Escapist Podcast: 083: SimCity, Story-Based RPGs and Google Glass
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I have a really bad feeling that I don't actually know the correct definition of literally, so I'm sorry for getting it wrong for many years. Relating to that, I spelt tomorrow wrong for about 16 years. I spelt it tommorow until last year when I saw it on my predictive text. I then processed to yell at everyone I knew for not telling me I spelt it wrong for my whole life. I'm dyslexic, I will spell something wrong til I'm told otherwise.
Relating to the name thing, I really hate being called my full name. My full first name is Phillip and I get the urge to punch someone when they call me that. My name is Phil, stop calling me Phillip.
Relating to the name thing, I really hate being called my full name. My full first name is Phillip and I get the urge to punch someone when they call me that. My name is Phil, stop calling me Phillip.
Tust wanted to say the last time I tried to view the video and audio podcast it stoped working 2/3s in, but this time I got to see and hear the whole thing!
Well done on that and the show!
Well done on that and the show!
I somehow dont think the facial recognition on the google glasses would be that absolute that they would be easily able to access all your information including your address and credit card details just with a glance, the amount of hacking that would be required to do that kind of thing to a point where you could would outweigh the benefits and probably require something of a higher processing power than a phone, the chances are also that the glasses would all be registered to a user, in the case that all accounts are monitored if you have someone sitting outside a preschool it would probably be noticed since google has rights to your personal information, personal information being construed as videos taken by the user in question, and say the glasses double as a phone if phone companies sold them you would need a certain amount of information to purchase on a plan
I sent in that question about food because I figured you guys would want to talk about it anyway, so why not make it in the form of a question rather than a tangent? Funnily enough, Paul was the only one to squeeze in an answer which made me laugh.
In relation to chips and such on your body holding information, one of the coolest ideas I read in a Harry Harrison novel (called something like Space Virus) was that everyone had their medical details (ID, allergies, blood type) tattooed in ultraviolet ink on their chest and medical personnel could then use a UV light to read it.
Unfortunately English is infamous for establishing something but people just ignoring it. Prime example is when people say "Can I?" when in proper English they should say "May I?" I'm sure there is a list of things that are abused within the English language but that was one that always stood out to me.
EDIT: Plague from Space, not Space Virus. My bad.
In relation to chips and such on your body holding information, one of the coolest ideas I read in a Harry Harrison novel (called something like Space Virus) was that everyone had their medical details (ID, allergies, blood type) tattooed in ultraviolet ink on their chest and medical personnel could then use a UV light to read it.
Unfortunately English is infamous for establishing something but people just ignoring it. Prime example is when people say "Can I?" when in proper English they should say "May I?" I'm sure there is a list of things that are abused within the English language but that was one that always stood out to me.
EDIT: Plague from Space, not Space Virus. My bad.
Huh.. Susan, I thought you world talk with your hands more. Also, I'm a little concerned with your world ending viruses starting in Canada... I'm watching you!
As far as I'm concerned, there are no privacy issues with Glass. If you can be seen with eyes (due to being in public) then you have (or should not) no expectation of privacy. Unless you want to start policing where people are allowed to look with their eyes, there are no problems.
Can there please be an audio-only version On somewhere Other than itunes (I don't use itunes and never will).
My meatloaf is stuffed with hard-boiled eggs, wrapped in bacon, then glazed with a spiced tomato puree with lots of cayenne pepper, paprika and some brown sugar. The stuff that goes in the ground beef is mainly salt, pepper, garlic, diced mushrooms and diced green bell-peppers.
Once it is done roasting, I take all the pan drippings and the tomato sauce that's left (I use a whole can of puree, some of it will fall on the side, I add some water to it too so it won't burn) then I reduce it in a pot and add some water with flour mixed in to thicken it, make it into a tomato-based bacon/beef/mushroom water gravy of sorts to top the meatloaf with. I usually eat it with thick-crust crunchy bread of sorts, a glass of red wine goes well with it too.
Best. Thing. Ever.
Oh and SMT:Strange Journey does not take place in space, it takes place in the demon world. You go to the Antarctic and then there's basically a demon dimension that you get sucked into.
As for what Shin megami tensei actually is (answering Tits' question) I shall provide a history lesson!
Originally in the 80s there were a trilogy of Japanese novels called Megami Tensei. It was a story about a bullied student into programming making a program for summoning demons from the demon world which backfired and threw the world into chaos. This, got turned into a game with the same title. Shin Megami Tensei (shin meaning "new") is the series of games that spawned from that book series. It used the same myth-building of the book as a basis but it went it's own way with original characters and events.
Persona, in Japan, is actually NOT a SMT game. They just did that in the US due to brand recognition reasons. In Japan it's just persona 1,2,3,4 not SMTersona 1,2,3,4. It's entirely a spinoff series. Think of it like Devil may cry and Bayonetta. The two things have lots of similarities and they're by the same people but they're just wholly different series.
Once it is done roasting, I take all the pan drippings and the tomato sauce that's left (I use a whole can of puree, some of it will fall on the side, I add some water to it too so it won't burn) then I reduce it in a pot and add some water with flour mixed in to thicken it, make it into a tomato-based bacon/beef/mushroom water gravy of sorts to top the meatloaf with. I usually eat it with thick-crust crunchy bread of sorts, a glass of red wine goes well with it too.
Best. Thing. Ever.
Oh and SMT:Strange Journey does not take place in space, it takes place in the demon world. You go to the Antarctic and then there's basically a demon dimension that you get sucked into.
As for what Shin megami tensei actually is (answering Tits' question) I shall provide a history lesson!
Originally in the 80s there were a trilogy of Japanese novels called Megami Tensei. It was a story about a bullied student into programming making a program for summoning demons from the demon world which backfired and threw the world into chaos. This, got turned into a game with the same title. Shin Megami Tensei (shin meaning "new") is the series of games that spawned from that book series. It used the same myth-building of the book as a basis but it went it's own way with original characters and events.
Persona, in Japan, is actually NOT a SMT game. They just did that in the US due to brand recognition reasons. In Japan it's just persona 1,2,3,4 not SMT
ersona 1,2,3,4. It's entirely a spinoff series. Think of it like Devil may cry and Bayonetta. The two things have lots of similarities and they're by the same people but they're just wholly different series.I think your fears regarding Google's Glasses are pretty much unfounded. You won't be able to look at any person and get a ton of information about them unless that person has made all that information publicly available on the internet already (and maybe not even then).
Basically everything the Glasses will do already exists in the form of an Android app (named Google Goggles) that uses the phone's camera and internet connection, and it has NOWHERE near such capability. All the Glasses will do is streamline the functionality.
Simply put, such information about a person isn't available on the internet unless specifically made available.
Basically everything the Glasses will do already exists in the form of an Android app (named Google Goggles) that uses the phone's camera and internet connection, and it has NOWHERE near such capability. All the Glasses will do is streamline the functionality.
Simply put, such information about a person isn't available on the internet unless specifically made available.
A much better explanation of what I was going to say. I could literally kiss you. I will leave it up to you to decide which meaning.caravan29 said:
I remember the "awful" thing from history classes at school, it was quite an obvious one given the loading of the question that awful was essentially "awe-full", there were a bunch of others but my memory fails me on those.
Also (to the podcast), do people really not understand the original meaning? Using a word in a certain way does not exclude knowledge of other uses of the word.
Alright... WHERE IS THE AUDIO VERSION?
I really don't need to spend the extra bandwidth incurred by watching the four of you sitting statically in opposite corners of a sound-room, where we can barely see Susan or Paul, with your faces are hidden by pop filters.
Seriously... From what I can tell you're all very good looking, but unless you're going to turn the podcat into a 100 minutes of you doing Gundam Style and the Macarena
(In which case I'm going to stop watching due to displaced embarrassment) then there is very little point to actually watching the video versions of these podcasts.
Maybe if you were sitting on a couch or around a desk and we actually got to see the faces of those who were talking, you actually provided additional visual content... But you don't... So.... Why are you making me download 250MB instead of 40-90MB?
I really don't need to spend the extra bandwidth incurred by watching the four of you sitting statically in opposite corners of a sound-room, where we can barely see Susan or Paul, with your faces are hidden by pop filters.
Seriously... From what I can tell you're all very good looking, but unless you're going to turn the podcat into a 100 minutes of you doing Gundam Style and the Macarena
(In which case I'm going to stop watching due to displaced embarrassment) then there is very little point to actually watching the video versions of these podcasts.
Maybe if you were sitting on a couch or around a desk and we actually got to see the faces of those who were talking, you actually provided additional visual content... But you don't... So.... Why are you making me download 250MB instead of 40-90MB?
It's possible that they do, but using "literally" wrong either means you're ignorant of its meaning (which I'd suspect is usually the case) or that you're choosing to use it stupidly (i.e., in a way that makes you sound foolish and hinders, rather than enhances, communication).Zykon TheLich said:
Seconded. Obviously you guys have no obligation to change things just to accommodate those of us who don't want to waste the extra bandwidth, but I'd imagine that the audio and video components are recorded separately in the first place and it seems (although maybe it's not) like it should be simple enough to put a direct download link for the audio-only version and it would be very much appreciated by... well, at least me and TAdamson.TAdamson said:
Edit: As others have mentioned, the privacy concerns re: Google glasses don't really make much sense. I don't mean that it's silly for you to have them or to be upset, but that, a) at least at this stage, it'll be woefully obvious if someone's wearing google glasses, b) it's not going to be accessing information that doesn't already exist and isn't already accessible, and c) at least in your hypothetical scenario, the person would have to see you to do any of the privacy invasion in the first place. ...so if your concern is that someone will see you, then decide to look up your address to do you harm... that doesn't really make sense. If someone can see you, they can already (although they sure as fuck shouldn't) do you harm.
Also, it seems like using Google glasses to help you commit crimes would just help put you in prison faster and harder given the digital trail it would leave (not that it wouldn't happen, as people currently brag about their crimes on facebook). Kind of relevant to the topic: there're apparently sites that have massive compilations of fake personal information (like this: http://www.xdd.org/) to screw with the system and help hide real personal information that's floating around.