Trolly McTrollface
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Since 2015, Will Wright — the legendary video game designer behind 'The Sims' and 'SimCity' — has been consumed by a new obsession: how our ever-shifting library of memories forges the self. In his mind, each personal memory from your life is like a snow globe, a world inside a world. But that world could be connected to countless others in conscious and unconscious ways. He wanted to create a game in which a player could tinker with that unending maze of inner microverses, logging their significant memories for an AI to analyze and then mapping their own psyche the way they had mapped digital metropolises in ‘SimCity.’ It would be called ‘Proxi: Yesterday's You Tomorrow.’ The concept was part computerized LEGO set, part RPG, part Enneagram, part transhumanist mind-uploading fantasy, part reboot of Borges and Proust for the LLM age. It would be, in some ways, Wright's most personal video game yet.
Fast forward to October 2024 — after spending ten years, a million dollars of Wright's own money, and a few million from investors; after they’d already started building out the game’s universe — the game was (and still is) nowhere close to being finished.
Eric Boodman spent time with Wright and his ‘Proxi’ crew to find out when — or if — one of the most celebrated video-game designers ever's next (and even wilder) act will come to life: nymag.visitlink.me/ElSdEG

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@mellifera_x3 better ban ichiran ramen and love hotels while they're at it
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Ban wearing masks fist then.
So many Japanese store clerks wear masks, its no different
ぴろん🌸@pirooooon3
コンビニ店員の顔は 見えた方が安心感はありますか? 見えた方がよい?どちらでもいい? 宗教や個人の自由は 尊重されるべきですが、 日本🇯🇵の治安や接客文化の良さは 「お互いの顔が見える信頼関係」にもあると感じます。
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@SteveLovesAmmo i miss it too but the animated series might be cool
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@facetedcarapace just say 'british' this is taking forever
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I disagree. I think it rules that he looks like a guy who hasn't eaten anything but sausages and beans for 30 years and supports some horrible violent football club that never wins
Dylan Abruscato@DylanAbruscato
If I’m a Banksy collector, I have to be fuming. The allure/mystique of an anon artist is half the value, and it’s just less fun now that he’s doxxed.
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@impossiblyeve most of the time it's about a gregg's sausage roll
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Always wonder with stuff like this does the photographer just... see everything?
Film Updates@FilmUpdates
Dakota Johnson stuns for Calvin Klein. 📸 Gordon von Steiner
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@slime_machine doctor: the surgery was a complete success
slime: wow sick, wait where's my penis
doctor: who do you think gave you the vein
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@NorthernIion_LP close enough, welcome back diogenes
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