With most of the game built, development on Defense Grid 2 moves into its most complicated phase: adding the finishing touches.
Something strange happens during the first few minutes of the meeting.
This meeting starts, as most meetings do, with witty banter and people goofing around, settling into place and wondering if everyone who’s been invited has arrived. Then the talk turns to business. Just like any other meeting. But this meeting is about making video games, and it’s full of game developers. So the line between where the fun part of the meeting ends and the boring, business part begins is a little harder to spot.
The mysterious case of the double toilet
It started off as a simple trip to the bathroom - but BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg’s photo of two toilets side-by-side at Sochi’s Winter Olympics site, has become famous on Twitter in Russia and beyond.
The cubicle in question was inside the Laura Cross Country Skiing and Biathlon Centre - brand new, and built, of course, for next month’s Sochi winter games. I tracked down the Gents’ and went in. It was pretty much as you’d expect things to be, really, in a little WC. There was a sink, some paper towels, but oddly enough there were two toilets where you’d expect just one - full sized lavatories, they were, side by side - and no partition down the middle.
Equally strange, there was only one toilet paper dispenser - within reach of just one of the toilets. I didn’t really know what to do. Which seat should I sit on? Was I allowed to sit on either of them? Or was this strictly a loo for two?
Well, needs must - and I chose - and powdered my nose. And before I walked out, I took a picture of this intriguing bathroom on my mobile phone and posted it online.
The reaction was unexpected and quite overwhelming. The photo triggered a wave of comments in social media, on Russian radio and even on television. This image of two toilets, with no dividing wall, in an Olympic rest room had somehow struck a chord with the Russian people.
Some saw it as symbol of the country’s rampant corruption and bad management. “This is what $50bn gets you!” wrote a prominent anti-Kremlin activist - a reference to the alleged cost of the Sochi games.
Read more about how Russians and others responded to the toilets seen round the world.
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I’m an apprentice tattoo artist. An artist who owns a few shops invited me to their team.
I’ve got a long way to go. I’m still learning basic shading techniques. Working with a tattoo pen adds depth to the traditional flat plane I’m used to working on.
One is never too old to learn a new skill.
At times I feel like a complete newb.
So, here is a meme that I love. I’m sharing it for everyone who is learning something new.
