Hobbies & entertainment
Play, watch and create. Look a little closer at the things you already love.
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Ways of playing, making and seeing: explore familiar pleasures through comparisons and small, clearly explained models.
Choose a question and follow it into the article and its sources.
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Independent drops, a guarantee on attempt 20 and drawing without replacement can all start at 5%. Compare how three fictional loot systems change the wait.
Images per second, blur within each image and the delay after an input are different choices. Explore the craft behind motion, beyond a single smoothness score.
Follow the secret of combined dashi through three stages: ingredients, compounds, and the system that receives them. Mixing equal portions and assuming that each contributes half its original umami are surprisingly different things.
What does “light” describe? Comparing the labels of three soy sauces per 15 mL shows why color and salt content need to be considered separately.
One spoonful holds 15 mL, yet it does not always weigh the same. Follow the meaning of a level spoonful, the spaces between grains, and differences between official conversion tables to read recipe numbers more closely.
A screen adds light; ink on paper absorbs some of it. Move the same photograph between the two, and the differences involve white, black, the range of reproducible colors, and even the lighting in the room.
A PATH INTO ANOTHER WORLD
These related questions lead beyond this room’s catalogue.
A pause can carry meaning as well as a sound. Read a code and discover the design hidden in its timing.
From enjoying books to making them: which way do the letters face before they reach the printed page?
Even the way we open a comic or a book follows conventions. Untangle the order of characters, lines and pages.