Minor Premise

Scientist messes with his own mind and fractures his personality into ten different ones which each take over for about six minutes; with one of them being a bad guy, he has to fight himself.

Enjoyable, although I can't say I was blown away.

The Kik - "De Ware Jacob"

iggy @ bbc6 - 2021-04-02

* Lael Neale - "Acquainted with Night"
Very slow, no beat, female vocal and just a single instrument.

Meek's Cutoff

Harsh western about a group of people traveling west who are getting more and more desperate when they cannot find water.  Slow, hardly anything happens; still, good movie.

Tommy Wieringa - "Gedachten over onze tijd"

Otfried Preussler - "Krabat (Legend of the satanic mil)" ( Krabat / Meester van de Zwarte Molen)

Strange to read in English.  Sometimes the words and sentences sounded strange, like a bad translation.

Still an amazing story.

Taxi Driver

 1976!

Finally saw it.  Good.

Soulmates

Supposed to be – or that was just my impression – similar to Black Mirror, but utterly lacking the story telling.  The consequences of this soul particle are of no importance; these are just "thinking you (can) find true love" stories.

Didn't finish.

(char)lie, (char)lotte - amazing programming

 Wonderfully obfuscated C-code

https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/03/30/signed-char-lotte.html

Huberman Lab podcast on sleep

 Amazing scientific podcast on sleep.

Mice and rats like to run so much: they've done a test where they put a wheel in a field and mice ran to it and started using it.  Seems they like the visual of the horizontal bars moving?!

[ep 5] Revisit! Talks about the three chemicals necessary for proper learning.

[ep 6] Error and frustration, while learning something, including motor skills like balancing, increase the plasticity of the brain.  Use this while learning? 

Also, the brain is quite adept at learning but that works better in small increments.

 

[ep 7] 

Errors while learning: embrace them. These errors signal to your brain that things need to change. Be intentional about learning (focus/tunnel vision) and be intentional about making mistakes: the more intentional and enjoyable your mistakes are, the more plasticity of your brain will improve.

Balance! Vestibular motor sensory relationship is key for heightened and/or accelerated plasticity: find things you're not good at, balance wise (yoga if you're not good at yoga). Almost falling, or actually falling, triggers your brain into very alert "need to change" mode, increasing plasticity.

 

Iraina Mancini - "Deep End"

Your Honor

 great series about a good judge trying to protect his son who did a hit-and-run of a mob's son.

Gaming read ups, from crazy heist stories to debugging

 EVE Online stuff, biggest battle, breaking of 

* https://www.pcgamer.com/eve-onlines-biggest-ever-battle-trillions-of-isk-in-damages-and-over-70-titans-lost/

* https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-bloodbath-of-b-r5rb

* https://www.pcgamer.com/inside-the-biggest-heist-in-eve-online-history/

* https://www.pcgamer.com/ccp-issue-final-battle-report-on-eve-onlines-most-destructive-battle-will-erect-permanent-memorial/

* Hard Knocks battle - https://www.pcgamer.com/the-impossible-year-long-plan-to-destroy-eve-onlines-deadliest-fortress/

Corrupted Blood in WoW

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident

GTA Online loading times cut by 70%

* https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/index.html

the greatest game - video games and philosophy

 interesting podcast by OK Beast about a very philosophical approach to video games.

all allowed places in the phase space are the horizon of action

but the horizon of intent is all the allowed actions you are familiar with

the intersection of horizon of action and horizon of intent is often what play is.

 

satisfaction: when desired outcomes are possible through your actions, rather, desirable location in the play phase is possible through action.

Western society - since Plato - tend to believe there's one truth behind everything.  "art is the shadow of a shadow". And people therefore walk into a museum and ask "what does it mean". But is this the right attitude?

The artist cannot guide the intentions and interpretations of the viewer, just like the game designer cannot guide the way the player plays the game.

Quote from the book he constantly refers to: "Material, by contrast, is what artists work with. It is the sum of all that is available to them, including words, colours, sounds, associations of every sort and every technique. To this extent, form too can become material. It is everything that artists encounter about which they need to make a decision."

game space

play space

phase

horizon

iggy pop 2021-03-05

• Beth Orton - "For Today I am a boy" (Goodnight songs for rebel girls)
  
• Jarvis Cocker - "I Never Said I was Deep"
• clipping - "say the name"
• Rufus Thomas - "Do the funky penguin" (funny)
  

Nat King Cole - "That's All"

 

Tell me your secrets

 Dark gothic series about the girlfrined of a mass murderer who gets caught up in the revenge of a mother of one of her victims, a less-than-clean shrink, and all in the gothic underbelly of America.

Some of the muted electronic score reminds me of the Utopia score.

Walter M. Miller Jr - "A Canticle for Leibowitz"

bbc6 stuff

• the Coral - "Faceless Angel"

ambergris

ambergris - "hardened whale feces"

petrichor - the sublime scent emitted when rain hits rock or pavement