When I first released this, I didn’t imagine it would end up being one of my most popular animations. Perception is filtered through bias - what we see in others is incomplete and we substitute whats missing with pieces of ourselves.
A lightbeam book's lightbeam is not a real light, nor does it work with a real flashlight.
It's literally a cardboard cutout of a flashlight, inserted behind a see-through page, framing a nice optical illusion, not only for kid.
Microsoft is making the original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games open-source today. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork games and allow others to learn from it https://t.co/7o78aacGwQ
I used to believe this too, but now I recognize what enormous hubris and ignorance it required to look at my dreams and tell myself it was nothing but a meaningless ball of synaptic firings. I had dreams in which I was torn apart by angels disguised as demons, and had a new body remade for myself. I had dreams of speaking to the ghosts of people I loved. I had dreams of lovers who disappeared into the burning center of destroyed cities. I had dreams that felt so real that I could taste their psychic viscera. Our dreams are meaningful as our waking life is meaningful, and they give us insight into who we are and what we can become. But to admit that dreams means something would mean you'd have to admit that anything meant something, and the intelligentsia of today is of the mind that everything in existence is a thin veneer of a hallucination on top of a dismal nothingness that extends deep into a void of welcoming death.