Week 4 chat

10:03:45 From Santanilla Mario to Everyone:
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10:09:26 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    The Real Housewives, Ponyo, and *The Sims*—all pop culture staples, all inspirations for Ian Cheng’s epic Emissaries
    What are some commonalities we can draw from these pop culture staples?
10:10:36 From Ben Hooker to Everyone:
    Do people know the references?
10:12:07 From Ben Hooker to Everyone:
    (Oh right — they’re mentioned in the interview :slightly_smiling_face: )
10:13:09 From Maxim Safioulline to Everyone:
    Something about internal logic native to that world, but maybe alien to others
10:17:12 From christie wu to Everyone:
    They are all constructing a simulation and allow the actors play by the rules within its own world
10:17:47 From Gao Yining to Everyone:
    Goblin Artist in Sims: https://www.thecut.com/article/i-think-about-my-painting-goblin-in-the-sims-a-lot.html
10:17:48 From Santanilla Mario to Everyone:
    Is the day-to-day a world building exercise?
10:20:32 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    Why is worldbuilding/ speculative fiction so effective?
10:22:09 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    What are some of the methods in which speculative fiction leads the eye to recognize one thing as a sign of another thing?
10:22:43 From Gao Yining to Everyone:
    “Worldbuilding acts as a backdrop for emotionally resonant human experiences as well as the mundane, everyday life. ”
10:22:47 From Zhiyan Wang to Everyone:
    The immersive feeling, the timeless feeling and forward looking inspriation
10:24:20 From Qianyue Yuwen to Everyone:
    “because narratives are processed differently than other forms of information, leveraging storytelling and worldbuilding may allow us to challenge societal values without antagonizing protected values.”
10:26:27 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    “The description of Anastasia awakens desires one at at time only to force you to stifle them”
    I read this with the intention of finding clues that could lead me to a deeper understanding of the text. What is the author gesturing towards?
10:28:04 From Qianyue Yuwen to Everyone:
    Do stories happened in Emissaries interpreted by our own worldview?
10:28:19 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    What are some of your favorite speculative fictions? How did they impact you? i.e. books and films
10:30:05 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    What are ways in which science fiction/speculative fiction induces a renaissance ? Are there examples?
10:30:08 From Noah Curtis to Everyone:
    Gattaca
10:30:36 From Yue to Everyone:
    Story of your life
10:32:07 From Ben Hooker to Everyone:
    Incomplete but precise worldbuilding
10:35:51 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    “A good story about a possible future, with its drama, sensory detail, and nuances is psychologically more compelling and realistic than an abstract futurist scenario or statistical prediction.”
10:37:11 From Elise Co (she/her) to Everyone:
    Yorgos Lanthimos
10:40:33 From Maxim Safioulline to Everyone:
    whale songs
10:41:23 From Gao Yining to Everyone:
    Tolkin and the Middle Earth: https://middle-earth.xenite.org/how-did-jrr-tolkien-create-middle-earth/
10:42:05 From Santanilla Mario to Everyone:
    Trailer to Everything video game with Alan Watts narration… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYHp8LwBUzo
10:44:07 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    The City of Lost Children
10:48:39 From Ben Hooker to Everyone:
    The Private Life of Plants — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Plants  — uses amazing time-lapse techniques to reveal the ‘story’ of plants interacting
10:52:11 From Ben Hooker to Everyone:
    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
10:52:34 From Eric Schubert to Everyone:
    another example of how world building/narrative works at the level of the words and language
10:54:13 From Ben Hooker to Everyone:
    yes, and how the act of naming something can transform it into something tangible and perhaps manipulatable, make it an actor, make it seen
10:54:42 From Gao Yining to Everyone:
    Cloud Atlas
10:56:28 From christie wu to Everyone:
    Another example of fragment narrative — Mr. Nobody: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485947/
10:56:48 From Gao Yining to Everyone:
    Jojo’s Bizzarre Adventure
10:56:56 From Qianyue Yuwen to Everyone:
    :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
10:59:15 From Santanilla Mario to Everyone:
    “What is most personal is most universal.”
    Carl R. Rogers
10:59:51 From Maxim Safioulline to Everyone:
    The Real Housewives of Middle-Earth
10:59:56 From Qianyue Yuwen to Everyone:
    Another game excellent at using fragment narrative: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKMn6ptSQrg
11:01:46 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    The law of uphill analysis and downhill invention
11:02:37 From Eric Schubert to Everyone:
    Ouilipo
11:08:53 From christie wu to Everyone:
    Amrou Al-Kadhi talks about queer Islamic Identity through quantum physics: https://www.ted.com/talks/amrou_al_kadhi_what_quantum_physics_taught_me_about_my_queer_islamic_identity
11:10:06 From Ben Hooker to Everyone:
    ^ yes.. thanks, Christie
11:10:49 From Maxim Safioulline to Everyone:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_the_Big_Fish
11:12:13 From Maxim Safioulline to Everyone:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
11:16:04 From Santanilla Mario to Everyone:
    https://vimeo.com/408887718
11:23:34 From Ben Hooker to Everyone:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2VMWR8xlls
11:24:19 From Santanilla Mario to Everyone:
    Amazing!
11:26:15 From Santanilla Mario to Everyone:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL9jtjJ3zv0
11:27:37 From Santanilla Mario to Everyone:
    Talking about that doing stuff for the sake of burning time… https://vimeo.com/463685768
11:29:58 From Ben Hooker to Everyone:
    Makes me think about what we learn when a simulation gets out of control.. meltdown
11:31:54 From Santanilla Mario to Everyone:
    Makes me feel sad for them
11:39:21 From Ben Hooker to Everyone:
    true. Nothing we do is not in “the world”
11:41:57 From Santanilla Mario to Everyone:
    did someone died or committed any crimes during those 20 mins?
11:42:21 From Yue to Everyone:
    Which city was it?
11:42:47 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    I think there were a few heart attacks
11:42:55 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    Not sure about deaths
11:43:32 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert#:~:text=On%20the%20morning%20of%20Saturday,the%20U.S.%20state%20of%20Hawaii.
11:43:53 From Yue to Everyone:
    Thanks!
11:48:14 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    Question of ethics
11:49:09 From christie wu to Everyone:
    I can’t help but connect this conversation to what happened at Fyre festival
11:49:33 From Eric Schubert to Everyone:
    :sweat_smile:
11:50:19 From Alan Amaya to Everyone:
    https://www.prisonexp.org/