azeltirwrite.blogspot.com
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense: Sexegenary Cycles - Exploring Chinese Culture with Modulus Proofs
http://azeltirwrite.blogspot.com/2012/04/sexegenary-cycles-exploring-chinese.html
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense. Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Sexegenary Cycles - Exploring Chinese Culture with Modulus Proofs. Today in my Chinese Literature class we started reading 运命 (transliteration: yun4ming4, translation: fate) by Lu Xun. In it, he talks about the poor fate of Japanese women born in the "丙午" (bing3wu3) year - the 43rd year of Eastern Asia's Sexegenary (60 year) Cycle. Apparently they curse their husbands, so people don't want to marry them. And if we ...
azeltirwrite.blogspot.com
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense: Response to "Three False Constraints"
http://azeltirwrite.blogspot.com/2009/12/response-to-three-false-constraints.html
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense. Friday, December 4, 2009. Response to "Three False Constraints". This is a response to Danc, of Lost Garden. On the so-called "hard problem" of creating culturally meaningful games. As a single player enthusiast, I found most of your essay to be offensive to my sensibilities. I disagree with the vast majority of you assertions: content stimuli are. People troll. They grief. They are vulgar and anonymity enables them to forget that ...I don...
azeltirwrite.blogspot.com
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense: Graphics Final: Volcano Simulation
http://azeltirwrite.blogspot.com/2010/05/graphics-final-volcano-simulation.html
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense. Sunday, May 16, 2010. Graphics Final: Volcano Simulation. Adam Dziuk and Benjamin Finkel. CS 384G Final Project. Chosen as the best way to produce the distinctive vortexes which often characterize smoke. Stam's simulation partitions a space into cells which hold densities of the fluid as well as velocity vectors for moving the fluid around. The vectors and densities are initialized and updated with each time step for factors like wind ...
azeltirwrite.blogspot.com
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense: The Cure for Hero's Kleptomania
http://azeltirwrite.blogspot.com/2009/02/cure-for-heros-kleptomania.html
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense. Saturday, February 21, 2009. The Cure for Hero's Kleptomania. Alright, you know how in all the vidjagames, you take whatever the hell you want from everyone? Hero's prerogative, and all that. Ask TvTropes. If you don't care about today's productivity. The ideas behind The World Ends With You made me think:. What if we could imprint items to our character by touching people's stuff, but without having to take it? Man, I wanna make a cRPG now.
azeltirwrite.blogspot.com
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense: On revealing Aduna's character
http://azeltirwrite.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-revealing-adunas-character.html
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. On revealing Aduna's character. Protagonists in video games have often been cut from three cloths. Representative extreme examples are an AFGNCAAP. Climber, and, well, "normal" characters - lads who have prebuilt personalities and everything, and the most choice who have about what they say and do revolves around their purchasing habits. 1) Direct player choice. Ask at various junctures: what does Aduna think a...
azeltirwrite.blogspot.com
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense: An introduction of sorts to the Atrium of Ganeden
http://azeltirwrite.blogspot.com/2009/06/introduction-of-sorts-to-atrium-of.html
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense. Sunday, June 21, 2009. An introduction of sorts to the Atrium of Ganeden. I just cooked this up - please leave comments, you lurkers! THE EMERGENCE OF HER ANOMALOUS. Aduna rises, and briefly touches the cage, her head sunk in sadness. Why did they have to let things come to this? How could such brilliant minds be so blind to the emergence of something entirely unintended, something so frighteningly powerful? July 3, 2009 at 11:59 PM.
azeltirwrite.blogspot.com
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense: Songs from OS
http://azeltirwrite.blogspot.com/2009/02/songs-from-os.html
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense. Thursday, February 19, 2009. Good day, everyone! And the second of a bouncier one. Neither have particularly joyous lyrics, and the latter is as of this moment untitled. EDIT: The second piece sounds similar to The World Ends With You's Hybrid. Life in the Weightless. A bird plummets softly. Whispers rip the air. Grey clouds wrestle awfully. As the wings begin to tear. Rising from the black sea. Her mate is thrown asky. The way- You make-.
azeltirwrite.blogspot.com
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense: Simple Harmonics
http://azeltirwrite.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-job-ill-make-this-quick-simple.html
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense. Sunday, March 8, 2009. On the job - I'll make this quick! February 14th, 2009. A curious glow overtakes the edges. Of every surface beyond my sight. A hummingbird sings over a whale's dirge,. And the gulf of their waves forms the perfect harmony. It leaves me reeling in wonder,. And writhing beyond the horizon. Fast, high, a bewildering fractal. Spiralling in asymptotic convergence. Leap like petals on a pond. Drives irresistably onward,.
azeltirwrite.blogspot.com
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense: The Descending Princess
http://azeltirwrite.blogspot.com/2009/02/descending-princess.html
AzeltirWrite - Ben Finkel's Poetry, Essays, and General Nonsense. Wednesday, February 25, 2009. The petals drift across her glass carpet,. Swept by the precious hands of enveloping care -. A slow and intimate brushing of the skins of equal valor. From all sides rest the calm warm gaze. Of their ever-soon-to-be sovereign -. A fey highness delighting at her vision:. Every eye's view of a sculpture,. Twisted in child's joy at a place -. An infinite golden plain, painted unseen. As she bends, robes flowing -.
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT