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In case you needed another JFK conspiracy, here’s Pollen’s

There is, as your tinfoil hat-wearing friends are likely to tell you, no shortage of conspiracy surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. There are the claims about the second shooter or someone on the grassy knoll. There are shadowy figures in conspiracy lore like “dark complected man,” “badge man,” “tin hat man,” “umbrella man,” and “black dog man.” Yes, those are all real, and at least everyone can agree that men are the problem. For good measure, the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations—yes, that was its real name—declared that there was probably a second shooter while passing the…

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The conspiracy theories are all true in this boy band dress-up game

What do aliens see when they look at One Direction? Do they see, a musical monstrosity straight out of Simon Cowell’s fever dreams, a band that can melt your heart with sincere ballads like the sublime “Gotta Be You”, or a blank cultural canvas that can be used to take over the world?  use your boy band to wipe out all of humanity  In Intergalactic Alien Boy Band Conquest, an entry in the 32nd Ludum Dare game jam, the aliens have gone with the third option. Using a boy band proxy, they are going to take over the world, and…

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This week’s Playlist pick: TouchTone

Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. TOUCHTONE (iOS)  BY MIKENGREG  Greg Wohlwend and Mike Boxleiter are outraged at the erosion of privacy in the post-Snowden era. But rather than stepping up to a soapbox to rant about it, they made TouchTone: a puzzle game about a fictional government that crowd-sources surveillance of its citizens to protect the state. You bounce lasers around grids in the game’s increasingly tricky puzzles to gain access to emails and text messages that you then deem pertinent or not to the government’s fight against terrorism. It evolves…