I ’ve tried this game back in ± 2014 and I still think it’s one of the best android games I’ve played. It’s a game about infecting all the world where you play as a… virus! Well, the difficulty levels are defined by the type of disease you’re playing, so you can start playing as an easy bacterial or viral infection to keep unlocking other more difficult disease types. The final objective is to irradicate all the world population by modifying and adapting the genetics of your disease against the human efforts to destroy you. It’s an easy-to-understand strategy game but full of scientifically accurate information about plague evolution at the same time.
My point on bringing this recommendation here today is because many people should have played more Plague Ink and less watching social media and news during the COVID-19 pandemic… at least, they would have learned something real about virology. And this is the only reason I want to recommend this today: if someone decides to play this game instead of raging and arguing with non-scientific arguments… it’s a total success.
The game was a global hit after its release with over 25 million players. It was developed by an independent and self-founded game studio in Bristol called Ndemic Creations, founded by James Vaughan, who started in the industry creating Plague Inc as a hobby what seems to have led him to a great success). Now, they have developed a variation of it, Plague Ink: The Cure, focused in vaccine development and a new game, Rebel Inc, which seems to be full of other type of political/military educational facts… but I need to try it before I get too excited about it! Keep you posted 😉

Simone is one of my favourite persons on the internet. She started her Youtube channel in 2013, uploading videos of herself building useless robots like the toothbrush, applause, or pussy-grabs-back machine (but please, do not misunderstand useless with boring). You’ll have a pretty good fun watching the absurdity in them. With time, I was amazed watching the evolution of her creations or videos, starting to do also random “experiments”, like her business mantis shrimp costume (which I dream to copy at some moment) or when she locked herself in her bathroom for 48 hours. I can’t finish this summary of her creations without talking about the Truckla, which became kind of viral on the internet when she released it. She took a brand-new Tesla, cut it in a half, and attached a truck back to it.
Personally, obviously I don’t know her… but my respect for her is infinite. I have to say, that I haven’t seen many people that just laugh about themselves and about their failures as Simone does. And it’s not just in a fun way, I also find a lot of educational values behind it. She made the world respect her by being honest and realistic with her work and her limitations, without disrespecting her ideas or herself and not being ashamed of anything that comes from the insides of her brain. She is strong and keeping herself always on movement, neither a worrying brain surgery stopped her. Thankfully she is ok now and she got new machines, so she is on fire building new great, original, and more useful stuff.

Lofi.cafe is a simple and easy-to-run webpage with infinite lofi music. Keep it in your mind since it’s always ready to provide you quick relaxing comforting background music.
Lo-fi is type of music that stands up from “low fidelity”, using vinyl-like sounds or some distorted notes as the nostalgic component at the same time than repeating tiny simple but beautiful pieces of melody over and over. It’s not the type of music that to you´ll need to understand or be aware of… it’s just there to making you feel chill and focus while it does not interfere in your thoughts. It’ll set the mood you need to be focus on what you are doing.
I think this could be a good resource that can help you to be in the mood of working, without needing to think too much about it.
Lofi.cafe was created as consequence of lockdowns, that need of learning something new (coding in this case) and ultimately, creating something real with that new knowledge. It’s simple but perfect in its functionality so if you are looking for music that set ups the mood for thinking, this could be a great solution.