Tue, 20 June 2006  #054 -- Simulated Life and Other Topics -- There's more than one kind of artificial life out there, as fans of Second Life are well aware. Also: NASA decides to launch regardless of the risk. Also: Spy Planes just aren't for Iraq anymore. Also: Network Neutrality, compromised. Also: Legislating honesty? Finally: what's Bluejack up to these days. Music by Scratch D. v. H-Bomb; Beck; Tom Waits; Ruby Shuz; Eat Static.Comments[10] |
In this podcast you're wondering why people even bother to play games that are crude, imperfect simulations of life. I don't know why, but I remember that back in my Atari XE days, I was especially fascinated not by smooth elegant graphics but angular lines that were only suggestive of what they represented; what was really cool about them was that while the object represented was clearly recognizable, it had the computerized look which made it even better than the original. Gradually, I got bored with the Atari coarse-grained pixelization, and I started looking for hi-fidelity. I think the same will happen to life-simluations.
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