Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again
Funded May 2nd
Jane Jensens Moebius and other Pinkerton Road Games
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1005365109/jane-jensens-pinkerton-road-2012-2013-csg
Funding May 19th
Two Guys SpaceVenture – by the creators of Space Quest
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que
Funding June 12th
High Score – 3rd Edition: A Game History Book
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/230165553/game-history-book-high-score-3rd-edition
Funded April 3rd
Wasteland 2
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2
Funded April 17th
The Banner Saga
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stoic/the-banner-saga
Funded April 20th
Shadowrun Returns
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns
Funded April 28th
The democratic process relies on the assumption that citizens (the majority of them, at least) can recognize the best political candidate, or best policy idea, when they see it. But a growing body of research has revealed an unfortunate aspect of the human psyche that would seem to disprove this notion, and imply instead that democratic elections produce mediocre leadership and policies.
The research, led by David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, shows that incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people’s ideas. For example, if people lack expertise on tax reform, it is very difficult for them to identify the candidates who are actual experts. They simply lack the mental tools needed to make meaningful judgments.
As a result, no amount of information or facts about political candidates can override the inherent inability of many voters to accurately evaluate them. On top of that, “very smart ideas are going to be hard for people to adopt, because most people don’t have the sophistication to recognize how good an idea is,” Dunning told Life’s Little Mysteries.