Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Argh!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
The computer bluescreened on me!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
woah!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
That's extreeme!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Dude, yeah!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Joking aside: why?
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
I have no idea!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
I guess it has to bluescreen every so often to uphold it's reputation!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
'it' being Windows
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
I agree
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Also: The Vortex tells me that Canada is having an election
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Yeah, probably around the end of January.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
There has not been an election period in Winter since the 70s!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Amazing!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
How can you vote when your streets are covered in 100 metres of frozen glacier???
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
The reason being: we have a 'minority' leader because although he got the most vote, the total of the opposition surpasses the leading partie, and they all voted a 'non-confidence' agreement, thus new elections.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Wow!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Parliamentary systems are so cool.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
I bet people would be more interested in voting in the USA if we had a parliamentary system.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
We have... four main parties, I believe!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Ehm, what system is it..?
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Er...
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Is it not a 'voting' based thingy too?
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
A ... dual party system?
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
You vote for only two parties that are mostly the same.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Ah, okay, I see the difference.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Instead of having lots of guys that fight each other and make coalitions and stuff.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Our four parties are incredibly different, hehe!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
See!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
People like to see scandal, to see instability and dynamicism.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
With a two-party system, either party will try to get as many votes as possible, and will move towards each other.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Whereas with the many-parties system, you can found your own party devoted to your own crazy wild ideas and try to force them upon other folks!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
That's the fun of it! You have to crazy dudes and you make them fight!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
"You have TWO"
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Argh.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Technically, we have a LOT more then 'four' parties, except the independant ones don't really count since it's more or less impossible for them to wind!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
It's too bad, I'd really like to see the Communist Partie win!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Hahahahaha!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Or that guy who wants to force everyone to do yoga!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
huh?
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Are you serious?
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
OR that old geezer who's ENTIRE plan revolves around old folks, and SCREW EVERYTHING ELSE.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
HAahaha!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
That's awesome.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
In the 80s-90s, there was a partie called the 'Rhinoceros Partie', and they proposed things like converting Manitoba into a giant parking area!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
See, we have smaller parties too, but they can't do anything except get elected to minor municipal boards. For example: fully 180something of Green Party 'officials' are on city water utility boards!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
They're basically clubs where you go and yell about how you hate stuff.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
So, in ESSENCE, we have the same base.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
It's the execution that is different.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Right.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Rhinoceros Party?
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Yup!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
They also proposed free cosmetic surgery for all women in Ontario!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Hehehe... They were basically satyrists who used Politics to convey their messages, I guess!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Ahh!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
That's cool!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Upon the Subject of Something: I counter the assertion of people that Something is 'random' with my claim, which I've just thought of today, that it is, rather, chaotic.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
That is - it is unpredictable on the long term, but trends towards certain probabilities that attract its behaviour.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
so it is reactionary?
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
The formulas that define, a weather pattern for example, are the same, but may give completely different results when you run the simulation another time through, even if you have the same given values.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
That's a chaotic system.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Likewise, the Something appears to display chaotic behaviour.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
The vortex says: "In dynamical systems, an attractor is a set to which the system evolves after a long enough time. For the set to be an attractor, trajectories that get close enough to the attractor must remain close even if slightly disturbed. Geometrically, an attractor can be a point, a curve, a manifold, or even a complicated set with fractal structures known as a strange attractor."
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
It's a set formula with many changeable variables, in other words.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Yes, but even if it has the same initial variables, it may result in completely different behaviour than what you expect.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Same underlying pattern, with a given set of states that are more probable than others, but unpredictable behaviour!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Hooray! And that actually mirrors somethign I have written in a Something image you'll probably receive tomorrow!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Something Something!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
You'll see: I mad it easy to relate to the story, but rather hard to technically work with it.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Huh!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
So my reaction - that is - the text - will tend to be unpredictable, however, the story may continue in its present pattern!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Something like that!

Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
The variables - the images - are a given, but what they will PRODUCE, on an episode by episode basis, is completely unpredictable!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Exactly!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Amazing!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Technically, the text is more unpredictable then the image.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Hm. This is fascinating... not just in what it implies for our work, but that chaos theory can explain a work of creative art.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
I think it depends on the fact that we have incomplete knowledge.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Neither of us is in control.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
even less so then before
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
What comes out of that, and a few other given rules, is a marvelous thing that somehow manages to self-assemble itself into a narrative which, I feel, is somehow MORE comprehensible than before!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Initially I had my doubts about this total colab business, but now I see that it's actually very rewarding, not to mention much more productive.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
It is hard to explain, I admit.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
In a way, we are more away of what is happening, yet not at all because we are more prone to send pieces of 'anything'.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
It's almost as if we've become tools to the story itself
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
We've pushed away the control of the story per se from the creators, and allow it greater freedom to establish its own pattern.
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
Also notice how we're gravitating much more around the same characters.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Those might be described as the 'strange attractors', if you will, of this 'chaotic system'/
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
The probability sets around which the system tends to gravitate.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
That's what I find so amazing about this... somehow we have created something that is...
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
more than the sum of its parts.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
I mean, even its wake... the side-effects of this project, continue to surprise us!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
I know this project needs an end, though, and I wonder how it will manifest itself (speaking long term, of course)
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Mm, true.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
I don't think it HAS an end... these systems, if it IS a chaotic system, tend to go on forever, until we humans get tired and stop computing
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
My guess will be that when it ends, if it does, it will end in the middle of something
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
sort of just fizzle out
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
kinda depressing, in a way, although the beginning DID just kinda start.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Right.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Well, speaking about depression, it's time to eat!
Post-Apocalyptic; "Spreadin lies and hapiness" says:
hooray!
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Hm
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
Why do I get the feeling that this is going to windup as another "translation"
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
My goodness.
Acolyte of Death - "I can't turn invisible... fast enough!" says:
We're building up a whole LITERATURE here