[Podcast] Tiong Bahru Social Club review and commentary
My friends and I got together after watching Tiong Bahru Social Club to discuss the movie....
Politeness in the age of loneliness: more important than ever
Just because people have the same geeky interests as you, does not mean that they have your best interests in mind. As the modern age...
Thoughtcraft – Realizing the abstract
Abstract concepts are hard to grasp; this makes applying them more difficult and therefore a chore. To deal with this, I often like to project...
Narrative design
So in game design, there is an entire new area of work called narrative design. The idea is that games have a completely different fictional...
Counter-force: Creative acts of protest
Once again, I am late in posting a journal post. The main issue this time was that I couldn’t really type out something that was...
The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
I’d like to spend this post gushing about statistics....
What StarCraft taught me
I got into StarCraft II in 2011, roughly six months after it released. I played the game religiously for about six years, quit in 2017...
Understanding COVID-19
Over the past month, there has been a growing body of research and clinical information on the virus involved in the global epidemic. The complete...
“Man is sometimes, extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky Life is always full of suffering. However, it is not so because suffering is a characteristic of our objective reality, it is...
Anxiety and Regret
When faced with anxiety and terror, the only good move to make is not to distract yourself. Feel the fear, taste it, bear with it...