@vagabondsun I mean, yeah, I get you; I have noticed this being a real common thing in cinema in general these days, they don't want to take ANY time on travel stuff. I think also of the 20-second trip into the depths of uncharted space at the end of The Force Awakens. 9.9
@vagabondsun DO IT. :D
@vagabondsun (Also those rabbits have very short legs so everything's gonna seem farther away. ;))
@vagabondsun Okay TBH this actually kinda vibed really reasonably for me? I mean, I lived in a rural subdivision like, half an hour away from the smallish city, and an hour away from the "Big City." And my anxious protective parents were always really anxious about like, any of that, and also just for me, even going to the nearby city seemed like a huge liberating thing sometimes.
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@vagabondsun Sounds fair. :)
Tonight I hand-wrote three and a half pages of formal correspondence in a constructed script of my own design, by far the most I've ever written in that script at once.
Tomorrow, or sometime this week, I'll burn all the pages, along with several other pages written by other folks.
This weekend I will deposit the ashes at a specific location in New Mexico.
This spiritwork stuff gets real weird sometimes.
Thought from reading the first ~20% of Ruin of Angels
@starkatt Considering it's the Iskari, wouldn't meeting Outer Horrors be sort of the POINT? ;)
2. The way I understand it, the original flawed research that showed enforced dynamics, dominance challenges, etc, was based on animals in captivity, while wolves in the wild turn out to live in fairly simple nuclear family units. That basically means that what we see about Alphas/Betas/etc could be taken as an example of (admittedly forced) 'found family' organization. And this actually maps to the sorts of packs you usually see when it comes to fiction and animal-people culture.
@Ferrovore Assuming you're talking about wolf 'pack hierachy' here and not blood-types:
What's still interesting to me about the whole thing is twofold:
1. The standard observation I've heard others make about "this reflects more on human behavior than wolf behavior, because humans are the ones doing the interpretation", which also helps explain why folks growing up in human society keep finding it resonant in fiction...
BUT ALSO:
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@typhlosion I did not know words like screen buffer, this was just the first thing that occurred to me. XD
(Oddly enough I think the higest-speed CA programs now use shaders to do it on the graphics card, don't they. ;))
@typhlosion I mean, I was literally doing the 2D automata by _checking the color of the pixels on the previous line_ so.
@typhlosion And yeah I spent a WHILE trying to figure out how to do Life in the TI-82; it was pretty hard because it requires keeping the next-state matrix in memory and I don't think I knew about multidimensional arrays then. XD
@typhlosion I haven't read ANKoS either but could NOT ESCAPE discussion of it when I was in college.
And I was there like "yes these exhibit a variety of different behaviors indeed, I have seen several of them" ;)
@typhlosion Basically this is all because one of my dad's coworkers pre-installed Fractint on the family 386 before giving it to us. I remember the first night we had that thing sitting at the kitchen table during dinner, just watching it render stuff. ^.^
@typhlosion Hell yeah, I was exploring 2d cellular automata years before ANKoS was published. :D I also did some hopalong and IFS stuff.
@typhlosion Hi I don't consider myself a coder anymore but I did write myself a mandelbrot renderer on my TI-82.
I copied it from a website but still.
@typhlosion Oh is THAT how that works. I'm actually really embarassed I didn't figure that out even after you showed the gradient you used.
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