If I friended you and you are curious as to how I found your journal and why I bothered to friend you, the reason is this: I find the subjects of discussion on your journals fascinating.  I once studied them!  I'm using the "friendship" online as a means of cataloging observations on the subject matter, so that I can follow the online discussions ( Read more... )

Porn is a world of ups and downs.  Only now, after writing that, do I really the enormous potential my opening sentence has for double entendre.  It could mean "oh ups and downs, like how some of it is really good and some of it is really creepy," or  "oh ups and downs, like how a babe's BIG-OL-TITTIES bounce up and down when she is being plowed by ( Read more... )

People developing emotional attachment to machines:

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Machines being considered alive:

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It seemed to me, that a major sticking point of Aarseth's argument against games was that what theorists are attempting to analyze is something that is not intended for analysis.  The statement I'm referring to is "games are not new, but very old, probably older than stories.  It could even be argued that games are older than human culture, since ( Read more... )

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Weizenbaum argued that the degree to which computers should be given power over humans should be controlled on the grounds that we will come to rely on them and modify ourselves based on our usage of them, when in fact the computers will not be able to handle the responsibility given them. That we would be stiffling our own progress in doing such ( Read more... )

I was reading over the 10 Questions to Michael Snow again for the sake of question two (I've been skipping around, I did one first and then skipped to three because I had to do it at work), and in the process of doing so, I found a meaning for myself in Wavelength.  Granted, much like when I had to read Piers Plowman last semester, finding meaning ( Read more... )

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It is only a portion of the movie.  Reminds me of similar reactions I myself had...

I think it was Ross that said something along the lines of "the reader did not have much control."  Those were the exact words that crossed my mind as I was reading it as well.  It was like all we had in terms of control, was a spring-board to another plot as we plodded through disjointed parts of one to another.  After reading that other people ( Read more... )

The concept of hypertext as Moutlthrop puts it, "the operating principle of an open and dynamic medium, a consensual canon with a minimum of hierarchical impedances and a fundamental instability in those hierarchies it maintains" seems to mirror the same reason we as a class communicate on livejournal rather than on blackboard (of course minus the ( Read more... )