Thomas Kelpen
Thomas is from Stuttgart, Germany, has some followers and follows great people. You can find Thomas tweets at @tomfused and website at www.tomfused.de.
»When we were making adventure games in the past, it felt like we were apologising for making adventure games, by adding action sequences, trying to get more people to play them. Maybe if we put something more exciting in… This time we’re not apologising at all. We’re declaring at the very beginning that we’re making and adventure game, so we have to serve that audience, and not try to rope in another.«
»When Sega discontinued production of the Dreamcast console in 2001 and withdrew from the domestic hardware market, it marked the conclusion of one of the most tumultuous and error-strewn periods in the company's 72-year history. Sega Enterprises' spectacular fall from grace during the course of the 1990s remains a tragic spectacle of overconfidence and woefully misguided business practice.«
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Thomas Kelpen About the rise and fall of SEGA, a once great hardware producer.
»There was no chance the signs would ever work. The people who threw paper towels on the floor knew that it was “wrong”. Maybe their desire to avoid touching the doorknob was stronger than their desire to do the “right” thing every time. Or maybe they just didn’t give a damn about making the bathroom slightly worse for someone else to make it slightly better for themselves.«
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Thomas Kelpen About solving problems the pragmatic way.
»Wie auch immer, eigentlich geht es um die Missgeburt der Smileys, um die schlimmste Fratze dieses Internets, um Semikolon Minus geschlossene Klammer.«
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Thomas Kelpen Smileys … voll 90er ey. :D
»Russian sarcasm is as biting as their vodka. Indeed, Kuznetsov is the third most common Russian surname. My one lead had been reduced to: Joe Smith of Main Street, Moscow. I thought of that Simpsons episode where Marge tells Chief Wiggum that she lives at 123 Fake Street, and he dutifully sends a car to investigate. I cancelled my offer and forgot about Horse_ebooks for a while.«
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Thomas Kelpen Fantastic read about the search for the creator of the famously known @Horse_ebooks Twitter spambot.
»Mag Gauck durch seine Wortmeldungen zu Thilo Sarrazin (fand er gut) und zur Occupy-Bewegung (fand er doof) seither in dieser Zeitung und ihrem Milieu einiges an Sympathien verloren haben, der "Präsident der Herzen" (Bild, Spiegel, Solinger Tageblatt) ist er geblieben. Fragt sich bloß: Warum eigentlich?«
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Thomas Kelpen Kolumne in der taz zum Thema Gauck
»There was a gentleman who gave this lecture the other day and said, ‘I’ve been doing this for 35 years,’ blah blah blah,” recalls Sandy Nurse, a 27-year-old New School graduate and former U.N. contractor who has been instrumental to planning OWS’s major actions. “I said, ‘If you’ve been doing this for 35 years and you’re still at square one, you need to fucking think about how you’re organizing.’«
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Thomas Kelpen In 2008, Barack Obama lit a fire among young activists. Next year, Occupy Wall Street could consume him.
about Occupy Wallsteet, it's roots, and it's future
»Space battles are ubiquitous in science fiction. Usually it seems to look a lot like some variation on WWII sea battles: fighters whizz around and engage in space dogfights as the great battleships pound each other with death rays. But in fact this is probably a very unrealistic depiction of what a space battle would look like.«
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Thomas Kelpen Essay on Realistic Space Combat
»Back in the 1960s, a guy named Peter Higgs came up with the idea that all these particles exist in a field, and their mass is a reflection of how much they interact with that field. Heavy particles have a lot of interaction. Lighter particles are relatively standoffish. If this field exists, the Higgs Boson is the tiny thing it's made of.«
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Thomas Kelpen 3 Things the Higgs Boson can teach you about physics
»Compared with the stereotype of the East Asian model -- long hours of exhaustive cramming and rote memorization -- Finland's success is especially intriguing because Finnish schools assign less homework and engage children in more creative play.«
»That's why nothing in our universe can go faster than light. Because the phrase "faster than light," in our universe, is exactly equivalent to the phrase "straighter than straight," or "more horizontal than horizontal." It doesn't mean anything.«
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Thomas Kelpen So werde ich das irgendwann hoffentlich mal meinen Kindern erklären. Und dann werden sie berühmte Astrophysiker. #science #relativity
»So etwas kennen die Westdeutschen von zu Hause nicht: Große Städte sind dort spannend, aber teuer, kleine günstiger, aber auch ein bisschen langweilig. In Leipzig aber, einer Stadt mit 520.000 Einwohnern, die vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg 700.000 hatte, kann sich immer noch fast jeder Student ein Altbauzimmer mit Dielen leisten, mit Stuck an der Decke, mit Bäumen vorm Fenster.«
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Thomas Kelpen Leipzig, my love, I miss you so much.
»No government in the world pours more resources into patrolling the Web than China’s, tracking down unwanted content and supposed miscreants among the online population of 500 million with an army of more than 50,000 censors and vast networks of advanced filtering software. Yet despite these restrictions — or precisely because of them — the Internet is flourishing as the wittiest space in China.«
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Thomas Kelpen #china #politics #internet #censorship
Ich denke eine Kategorie "Society" wäre noch recht brauchbar.
»Der Vermarkter Upsolut hat aus Fan-Kleidung des FC St. Pauli eine erfolgreiche Modemarke gemacht. Der Fußballverein will an diesem Erfolg mitverdienen und kämpft um seine Merchandisingrechte.«
»Since the early 1990s, Quinn has campaigned to redefine the kilogram based not on a physical prototype but on a constant of nature, something hardwired into the circuitry of the universe. In fact, of the seven fundamental metric units — the kilogram, meter, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela — only the kilogram is still dependent on a physical artifact.«
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Thomas Kelpen About the scientific search for the ultimate definition of "the kilogramm".
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Gustav Moorhouse Great read! I've discovered it though givemesomethingtoread but it's well worth reading again.
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Thomas Kelpen Tim Schafer about adventure games
Thomas Kelpen This is the second part of an interview. The first part can be read here: www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/27/interview-tim-schafer-on-kickstarter-passion-and-dads/
Thomas Kelpen #games #adventures