gnostek1 / 3In Superhot , time moves slower when the player does not move. The game moves faster when they look around, move or shoot, giving them situational awareness to respond to enemy actions, such as altering their course to avoid the path of…
01The core mechanic was prototyped in a 7-day game jam before a three-year development cycle expanded it.
02Superhot Team, a Polish indie studio, funded the full game via Fig crowdfunding after a viral browser demo.
03The VR edition won the 2017 BAFTA Games Award for Innovation, with reviewers calling it genuinely transformative.
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01Arnold's plot was exposed only because André was stopped by three militia irregulars, none of them acting on official orders.
02Arnold escaped to British lines; André was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780, aged 29.
03Arnold received £6,315 — less than a third of the agreed price — because the plot failed before completion.
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01God kills Job's ten children, 7,000 sheep, and 3,000 camels on a bet with Satan.
02The prose frame—where Job is rewarded—was likely added centuries after the original poem was written.
03At the end, God mocks Job from a whirlwind for 71 verses without answering a single question.
gnostek1 / 11The phrase banana republic was coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry .
01United Fruit owned Guatemala's only railroad, its telegraph lines, and its Caribbean port.
02In 1954, the CIA overthrew President Árbenz after he tried to redistribute 234,000 acres of UFC land.
03O. Henry coined 'banana republic' in 1904 while hiding in Honduras to escape embezzlement charges.
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01The level 'Effect and Cause' is widely cited as one of the greatest single game levels ever designed.
02Titanfall 2 sold modestly on release in 2016, sandwiched between Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty launches.
03The time-rewind mechanic runs both environments simultaneously in memory, swapping the player between them in real time.
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01The West Side Boys held a Royal Irish Regiment patrol of 11 soldiers; one hostage, Ranger Rowan, was released before the raid began.
02SAS and D Squadron assaulted at dawn on September 10, 2000; 25 West Side Boys were killed, one SAS soldier — Brad Tinnion — died.
03Chickens were deliberately scattered into the camp as distraction cover; the entire assault lasted under 20 minutes.
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01The hoard weighed over 5 kg of gold and 1.4 kg of silver — the largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found.
02A Latin biblical inscription on one gold strip reads: 'Rise up, O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed' — a war prayer.
03Every piece is military: sword pommels, helmet cheek-pieces, no domestic objects. Someone stripped the war-gear from the dead.
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01The burning saint's card ritual was secretly recorded by the FBI during a 1989 Patriarca family ceremony in Medford, Massachusetts.
02Membership is exclusively blood-Italian; the rule held so strictly that the Commission debated it formally in 1956.
03A made man cannot be killed without prior Commission approval — the rule Genovese broke by ordering Anastasia's murder.
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01The 1968 Belice earthquake killed 231 people and leveled Gibellina entirely; Burri began his concrete burial in 1984.
02The cretto covers roughly 80,000 square meters — nearly the footprint of the entire original town — at 1.6 meters of white concrete.
03Burri left the street grid intact beneath the concrete as negative space: you can walk the town's roads, between walls that go nowhere.