Just one complaint (with minor spoilers, sort of): in the end stage of the game, I walked away for a few minutes to make breakfast, and when I returned, I'd already "won" with no ability to see the final state of the game, and without any way to "replay" the counters ticking up to 100% :(
Baudrillard doesn't actually think the Gulf war didn't literally occur. He was using trollish language deliberately to highlight his more subtle (but, perhaps, relatively straightforward) ideas that televising the war meant that Americans learning about the wildly mismatched militaries' engagements via TV did not receive in their minds an accurate representation of what really was going on out there. While Baudrillard had a cogent point to make, putting it in these terms all but ensured perpetual confusion about what he meant (as demonstrated by the commenter above you). Here's the Wikipedia summary of Baudrillard's writings:
Baudrillard argued the Gulf War was not really a war, but rather an atrocity which masqueraded as a war. Using overwhelming airpower, the American military for the most part did not directly engage in combat with the Iraqi army, and suffered few casualties. Almost nothing was made known about Iraqi deaths. Thus, the fighting "did not really take place" from the point of view of the West. Moreover, all that spectators got to know about the war was in the form of propaganda imagery. The closely watched media presentations made it impossible to distinguish between the experience of what truly happened in the conflict, and its stylized, selective misrepresentation through simulacra.
Baudrillard's concept of "simulacrum" is connected, and perhaps more interesting, even if attempting to apply it to the world results in weird claims like this one about the Gulf war.
Would love for someone with some patience and artistic skill to draw Marge Simpson (or the other Simpson family members) and see what pops out. preemptive shudder
I Am Error was excellent, as was Racing the Beam by Montfort and Bogost. That's from the same "platform studies" series as the Altice book, but focused on the technical and social development of the Atari 2600.
Oh my goodness, your blog series looks incredible. I'm in sort of the same boat as you--I've been barely treading water with NixOS for the last several years and have recently resolved to learn how it works well enough to get all the benefits. Thanks for putting this together; looking forward to diving into it!
I use https://blogtrottr.com/ to have RSS content sent to me via email. I find that's a pretty clean and simple interface to the blogs and webcomics, etc. that I want to follow.
I have a lot of trouble understanding why RSS seems to be perpetually falling out of favor. I guess because it disrupts monetizability. If so, that's unfortunate.
That's true, but you can upgrade to a paid subscription to get rid of the ads. I'm good with their getting paid to provide this service, one way or another.
Just one complaint (with minor spoilers, sort of): in the end stage of the game, I walked away for a few minutes to make breakfast, and when I returned, I'd already "won" with no ability to see the final state of the game, and without any way to "replay" the counters ticking up to 100% :(