BE: cracking DeepArcher

[David Morris]

SPOILER!

I think the fact that Max experiences DA on a 17" low def monitor says a
lot.  She gets lost (addicted?) in a virtual world on a tech so low we grin
a bit as having now such higher interface in all regards. This is a clear
contrast to Gibson's jacking-in to the web via a neural interface.  It
seems to be a comment on our willingness to escape on whatever vehicle is
available.

David Morris

On Friday, October 4, 2013, Lemuel Underwing wrote:

> I think it's more a reference to the fact that the Final Fantasy series
> tends to be ahead of the curve when it comes to graphics engines.
>
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> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'revd.76 at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> p.75:
>> "....flaring beyond the basic videogame brown of the time into the
>> full color spectrum of very early morning, polygons finely smoothed to
>> all but continuous curves, the rendering, modeling, and shadows,
>> blending and blur, handled elegantly, even with... could you call it
>> genius? Making Final Fantasy X, anyway, look like an Etch A Sketch. A
>> framed lucid dream, it approaches, and wraps Maxine, and strangely
>> without panic she submits."
>>
>> You don't have to call it genius. The villain of FFX was Sephiroth,
>> not that that means anything. It certainly didn't to the game's
>> designers; they were just angling for that elusive target of Cool. Me,
>> I think videogames are a collosal waste of time, and I was raised in
>> an arcade. (Dad worked for the Bally Arcade Co.)
>>
>> Still, I can't help noticing how the hebrew map of the macrocosm
>> resembles a bow pulled taut, nor how (following Monte's lead) there
>> are two trees mentioned in the garden of Genesis: for eternal life &
>> knowledge of good and evil.
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
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