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If the camera remains still as a avatar moves through the world, the game can feel light and floaty. But if you are too agressive with the movement of that camera, people will get motion sick.
Destiny's Animators Studied Boxing to Keep You From Getting Sick
polygon.com
Writing about the formation of publics in and through the circulation of texts, literary and social theorist Michael Warner points out that __publics are not materially defined groups of people but attentional communities that exist “by virtue of being addressed” (2002, 67).__ Publics, Warner writes, “are virtual entities, not voluntary associations” (88). They are not groups of gathered individuals, but “imaginary” and “in principle open-ended” (73) entities that exist wherever a text invites an individual to pay attention to it.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
The Politics journalists’ practice, in contrast, set out, first, from the idea that a newspaper needs to meet the practical demands of its various stakeholders in order to remain in operation. Second, from the belief that today’s readers do not depend on the news for an understanding of reality—but do value the interesting and potentially useful facts and insights that journalists can dig up. The qualities that the Politics journalists valued in their everyday practice enabled them to work constructively under these actual circumstances. Having an eye for doable news items, taking the reporting process as a game, and knowing how to cut corners with their interviews were skills that enabled the journalists to make optimal use of their assignments to both sustain their newsmaking practice and produce more content that readers might value.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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