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🎵Roll on highway, roll on along🎵 Follow the journey of writer, Andrew Kay as he rides shot gun to give us a look into the American trucking industry. https://t.co/8JF2qshHlO — PolitiTweet.org

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To prepare for the soggy future, engineers are turning to a more natural plan for flood control, forcing water to seep underground into natural aquifers. https://t.co/3DIbOFdeCz — PolitiTweet.org

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Druckmann insists he didn’t set out to make a game in the style of prestige television. . . But watching the show, there’s a nagging sense that this is the story he always wanted to tell. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter– the curse has finally been lifted. 13/13 — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s not that #TheLastOfUsHBO is a groundbreaking TV show in and of itself. But it is, at last, a game adaptation that stands as a great live-action TV show on its own terms, poised to appeal to skeptical gamers and those looking for their next Sunday night watercooler fix. 12/13 https://t.co/q4LbdtEFgb — PolitiTweet.org

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For his part, Mazin is an avid gamer, but what impressed him about The Last of Us was separate from its gameness. To him, Ellie and Joel felt like people, not vessels. “The characters had this remarkable relationship that developed in this very human and grounded way.” 11/13 https://t.co/exKANDEn2X — PolitiTweet.org

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Naughty Dog’s offices teem with TV writers who have worked on shows like Westworld. Druckmann, the studio’s co-president since 2020, cites literary influences like Cormac McCarthy as inspiration for The Last of Us, and is an adherent of screenwriting legend Robert McKee. 10/13 — PolitiTweet.org

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Games have always drawn on film, but no studio has done so as ideologically as Naughty Dog, who has been branding its products “active cinematic experiences” with a focus on “emotional emphasis” since the mid-aughts. 9/13 — PolitiTweet.org

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More than anything the show is an opportunity to build on the game’s strongest narrative asset: the relationship between Joel and Ellie. At one point, Joel describes Ellie as “not family, just cargo.” Her move from the latter to the former is what anchors both game and show. 8/13 — PolitiTweet.org

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Turning action into drama allowed them to flesh out deep narrative aspects that the game deals with only indirectly. For Mazin, the zombie is about mortality, and the Cordyceps fungus eating its way through mankind is the great leveler, created by our relentless consumption. 7/13 https://t.co/R6AwuemRU6 — PolitiTweet.org

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While writing the scripts they arrived at a few related precepts: action into drama, dramatize the mundane, and, the starkest, dump the gameplay. Replicating game mechanics felt like pandering, so any moment that drew its power from interactivity went on the chopping block. 6/13 https://t.co/TAxAptIz6u — PolitiTweet.org

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At the same time, there are also things that linear, cinematic storytelling can do that a game can’t. The task for Mazin and Druckmann was to bridge the gap between the two mediums in a way that allowed them to avoid what they called “the video game curse.” 5/13 https://t.co/3sil3DdIxd — PolitiTweet.org

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That’s because adapting a game offers challenges very distinct from adapting a novel or comic book. Films are linear; games are interactive. For those who have played The Last of Us, the riveting sequence that opens the show is already iconic. More than that, it’s personal. 4/13 https://t.co/hd4pqNoAvY — PolitiTweet.org

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Many previous video game adaptations, largely made by non-gamers, have been “projects that can feel inauthentic to the game-playing audience and be downright confusing to the non-gaming viewer,” says Casey Baltes, head of interactive programming for the Tribeca Festival. 3/13 — PolitiTweet.org

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It would be wrong to say that video game adaptations haven’t improved since the 90s. But while movies like Detective Pikachu and Werewolves Within entertain, they’re not considered prestigious, and a widespread perception persists that Hollywood just does not GET games. 2/13 — PolitiTweet.org

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🧵If any source material had the potential to break the video game curse, it was #TheLastOfUs. Still, the fact that showrunners @Neil_Druckmann and @clmazin seem to have–at last–actually delivered a thoughtful, compelling TV adaptation of a video game is astonishing. 📷:HBO https://t.co/xcMFCaUaQo — PolitiTweet.org

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The curse has been broken. HBO's #TheLastofUs proves that video adaptation actually can be done right. https://t.co/nsYAIeow4B — PolitiTweet.org

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The new way forward for building a more equitable and efficient talent marketplace is to shift to a skills-first approach. https://t.co/DgzOg7CsUD — PolitiTweet.org

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Is the 3D file system from #JurassicPark real? @samykamkar breaks down reality from fiction: https://t.co/aktQpcPoQ3 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hemjhaveri: Went to LA a few weeks ago and hung out with Pedro Pascal. We talked about #LastofUs, his family, and not being a tough guy… — PolitiTweet.org

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Back in September NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see could change the trajectory of a hypothetical "killer asteroid" on a collision course with Earth. If that doesn't pan out, here's your Plan B. — PolitiTweet.org

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As a Fresno prosecutor was ready to charge Alexandre Cazes with running AlphaBay, the suspects online “alpha” persona drew the attention of Bangkok Drug Enforcement Administration office. Not great, Bob. https://t.co/aZZfFZhJ3d — PolitiTweet.org

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To all the world, Google looked like one of the most powerful, pro-immigrant, and ostensibly progressive corporations in the United States, but the stories from inside those walls paint a different picture. (From 2019) — PolitiTweet.org

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Slack’s disclosure says the New Year Eve’s attacker did not access customer data. https://t.co/qRClEberxl — PolitiTweet.org

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The Evie aims to be the first consumer wearable that is also a medical-grade device that will help women track and manage their sleep quality & menstrual cycles through this phase of life. More of the best from CES 2023 right here: https://t.co/LqGYKIuQXa 📷: Rober Kisby https://t.co/wbyxkde0kP — PolitiTweet.org

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Of all the gadgets, apps, and concepts on display, these are the products that exhibited the strongest vision of what tomorrow may look like. This is the best of #CES2023. https://t.co/qpNw8usLSs — PolitiTweet.org

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Of all the gadgets, apps, and concepts on display, these are the products that exhibited the strongest vision of what tomorrow may look like. This is the best of #CES2023. https://t.co/CYMQFJ6r0D — PolitiTweet.org

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Read Jordan Crucchiola’s incredibly self-aware profile piece on Allison Williams #M3GAN: https://t.co/V63RUj8b1b 7/7 — PolitiTweet.org