Game of Rat and DragonMyron Linebarger
Game of Rat and Dragon
by Myron Linebarger · first published 2018
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Rat brains? Paul Linebarger is rolling in his grave. [See "The Game of Rat and Dragon" if you don't get it.] http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Smith-C/Game-Rat-Dragon.ht...
on “A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-22 flight simulator” ↗…don't agree, it's propaganda. Pretend that it is all propaganda. See what happens on your analysis reports." Mad magazine used to run "reading between the lines" pieces. [1] A while ago I learned The Game of Rat and Dragon is accurate insofar as felines not only have better reflexes than ours, they're among the best.
on “Social Cooling (2017)” ↗I haven't played KSP yet, but that description makes me think a lot of the Dragons in the 1955 short story "The Game of Rat and Dragon" by Cordwainer Smith [0]. > Somewhere in this outer space, a gruesome death awaited, death and horror of a kind which Man had never encountered until he reached out for inter-stellar space itself. Apparently…
on “The Wi Flag -Turns out some players in Asheron's Call were born unlucky” ↗…playing video games (b) parrots have better visual acuity than humans (c) a parrot's mess is cheap: they eat like, well, birds (d) ??? (e) profit from the military-industrial complex [compare The Game of Rat and Dragon (1955)]
on “Free SAM (Surface to Air Missile) Simulator (2009)” ↗