575: A Daily Haiku Game for Reddit
For the 2024 Reddit Games and Puzzles Hackathon, I submitted 575, a daily word game where you compose a haiku using the words of the day. How to Play 575 Each day, a new set … Read more
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Overwatch Collective
Welcome to another installment of the collective nouns survey. This time we focus on Overwatch, following surveys for Team Fortress 2 and Starcraft. In Overwatch, there are 27 playable heroes so far, each with unique … Read more
Where I End and You Begin: Finding the Most Depressing Radiohead Songs using Crowd Data from SongMeanings
Last week, a fun article titled fitteR happieR crowned the most depressing Radiohead song as True Love Waits. This was determined by a “gloom index” calculated with Spotify’s valence metric — which measures the musical … Read more
TF2 Collective
In Team Fortress 2, there are nine playable classes with unique personalities and complementary abilities: pyro, engineer, spy, heavy, sniper, scout, soldier, demo, and medic. When referring to several scouts, or pyros, or heavies, it’d … Read more