Albert Einstein’s office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., photographed on the day of his death, April 18, 1955.
Tales of the Abyss: You play as the photocopy of an aristocrat who loves his master and travels with his companions who he initially hates. He then has a change of heart and he has to stop his master who’s angry about the fall of angel island.
Tales of Graces F: You play some dimwit and with his friends which include a little emotionless girl , a whiney obsessive girl that gets in the way of the yaois, an obviously gay prince, the dimwit’s tsundere brother, an old guy that makes everything perverted and a “genius” who has a creepy obsession with touching the little girl. The game is basically finding out how “magical” friendship is. It’s like My little pony the JRPG.
persona 3: you walk up stairs at night
mother 3: you run around with your dog, a cripple, and a tomboy and beat up a fat kid and half your family dies.
trauma center: a game in which you are an underaged doctor with a bitch assistant and who has to blow up diseases with lasers and diffuse bombs using a scalpel
Animal Crossing: You move into a town full of gross furries and you are dirt poor. Your mother left you nothing more than the shirt on your back and the promise to write you every several blue moons. Soon you miraculously own a shitty shack of a house and owe a near-naked tanuki your soul for the entire duration of your life that never ends.
Assassin’s Creed 2: You play as a main character who gets maybe a total of 45 minutes of screentime. Otherwise, you play as a guy who’s brothers and father get hanged, gets his home stolen from him, is reduced to nothing, and is shouldered with the responsibility of joining a mysterious secret society that he knew nothing about until the night before all of his male relatives were jailed. The guards are all out to get you, and to top it all off, your sister is whiny and annoying and your mother goes into a catatonic state.
The Sims 3: So you can make people and make them do stuff
like whoo i’m going to get a job fuuuunnnnn
oh man i’m hungry I’mma drink this juice
decorate my house with mirrors and useless junk
oh wait did that bitch just steal my flamingo lawn decoration
fuck her
oh wow i met some person who’s dumb and and unemployed and lives with their mom lets get married and have babies who pee in the baby potty but a puddle of pee shows up on the floor anyway gotta mop up that rank shit
and the butterflies and the rocks and the seeds wOOOoooooOooooooOoOo
Minecraft: ok so its sort of like virtual legos with 8bit graphics. When you start out you have to punch trees to get wood and then you use the wood to make an ax to cut down more trees then you make a pickaxe so you can tunnel endlessly for iron and diamonds but you’ll maybe find 5 diamonds in your whole life, also, creepers will explode and ruin EVERYTHING you love
but its a really fun game
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
You were a human and shit but now because of some bitchass guy you meet after the main plot you’re a Pokemon. And holy shit Pokemon can talk who knew? And yeah In your world time is controlled by gears apparently and even the worst of bad guys don’t steal them. Then they get stolen, and it turns out the person who is stealing them is your friend except you don’t realize it at first and try to attack. Then you get this heartwarming thing where your classmates/guildmates whatevers side with you because that’s what friends are for blah blah I’ve heard it all before, so you go to this tower where time is really being controlled. Then your friend gets sent back to the future, you know you’re gonna die.
And then you die.
Okami: You play as a dog and make a mess everywhere
Trauma Center UTK: You kill 10,000 patients just to find a guy in a fish tank at the end.
I got to play with the $1.5 million da Vinci surgical robot today! It did not disappoint. In fact, I was more fascinated by the robot than I thought. It looks hard to operate (no pun intended) when you’re watching someone else do it on the screen, but it is actually very intuitive since you see in 3-D HD when your head is in the machine. In the bottom picture, you can see what was used to practice. The rubber bands were about half the circumference of a penny, so you can gauge how precise the robot is. I can only imagine that in the near future, this machine will become primitive. Playing with the da Vinci definitely reinforced my desire to possibly become a surgeon one day.
Having trouble thinking of what to get me for my birthday? *hinthint*
Jealous.
But at least one group says the tours “turn poverty into entertainment.”
Stop.
JFC. Wow, I wonder who’re the people making money off this humans on display stroll. I’m totally certain it’s going to help people living in poverty so they can have better lives.
They had bus tours of some of the villas in Buenos Aires when we were there. Rich Americans looking through bus windows at poor people. Ugh.
Fetishizing poor people for fun and profit. Despicable. The whole “voluntourism” thing is problematic, but to say “we turn crippling third-world poverty into FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!” is taking it to a new level of awful.
-Jess
PROBLEM: Women’s bare bodies are on display in billboards, movie posters, and many other kinds of ads. Though plenty of studies have looked at the ramifications of this pervasive sexual objectification, it’s unclear if we see near-naked people as human beings or if we really do view them as mere objects.
METHODOLOGY: Researchers led by Philippe Bernard presented participants pictures of men and women in sexualized poses, wearing a swimsuit or underwear, one by one on a computer screen. Since pictures of people present a recognition problem when they’re turned upside down, but images of objects don’t have that problem, some of the photos were presented right side up and others upside down. After each picture, there was a second of black screen before each participant was shown two images and was asked to choose the one that matched the one he or she had just seen.
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