#432 - Co-op magic dolls, drug Wikipedia, and the specific machine to rage against

I've been playing the co-op game It Takes Two with my family, which starts with a devastated daughter crying on her dolls and wishing her parents wouldn't divorce, which magically traps the parents in the dolls and you play as them through the now super sized house full of platforms and puzzles.

It's one of the most imaginative video games I've ever played, with every level a new stellar mechanic that forces you to work tightly with the other player to advance, amidst a delightfully silly pantomime of a rural home.

Highly recommend.

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Tech

vibecamp — vibecamp.xyz

There is a section of Twitter that I have yet to fully understand or experience, where it's all 'friendly ambitious nerds' kvetching and hanging out together all the time. This gathering was meant to bring them together IRL for the first time, and their documents on culture are a glimpse into exactly what that world looks like.

Lifehacks

PsychonautWiki — psychonautwiki.org

Wikipedia for drug effects, methodically organized and named by physical and mental effects and harm reduction methods.

A big step above Erowid's anecdotal trip reports! These are so clinical as to read like pharmaceutical labels 😅

Evil Empire (album) — en.wikipedia.org

This 1996 album by Rage Against the Machine came with a list of books in the CD jacket that help explain exactly what machine they're raging against. I love this example of an artist showing ones work to get to share their same politics.

Lots of eye opening reading in here! I wonder what the right wing analogue would be?

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

• Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

• The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell

• Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara

• Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

• Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

• Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal

• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

• Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism by Alexander Berkman

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky

• Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson

• Walden and Resistance to Civil Government by Henry David Thoreau

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• Another Country by James Baldwin

Fun

Worst YELP reviews for U.S. National Parks (and a twist) — www.thetravelersbuddy.com

American graphic illustrator Amber Share made tourism posters for U.S. National Parks based on their worst YELP reviews. 'No idea what people like about this' 'bugs will eat your face' 'literally just a bunch of rocks' - hilarious!