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theoutersun:

fig. 2 ~ Protostar

stars are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust, when a gravitational “center” develops in a molecular cloud

Gamification in Spaaace

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interdome:

chaz-gelf:

sixmilliondeadinternets:

Gandhi has been historically the most aggressive character in Civilization due to an original bug in the first game that caused him to go all-out once he reaches democracy. They just kept the thing going ever since.

To further explain this bug, because I was chatting with mothmonarch about Civilization and other strategy games last night and I never got around to explaining this fully, but I love this story:

Gandhi’s AI in the original game had its aggression set to the absolute minimum (0 on a scale of 0 to 10, I believe, I may have this wrong but the basic idea I’m about to explain is accurate, as far as I can tell). Adopting democracy lowers an AI civ’s aggression by 2 points, so when someone who is fully peaceful loses two points of aggression, they should still be nice and polite, right?

Except this is an old DOS game, and so computer math is in place. What actually happened was that Gandhi’s aggression level ticked backwards two steps, from 0 to 255. On a scale of 0 to 10, Gandhi is now 255 points of pure nuclear rage.

And that’s the story as I recall it, but again I may have gotten some details wrong, so feel free to correct me! After that, as the original poster said, the devs loved the bug so much that they just kept it in as a running joke!

Automation: glitching warfare since 19xx

Once we’ve learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

Jack Kirby (via totallyradism)

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The Owls Are Not What They Seem by Joshua Budich

xombiedirge:

The Owls Are Not What They Seem by Joshua Budich / Twitter / Tumblr

18” X 24” 3 color screen print, S/N edition of 150.

Part of the David Lynch tribute art show, In Dreams, opening Saturday, March 8th 2014, at Spoke Art / Tumblr

On the heels of the immense commercial and critical success of Luther, Idris Elba has set up a new TV project – an adventure/thriller mini-series titled Ascension.

Elba has teamed with producer Vivek J. Tiwary and writer Warren Ellis for the new series which revolves around “the history and future of astronomy and mankind’s impulse for the stars,” says Deadline. The story is based on an original idea by Tiwary and his wife, Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary.

Elba, who will also act as exec producer, will play two leads in the project – the Egyptian polymath Imhotep in 3000 B.C., and a brilliant astronomer in the near future.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/idris-elba-will-play-imhotep-brilliant-astronomer-in-new-adventure-tv-miniseries-ascension (Note – published 2012)

Two channels over this is in its third season, the Charlie Jade spin-off movie just came out, but you’re off to see a midnight screening of cult classic The Fountain starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.

“This is not real, it is merely the limitation of our senses, which are meager devices. Your angers and your griefs and your separations are a fevered hallucination, one suffered by us all. Your prisoners of light and matter … this world is a veil, and the face you wear is not your own … in the end, we will find ourselves at the beginning, and we will at last know ourselves, and our true faces will weep in his light and those tears will feel like a warm rain.”

Me, IRL… one dimension, one channel, over.

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