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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space)
You have the power and control to be whatever you want to be, no matter where you start in life.
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
Oh hell no, I thought. I am not wasting my first kiss on some guy who's skipping out on our first date.
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.
Ernest Cline (Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1))
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space)
What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing.
Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being)
If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me.
Ernest Cline (Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1))
I’m sitting here on the Kaye Gibbons Show, and all I can think is that the whole country is sick. Sick with the idea that it’s good to be known as seen by as many people as possible, to show every part of our lives to the public at large. Whether it’s Facebook photos, blogs, or reality TV, it’s like nobody is content to just live life. The worth of our existence seems to be measured in pixels and megabytes and “likes.” Those of use whose lives can be downloaded seem to have the most value – until someone outrageous comes along to claim their time in the spotlight.
Heather Demetrios (Something Real (Something Real, #1))
There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spare? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small.
Frank Cottrell Boyce (Cosmic)
That’s why I was calm. When you woke me in the middle of the night with your hand around my throat, and I thought I was going to die for bringing you home—that I had given my life to lie down next to a murderer—that’s why I was calm. Because all I was thinking in that moment was that it was worth it.
Julio Alexi Genao (When You Were Pixels (Syntax #0.1))
Human beings are pixels of love, trust, and kindness We came from Milky Way, dust, and brightness.
Debasish Mridha
Or maybe, in my gut, I felt like I was missing out on something. I knew there was more to life than a pixelated curtain. There was a wide, expansive world all around me and I was confined to live inside such a narrow one. And I wanted to break free.
Katie Kacvinsky (Awaken (Awaken, #1))
I eventually loosened up a little bit and grudgingly had to admit that the Jonas Brothers sounded pretty good. After
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
Surprise! I’m gay.
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
I thought the movie was the best piece I’d ever done when I made
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
Steve adjusted his imaginary bow
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Ms. Nilnose
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
I’m nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole life. I could have done it. I should have done it. I sat there and I thought about you, instead.
Julio Alexi Genao (When You Were Pixels (Syntax #0.1))
Things end. Everything ends. But for a few days in a city full of hunger, and avarice, and alienation—in this fucked-up mess of a life spent wandering in the dark without a hand to hold on to— I was not alone. And neither were you.
Julio Alexi Genao (When You Were Pixels (Syntax #0.1))
Ravi had done what they set out to do. But their faces made her seethe. These weren’t just small deceits and innocent gaps in memory any more. This was a calculated, life-changing lie. A momentous treachery unburied from the pixels. And she would not look away or sit until she knew why.
Holly Jackson (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1))
Shrek Kermit the frog Green Giant Green Arrow Grinch Yoda Ninja Turtles And Oscar the Grouch They’re real cool. And they’re greeeeeeen!
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Why do we bake cookies and cook bacon? Because life loves to be confusing.
Pixel Ate (The Accidental Minecraft Family: Book 16)
It’s not our fault. We don’t have arms, you know.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
when you eat too much candy on Halloween
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
wait for you to finish your really cool Minecraft creation, which took you weeks to create, all so that we can blow it up.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game’s two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It’s just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.
Ernest Cline (Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1))
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space)
Taking pictures is not only about the background, the colorful scenery or the beautiful era but its all about the person who is hidden in that picture with deep feelings of happiness or sorrows. Don't only rely on physical outlook inspite of it go deep down in every single pixel because a picture can show you a lot about the hidden life story of that particular personality.
Raj Kumar Koochitani
A teacher said to his Mob class one day, ‘If you think you’re dumb, please stand up.’ Nobody stood up, so the teacher said, “I’m sure there are some kids in this class that think they’re dumb!” Then Little Johnny the Creeper stood up. The teacher said, ‘Oh, Johnny! So, you think you’re dumb then?’ Little Johnny replied, ‘No, I just felt bad that you were standing by yourself.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Some things just take time to process, and one must have healthy boundaries of time and space in place in order to do so. Simply put: BOUNDARIES + PROCESSING = BUFFERING Buffering is that time you spend waiting for the pixels of your life to crystallize into a clearer picture; it’s a time of reflection, a time of pause, a time for regaining your composure or readjusting your course. We all have a limited amount of mental and emotional bandwidth, and some of life’s episodes take a long time to fully load.
Hannah Hart (Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded)
The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality. At least that explained why reality had a resolution limit; Planck length and Planck time had always looked a bit too much like pixel dimensions for comfort. Past that, though, it had always seemed like angels dancing on the head of a pin. None of it changed anything way up here where life happened, and besides, positing universe as program didn’t seem to answer the Big Questions so much as kick them down the road another order of magnitude. Might as well just say that God did it after all, head off the infinite regress before it drove you crazy.
Peter Watts (Echopraxia (Firefall, #2))
A smartphone allows you to choose your own adventure. So be a hero, not a villain. Don’t be your own worst enemy. No wasting time… No training your brain not to remember things, losing the skills necessary to read a fucking map… No trolling. Don’t make snarky remarks on comment threads or internet forums or social media. Just do good. Help others. If you’re out in the world and bored, which you shouldn’t be anyway, but still, if you feel like you need to get on your phone, be useful. Answer questions, offer advice. Look only for question marks when you scroll through your Facebook news feed. Log on to Reddit and comment on something you have firsthand knowledge of and real insight about. Give far more than you take. Never text and walk. And stop googling things as you think of them. Instead, write it down and look it up later. If you can’t remember to do this, then you didn’t deserve to know the answer. This will keep your mind active, agile; clear to really think. It will keep you sharp. Using the internet for information or socialization should be an activity, something you sit down for—it should not be used while out and about. You should not refuse the beauty of what’s in front of you for mere pixels of red, green, blue on a 3.5-inch screen. Otherwise, you’ll lose yourself. An abyss of ones and zeros will swallow you whole. Don’t be a dumb motherfucker with a smartass phone.
A.D. Aliwat (In Limbo)
be apart. Despite getting rejected by my top-choice school, I was starting to really believe in myself again based on all the positive feedback we continued to get on our videos. And besides, I knew I could always reapply to Emerson the following year and transfer. • • • College started out great, with the best part being my newly found freedom. I was finally on my own and able to make my own schedule. And not only was Amanda with me, I’d already made a new friend before the first day of classes from a Facebook page that was set up for incoming freshmen. I started chatting with a pretty girl named Chloe who mentioned that she was also going to do the film and video concentration. Fitchburg isn’t located in the greatest neighborhood, but the campus has lots of green lawns and old brick buildings that look like mansions. My dorm room was a forced triple—basically a double that the school added bunk beds to in order to squeeze one extra person in. I arrived first and got to call dibs on the bunk bed that had an empty space beneath it. I moved my desk under it and created a little home office for myself. I plastered the walls with Futurama posters and made up the bed with a new bright green comforter and matching pillows. My roommates were classic male college stereotypes—the football player and the stoner. Their idea of decorating was slapping a Bob Marley poster and a giant ad for Jack Daniels on the wall.
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
When I woke up, Cat had already left but there was a text from Mike, asking me if I wanted to meet him in the lobby for breakfast. I felt gross and hungover, not to mention all of the butterflies in my stomach from the thought of just being near him, so I wasn’t sure I could handle keeping up a conversation all by myself. I wrote back Sure and then immediately texted Whitney and asked her to meet us so I wouldn’t have to be alone with him. When I arrived, they were bright and awake and alert, and I felt like a total zombie next to them. They teased me about my constant groaning about how sick I felt. But the truth was that my stomach butterflies were brought on more by how strange I felt around Mike. He seemed totally fine, like nothing had happened last night, but I kept stealing glances at him and thinking, You were my first kiss! In the light of day, it was hard for me to fully accept, because even though I was finally able to talk about my feelings with my friends and Nicole, I was still partially removed from that part of myself. We
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space)
The “pale blue dot” image and Carl’s prose meditation on it have been beloved the world over ever since. It exemplifies just the kind of breakthrough that I think of as a fulfillment of Einstein’s hope for science. We have gotten clever enough to dispatch a spacecraft four billion miles away and command it to send us back an image of Earth. Seeing our world as a single pixel in the immense darkness is in itself a statement about our true circumstances in the cosmos, and one that every single human can grasp instantly. No advanced degree required. In that photo, the inner meaning of four centuries of astronomical research is suddenly available to all of us at a glance. It is scientific data and art equally, because it has the power to reach into our souls and alter our consciousness. It is like a great book or movie, or any major work of art. It can pierce our denial and allow us to feel something of reality—even a reality that some of us have long resisted. A world that tiny cannot possibly be the center of a cosmos of all that is, let alone the sole focus of its creator. The pale blue dot is a silent rebuke to the fundamentalist, the nationalist, the militarist, the polluter—to anyone who does not put above all other things the protection of our little planet and the life that it sustains in the vast cold darkness. There is no running away from the inner meaning of this scientific achievement.
Ann Druyan (Cosmos: Possible Worlds)
That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known
Carl Sagan
Consideremos nuevamente este punto. Eso es aquí, Es nuestro hogar. Eso somos nosotros. En él están todos los que amamos, todo los que conoces, todos de quiénes haz oído hablar, y todos los seres humanos, quiens fueran que han vivido sus vidas. La suma de nuestra alegría y sufrimiento, miles de confiadas religiones, ideologías y doctrinas económicas, cada cazador y recolector, cada héroe y cobarde, cada creador y destructor de la civilizaciones, cada rey y cada campesino, cada joven pareja de enamorados, cada madre y padre, cada esperanzado niño, inventor y explorador, cada maestro de moral, cada político corrupto, cada “superestrella”, cada “líder supremo”, cada santo y pecador en la historia de nuestra especie vivió ahí: en una mota de polvo suspendida en un rayo de Sol. La Tierra es un muy pequeño escalón en una vasta arena cósmica. Piensa en los ríos de sangre derramados por todos esos generales y emperadores, para que, en gloria y triunfo, pudieran convertirse en amos momentáneos de una fracción de un punto. Piensa en las interminables crueles visitas que los habitantes de una esquina de ese pixel hicieron contra los apenas distinguibles habitantes de alguna otra esquina; la frecuencia de sus malentendidos, la impaciencia por matarse unos a otros, la generación de fervientes odios. Nuestras posturas, nuestra imaginada auto-importancia, la falsa ilusión de tener una posición privilegiada en el Universo, son desafiadas por este pálido punto de luz. Nuestro planeta es una mota solitaria en la inmensa oscuridad cósmica. En nuestra oscuridad, en toda esta vastedad, no hay ni un indicio de que la ayuda llegará desde algún otro lugar para salvarnos de nosotros mismos. La Tierra es el único mundo conocido hasta ahora que alberga vida. No hay ningún otro lugar, al menos en el futuro cercano, al cual nuestra especie pudiera migrar. ¿Visitar?, Sí. Establecerse, ¿aún no?. Nos guste o no, por el momento la Tierra es donde tenemos que quedarnos. Se ha dicho que la astronomía es una experiencia de humildad y construcción de carácter. Quizá no hay mejor demostración de la tontería de la soberbia humana que ésta imagen distante de nuestro minúsculo mundo. Para mí, subraya nuestra responsabilidad de tratarnos los unos a los otros más amablemente, y de preservar y cuidar el pálido punto azul, el único hogar que jamás hemos conocido
Carl Sagan
The village square teemed with life, swirling with vibrant colors and boisterous chatter. The entire village had gathered, celebrating the return of their ancestral spirit. Laughter and music filled the air, carrying with it an energy that made Kitsune smile. Paper lanterns of all colors floated lazily above, their delicate glow reflecting on the smiling faces below. Cherry blossoms caught in the playful breeze, their sweet, earthy scent settling over the scene. At the center, villagers danced with unbridled joy, the rhythm of the taiko drums and the melody of flutes guiding their steps. To the side, a large table groaned under the weight of a feast. Sticky rice balls, steamed dumplings, seaweed soup, sushi, and more filled the air with a mouthwatering aroma. As she approached the table, she was greeted warmly by the villagers, who offered her food, their smiles genuine and welcoming. She filled a plate and sat at a table with Goro and Sota, overlooking the celebration. The event brought back a flood of memories of a similar celebration from her childhood—a time when everything was much simpler and she could easily answer the question who are you? The memory filled her heart with a sweet sadness, a reminder of what she lost and what had carved the road to where she was now. Her gaze fell on the dancing villagers, but she wasn’t watching them. Not really. Her attention was fully embedded in her heart ache, longing for the past, for the life that was so cruelly ripped away from her. “I think... I think I might know how to answer your question,” she finally said, her voice soft and steady, barely audible over the cacophony of festivity around them. “Oh?” Goro responded, his face alight with intrigue. “I would have to tell you my story.” Kitsune’s eyes reflected the somber clouds of her past. Goro swallowed his bite of food before nodding. “Let us retire to the dojo, and you can tell me.” They retreated from the bustling square, leaving behind the chaos of the celebration. The sounds of laughter and chatter and drums carried away by distance. The dojo, with its bamboo and sturdy jungle planks, was bathed in the soft luminescence of the moonlight, the surface of its wooden architecture glistening faintly under the glow. They stepped into the silent tranquility of the building, and Kitsune made her way to the center, the smooth, cool touch of the polished wooden floor beneath her providing a sense of peace. Assuming the lotus position, she calmed herself, ready to speak of memories she hadn’t confronted in a long time. Not in any meaningful way at least. Across from her, Goro settled, his gaze intense yet patient, encouraging her with a gentle smile like he somehow already understood her story was hard to verbalize.
Pixel Ate (Kitsune the Minecraft Ninja: A middle-grade adventure story set in a world of ninjas, magic, and martial arts)
The Internet became part of my life early enough to be the coolest thing ever and late enough that I have memories of Geocities before it became a howling desert rolling with tumbleweed and pixels that don’t have the decency to decay,
Laurie Penny (Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution)
On my butt. . .where else? That’s where all the other
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Truth is, we all project a false front to the world, peppering our social media pages with witty words and silly emoticons. Life narrowed down to 140 characters, staged selfies, and tirades over opinion posts. Life lived for the approval of the masses, all while tearing strangers down for the slightest misstep. And when you turn away from that electric glow, when you no longer see those silent, pixelated opinions, who are you, really? Who do you see in the mirror? When did the regard of those unknown masses become your existence? Those who will never be there for you except to judge.
Kristen Callihan (The Game Plan (Game On, #3))
Hmm,” said Tammy, “and once more your naive optimism regarding the human species reveals its hopeless disconnect with reality. While it was well-established that prior to the Great EM Pulse following the Benefactors’ arrival in Earth orbit, virtually every human being on the planet had already become a drooling automaton with bloodshot eyes glued to a pixelated screen, even as the world melted around them in a toxic stew of air pollution, water pollution, vehicles pouring out carcinogenic waste gases, and leaking gas pipelines springing up everywhere along with earthquake-inducing fracking and oil spills in the oceans and landslides due to deforestation and heat waves due to global warming and ice caps melting and islands and coastlines drowning and forests dying and idiots building giant walls and—” “All right, whatever!” Hadrian snapped. “But don’t you see? This is the future!” “Yeah, that statement makes sense.” “The future from then, I mean. Now is their future, even if it’s our now, or will be, I mean—oh fuck it. The point is, Tammy, we’re supposed to have matured as a species, as a civilization. We’re supposed to have united globally in a warm gush of integrity, ethical comportment, and peace and love as our next stage of universal consciousness bursts forth like a blinding light to engulf us all in a golden age of enlightenment and postscarcity well-being.” “Hahahaha,” Tammy laughed and then coughed and choked. “Stop! You’re killing me!” Beta spoke. “I am attempting to compute said golden age, Captain. Alas, my Eternally Needful Consumer Index is redlining and descending into a cursive loop of existential panic. All efforts to reset parameters yield the Bluescreen of Incomprehension. Life without mindless purchase? Without pointless want? Without ephemeral endorphin spurts? Without gaming-induced frontal lobe permanent degradation resulting in short-tempered antisocial short-attention-span psychological generational profiles? Impossible.” “The EMP should have given us the breathing space to pause and reevaluate our value system,” said Hadrian. “Instead, it was universal panic. Riots in Discount Super Stores, millions trampled—they barely noticed the lights going out, for crying out loud.
Steven Erikson (Willful Child: The Search for Spark (Willful Child, 3))
Steve,
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
What are you staring at Noob?!” he said.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Dreams? Yours are skewed versions of your everyday reality. Of Java, Oracle and servers, greasy subway trains and skyscrapers. You do fall off the precipice sometimes, naked, fly into three-dimensional turquoise oceans. At times you see pixels around you. Sperms. Electrons and black holes, the matrix, 0’s and 1’s, polarised light.
Sindhu Rajasekaran (So I Let It Be)
Spontaneous Combustion. Or Detonitis, for short.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
think it had something to do with a Creeper accidentally walking into the girl’s bathroom.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
think it was when they tried to use cactus for pillows.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
But after a while, living in the dark affects your eyesight. I had an uncle once that lived underground for twenty years. I asked my dad what happened to him. My dad said that he accidently ran into some Skeletons, who he thought were his relatives. When he wouldn’t stop talking, the Skeletons shot him with an arrow.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
And, sometimes when he gets mad, stuff just bursts into flames around him. We were a bit creeped out at first. Now, we just make him mad whenever we want to make s’mores.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Normally, when I meet somebody, they stick out their hand for a shake. I feel real dumb just standing there looking at their hand.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
One day a Witch asked her son, ‘Paul, do you think I’m a bad mother?’ The son says, ‘My name is Jim.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Two Skeleton girls were fighting over a Skeleton boy. Then the Skeleton boy called the police. The Skeleton boy said, ‘Hey there are two Skeleton girls here fighting over me.’ The Policeman asked him, ‘So. . .what’s the problem?’ The Skeleton boy says, ‘The ugly one is winning.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
And then I. Felt. Like. The. Biggest. Jerk. I mean, I’m an artist working way too hard at a deeply uninteresting job to pay way too much in rent so I can stay in this place—so that I can remain immersed in one of the most creative and influential cultures on earth. Here in the middle of the sidewalk is a piece of art that was a massive undertaking, an installation that the artist worked on, possibly for years, to make people stop and look and consider. And here I am, hardened by big-city life and mentally drained by hours of pixel pushing, not even giving something so magnificent a second glance.
Hank Green (An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1))
DNA
Shaun McClure (Video Game Development - The Rock and Roll Years: A Life in Pixels)
Small things can lead to huge changes, and if those changes end up being obstacles, try to learn from them instead of letting them crush you. There were many
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
this is the story of my life so far. I get that it’s kind of odd for someone my age to be writing a memoir, but I feel some responsibility to help inspire and comfort anyone out there who is facing challenges similar to those that I went through.
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
It’s not about where you start but how you finish.
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
It’s not about where you start but how you finish. I think it’s important to take your experiences and grow from them rather than become a victim of your circumstances. Nothing productive comes from that mind-set.
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
Dad shook his head, looking over at Jack. “Well, if life gives you melons.” He shrugged. Jack looked confused. “I thought it was lemons?” Dad chuckled. “Yeah, if life gives you melons, you're probably dyslexic.
Pixel Ate (The Accidental Minecraft Family: Book 19)
You see my farts. . .they’re really, really, really bad. Like, school cafeteria mystery-meat bad. They smell a lot like gunpowder. Sometimes I can’t help it, and I just fart without warning.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
I would rather have loved and lost Hudson, then to have never loved him at all. I may not get to spend the rest of my life with him, but I am so thankful for the time I got.
Pixel Ate (The Accidental Minecraft Family: MegaBlock 4 Edition: Books 13-16 (The Accidental Minecraft Family Megablock))
I have an older sister named Ima, Ima Creeper. And I have a younger brother named Seymour, Seymour Creeper.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Life for the theistic of abrahamic traditions is a constant juggle between masturbating towards pixels on a screen and brief abstention of this act as one torments themselves over the fiery consequences of their past sinful actions; only to commence said sinful actions again. Thus the cycle of pleasure and guilt continues as strong in the law of human nature as the cycle of the moon and sun in the law of the universe.
The Britiannic Scribian
Herobrine
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Oh, we love toooooo Bar-be-cue! Bar-be-cue! Put that meat on and cook a few! Heat those coals and bake those rolls Cook that beef ‘til it fills your soul! Sniff it Smell it Taste it Don’t waste it! Life is better with some barbecue!”  Mom blinked slowly. She rubbed her eyes. She closed them tightly, then opened them again. They were still singing and dancing. She chuckled silently, put her hands on her hips, and said, “AHEM!” giving off the strongest ‘The Look’ she could. The two dancing men kept carrying on. Now Bruce had jumped in the middle of them, frolicking on his two hind legs like it was something they did every day. “Oh, we love toooooo Bar-be-cue! Bar-be-cue! Put that meat on and cook a few! Meow! Smokey! Spicey! Tasty! Yummy! Cook it up good, put it in my tummy! Meow meow! Bar-be-cue! Bar-be-cue! Life is better with some barbecue!
Pixel Ate (The Accidental Minecraft Family: Book 15)
Even Dad weighed in. “Besides dear, life is filled with dark things all the time. Car accidents, robbers, sickness. This world doesn’t have any of that stuff, so the occasional dark ritual to summon and incredibly powerful destructive beast isn’t that big a deal.
Pixel Ate (The Accidental Minecraft Family: Book 21)
Date: 10/03/2022 So, this is the book that she's been hiding all this time? How disappointing. I was expecting more... Anyways, my name is Gemma. I am a Minecraft player who loves a challenge. Aaaand I think before I act...I really didn't want to admit it! But ya, this is me. Sorry for the weird intro. My friend Lizzy has become really strange recently. I figured that there was something wrong with her. She was hiding something from me, but I never knew what. I decided to find out the truth. So, one day, after she logged off from Minecraft, I crept into her house and peeked into her chest. I found a book named Codex of Seeds. It wasn't there before. Naturally curious, I took the book and started to read it. I found out that my best friend was keeping a diary for more than a month! She had met Herobrine, the white-eyed ghost, and he gave Lizzy the Codex. He told him to safekeep the Codex and not let anyone else know about it, or else he would hack her. My friend agreed, but she didn't really do a very good job about keeping a secret. I then flipped through the book and found many amazing stories. This is the same book that you are reading right now. Wait, what? Why are my hearts dropping...oh no. He is here. Run for your life. It is too late. He killed me. He shook his head, picked up the Codex and teleported away. THE END
Pixel Ate (The Accidental Minecraft Family: Book 23)
The Codex of Seeds Serpent_120 Dragon woke up. He did his daily routine, and went out into the city. The quickly growing city of GemFall was where this assassin lived. Of course, no one knew he was an assassin. Except for, ya know, the city's sworn enemies, and his partner in crime, Cyber. Their mission was to just get to know the civilians, maybe make some friends, and maybe just, sneak their way up through the military ranks, and maybe detonate all of the city's explosives so they could steal a high-tech blueprint? But that’s just a maybe of course. He met up with Cyber where every highly trained assassin goes to meet up. It was discreet. It was luxurious. It was MCDONALDS. No, seriously. Surly no one would suspect a person at McDonalds. Dragon quickly took a seat and waited for Cyber to arrive. After a while, Cyber arrived. "Wonderful news," Cyber said "You talk like a child, not a professional." "Wow, going after the way I talk now, that’s so mature. Either way, while you were up there lazing in your high-rise apartment, I have been doing work, and now, I have control over the shed." "Wonderful, so now I will be doing the actual important work and completing this mission," said Dragon Cyber sneered at him, gave him the shed pass, and they left. Dragon walked over to the military district in the city. He found the shed, and was about to walk in the door, when he was stopped. "Heya chump, you don't look like Commander Cyber. You can't go in there." A guard stopped him. "Oh really, I seem to have the shed pass, giving me authorization to come in there. If you refuse my entry, that would put your job in jeopardy, and we wouldn't want that, would we?" Dragon liked to be as condescending as possible. He liked when people hated him. He strolled in, grabbed a couple explosives, and headed back out. Then he began he trek towards the vault. It was very uneventful. Then, he got to the vault. He began planting explosives around, in strategic locations. He, well, obviously, then ran away. And waited. \ / - BOOM - / \ Dragon smiled. He saw the small, scorched piece of paper on the ground. He smiled. He snuck over and picked it up. He then felt a tap on his shoulder. "Hello good friend," Cyber said as he plucked the paper out of Dragon's hand. "I believe this belongs to me now." Cyber smirked. He waltzed away as Dragon stared in shock as the military surrounded him, and took him away... It was a long trek from GemFall to the DarkStalk's secret base. But Cyber could handle it. He was happy knowing that his annoying little "teammate" was locked up somewhere far away. Somewhere where he could never tell Cyber's superiors what happened. The real truth of what happened that afternoon... EGamer7201 As I looked upon the enemy that towered above me, I took a step back. This was the worst enemy I had ever seen, and to be honest, I was scared. I took my Nexus Orbs, 3 of them, and got ready to fight. I put the orbs that I had protected with my life on my belt. I took out my glowing blade, with the mystical rune, quintuple darkness stab. This enemy was called Ending. It had Glowing red eyes, and was pure black, and had white spots. I looked at it, scanned it, and the stats were: HP: 13000001 AP (Attack points) : 9999 DP (Defense points) :2000000 Few, this is gonna be hard. I screamed, "FOR THE NEXUS!!!" and teleported toward Ending. TO BE CONTINUED... (Hopefully!) Q & A Blox Is the series almost over?
Pixel Ate (The Accidental Minecraft Family: Book 32: Search & Rescue: First Mission)
she had to think about—whatever it was, she had to think about—something urgent and essential in her own life that was a million pixels swirling in a thunder-cloud about to burst.
Joyce Carol Oates (Lovely, Dark, Deep)
Someday, if we’re lucky, an entirely new industry will steal from us. They’ll transform our work into something so unimaginably different, we’ll feel like Errol Flynn confronted with his future pixelated form.
Sid Meier (Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games)
More than a million individuals had placed 16.5 million colored tiles on pixels, creating a garish masterpiece of Internet culture. Wardle’s experiment had tapped into something incredible that Reddit, as a mass of individuals, loosely connected through common interests, could accomplish. In the end the canvas mirrored the project’s own fruit-fly-duration life. It was fractured and weird, and really, really cool.
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin (We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory)
The cause-effect information is defined as the smaller (minimum) of the cause-information and the effect-information. If either one is zero, the cause-effect information is likewise zero. That is, the mechanism's past must be able to determine its present, which, in turn, must be able to determine its future. The more the past and the future are specified by the present state, the higher the mechanism's cause-effect power. Note that this usage of 'information' is very different from its customary meaning in engineering and science introduced by Claude Shannon. Shannon information, which is always assessed from the external perspective of an observer, quantifies how accurately signals transmitted over some noisy communication channel, such as a radio link or an optical cable, can be decoded. Data that distinguishes between two possibilities, OFF and ON, carries 1 bit of information. What that information is, though - the result of a critical blood test or the least significant bit in a pixel in the corner of a holiday photo - completely depends on the context. The meaning of Shannon information is in the eye of the beholder, not in the signals themselves. Shannon information is observational and extrinsic. Information in the sense of integrated information theory reflects a much older Aristotelian usage, derived from the Latin in-formare, 'to give form or shape to.' Integrated information gives rise to the cause-effect structure, a form. Integrated information is causal, intrinsic, and qualitative: it is assessed from the inner perspective of a system, based on how its mechanisms and its present state shape its own past and future. How the system constrains its past and future states determines whether the experience feels like azure blue or the smell of wet dog.
Christof Koch (The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed (Mit Press))
You know, break wind, squeeze cheese, throw an air biscuit, burn down the barn, beep your horn, blast the bazooka, exhume the dinner corpse, roar from the rear, step on a frog, get out and walk Donald, turn up the audio to eleven.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
So, try not to get us too charged up. And don’t ever, ever, ever try to tickle us. I mean it.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Thasssss a very nice toy you’ve got there. . . It’d be a ssssshame if anything were to happen to it. . .
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
.Creepers do poop gunpowder.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
The real life Bruce Lee the Scar-Faced Ninja Attack Kitty from Japan (Who Smells Like Poop) left this earth in August of 2015. He was 14 years old. We’re bummed he didn’t have real respawning
Pixel Ate (The Accidental Minecraft Family: Book 35: Search and Rescue: Magic & Mayhem)
One of the kids from school said that Notch was trying to make a pig but made a mistake and he ended up with a Creeper instead.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
I think it was when they tried to use cactus for pillows.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
The other cool cartoon characters I like are: Shrek
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
Oh, we love toooooo Bar-be-cue! Bar-be-cue! Put that meat on and cook a few! Heat those coals and bake those rolls Cook that beef ‘til it fills your soul! Sniff it Smell it Taste it Don’t waste it! Life is better with some barbecue!
Pixel Ate (The Accidental Minecraft Family: Book 15)
Oh, we love toooooo Bar-be-cue! Bar-be-cue! Put that meat on and cook a few! Meow! Smokey! Spicey! Tasty! Yummy! Cook it up good, put it in my tummy! Meow meow! Bar-be-cue! Bar-be-cue! Life is better with some barbecue!
Pixel Ate (The Accidental Minecraft Family: Book 15)
MSI Modern 14 B5M Laptop Review The MSI Modern 14 B5M Laptop is an excellent choice for any gamer. The laptop has an impressive Intel Core i7 processor and 16 GB of RAM which means it can run most current games on high settings. The resolution is also higher than most laptops, which allows for a crisp, high-quality image. Other features include a 10-point touchscreen, a fingerprint scanner, and a backlit keyboard. 1. What does the MSI Modern 14 B5M have to offer? The MSI Modern 14 B5M is a great laptop for those that want to play video games. It has an Intel Core i7 processor and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card. It also has 8 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. It has a 15.6" 1080p display with a 144 Hz refresh rate. This laptop also has a backlit keyboard, which is perfect for typing in dark rooms. If you're looking for a laptop that can play video games, the MSI Modern 14 B5M is a great choice. 2. What are the specs of the MSI Modern 14 B5M? The MSI Modern 14 B5M is a powerful laptop with a very sleek design. It is equipped with a 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7-4700HQ quad-core processor and a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745M graphics card. The MSI Modern 14 B5M also has a 256 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD. It has a 14.0-inch screen and a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The battery life is up to 8 hours. 3. How does the MSI Modern 14 B5M run games? The MSI Modern 14 B5M Laptop is a great gaming laptop. It has a quad core Intel Core i7 processor and it can run games at 1080p. It also has a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card. This means that the MSI Modern 14 B5M is a great laptop for playing games. It also has a battery life of up to 9 hours and 16 minutes. The price is a little high, but you are getting a lot of value for your money. 4. Conclusion. MSI is a very popular brand and they offer a wide variety of laptops. They have a wide range of laptops from business class to gaming. This laptop is a great choice for someone who is looking for a laptop that is powerful but still affordable. This laptop is also a good choice for someone who is looking for a laptop that is powerful but still affordable.
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MSI Modern 14 B5M Laptop Review The MSI Modern 14 B5M Laptop is an excellent choice for any gamer. The laptop has an impressive Intel Core i7 processor and 16 GB of RAM which means it can run most current games on high settings. The resolution is also higher than most laptops, which allows for a crisp, high-quality image. Other features include a 10-point touchscreen, a fingerprint scanner, and a backlit keyboard. 1. What does the MSI Modern 14 B5M have to offer? The MSI Modern 14 B5M is a great laptop for those that want to play video games. It has an Intel Core i7 processor and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card. It also has 8 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. It has a 15.6" 1080p display with a 144 Hz refresh rate. This laptop also has a backlit keyboard, which is perfect for typing in dark rooms. If you're looking for a laptop that can play video games, the MSI Modern 14 B5M is a great choice. 2. What are the specs of the MSI Modern 14 B5M? The MSI Modern 14 B5M is a powerful laptop with a very sleek design. It is equipped with a 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7-4700HQ quad-core processor and a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745M graphics card. The MSI Modern 14 B5M also has a 256 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD. It has a 14.0-inch screen and a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The battery life is up to 8 hours. 3. How does the MSI Modern 14 B5M run games? The MSI Modern 14 B5M Laptop is a great gaming laptop. It has a quad core Intel Core i7 processor and it can run games at 1080p. It also has a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card. This means that the MSI Modern 14 B5M is a great laptop for playing games. It also has a battery life of up to 9 hours and 16 minutes. The price is a little high, but you are getting a lot of value for your money. 4. Conclusion. MSI is a very popular brand and they offer a wide variety of laptops. They have a wide range of laptops from business class to gaming. This laptop is a great choice for someone who is looking for a laptop that is powerful but still affordable. This laptop is also a good choice for someone who is looking for a laptop that is powerful but still affordable. Read More - anygadgetreview.com
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Ridge nodded and Jamal gave him a small hug then turned to Ellie. “I’d tell you to do your best too, but I know you will. It’s just part of your personality. We’re so proud of you.” He squeezed her tight, then pulled back with an evil looking grin on his face. “Just make sure you’re being a good student, too.” Ellie’s eyes widened in shock, then horror. “Ah-hah!” Ridge yelled, pointing. “The student has remained the student!” Ellie groaned dramatically and Jamal laughed. He looked up to Hawke and Scorch. “You take care of my kids, you hear? King’s orders.” Hawke laughed. “Are you serious? Don’t forget who saved who’s life once already.” “Wasn’t it us that saved you?” Ridge asked Hawke, scratching his chin. Hawke rolled his eyes. “We’ll take care of them,” Scorch said, embracing Alice. “Don’t worry. I can take care of Hawke, too.” “Hey! I was a champion hatchamob handler too, you know!” Hawk protested. Scorch looked over at him with a sly grin. “Sure, but not in the capital. That’s a whole other level.” Hawke narrowed his eyes. “Excuse me for not trying harder while I was, leading a rebellion against a corrupt tyrant.” “Wasn’t Leanne the leader of the rebellion?” Ellie asked. Hawke threw his hands in the air. “Are we ready to go yet?
Pixel Ate (Hatchamob: Book 4)
What do guys who successfully recover from porn-induced ED suggest? Suggestion number one is to eliminate porn, porn substitutes, and recalling the porn you watched. Or to put it another way, eliminate all artificial sexual stimulation. By artificial I mean pixels, audio and literature. No porn substitutes, such as: surfing pictures on Facebook, Snapchat or dating apps, cruising Craigslist, underwear ads, YouTube videos, ‘erotic literature’, etc. If it’s not real life, just say ‘no’. Content isn’t as much the issue as whether you are mimicking the behaviours that wired your brain to need novel, screen-based stimulation. The second suggestion is to rewire your sexual arousal to real people. While this helps everyone recover, it may be a key component for young men with little or no sexual experience. This does not mean that you need to have sex to rewire. In fact, slowly getting to know someone is probably the best path. Hanging out, touching, and making out help connect sexual arousal and affection to a real person, and may be essential to recovery.
Gary Wilson (Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction)
Pixelated images Dance across the carpet, Perhaps today Will wish the world anew...
Phen Weston (Nothing But The Rain: A Collection of Poems)
I just get weirded out by how they crawl around with their little legs and how they sneak up on you and stuff. . . And that hissing sound just drives me crazy.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
They smell a lot like gunpowder.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
really mad,
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
I invite you to try and briefly remove the conceptual tiling that blocks your view of reality, so you can see the raw chunks of perceptual pixels in the medium of mind. If you can see reality that way, freed from conceptual projections, even if just for a short moment, you may surprise yourself with how natural idealism will feel to you. If you are able to see the ‘pixels’ of perceptual experience in the same way that you see the pixels of Figure 2, you will have removed part of the veil of culture.
Bernardo Kastrup (Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to life, the Universe, and Everything)
It’s easy for you to tell what it’s a photo of, but to program a function that inputs nothing but the colors of all the pixels of an image and outputs an accurate caption such as “A group of young people playing a game of frisbee” had eluded all the world’s AI researchers for decades. Yet a team at Google led by Ilya Sutskever did precisely that in 2014. Input a different set of pixel colors, and it replies “A herd of elephants walking across a dry grass field,” again correctly. How did they do it? Deep Blue–style, by programming handcrafted algorithms for detecting frisbees, faces and the like? No, by creating a relatively simple neural network with no knowledge whatsoever about the physical world or its contents, and then letting it learn by exposing it to massive amounts of data. AI visionary Jeff Hawkins wrote in 2004 that “no computer can…see as well as a mouse,” but those days are now long gone.
Max Tegmark (Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence)
I heard she got replaced by ponies or something like that.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
But this one, really? Now, this is just wrong on so many levels.
Pixel Kid (Minecraft Books: Diary of a Minecraft Creeper Book 1: Creeper Life (An Unofficial Minecraft Book))
I wish I could remember if the lead paint chips that I ate as a child were satisfying enough to my curious, bored one-and-a-half-year-old self. Maybe they tasted so good that swallowing them was worth the torture they caused all the way through high school. Somehow I doubt it.
Joey Graceffa (In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World)
This was our way of leaving our child selves behind, and buffering into adulthood. Choosing between the pixels we'd like to fully load, and which broken images are better left behind.
Hannah Hart (Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded)
Buffering is that time you spend waiting for the pixels of your life to crystallize into a clearer picture; it's a time of reflection, a time of pause, a time for regaining your composure or readjusting your course.We all have a limited amount of mental and emotional bandwidth, and she of life's episodes take a long time to fully load.
Hannah Hart (Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded)
Buffering is that time you spend waiting for the pixels of your life to crystallize into a clearer picture; it's a time of reflection, a time of pause, a time for regaining your composure or readjusting your course. We all have a limited amount of mental bandwidth, and some of life's episodes take a long time to fully load.
Hannah Hart (Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded)