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title: Long Time
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# Long Time
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## Six Sigma Fortune Telling
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While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline. These fields include astrophysics, particle physics, evolutionary biology, plate tectonics and sociology. The far future begins after the current millennium comes to an end, starting with the 4th millennium in 3001 CE, and continues until the furthest reaches of future time. This timeline includes alternative future events that address unresolved scientific questions, and is in fact not six sigma accurate at all.
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This timeline (based on Wikipedia's [Timeline of the Far Future](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future)) claims to make accurate predictions far into the future at timescales that are difficult to comprehend; beyond our lifetimes, beyond the death of the earth, beyond the death of atoms. The scientific method claims to have an intense relationship to the material world which is "orders of magnitude" more accurate than other ways of interacting with and understanding where we are. The scientist often pits themself as "against" the fortune-teller, the tarot reader, or the mystic, and yet they make even bigger claims about our collective future. Is there any way to disprove the scientist's method in their own mind?
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This web-based game attempts to highlight the uselessness of this approach. Sometimes a human can have no effect on the extreme truth that science offers, or to put it more usefully, sometimes science has nothing to offer humans. This timeline uses scientific and objective distance to avoid the most inevitable and obvious event in the future: your own death. Death is non-relational: no one can die in one's place, and we cannot understand our own death through the death of others (Heidegger, Being and Time, 1962). Just like the scientist, the philosopher doesn't have much to offer solace here. So where do we go to talk about death?
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title: Tetris Fantasies
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# Tetris Fantasies
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### Death, Geometry and the Structure of the Individual
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Tetris is a game where a single player is encouraged to organise the chaos given to them from above, a limited space for play of ten by twenty units leads to a limited ability to approach the perfection implied by the simple shapes that are encountered in the world (always a collection of four squares, in their seven permutations). The harnesses of time and gravity make perfection impossible in this world; instead the player can only attempt, approach, increase their efficiency. A life's function approaching the limit, there is no way to win, only to get higher and higher scores, to live as long as possible through increased throughput. Death is inevitable in Tetris, and each passing block seems to come faster than the last. Why does it feel like everything just keeps getting harder?
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There are many squares to be organised in tetris, an infinite number apparently, but there is only one player organising them. Other people can only be seen by this individual in faint ghosts; their high scores that are there only to be beaten. And the current player can only hope to reach those people through leaving their own mark on the high score table. Employee-of-the-month, world's-best-mom. But maybe there is an alternative, a world where there is more to each falling tetromino than simply an obstacle to be overcome, a problem to be solved. Maybe there is a story behind the fatal pixels, a bigger space than the 10 x 20 grid on the screen. Maybe there are humans out there with more to them than what they produce.
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This fanfic takes the form of a series of hand-drawn illustrations depicting fantastical tetris pieces, each of which is accompanied by a fragment of a story. The cards can be read and arranged in any order, intentionally removing the linear and framed limits of the original tetris, although the illustration and text on any one card have a relationship to eachother of some sort.
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