Barry Mitchelson

Such a shame that the concept of fitness-faking never caught on, given its ever-increasing pertinence. When I came into it a few years back, it completely changed my relationship with games. - Steven Bailey

Fitness faking? Eh what? - Joff

http://seedmagazine.com/content... - Steven Bailey

Oh yes! THIS. This is a totally important thing. I think that the point for a lot of our generation came when games stopped being about exploring an entirely new phase space, where games were a genuine undiscovered country, and just became about positive feedback. I have this with most of fiction too, now: I used to think it went on and on forever, but now I think it's about enacting... more... - Joff

That stuff about the Fermi Paradox was solved once people realised that interstellar travel probably isn't practical FULL FUCKING STOP and that communication signals turn from easily-discernable analogue waveforms to raw digital noise in a 50-80 year time frame, making the chances of any two civilisations detecting each other, without knowing each other's encoding methods, incredibly... more... - Tont Coles

Screw you Coles, we are going to the stars. You first. Go on. Go on. Get out of here. Up you go. - Joff

No Joff, we're not. Robots might, but not us. Stellar-scale distances are just too fucking big - when you have best-case stuff relying heavily on relativistic time-stretching to get anywhere meaningful in a human lifespan (while ignoring things like maintenence of machinery, energy generation, structural integrity of vehicles moving at such speeds, the chance of colliding with some dust - yes dust - at those velocities), it's a big fat "oh fuck - it's just not going to happen, is it?". - Tont Coles

That article didn't change my relationship with games by telling me things. It did it by leading me to think things, through brain-article alchemy of acceptance and rejection. Awesome. - Steven Bailey

Robots, eh? Okay, robots then. - Joff

P.S. TONT! let's get married and move to Russia. - Steven Bailey

That's not the sort of thing you put in a PS. - Joff

I am totally marrying Welsh and moving to Russia. WE WILL BE KINGS. - Tont Coles

This doesn't mean actual retail style PS3's though, does it? Surely all they want is the cell and control chips? The PS3 kit they use to power the 'stitch' on the Premier League is rack-mounted, I think... - David Steer

Is that actual PS3 kit, Dave or IBM Cell-based server blades? - Tont Coles

I'll get back to you on that after the weekend - David Steer

I don't check the web interface a lot, I just share stuff in Google Reader. Bear in mind that there are people following me on Google Reader that aren't on Friendfeed. - Barry Mitchelson

I see. - David Steer