Best Era 2012
Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 1 is an interactive drama adapting Robert Kirkman's comic book series. Players experience the story through choices that directly impact Lee Everett and Clementine’s survival in a zombie-infested world. This critically acclaimed game revived the choice-based advent...
Why this score?
Landmark episodic narrative game with major GOTY recognition, high critic scores, and enduring influence despite limited mechanics.
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"Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012" is a comprehensive collection of poetry by the British poet Geoffrey Hill, published in 2013 by Oxford University Press. The volume compiles fifty years of his published verse, including selections from his acclaimed works such as "King Log" and "The Triumph of...
Why this score?
Authoritative career collection confirming Hill's major reputation, with exceptional linguistic power alongside famously severe difficulty.
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The Radio Music Society presents Esperanza Spalding’s album offering a compelling exploration of modern jazz. Spalding's talent as a bassist and vocalist is highlighted through intricate compositions that seamlessly merge bossa nova, funk, and classical elements. This collection is particularly appe...
The Wacom Bamboo Feel Studio (first generation) utilized a pressure-sensitive rubber tip and tilt recognition for drawing and handwriting on compatible displays, quickly establishing a widely adopted standard for pen-based input devices.
Why this score?
Strong expert acclaim for accuracy, build quality, comfort, and ink-pen versatility; premium pricing and soft rubber-tip limitations reduced value.
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FS Me is a humanist sans-serif typeface developed by the Fontsmith foundry in collaboration with Mencap, a UK charity supporting people with learning disabilities. Released in 2017, the font family was specifically designed to improve readability for individuals with cognitive impairments or low vis...
FS Elliot is a humanist sans-serif typeface originally released by the Fontsmith foundry. It features open counters, slightly angled terminals, and a relatively large x-height to maximize legibility across both print and digital interfaces. The typeface was designed to function as a neutral yet warm...
Released in 2012, the original iPad mini was a seven-inch tablet featuring a Retina display, A5 processor, and offered portability alongside basic app support and web browsing capabilities for its time.
The original Apple iPad (3rd generation), released in 2012, featured a 9.7-inch LED-backlit display, an A5 processor, and offered Wi-Fi connectivity alongside optional cellular data plans for portability and internet access.
FS Jack is a sans-serif typeface designed by the British type foundry Fontsmith (now part of Monotype) around 2012. The design features informal, slightly irregular letterforms with subtle quirks in character shapes that give it a friendly, approachable appearance compared to more geometric sans-ser...
Liberal Arts is a 2012 American romantic drama written and directed by Josh Radnor. It follows a 35-year-old university admissions worker who returns to his alma mater and develops feelings for a college sophomore, played by Elizabeth Olsen. The film examines the contrast between nostalgia for stude...
Why this score?
Modest indie romance with literate tone and decent reviews, but limited impact and some self-consciousness.
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Bear 71 is a 2012 interactive web documentary created by filmmakers Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes with the National Film Board of Canada. It reconstructs the life of a female grizzly bear in Banff National Park that was tagged and monitored from 2001 to 2009, combining trail-camera images, video,...
FS Sinclair is a geometric sans-serif typeface developed by the British foundry Fontsmith, notable for its clean, modern structure and frequent use in corporate branding systems.
This specific, larger variant of the Mini line is extremely rare and niche. Its utility is almost entirely limited to collectors or users who require the exact 10.2-inch form factor of that era. Functionally, it shares the limitations of the Mini 3 and 4, making it a purchase based on form factor ra...
