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The day ‘Return’ became ´Enter’
In the popular imagination, the transition from the world of typewriters to the universe of computers was orderly and simple.
But the reality is much more fascinating and convoluted.
https://aresluna.org/the-day-return-became-enter/…

Been starting a habit of writing down story/game ideas as I have them even though most of them will never seriously get started, let alone finished. It's been fun since writing things down gives me a chance to think them through a bit more than just pondering them in my head. Anyways, here's a #GameDesign idea:
"Grand" - is a "reverse metroidvania" in which as a grandparent, you slowly lose movement options as the story progresses, requiring more and more convoluted routes through the map to reach the same areas. You do still explore "new" areas in memory mode (and unlock movement options like a bike in your memories) before traversing the areas again in the diegetic present. The story follows your quest to protect a grandchild from the machinations of a Kafkaesque state, first trying to track them down within the system and then trying to get them released. Each "boss" is "fought" through an abstracted conversation system where memories, keepsakes, and various kinds of emotional/logical appeals wear down your opponent's nihilism and/or fear until they're willing to help you. Normal "enemies" are just people on the street who might bump into you and drain some of your stamina as you pass by if you don't issue a properly-timed "excuse me" or the like.

In an email to customers, Venmo says Venmo users and PayPal users will be able to send each other money natively in the app in the US and worldwide in November (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/venmo-an…

Venmo and PayPal users will finally be able to send money to each other | TechCrunch
For years, customers have been using convoluted workarounds to transfer money between the two services.

In one of the two main storylines,
Trump, upset over the impending birth of his unholy lovechild with Satan,
sets a series of convoluted traps to force an abortion,
only for Carr to continually wander into them.
By the end of the episode, Carr,
badly injured and hosting a brain parasite as a result of toxoplasmosis from being buried in a mountain of cat poo,
is at risk of “losing his freedom of speech”.

Sonic CD: completed!
Stardust Speedway remains a low point for the game, I think, which is a shame because the ornamentation (of the brass instruments in the present, and overgrown pipework in the past) is evocative of the Starlight Zone, probably my favourite levels of the original Sonic game. The route to find the generator, and get to it in the past, is overly convoluted and seems to require luck as well as skill.

$\bar{B}_{s,d}^{0} \to J/\psi \mu^{ }\mu^{-}$ Decays in QCD Factorization
Xin-Qiang Li, Yan Shi, Ya-Dong Yang, Xing-Bo Yuan, Chun-Yang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00378 http…

$\bar{B}_{s,d}^{0} \to J/ψμ^{+}μ^{-}$ Decays in QCD Factorization
Motivated by the first LHCb searches for the rare $\bar{B}_{s,d}^{0} \to J/ψμ^{+}μ^{-}$ decays, we perform a detailed study of these processes within the QCD factorization formalism. Since the transverse size of the $J/ψ$ meson is small in the heavy quark mass limit, this formalism is generally expected to hold for these decays. We include both the leading- and the next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to the hard-scattering kernels, which are convoluted with the light-cone distribution amp…