Heh. I'm always surprised when someone finds Sinistar. The point of that was to illustrate the fact that you can find patterns everwhere. Humans, by their nature, tend to look at a series of stuff and try to figure out how it all works together. We even do this on a biological level (retinal after-image, for example). Look at conspiracy theories, religion, or the "Paul is Dead" fiasco surrounding the Beatles. When it comes down to it, it's just an inkblot. We see what we want to see. So, if they want to use Matrix to get kids into philosophy, so be it. I one professor who used Star Trek for all his examples, and another who did magic tricks. Incidentally, Brian Moriarty gave an interesting talk last year along the same lines at GDC, focusing on the "Paul is dead" stuff. You can probably get transcripts via http://www.gdconf.com.
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Square-Enix just announced that they passed 500K subs (surpassing EQ). They also sold 115k PS2 hard drives in March. Interesting.
Heh. I'm always surprised when someone finds Sinistar. The point of that was to illustrate the fact that you can find patterns everwhere. Humans, by their nature, tend to look at a series of stuff and try to figure out how it all works together. We even do this on a biological level (retinal after-image, for example). Look at conspiracy theories, religion, or the "Paul is Dead" fiasco surrounding the Beatles. When it comes down to it, it's just an inkblot. We see what we want to see. So, if they want to use Matrix to get kids into philosophy, so be it. I one professor who used Star Trek for all his examples, and another who did magic tricks. Incidentally, Brian Moriarty gave an interesting talk last year along the same lines at GDC, focusing on the "Paul is dead" stuff. You can probably get transcripts via http://www.gdconf.com.