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Episode 114 – Real and Not so Real Universes
Overview
We talk about some sciency stuff with our universe and other universes and then we delve into made up universes in our favorite comic books and movies.
It all started with Alan reading Ready Player Two, the sequel to Ernest Klines ready Player One – and Stephen talks about using the Oculus.
And all this future tech is altering how we think of others and our world – which will change again when we go to other planets and meet other beings.
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Transcript
So hi, Alan, how are you? It’s Hey, it’s
[00:00:34] Alan: through the miracle of modern, relentless, geeky technology. We are three time zones apart. And yet this year sounds like it’s in real time. So thank you, digitization and electrons, for making this miracle, it’s funny around the world. It seems that people do conferences with India, right?
Regularly people talk with folks in the middle east and the far east and Europe, and it just is like making a phone call. And I just think that’s really
[00:00:59] Stephen: cool. I really feel I’ve let the geek cred down. I’ve got an Oculus and I haven’t done one of these on the Oculus yet.
You can, hook into your desktop. You can hook into zoom now. So I really need to do one with the Oculus, that’s
[00:01:15] Alan: very cool. I’ll tell you, it’s funny. I know we have a list of things we wanna talk about, but never it’s I just started reading ready player two. There’s a, as there’s a very cool book ready player one by Ernest Klein.
If I remember, right? Yeah. That was made into a great movie. One of those great Roger rabbit type movies where Steven Spielberg is the guy that like nobody in Hollywood and video games and everywhere wants to say no to the guy, because they know that he’s so talented and that he will treat your creations with respect.
So if you saw that movie, it was every video game character ever, especially in the climactic battle where it was look at. I gotta pause the screen, like every second to just not miss everything that’s going on. This is it. I What a wonderful sequel. It’s one of those things where within the first five pages, you immediately go, I’m in, I’m backing this world and I wanna see what happens next.
And it’s just kinda like a video game just when you think you’ve, you’re like conquered and completed the quest, oh, here’s a hidden room off to the side. And then here’s another riddle and another prize to pursue. And so he’s so good at capturing, like what makes those video games so addictive and playable computer games, et cetera, is there’s always UN UNES incremental advances and new mysteries.
And, but that what you’ve learned and used, and you use your current armor and go forward, you hope that’s gonna be enough to go to a ...
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By Relentless GeekeryOverview
We talk about some sciency stuff with our universe and other universes and then we delve into made up universes in our favorite comic books and movies.
It all started with Alan reading Ready Player Two, the sequel to Ernest Klines ready Player One – and Stephen talks about using the Oculus.
And all this future tech is altering how we think of others and our world – which will change again when we go to other planets and meet other beings.
Recommendations
She Hulk Season 1 | Synopsis, Cast, Credits, Latest News | Marvel
Samaritan (2022 film) – Wikipedia
Watch The Gray Man | Netflix Official Site
YouTube
Transcript
So hi, Alan, how are you? It’s Hey, it’s
[00:00:34] Alan: through the miracle of modern, relentless, geeky technology. We are three time zones apart. And yet this year sounds like it’s in real time. So thank you, digitization and electrons, for making this miracle, it’s funny around the world. It seems that people do conferences with India, right?
Regularly people talk with folks in the middle east and the far east and Europe, and it just is like making a phone call. And I just think that’s really
[00:00:59] Stephen: cool. I really feel I’ve let the geek cred down. I’ve got an Oculus and I haven’t done one of these on the Oculus yet.
You can, hook into your desktop. You can hook into zoom now. So I really need to do one with the Oculus, that’s
[00:01:15] Alan: very cool. I’ll tell you, it’s funny. I know we have a list of things we wanna talk about, but never it’s I just started reading ready player two. There’s a, as there’s a very cool book ready player one by Ernest Klein.
If I remember, right? Yeah. That was made into a great movie. One of those great Roger rabbit type movies where Steven Spielberg is the guy that like nobody in Hollywood and video games and everywhere wants to say no to the guy, because they know that he’s so talented and that he will treat your creations with respect.
So if you saw that movie, it was every video game character ever, especially in the climactic battle where it was look at. I gotta pause the screen, like every second to just not miss everything that’s going on. This is it. I What a wonderful sequel. It’s one of those things where within the first five pages, you immediately go, I’m in, I’m backing this world and I wanna see what happens next.
And it’s just kinda like a video game just when you think you’ve, you’re like conquered and completed the quest, oh, here’s a hidden room off to the side. And then here’s another riddle and another prize to pursue. And so he’s so good at capturing, like what makes those video games so addictive and playable computer games, et cetera, is there’s always UN UNES incremental advances and new mysteries.
And, but that what you’ve learned and used, and you use your current armor and go forward, you hope that’s gonna be enough to go to a ...