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David Hewitt
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Teaching Associate Professor, primarily game theory and macroeconomics.
Former game designer and product manager.
Capitalism is the most powerful engine for an economy,
but a car needs more than an engine unless all you want to do is repeatedly crash.
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Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.
Rotten Tomatoes page for Nightwish (1990). Tomatometer - none. Popcornmeter: 22% Auidence reviews include: "They tried, kind of. Overall a near total failure with some cool special effects being the only redeeming factor. It feels very unfinished. Maybe the budget ran dry, which is a real shame..." and "It's the Montezuma's Revenge of 80s horror/sci-fi flicks. I don't want to give out any spoilers in case anyone wants to watch this massive, steaming heap of cinematic droppings for themselves..." Cover image for Nightwish is a profile of a female face emerging from a misty green lake under a full moon. She appears to be asleep with what looks like an electrode on her temple. Movie plot summary is "Coeds (Alisha Das, Elizabeth Kaitan) enter a nightmarish world by way of a deep-sleep researcher's experiments."
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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A few years ago when our now-biggest cat was a very long kitten. #proofOfCat
Three tabby cats lined up and peering out a glass door at the damp outside world. The middle one is roughly as long as the other two but is much thinner - still a kitten.
November 16, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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That canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about?
Taye Diggs in Day Break. Background focus is sunrise over a city.
November 16, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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Post the cover of a book you loved from 2024, any genre.
Cover of How to Become the DARK LORD and Die Trying, by Django Wexler. Cover blurb: "Outrageously fun, filled with humor, action, and unexpected warmheartedness." - Fonda Lee Cover is mostly text on a dark background; there's a cartoony figure in spiky armor with a skull-staff and a horned helmet, some crystals, and in the background a castle.
November 13, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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There's also this, from a CDC publication:
Chart: Figure 2 Estimated prevalence (%) of BLLs>10micrograms/dL or >5 among US children ages 1-11, 1976-2016, by survey cycle. 1976-1980: 88.2% with 10+, 99.8% with 5+ 1988-1991: 8.9% with 10+, 35% with 5+ 1991-1994: 4.4% with 10+, 24.2% with 5+ 1999-2002: 1.6% with 10+, 7.4% with 5+ 2003-2006: 0.9% with 10+, 4.5% with 5+ 2007-2010: 0.8% with 10+, 1.9% with 5+ 2011-2016: 0.5% with 10+, 0.8% with 5+
November 10, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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My much further off the radar nominee for an astoundingly good game is Heat Signature. Pausable science-fiction space heist action game that is way more fun than it has any right to be.
Cover art for Heat Signature game. Shows an overhead view of a modular ship's docking bay and the first few rooms. The art style is simple but functional / industrial.
November 5, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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I remember when Roger Ebert made his obnoxious "games are not art" statement, and his arrogant assumption that games cannot evoke real emotion or have a message.

Valkyria Chronicles was my immediate counterexample.
Cover art for the Valkyria Chronicles. Image has two of the main characters preparing for a battle using what is similar to World War 1 technology. Welkin is at the top hatch of his tank, with one hand to his ear (on a radio) and the other pointing at a target; Alicia has an old bolt-action sniper rifle and she kneeling on the tank and is looking the same direction. The background has a fortress, and the entire style is a soft watercolor in cool blue and white which contrasts with the warfare theme.
November 5, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Daryl Hannah as Pris (a replicant) from the movie Blade Runner (1982).
August 24, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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Image of a samurai with a drawn sword, and the text: "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you don't know about. Attack them. Now they're fighting two battles" - attributed to a Japanese Proverb
May 16, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Here you go:
May 11, 2024 at 12:25 AM
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There's another choice:
"To every college president, I say: REMOVE THE ENCAMPMENTS immediately, vanquish the radicals, and take back our campuses for all the normal students who want a safe place in which to learn! DonaldJTrump.com"
May 3, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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For me at least, the obvious answer to the perfect album from the 90s:
Album cover for Tori Amos's debut: Little Earthquakes Cover is mostly blank/white with a wooden box on its side. Tori Amos is crouched in the box and at her feet is a miniature toy piano.
April 6, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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I liked TORG. Having a logarithmically-scaled attribute system was hard to wrap your head around but actually made some amount of sense. And the d20 was really pretty.
Cover of the TORG role-playing game and the associated 20 sided die with red and blue swirls.
January 30, 2024 at 4:06 AM