Game Changer

[heiligekuh]

I picked up Planet Puzzle Leauge again, after misplacing the DS during the move and a far-too-long dallaince with WoW.  It's still, if you like arranging blocks, a fantastic, mind-blowing version of one of the best games ever.  There's a few little annoyances in the version, but I feel petty whining about a game that gives me WiFi play and vocie

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[jeliaser]

In all fairness, it's really only a "multiplayer solitaire" in the way you describe when both players play at a fairly high level. Both players have to be good enough to achieve and maintain a moderate level of cheese-dropping, and both players have to be good enough to constantly be cheese-removing. I'm not saying that's a fantastically amazing player, but that stuff basically only happens to me on my best days. (And I've lost to you quite a number of times.) So, I hypothesize that it IS a decent vs. game, but, unfortunately, one that becomes LESS good for vs. as the level of player quality rises. Which, I suppose, makes it a crap vs. game. Point taken.

The DS game for me became unplayable when my DS decided to interpret all screen clicks 1/8 of an inch to the left. This hasn't made many games much worse, but it makes PPL unplayable. I still can't decide whether to send it in for repair or just buy a new one.

[heiligekuh]

Everything you say is true. Games play very different at different skill levels, and TA/PPL is notably suspect. When we first met Christine (now Flores), her mode of Vs. TA was to set the speed on 10 and just break whatever random shit you could and see who lasted the longest. The whole notion of dropping cheese was a brief afterthought

[jeliaser]

I am incapable of processing the information contained in the video you linked to. Was that PPL? Was he playing with the d-pad?!!

I've a suggestion for enable your future enjoyment of versus mode. Heavy narcotics. It sustained enjoyment of the game for us in the vortex.

Yeah, unfortunately, 100 bucks isn't worth it to play PPL to unemployed Iason. Employed Iason, no doubt, would feel differently. And then I wouldn't have to wrench it from M's Suduku-maddened claws.

[heiligekuh]

That was PPL, but it was a saved movie so the cursor movements seem a bit erratic (since you don't see the stylus, it looks like it's warping all over the place).

Yeah, my brain gives up on that video. There's so many simultaneous breaks, that I lose track of which is the "real" chain and which is just exploding craziness.

back to the orange juice after brushing teeth

[chcknfire04]

after last night, when i epiphinized about measuring the compressed world in a black hole, and after remember that i myself have built and programed a robot, i understood how to love math.
you have to understand that math is understanding. its beautiful. theres a formula and thyrum for everything. you just have to discover it, and do it.
thats how scientists get paid.
BINGO

Re: back to the orange juice after brushing teeth

[heiligekuh]

I have no beef with the epiphanic moment - the "upsight" of great wonder. I too have transcended the bounds of time and space. It's just really hard to keep track of a PDE while you're doing it.

And I hesitate to take the deterministic "there's a formula for everything" angle. I distinctly remember sitting in a vector calc classroom, looking at a (x,y,z) vector field and thinking how beautifully Hobsian it all was. But it fails in the big macro scale, and it fails on the tiny personal scale. It's a good local model for crude events.

There's a huge, HUGE gap between "discover it" and "do it," and that's what the drugs hide.

[chcknfire04]

you're a parade rainer.

haha.

My life's work would have to do with the reacurance of chance. I'd have to explain it to you. here's an example.

you haven't seen frank in a year,
you have a conversation about frank, or something makes you think of him.
later that day, or the day after,
you run into frank,
or he calls.

makes for an interesting discovery doesn't it?
I really think this is a gateway to understand time in a predictable way, and or peer into the future.

of course, this was before i read your response.

[heiligekuh]

Oh! The man you want to talk to is Ralph Abraham. He's a pioneer in both what mathemticians call Chaos theory, whihc is all about modleing incredibly dynamic systems, and how that connects back to . . well, this conversation to put a fine point on it

[heiligekuh]

Just wanted to let you know that I've been having one of those weeks, where a dozen random disparate chains of thought seem to be leading you to specific people and binding you together in amazing and unexpected ways.

I do have a tendency to be a parade-rainer at times, but I was glad you shared this series of thoughts with me.