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Men, Writing, Etc.
plaidadder: So, while for some reason everyone here is engulfed in one of tumblr’s periodic debates about whether or how to police writing done largely by women for women for free, in the world of contemporary fiction there’s a meltdown going on right now over men who get paid for writing literature, and the men…
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azspot: “Throughout Teilhard’s lifetime, Catholicism still adhered to the picture of an essentially static and unchanging cosmos. During the last century, however, Teilhard became one of the very few Christian thinkers to acknowledge that the Darwinian revolution and contemporary cosmology … [have] important implications for theology. In the first place, … the sciences have shown…
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azspot: “To worship was formerly to prefer God to things, relating them to him [sic] and sacrificing them for him. To worship is now becoming to devote oneself body and soul to the creative act, associating oneself with that act in order to fulfill the world by hard work and intellectual exploration.” — Pierre Teilhard…
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protoslacker: “See the bomb robot is interesting because, until it blew someone up, and the robot itself was seen as a weapon, bomb robots were pretty non-controversial, ya know? Everyone was in agreement that sending a robot in to diffuse a bomb was going to save a human (potentially). It was a no brainer. But…
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nerdgasrnz: lore: you can replenish your health by…: drinking water, breathing fresh air, eating a wild strawberry… you can restore your mana by…: listening to folk music, breathing fresh air applies to this one as well… taking a walk… I suddenly feel less pessimistic about these suggestions for improving mental health purely bc it’s worded…
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Detroit: Become Human (2018) -Exploitative Sci-Fi for Gamers
videogamesincolor: The Following article contains major spoilers for Detroit: Become Human Folk can’t quite believe DBH’s player base loves Markus by an 80% plus margin. It’s like Grey’s Anatomy doesn’t exist or something. On some level, Quantic Dream’s video games following Beyond: Two Souls are going to be a mechanical refinement of their gameplay, and…