More Things August 17, 2018

With the help of an IFTTT recipe that turns what I save to Pocket into a Markdown link, I can easily make a linked list blog post again. Hence, the return of More Things.

Articles are ordered from oldest to newest.

• Octopath Traveler’s grinding isn’t that bad

• Bring back irony

• For Facebook and Twitter, reality is hitting hard

• Newsletters Are Immortal

• Why I Struggle To Say The Word “Husband”

• Twitter courted comedians, then the opposition

• When Do TV Shows Peak?

• The Bullshit Web

• The Best Albums of 2018 (So Far)

• A Spectre is Haunting Unicode

• The Story Behind Apple’s Newton

• Previously On: How Recaps Changed the Way We Watch Television

• The infantilization of Western culture

• Spotify’s $30 billion playlist for global domination

• Rough games deserve our love and respect

• Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America

• The End of Twitter

• Finding new music in the algorithm age

• Let’s all go back to Tumblr

• What It Means To Buy A Video Game

• In Conversation: Penn Jillette

• Please Let Me Join Your Heist

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