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The Concept World Is No Longer Operational Vol. VI
On Hopelessness, Simulation, Superintelligence I. Some form of the Simulation Hypothesis has been around for a long time. It’s the idea that we might be in a simulation. The possibility of a...
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When machines surprise us, we treat them as mystic idols: An Interview with...
In his 1939 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, Victor Flemming portrays “The Great and Powerful Wizard” as a mystical and towering nonhuman life form, a giant green head hovering over gushing flames....
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Games Versus Reality
This is a guest post by Phil Eklund, founder of Sierra Madre Games and designer of the board games Origins: How We Became Human, High Frontier, and Pax Porfiriana. It is an edited version of an essay...
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12 Days of Gaming: BoardGameArena
When I made the impulsive decision to start a 12 Days of Gaming feature, I expected to stick to a fairly narrow, comfortable range of games I enjoy, mostly played solitaire. However, as time has...
View ArticleThis Week in Films #1
Something new for the new year. On my site I made a bunch of resolutions, but the important one, with regard to this, has to do with me watching a film every day, though I’m amending that to be just...
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What did I watch this week? Some great and not so great things! The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies by Peter Jackson The Double by Richard Ayoada It’s Such A Beautiful Day by Don Hertzfeldt The...
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Is This the Way the World Ends?
This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein Simon & Schuster, September 2014 576 pages – Amazon The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Henry Holt and Co., February 2014...
View ArticleShort Film of the Week: MECH: HUMAN TRIALS by Patrick Kalyn
Welcome back to the Short Film of the Week! As you can probably see, we’re doing something different today. Live action! That’s not to say that we’ll stop doing animated films, but we’re just going to...
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A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures
An essay using words, not pictures, by Phil Eklund, Dec 2014 This is a guest post by Phil Eklund, founder of Sierra Madre Games and designer of the board games Origins: How We Became Human, High...
View ArticleReal People and Fake Friends: Linda Evangelista
In LA every blonde was accidental, especially me. Especially you. I do something someone else called marketing in Silicon Beach. That’s a cute name for the explosion of big data. Information is as...
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Transplant
It’s time to walk out into the evening and bus home. But I move slowly, then stop and listen as Marianne talks on the phone. Hearts usually get cut out at midnight, but not today. There’s one getting...
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King Leopold of Belgium also used the anti-slavery excuse to introduce into Congo forced labor and slavery. Besides, all Europeans had derived ideas of racial and cultural superiority between the...
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Electronic Literature in 2016: Definitions, Trends, Preservation, and...
Pronouncing poetry dead has become so common, it’s basically a literary tradition at this point. Somewhere this very moment, a tired thinkpiece writer is proudly typing the eulogy, eager to note the...
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MY LAPTOP & ME
I was nine when the year turned to 2000, but even I rolled my eyes at the Y2K proselytizers, the news programs that told us to stock up on canned food in case everything glitched and reset. One local...
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Notes from Neopia
1. I made a Neopets account when I was six. Like many other things—candy,shoes that fit,an email account—I was inspired to demand my own after seeing my brother obtain one before me. A pioneer of our...
View ArticleLiteral Immersion: Narrative Game Design in VR
At the intersection of game mechanics and story we call “narrative design,” it’s clear that producing either entails the other. Narrative design is game design, in that all game mechanics inherently...
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A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures
An essay using words, not pictures, by Phil Eklund, Dec 2014 This is a guest post by Phil Eklund, founder of Sierra Madre Games and designer of the board games Origins: How We Became Human, High...
View ArticleReal People and Fake Friends: Linda Evangelista
In LA every blonde was accidental, especially me. Especially you. I do something someone else called marketing in Silicon Beach. That’s a cute name for the explosion of big data. Information is as...
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Transplant
It’s time to walk out into the evening and bus home. But I move slowly, then stop and listen as Marianne talks on the phone. Hearts usually get cut out at midnight, but not today. There’s one getting...
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King Leopold of Belgium also used the anti-slavery excuse to introduce into Congo forced labor and slavery. Besides, all Europeans had derived ideas of racial and cultural superiority between the...
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