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Waterways

Half-Life 2 was famous on release for its canal levels. The reflections and lighting in the waterways of City 17 showed off the Source Engine's power. I thought to create an oriental take.

One Way Ticket

Second childhood Debating local laws prohibiting euthanasia and abortion is pointless in the era of medical tourism.

Laozi in the Sky with Mountains

This piece derives as much from Kung Fu Panda as it does brush paintings from the Taipei National Museum . Is it wrong to derive from a derivative, especially when the culprit plays so much to stereotypes ?

Working Holiday

The interesting side has less people. Could you treat work as a travel destination? I was raised to understand a career to be something built, milestone by milestone, reflected in a growing Rolodex and resume. In fact, I tend to ignore networks and culture.

Live Long and Prosper

Australia is becoming richer by getting older. Australian household net worth rose from an average of $764,500 in 2011-2012 to $1,022,000 in 2017-2018 . Those under 35 have barely seen any increase. The old, in particular the over-45s, are getting richer faster than the young. Older households are also a greater proportion of the sample, and of the population.

Rock around the Blk

Asian high-density housing is distinguished by undercrofts, balcony corridors, gated doors, and aircons. Lots of aircons. It seems futile to make a map to highlight these features, especially when the rest - blocky architecture, slap-dash play areas - are common globally.

Vanilla Rice

  There is no quintessential rice field, just as there is no quintessential rice. There are commonalities such as submerged flats, but the real variation lies in surroundings. They nestle between Japanese mountains and bridges to nowhere, Malayan jungles, and terraced fields in many other regions.

Koh Zom Bhi

It's not a Full Moon Party without invasive species, toxic waste, and zombification. Chug! Chug! Chug!

Like a Preah

Danger is an excellent distraction from poor detail. Because this map never plays out the same way twice, I am always too busy not dying to notice its faults.

The Izakaya at the End of the Universe

Q: How do we improve a metaphor for eternal transience which attempts to blend the swastika , seasons, and the floating-world ambiance of a high-end Izakaya ? A: Shotguns. Duh.

Big Trouble in Little Guilin

Guilin: best viewed from a turbocharged airboat. With a chain cannon.

Breaking Baba

When you are locked in a genteel Straits shophouse - the kind of heritage building you may find in Penang, Melaka, or Singapore - why not trash it with a gravity gun?

The Entitlement of Age

Don't pension the war. Australia's unemployed (will) receive proportionally less welfare than the aged.

My Hobby is a Temple

Why do this? Spend days creating a dream temple and its surroundings within a computer game. It could be the urge to communicate. Yeah, but why don't you just use language and write or say something? And, like, with who?

Scatterbox - build an Android Tor Socks Proxy Server

Cloak your location and create a firewall bypass device with a smartphone. 🕵Uses the Tor network . Does not require root. 1 - from Google Play, download and install: Orbot Orweb browser Socks Server Ultimate (Optional)

Out of Beach

Recreating dream scenery in a video game.

Let Slip the Stocks of War

War is widely seen as indefensibly evil. Edwin Starr's question, " What is it good for ?" is clearly rhetorical. However, some like yours truly have a macabre fascination with the notion that it can enrich. The link between war and wealth was probably around before Nathan Rothschild reputedly used advance knowledge of Wellington's victory to enhance his fortune. God ordered the Israelites to plunder their enemies with fluctuating specificity . A family story has my great-grandfather reaping huge profits from selling surplus American military landing craft (that he just happened to have lying around the yard.) America's last wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are cast as cynical ploys to create customers out of victims. Keep Calm and Invest. Data tells its own story. In particular, we can cross reference periods where the U.S. was at war, against the S&P500 and its precursor index from 1940 to 2014. I would think that the massive government spending in mo