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The growing lexicon of tone indicators, beyond helping people understand what’s sincere or what’s flirty, can feel, to the uninitiated, like another language. And at their most complex, tone indicators may veer into the patronizing.
Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?
nytimes.com
I have to think the population of people for whom $15 is too pricey but $8 is just right is pretty small. Getting people to pay for digital content is hard, but the big challenge is getting someone from $0 to $0.01 — the act of commitment to payment.
Can’t afford $40/month? The Financial Times wants to tempt you with a subset of its stories at a fraction of the price
Joshua Benton
These new, young players had novel ideas for how to play classic Tetris more efficiently. Before the 2020 CTWC, Christopher “Cheez” Martinez told Saelee that he had something in the works. It was a new method of playing classic Tetris that he called “rolling.” Instead of hypertapping, which was rather difficult to learn and punishing on the body, Martinez’s new method of rolling involved drumming his fingers on the back of the NES controller, putting pressure on the buttons on the other side.
Teens Are Rewriting What Is Possible in the World of Competitive Tetris
polygon.com
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