Vilageidiotx

The 'Explain The Appeal Of......' Thread

I only saw a couple of videos Sargon did, and in them he was going after low hanging fruit. And that's part of my problem with how so many of these youtube pundit types operate - they never like getting into the guts, they just stay on the surface of the issues and come off like political cheerleaders rather than, like, intellectuals of any sort.

The 'Explain The Appeal Of......' Thread

Whats the appeal of Sargon Of Akkad?

@Dynamo Frokane

He founded the city of Babylon and created the first empire in human history. That's some pretty big shit.

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Every teen RP I have read was basically just people wandering aimlessly and making awkward small talk into perpetuity, like the victims of some particularly soul crushing corner of Hell where the torture is a meanginless, eventless existence.

@Dinh AaronMk

whoever said that must've been a fucking genius

Spamfest

Wot.

@ArenaSnow

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Artifical Intelligence

I suspect the only "AI's" that will look like humans will be those used for service industries. How successful that will be is really hard to tell, because of the ol' uncanny valley. The next level AI is shit like those cars that drive themselves.

It'll be interesting to see just how they think, since a computer can't possibly emulate an organic brain. Intelligence is possible, but no robot will ever, say, get a song stuck in their head. They would be capable of solving math problems in seconds for obvious reasons, but I doubt one could write an analysis of symbolism in a literary work. Will there be parts of human society they just won't be able to grasp in the slightest?

@Keyguyperson

We've already have basic AI, that's not what comes next. Next is where we move from programmable to creative intelligence, and it's really hard to tell how far that is from making sapience. As far as we know, the things that really make the human mind what it is, self awareness and abstract thought, are natural products of making an efficient creative mind.

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I condone it.

How do you approach period pieces?

Google image and google maps are useful. Do not become super reliant on either on though. Google maps is good for getting a baseline, but New Orleans has had some major changes done to it, so it isn't the same as the modern incarnation.

If you are a quick enough reader, get some books. If that would bog your process down, stick to documentaries.

For New Orleans, off the top of my head, a good place to start might be the the documentary series Jazz by Ken Burns. That particular documentary is legit enough that I once took a class in college that used it as the curriculum. Watch the whole thing. Besides being really good, it's useful to get a large baseline. Even though most of that documentary's first few episodes are pretty much totally in NOLA, knowing the stuff taking place in other parts of the country wouldn't be a bad idea.

That being said, don't get overwhelmed. Research as you go. If you get things wrong, so what. It's an RP; you're not getting graded it on. The research is for depth/achievement/personal development.

You'll probably be surprised though, about how different perception is from historical reality. For instance, it is true that racism was a problem at that period of time, but did you know that one of the biggest sources of racial tension in 1920's New Orleans was surrounding Italians in the French Quarter?