devinjon

A hilariously salty (and long) diatribe against contemporary games journalism with a focus on cRPGs. Tone aside, it raises some interesting points.

Tech minimalists and hipsters. The website itself is shockingly heavy, though, with hi res images resized down to thumbnails. Yuck.

Okay, Heraclitus might be a stretch, I'll give you that. But I do recommend giving the Tao Te Ching a read with Whitehead in mind. :)

Except maybe Heraclitus and Lao Tzu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi

Well, the new-age has swallowed quantum woo whole. It is a kind of religion or attempt at modern myth making, I suppose. More respectably, a number of eminent physicists have fallen hard for philosophical Hinduism and or certain strands of Buddhism. Bohr, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, and Bohm among them.

"I imagine that if this article makes its way onto Hacker News, I will be criticized."

God I love maps, real or otherwise. In fact, I recently re bought The Lord of the Rings for the cartography!

My favorite by a country mile, though, is the Japanese scroll map detailing (and I do mean detailing) the road to Kyoto:

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2022/07/the-road-to-kyoto/

Totally true. I'm just in it for the lulz.

Seriously, though, https://bearblog.dev is like blog.txt without the line wrapping problem.

I mean, it's called a rake, right?

At times, the destruction was also quite utilitarian. For example, if you destroyed a piece of agricultural equipment, and it took three months to get another one up from London, you and your chums had work for the season. That's an entirely rational course of action (though not necessarily the most effective or moral one).