[ExI] trivia for the day

[William Flynn Wallace]

I  don't watch movies either. I have enjoyed many in the past but now it's
all books.  The difference between a good book and a good movie is just
enormous, especially a movie from a book.  Finding a good movie or video
game would be like going to the library and picking a book at random and
enjoying it.  Very, very low probability.  TV consists of tennis and golf,
so mine has not been on for some time now.  News is Google or NYT or look
around the web.  For at most 10 minutes.   You know?  I think some of it is
speed.  Movies are so slow.  Did I ever tell you that I was peculiar?  And
picky?  bill w

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:43 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Video games have diversified a lot since then.  Some of the less
> interactive ones, these days, are practically like reading a book - or
> watching a movie, depending on how they use their visual component.
>
> Most of them are more involved, though.  Some appeal to creators - write a
> story within certain constraints and see how it turns out.  Many are, of
> course, mindless action - but to dismiss all video games as that is quite
> similar to dismissing all movies as plot-what-plot action flicks.
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 9:45 AM MB via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I played with DonkeyKong and with Xaxxon (sp?) until I could beat the
>> other folks in my home.  Then I quit. It wasn't as much fun as gardening
>> or reading a book or taking a nap.
>>
>> Tremendous time waster though, if I had nothing better to do, which wasn't
>> often with a family to raise.  About on the level of Solitaire.
>>
>> Regards,
>> MB
>>
>> On Thu, April 2, 2020 11:31, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
>> > I find that a little sad.
>> >
>> > SR Ballard
>> > Well. I did try Myst and it did not interest me - also the flying
>> program
>> > around 1980.  If I liked it I would do it and no one could stop me or
>> > shame
>> > me out of it.  So what's sad?  I did not miss anything I liked.  I had
>> > some
>> > experience at programming in grad school, and did not like that
>> either.  I
>> > went to law school - dropped out- hated it.
>> >
>> > I can go down a rack of 100 coats and not like any of them.
>> > And so on - picky.  Born picky.  Not apologizing for it either.
>> > I had to learn to cook in self-defense.
>> > I don't like most of Mozart.  Is that a sin?  What I do like I love!  I
>> > was
>> > within 10 feet of the Mona Lisa and did not go over and look at it.
>> >
>> > Just gimme the best you got, world.  I don't know who or what is in
>> charge
>> > of my brain, but I like it or I don't.  Doesn't matter how famous it is.
>> >
>> > bill w
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 9:54 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
>> > extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I find that a little sad.
>> >>
>> >> SR Ballard
>> >>
>> >> On Apr 2, 2020, at 9:34 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> >> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> My first and last video game was Pong.
>> >>
>> >> bill w
>> >>
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