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I really enjoy watching videos like this for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeTfiBWZzU It's not quite the same but I felt it's relevant.
It's interesting how the pedestrians walk on the "wrong" side. I guess you can attribute it to Japan having left-hand traffic.
One Halloween I logged into Ultima Online, and found I had been transformed into a deer. I could walk around and do deer stuff, but no weapons or magic or talking. Then some hippie bastard came along and tamed me! [1] I had to follow him all around and do what he told me to from then on, on that terrible day. [1] http://uo2.stratics.com/skill-guides/skills-and-professions/...
This simultaneously allowed for some amazing emergent behavior (such as this deer experience) and some really regrettable incidents where an admin would be, for example, manually deleting trash someone had left lying around on a path and accidentally clicked delete on a player's avatar, removing that player "permanently" from the game (I think they were able to solve it via a full state rollback, but at the cost of other players' progress to resurrect one player).
is this the next step after "Twitch plays..."?
One Halloween I logged into Ultima Online, and found I had been transformed into a deer. I could walk around and do deer stuff, but no weapons or magic or talking. Then some hippie bastard came along and tamed me! [1] I had to follow him all around and do what he told me to from then on, on that terrible day. [1] http://uo2.stratics.com/skill-guides/skills-and-professions/...
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There are some beautiful videos showing 9+ hour plus train journeys across the Norwegian countryside, which also make for great background visuals while coding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY1sbKvjNcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIdnzamYDmQ&feature=iv&src_v...
Honest question: do you have these running on a second (3rd?) monitor when coding? Or in a small window? Or where?
Yesterday, I stopped during my run and watched 5 deer grazing in the woods. It was great to be outside and in nature.
I see deer on a fairly regular basis when commuting to and from work. They usually get spooked by the train and run away, though (I mean, I would, too, if I was a deer). But from my office I see a fairly large field surrounded by meadows, and sometimes deer will come there to graze. Having grown up in the city, I never cease to enjoy this deeply. (Sometimes, grey herons will walk around on the field. I have no clue w…
It's a nice memory to offset the sheer terror of driving down a highway at night with heavy woods on either side waiting for a deer to stupidly jump out in front of you.
Read a paper few years ago that Slow TV[^1] will become popular in the digital era. I couldn't believe it at the time. And here we are. I guess it's a logical step to fight speed of current era. It did a sudden takeoff even in my country - Prague tram-cam is the best[^2]. [^1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television [^2]: http://slowtv.playtvak.cz/prave-ted-mazaci-tramvaj-jede-prah...
I'm curious how much work this is. Was the deer an existing character in the game that they repurposed via a simple hack, or did they have to model and animate the deer, write a bunch of AI for it, etc.
There are deer in the game.
One Halloween I logged into Ultima Online, and found I had been transformed into a deer. I could walk around and do deer stuff, but no weapons or magic or talking. Then some hippie bastard came along and tamed me! [1] I had to follow him all around and do what he told me to from then on, on that terrible day. [1] http://uo2.stratics.com/skill-guides/skills-and-professions/...
I've heard from industry experts that Ultima Online developers gained an entire lifetime's experience in how to create an MMO, the positive and the negative. What subsequent games would divide into different categories for safety's sake (players vs. objects vs. enemies vs. items), UO lumped together in a very general way. This simultaneously allowed for some amazing emergent behavior (such as this deer experience) an…
What this brings up is that the surveillance inherent in social media is different from traditional surveillance. As more-and-more websites encourage you to log into your social media account to use their website, so the degree to which other people can see what websites you are browsing. Its a gradual increase in sousveillance of one's own browsing habits for your online social network to see.
I am not criticizing anyone, but merely remarking at the growth of, for instance, Facebook beyond Facebook.com.
Edit: I just noticed the check box. It is actually optional, in this case, whether to make your comment appear on Facebook.com. Nevertheless, people's real names are appearing thereon.