And what makes my head go round and round while my heart stands still
Oh, I forgot to talk about seeing the new Blade Runner cut in the theater. It was good. There were fewer changes than I expected, but the visuals were more striking, and they fixed half a dozen of the little errors that resulted from rushing the last one. Anyone who missed seeing it due to being a big jerk with bad priorities may do so on the small screen, though, as I'm getting a copy for my birthday.
Aside from just being a really good movie, it is interesting to me as an example of one of those things I have been really fixated on at some point. As you've probably noticed, this is something I do, where I obsessively devote all my attention to, say, steampunk, or David Bowie, or Star Control, or orchids. Orchids are a funny example because I'm pretty sure it was precipitated by my reading The Orchid Thief, in which Orlean in part attempts to document this very phenomenon. But yeah, a couple years ago, I decided it would be rewarding to read every analysis of every detail of Blade Runner I could find, to learn the differences between each of the releases, and to play the blade runner video game, which, in case you were curious, is an adventure game with some slightly clunky gameplay but a few fun features, like a V-K minigame in which you actually administer the empathy test to people whom you think are replicants, and also it is one of those games where, appropriately enough, there are several different plot outcomes, depending on whether you release or retire certain replicants, and also on random events that are determined at the start of the game, such as whether certain characters actually are replicants.
And right now I'm in an odd situation. Eve just introduced me to this Sindome MOO. (a MOO is a MUD that was written in an object-oriented language. A MUD, in turn, is basically an old-fashioned, text-based precursor to the MMORPG. yeah...yeah, I know.) I can feel, in my bones, that this is a game that will send me into the throes of uncontrollable fascination if I let it. I can't decide whether this is something to look forward to, or avoid. When is an addiction worth pursuing?
Aside from just being a really good movie, it is interesting to me as an example of one of those things I have been really fixated on at some point. As you've probably noticed, this is something I do, where I obsessively devote all my attention to, say, steampunk, or David Bowie, or Star Control, or orchids. Orchids are a funny example because I'm pretty sure it was precipitated by my reading The Orchid Thief, in which Orlean in part attempts to document this very phenomenon. But yeah, a couple years ago, I decided it would be rewarding to read every analysis of every detail of Blade Runner I could find, to learn the differences between each of the releases, and to play the blade runner video game, which, in case you were curious, is an adventure game with some slightly clunky gameplay but a few fun features, like a V-K minigame in which you actually administer the empathy test to people whom you think are replicants, and also it is one of those games where, appropriately enough, there are several different plot outcomes, depending on whether you release or retire certain replicants, and also on random events that are determined at the start of the game, such as whether certain characters actually are replicants.
And right now I'm in an odd situation. Eve just introduced me to this Sindome MOO. (a MOO is a MUD that was written in an object-oriented language. A MUD, in turn, is basically an old-fashioned, text-based precursor to the MMORPG. yeah...yeah, I know.) I can feel, in my bones, that this is a game that will send me into the throes of uncontrollable fascination if I let it. I can't decide whether this is something to look forward to, or avoid. When is an addiction worth pursuing?
posted by Evan at 1:36 PM
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Never, except when it's one in which you can loll (and lol) with me. Please don't give up on this game. It's more than the sum of its admins.
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