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The 8bit arcade font, deconstructed, in an explainer by Vox of one of the most iconic types of video game fonts of all time.

This Ohio Department of Health PSA shows how important social distancing is with a very effective visual metaphor involving balls and mousetraps.

This lockdown creativity ad by apple takes a positive sentimental look at how creativity is flourishing during these difficult times.

Doom Eternal came out in time for the lockdown / long weekend on the Switch. Anyone tried it yet? Heard it’s a difficult game… Via GameCrate:

Well Doom Eternal came out, and with it we have all started ripping and tearing our way through demon hordes aplenty. However, beneath the blood, gore, and chainsaws, Doom Eternal actually makes a fairly interesting statement about game difficulty that you might not expect. Doom Eternal posits that difficulty isn’t a challenge to overcome and, as a result, get gamer bragging points. Rather, difficulty is a function of tone?

What does this mean? Well it’s very clear that Doom is a game all about tone. It doesn’t have a particularly compelling story and we don’t come for the story. We come to feel like Doom Guy, like an incredible badass space marine that is able to destroy the legions of hell using nothing but his unbridled rage and two barrels of a shotgun. It’s an emotional experience.

What Doctors Are Afraid Of – a documentary video by the Atlantic bringing us inside what frontline healthcare workers are faced with.

The FF7 Remake broke release in Australia last week — did everyone get a copy? Given the physical copy is out ahead of digital, that’s surprising.

Dr Jane Goodall – The Hope tells the story of Dr Goodall’s living conservation legacy in the 60 years since her groundbreaking chimpanzee discovery.

Coronavirus spoofers are sending fake emails from the World Health Organisation, among others. Vox explains how they’re doing it. Via Vox:

This is just one of many fake emails that have spoofed the WHO’s domain name during the coronavirus pandemic. Some are addressed from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO, and carry attachments that can install malware on the victim’s device. Others announce a coronavirus cure that you can read all about in the attachment. They each appear to be sent from a who.int email address.

If it seems like it shouldn’t be this easy to impersonate a leading global health institution, you’re right. As we outline in the video at the top of this post, there is a way for organizations and companies to prevent spoofing of their domain, but the WHO hasn’t done it.

“One of the things that a lot of NGOs and nonprofits don’t necessarily understand is that email is a very open protocol by design,” said Ryan Kalember, who leads cybersecurity strategy at Proofpoint.

In the latest season of Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Neil deGrasse Tyson brings the search for intelligent life down to earth.

Jack Daniels has launched a With Love campaign due to the coronavirus, showcasing intimate social distancing between people.