How I Met Your Hunter

Officially took me about one month to miss playing WoW, and two months to miss raiding.

I don’t miss having to dedicate three evenings a week to raiding but I miss playing with my friends; a lot of feelings tied up in the nostalgia of raiding Wrath/Cata. Get bored and think I might hop on my hunter, only to remember I unsubbed in April. I quit my retail job to take a stab at making an equivalent living in photography (which I pretty much already do), but I need to minimize expenses now that I don’t have predictable income.

I miss exploring with Mokhu. I miss doing dailies with Justin. I miss PvPing with Eggs. I miss raid leading. I miss semi-drunken farm nights. I miss girl talk with Aixa.

But I don’t miss spending the money or choosing the game over other things that I should be doing. It was pretty efficient escapism for me.

Maybe I’ll come back when winter rolls around.

In which Scribblenauts accurately depicts healing a boss fight in WoW

“Alright guys, make sure to watch for his fire breath and move out of range, it does a ton of damage. Also, please wait for the tank to get here.”

“OMFG I CAN TANK IN DEFENSIVE STANCE IF UR NOT SHITTY LETS GOGOGOGOGGOGOGO.”

“LOLZ L2WARRIOR BADDIE. HORRIBLE DPS.”

“Fire breath inc, watch out plz.”

“NOOB HEALER!”

“….rez inc.”

“TOLD U WE DONT NEED A TANK.”

I couldn’t log into WoW for awhile because of some authenticator issues so I decided to play Scribblenauts for a bit.

I’m on a beach in a jungle. I get to this couple, one is a dead bride and the other is a marketer, I am assuming that was her widower. I’m supposed to reunite her with her love, so I make a defibrillator and bring her back to life. All is merry and I move on to the next puzzle a little further down. They are swimming around in the water behind me and I accidentally knock the defibrillator into the water and it electrocutes them both. It ended up killing all three of us. WHY CRUEL FAKE WORLD

The Quantum Mechanics of Bioshock Infinite.

artiselegantes:

There’s a lot of really good posts out there helping people to better understand the complexity of Bioshock Infinite’s storyline and ending. My favorite one so far is this one:

http://straightgraffiti.tumblr.com/post/47252352692/heres-an-explanation-of-bioshock-infinites-ending-for

However, I’ve been noticing that a lot of these explanations of Bioshock Infinite fail to delve into detail on the influence of quantum mechanics in the story.

This entire storyline is based off of the Many-Worlds Interpretation – a theory that suggests that every possible alternate to the reality YOU live in exists alongside yours.

To understand the theory, you must picture it like a tree. For every action, numerous possibilities branch out in different directions every fraction of a second. And ALL these possibilities coexist with one another simultaneously.

For example, if you’re sitting in a chair, twirling a pen to the left … there’s another universe where you’re twirling your pen to the right, one where you’re sitting cross-legged, one where you get up and go to the bathroom, and etcetera.

I think it’ll be cool to mention that one of the prominent names behind the Many-Worlds Interpretation is Bryce DeWitt, a scientist and theorist. And mind you, I’m really, really simplifying this because this is, after all, quantum mechanics.

Anyway, I’m sure you all can see how this concept is used in the story. But it’s important to the ending too because there might be some ambiguity about how Booker could’ve lived if he drowned himself, thus drowning all possibilities of Comstock. Well, if you think about it in terms of the Many-Worlds Interpretation, there were most likely versions of Booker that did not go to Wounded Knee, therefore did not end up meeting with the Baptist.

By killing himself and all versions of Comstock (who basically planned a Multi-verse apocalypse), he allowed other versions of himself and his daughter to live safely. Better versions of himself too; versions of himself that were not broken by the war, which would essentially lead to his gambling problem.

So you see, he only killed every war-corrupted version of himself that met with the Baptist. Every universe where he did not meet the Baptist, he continued to live on.

In simpler terms, the “just right” Booker died for the better Booker, the better father, to live. And it seems his many versions are destined to have a daughter. So, inevitably, him and Elizabeth will end up together in a better universe.