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Chay ho, lilith-heads. What a momentous day, for we may now glimpse into shooting and destroying — which challenges us with some existential questions.

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Chay ho, lilith-heads. What a momentous day, for we may now glimpse into shooting and destroying — which challenges us with some existential questions.

So yeah, here we have a creature firing lasers from its mouth and destroying a communications tower. Pretty casual stuff, I get it. Now, the importance here is that we have started implementing ideas for laser damage, range, sound and combat strategy. These baby steps allow us to visualize and determine the parameters to game play combat. What objects are indestructible? Should ducking help? How can players use barriers to their advantage? We’ve got much to answer.

Furthermore, lasers let us see “death”! Woo death! What this means is we can visualize what it means to kill or be killed in the game — a crucial detail that informs the larger narrative of the simulation. For example, when something is destroyed — living or otherwise — it crumbles, disorganizes. It is made irreparable. We must understand that in this simulation the detail you see is the same detail seen by all the other beings, and those beings have rationalized their world. So this challenges us to consider how dying is talked about among the inhabitants of this galaxy. “Ya gonna crumble, Governor Jorgo!” “Prepare to be disorganized.” “I’ll cube you, and I’ll like it, Mayor Neena.” But enough words, here is vid:

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