Action & Arcade6 min read
Shmup Difficulty: What Normal, Hardcore and Endless Actually Change
Difficulty modes usually change more than enemy health. What each tier alters, and how we decided where the line between them should sit.
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- Anime & Creative6 min read
Shonen vs Seinen: What the Labels Actually Mean
Shonen and seinen are publishing demographics, not genres. What each label tells you, what it does not, and why the distinction trips up quizzes.
- Languages6 min read
Should You Learn Malay or Indonesian? A Decision Guide
Which of the two to study depends on where you are going and what resources exist. An honest look, including where Malay is the harder option to resource.
- Sports & GM5 min read
Southpaw vs Orthodox: Why the Stance Matchup Changes the Fight
Opposite stances change lead-foot position, angles and which punches land. Why southpaws trouble orthodox fighters and how that gets neutralised.
- Sports & GM5 min read
Striking vs Grappling: How Mixed Martial Arts Matchups Resolve
The oldest question in mixed martial arts. What each discipline controls, where the fight is decided, and why neither wins by default.
- Sports & GM5 min read
Strokes Gained: What It Measures and What It Cannot
Strokes gained compares each shot against a baseline. How the four categories work, what the numbers mean, and where the statistic misleads.
- Sports & GM5 min read
Modelling Style Matchups in a Fight Simulator
Styles make fights, but turning that into code means deciding what a style is. How we modelled it, and what the model cannot represent.
- Utilities7 min read
Subtitles Not Working on Android: A Checklist That Finds It
Missing subtitles usually come down to file naming, encoding, track selection or an unsupported format. Work through these in order.
- Sports & GM5 min read
Tennis Career Sim: Junior Circuit to the Top of the Rankings
How a tennis career simulation works: picking a playing style, surviving the junior circuit, and planning a schedule that defends ranking points.
- Sports & GM6 min read
Tennis Playing Styles: Six Ways to Win a Point
Aggressive baseliner, counterpuncher, all-court, serve-and-volley, big server and shotmaker: what each style does well and where it gets exposed.
- Sports & GM5 min read
Ranking Decay and Schedule Planning in a Tennis Career
When points expire, the schedule becomes the game. How we modelled decay, what it does to player behaviour, and what we deliberately left out.
- Sports & GM5 min read
Tennis Scoring for Beginners: Games, Sets and Tiebreaks
Why tennis counts 15, 30, 40, what deuce and advantage mean, how sets are won, and the tiebreak formats you will actually meet.
- Education6 min read
What Was the Silk Road? Routes, Goods and Who Actually Travelled
The Silk Road was a network, not a road, and most traders never crossed it end to end. What moved along it and what that changed.
- Action & Arcade6 min read
Tower Defence Strategy: Why Placement Beats Damage
Good tower defence is a geometry problem before it is a damage problem. How to read a path, find the long lanes, and spend where time is longest.
- Action & Arcade6 min read
Tower Types and What Each One Is Actually For
Arrow, cannon, frost, flame, lightning, siege and chaos towers do different jobs. What each is good against and where each one is wasted.
- Health6 min read
Keeping a Food Allergy and Reaction Log That Is Actually Useful
A reaction log is only useful if it records time, quantity and context. What to capture, and the hard limit on what a log can tell you.
- Action & Arcade6 min read
Vertical Shooters on Android: Picking One Worth Learning
Vertical scrolling shooters live or die on pattern readability and control feel. What to check before committing to one on a phone.
- Action & Arcade5 min read
IO Games: What the Name Actually Means
The io label came from a domain suffix, not a genre. What the games usually have in common, and what the name tells you about how they play.
- Education6 min read
What Caused the Bronze Age Collapse?
Several civilisations failed within about fifty years around 1200 BC. The leading explanations, the evidence behind each, and what remains unsettled.
- Action & Arcade5 min read
What Does TD Mean in Games?
TD is short for tower defence, but the abbreviation collides with several others. What it means in a game title and how the genre is defined.
- Utilities6 min read
When a Card Scanner Picks the Wrong Card
Reprints, regional variants and similar artwork all confuse image matching. How to spot a wrong match and correct it before it lands in a collection.
- Education6 min read
Why Did Rome Fall? Four Explanations and What They Assume
The fall of Rome has at least four competing explanations. What each one claims, what evidence supports it, and why historians still argue about the date.
- Languages4 min read
Wu Chinese: The Family Shanghainese Belongs To
Wu is one of the major Chinese language groups. Where Shanghainese sits inside it, which neighbours it resembles, and how far intelligibility reaches.
- Health4 min read
Added Sugars and Total Sugars: What the Label Distinguishes
Why the Nutrition Facts label separates added from total sugars, what counts as added, and how the distinction interacts with low-carb tracking.