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From Modding Games to Superstar Game Developer
What does this journey look like? We can begin to find some answers by looking at the history of game mods and following those which became standalone smash hits.
As popularity contests go, there aren’t a whole lot of mods that became culture-modding hits, but the few which have are so massive that aspiring developers should take note on how that success came about.
One of the most popular…
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Cook, Serve, Delicious Chef's Touch
Cook, Serve, Delicious Chef's Touch - #CookServeDelicious #gamereview -
Cook, Serve, Delicious (CSD) is a casual restaurant simulator where you, the chef, take rapid-fire orders from an onslaught of customers to climb your way to master chef of a 5-star restaurant. It was developed by Vertigo games and released on PC in October 2013. It’s also got a mobile version available for Android which is fun, but not nearly the amount of fun as the PC version.
The best games…
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Proto Type
Who is Proto and what is Stand Alone Complex Quorum?
I am Proto. I am becoming who I want to be tomorrow: a prototype of my cyborg self. To think about the future, I have to imagine who I’ll be in the future and try to walk towards that entity.
I don’t remember being much different than I am today, other than maturing and growing into a woman and having more and varied experiences of the world. My ideas and beliefs have changed a lot, as much as…
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“Too often we rely on the adage, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,’ but those words lead to what I call the ‘law of suckage,’ which means by the time you figure out you suck, you’ve sucked for a very long time.”
The 5 Secrets Of Reinventors (via fastcompany)
That’s cool, right? America invented the model we use today. Russia proudly follows. Iraq, in a just world, would be among the richest nations in the world. In our world they are among the poorest and it’s not because of religion or culture, but western exploitation via colonialism.
But let’s just keep donating to the middle eastern charities. Those make us feel more noble and charitable.
Ethics vs. Capitalism #1
We can have one or the other. We cannot have both. Just look at the proof all around us. Take this quote for today's contradictory statement: " But if he can seperate his beliefs from his job, he deserves to work that job. If he can maintain the companies integrity and not attack its foundation, that is a good thing." This isn't possible. We act on what we truly believe. Always.
Our Alienation
Just walking a lap around the concrete block I call work, it's difficult not to muse on my alienation. I think to myself "am I allowed to take a 5 minute break for a brisk walk? To put the 'health' in the company slogan 'Health and Safety'?" Do they pay me for this? Do they believe they should? Would they reprimand be if they knew I took 5 minutes every hour to take a walk to stretch my legs and circulate my blood, still from idleness of the office chair? I think companies would pay us only for specific tasks if they knew there was a method to ensure it. It's already happening as tenure and pension positions shrink every year. I am able to take these walks mostly because they don't have a way to track my every step. I am a living example of the alienation that capitalism produces in all of us. We are nothing but our labor. Don't you want to be more to your fellow citizen?
Gynecology Invented Through The Torture of Black Women
In the 19th century, the father of modern gynecology, J. Marion Sims, conducted his research experiments on enslaved Black women. Sims performed the invasive and torturous procedures without anesthesia. J....
The Price of Modern Medicine. This wasnt achieved through intelligence and hardwork, as we teach our youth. It was done with barbarism, racism and thorough hatred.
Sustaining and Abstaining Cultural Values
We need to sustain life if we want to remain tomorrow. But we don’t want to do that at all costs, because sacrifice does not lead to sustenance. It leads to abstinence. Ponder that for a moment. We must understand sustaining and abstaining.
When we advocate the sacrifice of people while chanting “for the greater good” we are doing the least amount of good we can possibly do at that hour.…
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The Real in Virtual Space: Just a Game
The Real in Virtual Space: Just a Game
The brain does not distinguish real emotion from fake emotion. An emotion is always real. Actors and actresses show this to us daily. Even the emotions we reproduce on demand are reproductions, meaning they come from a real place and are embedded in experience. However, what is real and what is truth are not always aligned. This is the crux of the debate about the Real in virtual space: is there…
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A Response on Needing and Loving
A Response on Need and Love @luvvie
Continuing in response to a public discussion about romance and needing/wanting someone, I want to share my experiences and thoughts on the matter. I enjoyed Luvvie’s breakdown of the difference and in many ways I can relate. In fact, my head was nodding the whole time. Yet I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was being intentionally missed in the on-going discussionon Twitter. There was…
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Stand Alone Complex and The Simulacrum
Stand Alone Complex and The Simulacrum #standalonecomplex #sacq #simulacra
The individual 11 has no meaning. It is a symbol for a revolution devoid of any original, just as the stand alone complex — a simulacrumstanding in for the truth, but which becomes the truth in the process. Everyone is looking for the original, but it doesn’t exist. The same as the Laughing Man was but a symbol that corporations used to manipulate the economy; that an activist used to stir the…
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Perspective
For Lack of Vision
Everyone possesses a length of light. Individually, we can only illuminate the areas in our immediate vicinity. Together, we possess the power of a sun, capable of illuminating an entire galaxy. All it takes is the gathering of light. Everyone possesses a length of light.
To correct my own eyesight, I go to my eye doctor. I can see, but not very far and contact lenses help improve my sight. Without them, the world is a blur to me; I can’t see fine details, make out the features of a face, and lights distort shapes so much that they lose definition. Some can see far, but not near while others can see near but not far. Still others are blind or suffer other conditions which remove their vision or parts of it. This is the human condition, that we alone we lack vision. The danger of over emphasizing individuality is that we over-estimate what we think we see and refuse opportunities to improve it by working together.
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The Existential Threat
The Existential Threat #sacq #standalonecomplex
That is: the challenge to our identity or being which throws us into a state of anger and denial.
Challenging someone’s being — and not in a way that threatens their very lives, but in a way which threatens their perception of life itself — is dangerous. Having our being challenged is life threatening; if we are not who we think we are, then who are we? This is the nexus of the belief in Us and…
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Attack on Titan Shows Us....
…that the scope and difficulty of humanity’s direst problems are proportional to the number of people who refuse to help solve them.
For every person who donates to charity in a far away land, but allows kids to be homeless in their own town are part of the problem. They are eager to “rescue” others, but not if it would change the cozy position from which they extend their hand.
The few who earnestly work everyday to save our world …their task grows with every person who decides not to do anything. The same goes for the Survey Corps, whose task would be vastly easier if not for the millions of humans who won’t leave the safety of the walls.
There are humans on Earth, all over the place, who prefer the safety of walls. They prefer the quiet dreaming of a “good life” at the expense of our Survey Corps, the people who own their responsibility to our world and fail and die daily in it’s service.
Consumerist ideology becomes much more frightening when we recognize that the lame titans, those who eat mindlessly, are the greatest threat to humankind. The 4 meter, 7 meter, 15 meter classes are analagous to our classism — even the lowliest titans wreak havoc on the lives of those in their vicinity. They trample everything underfoot in pursuit of more food, more goods, more, more, more … their appetites insatiable. So too is the consumerist, buying and spending to their hearts content without a care for how that impacts others or impacts our world.
I watched an episode with someone who remarked that they would be upset if they were to die at the hands of the “retarded” titans. They would prefer to be eaten by the intelligent ones. So it goes with the average person who believe that being devoured by rich people in America is superior to other oppression in countries deemed inferior; who can’t be bothered even with self-awareness, let alone a mindfulness of those around them. Yet this is the state of our global village. That person didn’t see themselves in the “retarded” titan.
And yet even for those who propose to do the “right” thing, thinking themselves among the intelligent titans when they propose wiping out humanity and living as their empresses and emperors, as their lords …they also don’t see themselves in the very persons they loathe.
Attack on Titan shows us that the scope and difficulty of the world’s problems is proportional to the number of people who refuse to help in their resolution. The fewer people that help with mankind’s direst issues (poverty, famine, health epidemics, job literacy, etc), the greater the burden becomes on those who do, and the smaller the chances we will prevail over extinction.
Humans Fundamentally Can't Understand One Another
The words of Goda.
Couple this with the knowledge that we are born ignorant, knowing nothing of self or world, and you have 2 recipes. One for collaboration and one for conflict.
Conflict isn't inherently bad. But we've painted a world in which conflict is almost synonymous with negative violence.
One might be tempted to think that violence is inherently a bad thing, but it's not. Violence, at base, is great destructive force or energy. It is the other half of the universe, which we know to be both very creative and also very destructive. Therefore destruction is as essential to creation and creation is subjected to destruction. When things are torn down, we build them back up in different ways.
In Ghost in the Shell, we see the destruction of the physical world and a building up of the ethereal. Creation is fundamentally transcendent in this case. So what do we do when we don't understand one another? Often, we resort to destruction, removing the things which we can't comprehend or appreciate. This reveals humans as the myopic species that we are.
In the series, however, humans can literally plugin to one another. And each one of us acts as a single length of light that illuminates ever greater distances as we connect. We transcend our myopia. We begin to see the world as it really is: both crumbling and expanding, falling apart and building up to something new.
And that's difficult as hell to cope with.
