Giulio Catellani

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@pcgamer Sekiro combat, Nier atmosphere, beautiful hand drawn graphics. Seems the perfect game! (…runs to steam…) Low price too! I should insta-buy! BUT… bad reviews. Something doesn’t add up…

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@NetflixGeeked Zorro!

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

⚠️⚠️⚠️ This is why you should NEVER stay near the exit of a railway tunnel!

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

Lemmings turned 35 this year (a few days ago)...

Not just one of the most unique games ever, but also one of the best. When Lemmings hit the market in February 1991, it felt like a completely new concept - something never done before. At least I don’t remember any game that came even remotely close.

On top of that, it had an incredibly gorgeous style, beautiful graphics, the cutest animated pixel characters, and one of gaming history’s most recognizable soundtracks. I remember one review giving it a 99% rating with the comment that “we need to leave the 1% off so there’s room for something better - if it ever comes” (paraphrased). In all the years since, you’d have a hard time finding a more unique concept that’s also so very playable.

The early levels are super easy, basically a walk in the park, gently introducing the idea and controls. But once you reach the later levels, boy, does it get tough. It never felt unfair, though - the key was smart usage and timing of the different Lemming types. That’s why the game was also great with friends: you’d sit around the screen and try to figure out the best strategy together.

Lemmings became one of the most sold games ever on the Amiga. Deservedly so. This game is timeless and 99% perfection.

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[Klara @klara_sjo]

The more you know.

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@TerribleMaps Well in Italy is mostly the same. Except for French I guess

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@UnitreeRobotics It’s the jaguar from One Must Fall 2097. Moves are the same, 100%

[Terribly Interesting @TerriblyHQ]

When England rolled out mass COVID-19 vaccination, scientists expected it to protect against the virus. What they didn’t expect was what happened next.

In a nationwide study of nearly 46 million adults, researchers discovered that rates of heart attacks and strokes actually dropped after vaccination. By linking GP, hospital, and death records, they compared people’s cardiovascular health before and after their vaccine doses.

The results were striking. In the months after vaccination, arterial events like heart attacks and ischemic strokes were consistently lower than before. The same pattern appeared for venous events such as pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis.

For example, 13–24 weeks after the first dose, arterial events fell by about 10 % compared with baseline. After the second dose, reductions climbed higher - up to 27 % lower with AstraZeneca and about 20 % lower with Pfizer.

The study doesn’t mean the vaccine directly prevents heart attacks in every individual. Instead, experts think protection from severe COVID may reduce the overall strain on the cardiovascular system. Vaccinated people are far less likely to suffer COVID-related clotting, inflammation, or oxygen stress, all of which raise the risk of strokes and heart attacks.

Rare side effects still exist, like myocarditis with mRNA shots or clotting syndromes with adenovirus vaccines, but in this massive dataset the broader picture was clear: after vaccines rolled out, cardiovascular risks went down, not up.

Reference: Xu et al., Nature Communications, 2024

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@Jonathan_Blow Yeah, now I’m curious..

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@pcgamer Don’t play with my feelings. This is Outer WORLDS not wilds

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Honestly kudos to Apple for keeping their DEI promises well into 2025 and employing a 100% blind design team

[Greggertruck @greggertruck]

Steve Jobs would have fired everyone

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@EpicGames If only the EGS iOS app could let me wishlist this, I’d do that. But I can’t, so I’m going to wishlist that on steam

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@Jonathan_Blow Or order of operations

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@Jonathan_Blow I’m thinking of using this for recruitment, skipping the interview entirely for those who say something about parenthesis

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@danielben I would gladly pay a couple of bucks to have this game in an app for my phone. It’s fun, and it’s getting momentum online, you may consider publishing it maybe on EGS

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that "the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing". Probably the first time a sitting president used the 3rd derivative to increase the chances of reelection.

[Giulio Catellani @giuliocatte]

@TerribleMaps That’s volvotheshop