DukeZhou

Bias towards humanity. 仁

[DukeZhou @DZhou108]

Games have been around for at least 5000 years, as long as the abacus. Turns out games are also a type of computer. Games represent the profoundest interaction between humans and algorithms—games are themselves algorithms and play is fundamentally a form of communication.

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@IFC Where else are you going to get a hero who has a sword fight with the person he's protecting, while simultaneously in a gun fight with the bad guys?

Year of the Rabbit takes the police procedural to new heights!

[DukeZhou @DZhou108]

It's the perfect cop show--kinetic, hard hitting, walks the razors edge, every time.

Rabbit is the ideal detective--hard drinking, insensible to danger, able to catch arrows with his bare hands.

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WANTED. 🐰 Watch the season finale of #YearOfTheRabbit Wed at 10:30p on @IFC.

[DukeZhou @DZhou108]

@sigfpe Nice find. Stack again proves it's utility.

(Of course, in terms of influence, I suspect the Elric Saga, which has been continuously in print since the 70's was what really got it out there and into the mainstream. Def want to read the Poul Anderson novella now though!)

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@tprstly No one bats 1000! (I chose Zombies because their Decca Singles are probably my favorite tracks from that era.)

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@tprstly You forgot to include Frankensteins!

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@sigfpe Been a long time since I read Nietzsche, but I suppose the notion is reflected in the Apollo/Dionysus dichotomy.

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@sigfpe Yeah. Trashy and great. I recently re-read Jerry Cornelius Chronicles and there's just nothing like it.

Not to mention, Neil Gaiman identified Moorcock as potentially his most important influence:

https://t.co/eBHtjQbgQe

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@sigfpe I think the philosophical notion was treated by Nietzsche, and might have ancient roots, but again, in terms of introducing it into popular literature, I can't recall any strong antecedents.

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@sigfpe Here's another early use:

1899 F. W. O. Ward Eng. Roses iv. 433 Within, without, nowhere and everywhere; Now bedrock of the mighty Multiverse, And then the thinnest wreath of thinnest cloud Inpalpable.

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@sigfpe I think that's where the term was first coined, but, based on how popular the notion became in speculative fiction, I would say Moorcock's recognition and usage puts him at the very top of the heap, alongside Lovecraft & Tolkien--people whose work inspired entire new mythologies.

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@sigfpe We also see his influence in Game of Thrones, not just in killing major characters and sheer brutality, but that Valyria is a clear homage to Melniboné.

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@sigfpe PS- Oxford lists this as the first occurrence:

"1895 W. James in Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 6 10 Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a multiverse, as one might call it, and not a universe."

But this in no way undermines Moorcock's first use in literature.

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@FrankLuntz Not like it's a matter of any import, where ducks should all be in a row...

(Ps it's the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, not the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, since some of the early messengers didn't seem clear on that.)

Glad to know we're in competent hands! /s

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@ZaknafienDC @LindsayPGorman (I guess it doesn't help that Pompeo has so compromised his credibility that he is dismissed, even where he raised valid concerns.)

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@ZaknafienDC @LindsayPGorman It's interesting that the acting POTUS was so focused on steel production as a strategic imperative, but everyone seems to be ignoring that telecom equipment is an actual 21st century strategic imperative.

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@Ungwhim_Gwhent @ZaknafienDC And if we were going to simply hand Iraq to Iran (as we're now preparing for a another hasty, unplanned exit) shouldn't we have striven for rapprochement, instead of tearing up the nuclear deal and manufacturing this whole crisis?

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@bensima @brokenimageheap @Austen I get that, but, in my head, it invokes images of purple jumpsuits 😉

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@JRubinBlogger (Never forget that the Iraq war was fought for fringe benefits, based on "strong intelligence" which culminated in Colin Powell's infamous speech before the UN.)

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@JRubinBlogger We shouldn't overlook the direct, immediate benefit of this attack: it's hijacked the news cycle for the foreseeable future.