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...Wright. In 1981, after five years of bouncing around three colleges without graduating, Wright decided to try his hand at writing a computer game. He called it Raid on Bungeling Bay. "It was basically a pretty stupid fly-around-in-a-helicopter-and-shoot-people game," he admits. The object was to fly over various islands and bomb them back to the Stone Age. But Wright became fascinated with these tiny islands. He found himself spending hours giving each one a detailed, working infrastructure--tiny people in tiny factories loading products onto tiny ships. "Pretty soon," he remembers, "I figured...
...game's genius lies in exactly what should have made it a flop: its mundanity. Instead of transporting players to another place and time, it offers them familiar, everyday situations. The object of the game, to the extent that it has one, is to keep your Sims--your digital alter egos--well fed, solvent, healthy, entertained and, in short, happy. The game never formally ends: you can keep on living your simulated life as long as you like...
...came across something the other day that struck me: an essay by Joyce, on the subject of epiphanies. He defined them as moments when the “soul of the commonest object seems to us radiant.” And so I began to wonder when it last was that anything had shone at Harvard, radiantly...
Remember free-body diagrams? Here’s a problem for you. Object A, the ball, is about to hurtle downward at a 45-degree angle, and your job is to figure out whether or not it will make contact with Projectile A, a receiver shot out like a cannon from a slant-and-go route and accelerating with every step. Ignore Projectile B, the defender a few steps behind, for a moment. He doesn’t matter...
...victims were able to positively identify the remaining suspects, and HUPD arrested one of them—the individual who had displayed an object which appeared to be a knife...