Bigg
@Bigg

One of mine is this 2013 Deadspin piece by Jeb Lund about horse racing's image problem. I can pull it up any time I've reached the end of my social feeds and have a great time. Lund's always been a terrific writer - him and Dan O'Sullivan are also responsible for writing Andrew Brietbart: Big Deal, Big Coronary, Big Corpse, which is another of my favorite comfort longreads and (in my opinion) is responsible for forever changing the tenor of how huge pieces of shit like Brietbart get talked about after death. But the horse racing piece has always especially stuck with me.

Anyone else have things like that? Articles and essays you carry around with you like a photo in a locket? If so you have to tell me what they are


leo-g
@leo-g

mine's this old ass blog post by the creator of Secret of Monkey Island that talks about puzzle dependency charts. It's a fun piece of game design knowledge that is a nostalgic read for me


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Either the awl or the hairpin's defense of Meat Loaf as a lesbian icon, which I can't find at all and it's heartbreaking,c just some shit from Slate in 2022 (this was like, no later than 2017)

green bay packers on the Catan sheep strategy.

article in the clickthrough but this reddit comment is incredible (and apocryphal, probably. poster is giving software engineering advice in post history)

https://np.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/2sjogc/how_the_green_bay_packers_became_obsessed_with/cnq9tss

charlie stross on Why we're not going to see sub-orbital airliners, which has a lot of concorde history to austrailia I didn't know.

and, ofc, the Classic of English Literature, I, We, Waluigi: a Post-Modern analysis of Waluigi by Franck Ribery

That Ravioli Railgun Post https://web.archive.org/web/20060917182607/http://www.mit.edu/people/daveg/Humor/ravioli_as_gas

The Case of the 500 Mile Email Limit: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

Math, Girls and Socialism, about how east germany closed the learning gap in mathematics between boys and girls https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/11532/math-girls-and-socialism