Red pill, blue pill
“You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”...
View ArticleRE: Red pill, blue pill @Noctua
To read the original post: http://gamersdecrypted.com/red-pill-blue-pill/ Sartre’s most famous quote has to be L’enfer, c’est les autres (Huis Clos): Hell is other people. To paraphrase a scene from...
View ArticleEx Machina analysis
Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s directorial debut, is a truly thought provoking film with a fitting ambiguous ending which should leave your mind racing. Though the film’s premise is not original...
View ArticleThoughts on A.I. – A journey through fictionalized philosophy
If A.I. is conceivable than it is arguably possible. Now if it was possible then we need to ask ourselves “Is it desirable?”. Let’s have a look at implications. The movie Ex Machina successfully blurs...
View ArticleSocial Identity and Guilds in MMORPGs
As you might have noticed by now I am always keen to know the reasons why people choose to game, especially in MMOs. The answer to this can reveal so much. So please, humour me for a second and answer...
View ArticleIdentity Crisis!
As gamers we are used to adopting new identities. We then discard them the same way a snake sheds it’s skins. We change between personalities as often as a girl changes her clothes. Want a make-over?...
View ArticlePlato’s virtual cave
As gamers we are used to switching between alternate realities by immersing ourselves into the games we play. In my article “Does gaming impact my dreams?” I discussed this subject further while musing...
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