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What is pop-science? I don't think I need to introduce conspiracy theories in various forms, but let's define a pop-science type medium. It can be a video, a documentary, a book, an article or even a post or short from a "pop-scientist", so the form isn't important, but what is is how it's delivered. It bring you easy to understand truths, fact relations and very often a story that goes around it with vague sources that are narrated to make it appealing and easy to consume. This deeply differentiates it from a study you may find in scientific journal that requires often blind testing, sources and proving applying the scientific method . Method that, because of it's limitations cannot provide reliably all the answers. Pop-science servers as dilution of scientific findings, delivered in a easy to understand way - like a content creator explaining relationship of melanin on skin color - never providing sources, how it was confirmed or what were the other co...

Stunning world that can't deliver on the promise Showing up on the pier and taking first steps, you see the world that has it's secrets. A foreign land with indecipherable puzzles and a mystery to resolve. Each click and movement makes it more familiar and you slowly think it may make scene after all. World is beautiful... and absolutely empty. For something praised like Myst it's really unenjoyable. I tried to play Myst at least 5 times and that included different versions. From original PC release, through PlayStation, DS and finally even the realMyst masterpiece edition. I lost count of the re-releases I tried. After many, many attempts I just gave up and watched a let's play. Mainly to skip the unintuitive puzzles and try to enjoy the story. Source:  https://lparchive.org/Myst/Update%2017/ Stockholm syndrome Myst is surely product of it's time and remembering being able to be bored in 1993 - this would be a respite. Then, you didn't have any expectations and...