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Post by chucky_z »

misterkrabs wrote: post #166
nine_k wrote: post #137

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It's like saying that Alice in Wonderland or Wind in the Willows are mere... books... Games are an art form, completely on par with books, paintings, or movies. I'd say they are one of the most important art forms of our times.

I used to believe that games were an art form - but I just can't get behind them being completely on par with books, etc. The writing is often so terrible... I wish I could think of a single video game that touched me like The Brothers Karamazov or Les Miserables.

Try Outer Wilds (not Outer Worlds). There's a lot of games that are more vehicles of storytelling rather than what is a traditional videogames.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by forgot-my-pw »

mplanchard wrote: post #168

I know this is not a particularly useful comment, but I love this so much. The attention to detail is incredible, the art is lovely, the song is so nice. I love the sentiment in the statement and philosophy. It reminds of katamary damacy. The more I look at it, the more impressed I am. Re: the detail, occasionally, the little blocks will randomly run into each other. When they do, they roll /over/ each other! Re: per…

It runs on my phone, very impressive!

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by kizer »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #130
ksec wrote: post #5

Attention: It nearly flipping fried my CPU. But awesome site. Tested On both Safari and Chrome on macOS. 100% CPU usage when scrolling. Edit: On WOW, from the comments I decide to try it on my iPhone 11. Ultra Smooth Rendering with Music ( which wasn't even playing on my Mac ). And my phone isn't even warm after a minutes of playing around. Amazing Which makes me wonder. Why?

Woah, you are right! I just checked my Chrome task manager (Shift+Esc on Linux). It is never less than 50% CPU at top of page in 3D mode. If I scroll, it jumps to > 100% CPU! The tab is using 250MB of RAM. And to think I am working on a ridiculously over-powered workstation w/ 3.8 GHz cores & 4K screens!

All the bloat of the many abstraction layers. Also maybe (some of) the rendering is happening in the CPU; didn't check to see how they did it.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by chrisco255 »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #123
chrisco255 wrote: post #30

Besides being a beautiful website, I was rather touched by their call to action: "Seeking stability only clouds your soul. Fear of failing only kills the seeds of innovation. We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. We must create a freer future where people are eager to truly live." It's hard not to love Nintendo. Also TLDR for those that didn't sc…

As a non-native who has lived in Japan for many years, but then moved to another country in Asia... I disagree with the regular stream of negative English language news about Japan. It is still a wonderful culture, people, and country. And ignore the "GDP" stuff. You will read the same about Italy in English language newspapers. And (South) Korea. Both are also beautiful countries with great food and very high qualit…

The GDP growth and sense that Japan is falling behind is what the family claims is their motivating factor.

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Post by kwhitefoot »

misterkrabs wrote: post #166
nine_k wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like saying that Alice in Wonderland or Wind in the Willows are mere... books... Games are an art form, completely on par with books, paintings, or movies. I'd say they are one of the most important art forms of our times.

I used to believe that games were an art form - but I just can't get behind them being completely on par with books, etc. The writing is often so terrible... I wish I could think of a single video game that touched me like The Brothers Karamazov or Les Miserables.

> The writing is often so terrible

This is also true of the vast majority of books ever written.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by nine_k »

misterkrabs wrote: post #166
nine_k wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like saying that Alice in Wonderland or Wind in the Willows are mere... books... Games are an art form, completely on par with books, paintings, or movies. I'd say they are one of the most important art forms of our times.

I used to believe that games were an art form - but I just can't get behind them being completely on par with books, etc. The writing is often so terrible... I wish I could think of a single video game that touched me like The Brothers Karamazov or Les Miserables.

But most books are terrible, too! If we want to pick masterpieces, then you will easily come up with a bunch, from Loom and Star Control II all the way to Disco Elysium.

But masterpieces are few. For each cartridge full of second-rate mindless 8-bit games there is a pack of books by Barbara Cartland, or whatnot.

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Post by aikinai »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #160
aikinai wrote: post #156

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Your point is orthogonal to the stagnation issue. Yes, Japan is still a wonderful place to live, the best in the world I’d personally say. But it is most certainly stagnating. There’s enough momentum, cultural advantage, and existing wealth to continue to carry it forward for quite a while, but the energy and ambition is gone. That’s what GP was describing and that’s what the Yamauchi family is targeting. I also love…

Thank you for your honest reply. Here is a thought experiment about growth: What if Google never grew again, but maintained the same revenues and profits going forward? To be clear: Their stock price would crash because portfolio theory teaches us that stock price is an indication of future earnings growth. This is what Japan looks like in my mind: Very rich and developed by global standards, but mostly economically…

I completely agree with your first point; that's a good analogy. Japan is very successful and stable, but shows no signs of future growth potential.

I wasn't talking about rebuilding after the disaster; I know they're doing that (and I also pay the tax). I was talking about lighting the fire of ambition and innovation in Japan again. At the time I had hope that the scale of the disaster and impact on the nation's psyche might be enough to awaken the spirit again like the Meiji Restoration or the Economic Miracle. However, all that happened is they committed to rebuilding and turned off a lot of the lights.

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Post by clairity »

dtwest wrote: post #144
Atreiden wrote: post #134

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We need to get past using GDP as a measure of success, quality of life, etc. Its a measure of gross product, which includes negative externalities. A company pollutes a nearby river and manages to avoid responsibility, so public funds are required to clean it up. The money the company made by polluting, as well as the cost of cleanup, both contribute positively to GDP. GDP can in some ways be thought of as a measure…

The issue is that success and quality of life are subjective. While it would be great to measure them the same way we measure GDP, I do not think it is possible to do so without using many different metrics. You are correct that GDP is being misused if people suggest it is a measure of success or quality of life. GDP is what it is, a measure of economic activity (any economic activity, more than just conversion of na…

> "You are correct that GDP is being misused if people suggest it is a measure of success or quality of life. GDP is what it is, a measure of economic activity (any economic activity, more than just conversion of natural resources into monetary capital)."

gdp (and gnp before that) has been trumped up and misused by the mediopolitical machine for decades, so this has (unfortunately) become a distinction without a real difference.

rather than a resource-oriented view (stuff getting turned into money) as the gp posited, i'd suggest that economic activity should be viewed as the total (levered) labor production of the population instead. this makes it more about the flows rather than the stocks, a dynamic measure rather than a static one. it also centers the discussion around the attribute we centrally value and should be focused on, productive activity, not merely any economic activity, which can be entirely unproductive, as we see with more and more capital concentrating without productive purpose.

no matter what, you'd still need to discriminate and discount activity caused by negative externalities, as the gp astutely pointed out. but that could be a simple as adding a minus sign in front of that activity, as the term itself suggests.

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Post by criddell »

xyzzyz wrote: post #164
criddell wrote: post #158

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If I pay you $1 trillion to write a song and you pay me $1 trillion to draw a picture, we have just increased the GDP by $2 trillion yet nobody is better off.

You would never do it, though, because you’d owe whole bunch of money to the government.

If we do this under our respective businesses and our net profits are both $0, what money would be owed?
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