philosophy
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Sci-Fi Luminary Philip K. Dick To Receive Movie Biography
Philip K. Dick is one of the most important and influential science fiction authors of all time, having written masterpieces like The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and the novels that inspired the movies Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, and more. Dick was also a very troubled man who suffered…
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Video Game Faces Might Finally Start Bridging The Uncanny Valley
Photorealistic faces in video games have been with us for a while, but they’ve still been a long way from what you’d call realistic, as while we’ve got the polygons and texturing almost perfected, facial animations remain are still stuck in the depths of the uncanny valley.
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Magic: The Gathering Is So Complex It Could Stump A Computer
Anyone who’s ever tried to play Magic: The Gathering or listened to a friend explain it to them has had to reckon with the learning curve of all its intricate rules and even more confounding cards. Human players might not be alone in feeling overwhelmed: A new research paper argues that the game is so…
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The Best (And Worst) Advice Video Games Can Give
We’re so used to the idea of games prompting us and helping us out that the concept of some 1s and 0s giving us advice just seems…weirdly natural.