I can't sleep and I don't ant to work on my thesis project. I don't know why but I'm just not in the mood and I have nothing to show for my meeting tomorrow at 8 A.M.
I also worked earlier today so I'm emotionally and physically done. I don't enjoy being around too many people for extended periods of time. I like being alone better.
All I really want right now is to play my video game and escape into a world were I am an awesome heroine who saves the galaxy from the destruction of synthetic-organic beings by uniting all of the alien/human/AI races in an all out suicide mission... sounds a lot more interesting than my real life... and I get unlimited do overs if I die.
The game that I am referring if you do not know is Mass Effect and at the current moment it happens to be (in my opinion) the greatest game ever made (aside from the worse ending ever made). The story line is brilliantly written and it actually parallels real problems/threats that we face today. The creation of true AI and what happens when the fight back, the combination of synthetic and organic life and is that the way of the future, and (above all else) humanity discovering its place among the (previously unknown) galactic community (There must be life out there, we just need to find that Mass Relay!).
I just realized while reading No Sex Please, Were Post-Human, that the game is even greater than I previously thought. Some of the papers and studies that were referenced in the excerpt I believe the writers of Mass Effect we influenced by heavily. Its late right now and I'm too tired to give examples so I will return to this later.
On a side note, No Sex Please, Were Post-Human was so incredibly hard for me to read. By the time I reached the end of a sentence I had forgotten what the beginning was about. I had to literally read it out loud and take notes/draw diagrams to decode the meaning of some sentences.
...But I guess if I had the vocabulary and knowledge, I would flaunt it too. :)
I also worked earlier today so I'm emotionally and physically done. I don't enjoy being around too many people for extended periods of time. I like being alone better.
All I really want right now is to play my video game and escape into a world were I am an awesome heroine who saves the galaxy from the destruction of synthetic-organic beings by uniting all of the alien/human/AI races in an all out suicide mission... sounds a lot more interesting than my real life... and I get unlimited do overs if I die.
The game that I am referring if you do not know is Mass Effect and at the current moment it happens to be (in my opinion) the greatest game ever made (aside from the worse ending ever made). The story line is brilliantly written and it actually parallels real problems/threats that we face today. The creation of true AI and what happens when the fight back, the combination of synthetic and organic life and is that the way of the future, and (above all else) humanity discovering its place among the (previously unknown) galactic community (There must be life out there, we just need to find that Mass Relay!).
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| All the races.. well.. almost. The Geth are missing (AI) |
I just realized while reading No Sex Please, Were Post-Human, that the game is even greater than I previously thought. Some of the papers and studies that were referenced in the excerpt I believe the writers of Mass Effect we influenced by heavily. Its late right now and I'm too tired to give examples so I will return to this later.
On a side note, No Sex Please, Were Post-Human was so incredibly hard for me to read. By the time I reached the end of a sentence I had forgotten what the beginning was about. I had to literally read it out loud and take notes/draw diagrams to decode the meaning of some sentences.
...But I guess if I had the vocabulary and knowledge, I would flaunt it too. :)
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