Critical Miss: #20
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I swear to God this made some actual sense when I was writing it. Originally this strip was supposed to be making fun of Miegakure and this hilariously overblown article on it. [http://kotaku.com/5585099/the-man-who-will-bring-us-to-the-fourth-dimension] It begins by implying that Marc Ten Bosch is the game designing equivalent of Dr Manhattan from Watchmen before going on to tell us the game will pretty much change the world as we know it. The video that follows is, to low brow, rock biters such as ourselves, completely underwhelming. The game looks clunky and unpleasant and while Bosch claims the game is an accurate 3d model of a 4d universe, as Cory pointed out when we talked about it, he could be just making shit up. How could we tell?
Anyway eventually we found poking fun at a game because we don't understand it and because articles reporting on it are throwing around technical jargon with gleeful abandon was kind of obnoxious. Which is when our famed synergy kicked in.
?Dude. Know what was awesome??
?What??
?The giant sand-tiger head from Aladdin. We should put that in there.?
?Fuck yeah.?
And no sense was made.
Anyway eventually we found poking fun at a game because we don't understand it and because articles reporting on it are throwing around technical jargon with gleeful abandon was kind of obnoxious. Which is when our famed synergy kicked in.
?Dude. Know what was awesome??
?What??
?The giant sand-tiger head from Aladdin. We should put that in there.?
?Fuck yeah.?
And no sense was made.
Yeah one of the other escapist peons writes those. I like to think whoever it was just kind of stared at the strip for a long moment, tilted their head, then just went; "fuck it" and wrote whatever. I do not blame them.SteelStallion said:
Don't worry, your comic still made more sense than the actual article you were riffing off of. I got up to the part about Mario and slices before I said, "You know what? Fuck this. This article is spending more time trying to explain the concept of the 4th dimension to me than the actual game they're supposed to be talking about." When you think about it, that's even more ridiculous, since the whole point of Miegakure is that it's supposed to be helping people understand the 4th dimension, right?Grey Carter said:
Not anymore, apparently.jericu said:
"The fourth dimension in this space was sometimes interpreted as time, but this is no longer done in modern physics. In the last century spacetime was developed, which unifies space and time but with a different metric so the time dimension is treated differently from the three spatial dimensions. The resulting space is a Minkowski space which has different properties from this space."
I have no idea what the fuck any of that means.
Does this mean gamerscore has some transdimensional value; or does it simply come from a source not bound by reality? Does it spring from some empyrean realm from beyond time, or was it left behind by some unknowable being, discovered in some eldritch ruin off the edge of the map?
You may be on to something here, my good doctor, and I fear its roots stretch far past our imagining.
You may be on to something here, my good doctor, and I fear its roots stretch far past our imagining.
Ok, I'm not gonna say "lulwut". Which I demonstrate now by not saying it.
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Hmmm....Lolwut-SHIT!
EDIT: Wow. Just....wow. I read the article. The comic makes so much more sense to me now. That was just.....wow......
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Hmmm....Lolwut-SHIT!
EDIT: Wow. Just....wow. I read the article. The comic makes so much more sense to me now. That was just.....wow......
In the video in the article, the little dude walking about is extremely similar to Claus from Mother 3.
Apart from that... well, it looked lame.
Also, I would totally destroy the universe for 10G. Jus' saying.
Apart from that... well, it looked lame.
Also, I would totally destroy the universe for 10G. Jus' saying.
"Heads Explode" was indeed on the same album as "Silver Future". That or I'm over-reaching and listen to way too much Monster Magnet.DJmagma said:
As far as I can tell, minkowski space is just space-time as we perceive it more or less, 3 spacial and one time.commasplice said:
The fourth dimension here is more of a mathematical construct, adding an extra spatial, to imagine how 4 dimensional objects would appear to us in 3 dimensions.
For instance, to imagine a terrasect (a 4 dimensional cube), it's like representing a regular cube in 2 dimensions (drawing it). When you draw a cube you would draw 2 squares with parallel lines joining them, and you imagine in your head all lines are at right angles to each other, even though you can't physically draw that in 2 dimensions. To represent a 4 dimensional cube in 3 dimensions you'd have a cube within a cube, with 4 lines joing the inner cube to the outer cube. Again you imagine that these new lines are somehow at right angles to all the other ones, and the inner cube is the same size as the outer in its true dimension. (like how you imagine the diamond shape made in the 2 dimensional cube being a square, only looking at it from a strange perspective)
This is all I've got from looking it up on my own at any rate, so I can't explain it very well, but is intersting to try and think about it.
The game will probably be rubbish though.
When someone mentions a hypercube, or the fourth dimension in general, I can't help but remember the not-very-fondly remembered Cube 2. And you know what? I enjoyed that movie! So I love 4D conversations even though I still cannot wrap my head around the concept.
