Apolyton Spore Forum
Spore. Possibly the most highly anticipated game in decades, (preorder at Amazon.com
Here’s an interesting post from the forum with a detailed video of a demo of the game given by lead designer Will Wright at the TED conference in March 2007. Be ready to duck, though. Watch out for the unscientific and self-defeating silliness on global warming. No amount of greenhouse gases will melt a planet. Venue is still there, with a surface temperature of 900 degrees, sure, but it hasn’t melted. And what happens when water evaporates? Why it falls back as rain. So, the climate change model in this simulation may be even more simple-minded than usual. The admitted propaganda channel the game will afford has Montessori Will positively giddy. He hopes to “recalibrate our instincts.” We’d say for such a smart guy he’d fallen hard for the hoax, but since he’s tipping his hand that he has designs on our instincts he pretty much gives away the game, so to speak.
Post 3 of the EU: Rome review coming up tomorrow. Got distracted a bit.
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