Archive for July, 2007
What is the resolution of the real world? How small are the smallest things in the Universe? Thousands of years ago, philosophers reasoned that there was a limit to how many times you could cut a given object in half; they called this smallest unit of matter an atom. Now, it has […]
Yesterday I vaguely described the sense in which I believed that hacker subculture, scientific subculture, and video game subculture could be similarly conceptualized. Today I found myself wondering exactly what it was about these examples that make them different from every other culture that relies on tools.
Take, for example, trucker subculture. There are certainly languages, […]
Looking back over my posts on storytelling in Bungie’s upcoming Halo 3, I noticed that I had made an error in my interpretation of the press release. Apparently, Halo 3 will include a campaign mode that will enable single players to slaughter hordes of aliens, and will therefore not be strictly multiplayer. […]
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