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No Man's Sky
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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An intriguing article at The Atlantic describes a rather new and unique video game. An artificial self-created universe, with 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets to explore, bigger than any one of us, any population of us - and I'm including the world here, could hope to explore in our lifetime. The chances of running into another player - in your lifetime (in the game), are less than that of winning the 6/49. A curious premise, curious, too, as to how this algorithm evolves...
Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/artificial-universe-no-mans-sky/463308/
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Of High & Stormy Clouds and an old computer
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
- Hits: 1850
Outside, watching the clouds billow...they're high and small at the base, one is flickering white sparks, extra white at the base, another has a series of deep blue vents or holes in it, they're everywhere, and before you know it they begin to arc great bolts of electricity into the ground and I grab G*** and say "We gotta get underground" and we do, and run through underground passages to a nearby mall where we can see the impact of the lightening strikes, fused glass, and people milling about shocked, and I realize that next it's going to rain hard and maybe we shouldn't be underground...
...next, a series of ads, man stealing bolts off door at a party, he's a thief, then an ad for an RRSP or Savings company...Tagline: "There's an easier way to do this..."
...I meet the actor playing the thief, really a thief, dressed a bit like Pee Wee Herman, he'd ordered a video game offline, giant floppy disk, for his vintage (?? Commodore?), as a free bonus they included the Encyclopedia Britannica on a 5 Floppy Disk Set, he'd read the whole thing and decided to become a Socialist...
The Higher Ground
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Restaurants & Cafes
- Hits: 1957
Monday, briefly sober and escaping myself, hidden behind a copy of "The Roadside Geology of Washington" (Summer approaches, I need to be prepared. For anything, anywhere...). And I find myself beside one of those annoyingly going-well first dates from Tinder or OK Cupid or POF.
He's pretty happy talking about himself. She's pretty happy listening, although she gets boring in the end and interrupts to talk about her own shit.
And reading and pretending to read and eavesdropping, and, fuck, really, I could do this a lot better, "CUT!", but it isn't my show...
Pussy Riot - CHAIKA
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I kinda like it. How could you not? Maybe they should do a version for Donald Trump...
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