, or (this is more of a stretch), The moon and antarctica by Modest Mouse. If that is too uptempo, you could try the Sun Kil Moon cover album of Modest Mouse, Tiny Cities
‘There are two errors…’ by Robert M Martin?
One where I realized I was wrong three times. My wife and I had visited a modern art museum. One of the installations was a pile of candy in the corner. We got home, I said it’s ridiculous to call that art, and ridiculous to fund artists to create lazy, self-indulgent nonsense. She convinced me that I am in no position to arbitrate what is or isn’t art (she is right, of course). Then I realized she wasn’t arguing about art, she was upset about something that had happened at work (that was my second miss).
Twenty years later I found out what that candy is all about. It was a piece by Felix Gonzalez Torres called “Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA) 1991” It is 175 lbs of candy that patrons are free to take. It represents his lover, Ross Laycock, who had wasted away from AIDS earlier that year (Gonzalez Torres would die from AIDS six years later). So long as there is funding for the arts, Ross is replenished endlessly. For the third miss, I was Oedipean-level wrong.
Smitten kitchen is fantastic. Recipe are all great (any that I have tried), photos are amazing, and Deb Perelman is delightful. But no rss feed as far as I can tell.