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Why would anyone want more games about wars?

Aren't there enough simulated ways to murder, other life forms, including members of our own species, as is?

Where are the games about promoting life? The way we emerged 4 billion years ago? The way we can do it, to every world, orbiting ever star? Perhaps even the stars themselves.

Where are the love letters to life's very existence? To the transition, of a thousand gigatons ('teratons' is not yet a common word, but someday it will be, when we think, and act, bigger) of material, once not alive, and then, 100,000 years ago, living? Where are the lamentations for the over 400 gigatons of life the Earth has lost over the last 100,000 years, as humans have gnawed through the living trees that we once called home, that we have now fell to build and burn, as we transitioned from hunter gatherers, to farmers? I'm getting upset. It's not all that bad, we have exchanged quantity for quality, that is certain. Our crops, far more useful to all the animals of Earth, than the trees we have removed to plant them, have their benefits in terms of our metabolisms. They're more useful to us. But what good is more food, when we struggle to breathe?

Imagine a world with twice the plants, twice the photosynthesis, twice the rate, of oxygen, being converted into carbon dioxide, and back again.

We need to help life get back on it's feet.

Searching for my next point, reading headlines like "1.3 Billion Tons of Food Are Wasted Each Year" it's hard to compare that to the 400 billion tons we've removed completely, from all the biomass of Earth. That stuff was once alive. It was reproducing, growing and breathing. And now it's gone, thanks to us. At least, thanks to our ancestors. But we can bring it back to life, if we want to.

For decades I have been considering what it would take to turn the Sahara, into savanna, grasslands, forests and maybe even jungles, marshes and swamps, and, it all comes down to water. Cells, of any kind, be they animal, plant, fungus or any host of micro organisms, their primary ingredient, is water. Once you have that, the lipids can form cell walls and all the carbon based molecules, have a medium in which they can do their magic. Of course it would be nice if that water was fresh, as the high levels of sodium and chlorine in seawater are not conducive to osmoregulation which is one of the key mechanisms for cells to maintain homeostasis.

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I am tempted to stop here, as this subject is a bit far afield from my original point. But I want to hammer this idea home; we can, with the technology we have mastered making oil pipelines, bring in large amounts of water from the bodies of the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean, into large reservoirs of deep in the Sahara, where it can be allowed to evaporate and diffuse into the air and ground, creating, a continuous circulation of water as larger and larger organisms absorb and transpire the moisture.

I'm done being chained to this post for now, but I want to leave you with a few videos:
1. Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world ( 1967 )
2. Veritasium's Where Do Trees Get Their Mass?

And an image: and I want you to explore Google Earth or Google Maps, and zoom into places all over the Earth and just see how much of it is now farmland, as opposed to forests. Then look at the great deserts of the world, like that which extends from Western Africa to Northeast China, Spans Australia, and will soon, Span the Western United States, unless we do grand scale things to conserve and replenish these areas, with water and plant life. Even if it's just turning these vast swaths of Earth into more croplands, but especially if we turn them into forests and allow the lungs of the planet, to regrow.

Bonus content:
3. Anton Petrov's China Shocked The World By Planting Billions of Trees...Our Turn!
4. Megaprojects' South-to-North Water Transfer Project: China's Redistribution of Natural Resources and, if you are of the conservative western mindset, stop being such a lazy triggered pussy, talking shit about China while they flex on the world, and let's get to work setting our own great projects into motion. Stop making excuses, while the west rusts and let's work together to get some shit done. Real shit that billions of people in the future will be proud we accomplished, in our lifetimes, so that our countries, our regions, could afford theirs. Don't get jealous and think of your militaries; think about threatening China because they are making us look bad, think about what we can do to compete with them and stay in the race.

Now, I really leave this post with this one final story from my childhood, regarding Isaac Newton, as told by Ethan Brown on http://coolmathstuff123.blogspot.com/

Learn, Practice, Become.

You can't present anything to defend the stance you're defending because it's not your stance.
It's someone else's.

I just want you to look at the paper cited in that picture and realize it has nothing to do with the data displayed on that graph.
It's 14 pages long and the time ranges in the graph of the paper (page 2) are from 10-16 thousand years. Whereas the graph you share only goes back 10 thousand. People make those images so people like you look stupid sharing them, I'm sorry, but you have fallen for a troll. Both of you have.
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Care to try again with another citation? Either of you? Anyone else?

I don't find it funny that people make my friends look like idiots.
Some people might love scouring the internet and laughing at people like you, for defending the images they fabricate for laughs, but both of you, me, and Jason, we have real things to concern ourselves with; this beautiful game, and each other.
Let's not ruin our relationships over these things.

Dodge, this is the earliest use of that image you shared, on the internet.

This website was made in 2007 by a company called eNom LLC

The image first appeared October 11th, 2008
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALe … F2010&tbm=
The image itself is composted of completely fabricated data that is not representative of anything published on the Vostok Ice Cores prior to 2008

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Here I fell asleep and there are too many tabs open and I don't really care to pick up where I left off.

I love you Grim.
I love you Dodge.

For one, this happens every year in California, and elsewhere on Earth, if people don't like the state they can just geet out. Same for the planet.

For two, every home - nearly every home, on EARTH, has at least one fire burning in it to heat it's water, on top of that, every car, every business, every industry.... all burning wood, gas, coal and petroleum.

WE ARE ALWAYS ON FIRE AND ALWAYS WILL BE

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No detectable difference in air or sky (cloud) quality here in Northeast Michigan.

I don't share that assumption either, it's the hands, that are important.

For now, we need to be taught the priorities, as to how, when, and where, to use our hands.
We need to understand, how important these extensions of our nervous, skeletal and muscular systems are, and how positive; how powerful, an influence they can have on one another, truly is. It's something more and more of our species is sorely lacking, as children, and as adults.

These hands are capable of so much more, than we are yet aware of. So much that we have forgotten, over the ages, so much we have yet to realize. Each of us with them, can do far more for one another, from simple gestures like hugs and handshakes, to our ability to control the world's most powerful machines. Typing a letter to your father, to your son, admitting your thoughts, frailties and concerns for one another.

I love you.
I'm still alive, and I still, love you.

Starting there, staying there, taking that with you everywhere you go, being inside it and trailing it around the globe-
We have to understand the power of these hands, before we plunge them into other worlds and make more of ourselves.

But for now, lifting up our children, holding their heads to our hearts and giving them a view of the world, from our height, these are the lessons we need to review. It's a big test. The biggest yet. And some of us are concerned, we see people struggling with it, we're not sure, what to do. We forget, the hands of our mothers, our fathers, and those who loved us, deep in the toybox of our memories. How important, how formative, how, influential, all those hands have been. All there is no reason, they could not still be. So long as we are still alive.

Okay, it's not entirely our game or Jason's, we're both teaching each other things.
Jason not adding the sling, or at least holding off on it, is trying to teach us, or convey via the game, the responsibility of caring for a child. Having to juggle caring for your child while also trying to work on other things, is an aspect of the game that we need to learn from, regarding real life. It's basically Jason telling us we can't neglect our children, IRL. This is an important lesson; I can say this from experience, as I think my mother was probably a good example. She was single when I was born, already had 4 kids with another man she had recently divorced, had a kid with my father, and a kid with my little brother's father a year and 3 months after I was born, and neither my father nor my little brother's father stayed with her to help her with me, him, or my 4 other siblings. So for my entire life, and the life of my little brother; for the last 42 years, she has been working many jobs to provide for her children.

I have always known my mother as a workaholic, but as I child, and even still to this day, I felt she neglected many important aspects of child rearing and the process of reading my little brother and I for adulthood, and so, he and I are at present, ill equipped and poorly prepared for independence. My little brother far less equipped than I, as having to be an older brother to him while my mother was busy working and our four older siblings, let's just say, weren't always there for us. But video games were, and are, still there for both of us and have absorbed loads of our attention over the years. As well as television in his case and the internet in mine.

My situation was a complex one, and, depending on how you look at it either typical of the average, overworked, American single parent household, or, atypical of the average upbringing in general. Many things distracted my mother from being more attentive to us over the years. She watched A LOT of television herself when she was at home, I was a very demanding child and later found myself in a lot of legal and scholastic trouble. My mother was implored by the courts and the school system to seek psychiatric and psychological "assistance" to account for the difficulty, and I was subsequently injected into many drug programs to make up for the lack of guidance I received from adults, as, my mother had few friends to help raise me, since she was ashamed that she had allowed a man, married to another woman with 3 or 4 children of his own, to impregnate her...

LOOK, it's complicated. It's a mess. THE POINT IS, you have to give children more and more attention as we get deeper and deeper into the future that is also seeking their attention, or YOU WILL lose the one chance you have to see them off to a good start in life. This, I FEEL, is the reason that Jason has not rushed to provide us with more ways to neglect THE MOST IMPORTANT aspect of this game, which is, OTHER PEOPLE.

Don't get me wrong though, people around the world, and throughout time, have raised wonderful children, even though they used strollers, cribs, babypacks and slings. Even though they sat their kids in front of televisions and bought them video games, their kids still may have turned out well if they also balanced those sort of NEGLECTFUL behaviors, with love, attention, concern, compassion, engagement, encouragement and guidance, throughout their infancy, childhood, adolescence and even into adulthood.

Good, hardworking, successful, and ADAPTIVE people, are NOT BORN THAT WAY. We require tools; social tools, knowledge, examples, experience... passed down to us, from those we look up to; from those who have gained those traits before us and can pass them onto us, ever so more efficiently than those lessons were passed on to them - we REQUIRE these things to continue to become better as communities, cultures as a species and on the grandest of scales, as life, as the Earth and as the Universe.

We can only teach ourselves so much at a time.
Intelligence can only get the individual so far in life.

Now, this brings me back to the reason I tell people I love them on a regular basis. It's just as much for them as it is for me, because I can recognize that it's easy for ME to forget; to slip up and to ignore the attention that all of you, and all the new people that come to this game, deserve. Compassion is the lubricant; the catalyst, that encourages this flow of information that we receive through our senses and accumulate and prioritize in our heads, FROM THE DAY WE ARE BORN.

In order for this world to be better for me, I recognize it needs to be better for you and it needs to continue to get better, for all children born from now on, or else, it's going to get worse. Worse, in that we will ultimately become less capable of insuring our survival as a species, and, potentially lose our potential to carry life and all the possibilities that come with it, to new worlds, where even more potential for future's exist.

In the same way that we recognize the potential of atoms and molecules working together to bring about life, and for cells and organisms to work together to make creatures like us possible, we must recognize we as a species and life as a whole on this planet, are similarly organized and the next level for such tiers of organization, will be for new world to work together, for the betterment of all life in the universe itself......

...this is why we don't have baby slings, yet.

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We just need to show that we have a surplus of compassion for one another for Jason to afford us, to see us deserving, of the slack WE can afford.

I think... I think that's why.

This is a pleasant thought; keep on him about it, and flesh out how it may work as an example.
Would kids be 50-50 each parent?
More likely a color in between the two parents, if that's possible?
Would it be based on genetic dominance, where traits like dark brown or black hair, or brown eyes, are more genetically dominant traits than blue eyes, green eyes or blonde or red hair?
Or, would the genetic score play into what traits the offspring have???
Maybe a ginger, red haired mother with a genetic score of 55, marrying a black man with a genetic score of 50 would be 5%, 10% or 50% more likely to have kids with ginger or caucasian/white traits as opposed to brown or black ones?

If women married each other would that influence their children as well?
What about men marrying each other? No children, less adoption becomes a thing, but, I don't see the harm in letting them share property, or extended families... If a black man marries a brown man for access tot he brown families well rights as his own, then divorces him and marries a ginger woman, would she then also inherit the rights to the brown family's well and be able to have children with him there?

These questions, and many others, will be answered, in the next episode of... SOAP!

Imagine a gooseberry bush that only produced 1 berry that gave 1 food, every 10 years, because no one cared for it.

Thank you Anna. It means a lot to me, coming from a younger person, that you wish me good health.
I don't know how much that will change my unhealthy behavior, but I can see it giving me a second thought when presented with the options to partake in them. Unlike Chicago, I live in a small town, in northeast Michigan. These are the sorts of things I see in my front yard, on a regular basis.

I like being up here. I have lived in Grand Rapids and Indianapolis, but there is a blend, of nature and humanity, of dark skies and street lights, that I associate with home. I've never been to Chicago, but I imagine the proximity to Lake Michigan would make it feel a little more like home than say, Indianapolis did.
I think if I were to ever find myself in Chicago, I would be drawn to Urbana; to the Fermilab. It's a place I imagined working as a young teenager, back when I was torn between the areas of particle physics and cosmology, eventually settling on the grander scale of things and teaching astronomy. I think the decision for the government to fund the repair of the Hubble space telescope and to cease funding on the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider, also played a role in my own decision there. I wish we, as a nation, had done both.

I suppose I assumed you were a male in your early twenties, good to know you are younger and, will, see even more of the future from this point on, all things considered. Maybe this game and this community, will stand the test of time, and maybe, maybe we can still have a convention someday, even if it isn't a 'conventional' type of gathering. Maybe we can just meet in a park or in a public space and share stories; our best memories of our experiences, in game, or, as a result of the game. Maybe a panel as a part of a larger convention?

Who knows?

Who knows what the future may have in store for people who stick around and stand the test of time. I know few people see the comparison, but I am regularly reminded of my time and experience with game's like Dwarf Fortress when I think of games like this; that exist on this scale. I'm not sure if this game will persist the way DF has. I'm not sure there is enough here, without people to enjoy it with; the best experiences being so dependent on the existence of others. It's really hard to say for sure but until the future comes, we are free to imagine the possibilities.

And manifest them, if we are so willing.

One of these days karl (I know your name's not karl, take it as an abbr. for karltown_veteran) we're going to have a meetup in the midwest for all the most diehard One Life players and when that day comes... I was going to say we should see who's liver is healthier. Though I'd be happy to challenge you via the hotel's nearest liquor store's supply. But that's probably not a healthy way to have a good meetup. Maybe one of these days I can come down there and visit you and your cat and we can all drink some milk together and chase small animals around the house.
<3

Good health, karl.
Good health, to you, your feline and your family.
May we all, meet, under the stars.

Gogo, you're a far more respectable person than Dodge and I'd much rather engage with you, than reply to the post I see they've just made as well, so I will. I, don't so much want to 'work' with Jason, as I don't have many skillsets I think he'd find useful in his line of 'work'. However, as a person, I would like to pick and plant in his head, regarding, as I said, our shared outlooks on the future. I know games, are... how do I put this, game projects/ideas/concepts can be coveted, in much the same way scripts for movies are. Remember the days when 1492's 500 year anniversary came around and every American film industry was eager to get their version of the story out? Or, when Armageddon and Deep Impact were released, or, Mission to Mars and The Red Planet... etc. These movies fought over a place in history, and with them, so too the corporations, directors and producers involved.

But I really don't care if my ideas are taken and interpreted by others. I'm okay with that. It's not the credit I'm after or the place in history, it's the result, that I want to see set in motion. So far Jason is the closest person I've been in contact with that I think may have some ability to see some of those ideas... just not die with me. Though I am aware that all the things that went into giving me such ideas, are out there in the world, I also recognize some unique things that may just be, only combined in the cake that is my head. I think I have some senses of solace that may help clear the dust, time and time again. I don't know how else to put it.

It's not even really about the game though, any future game, it's just more about me and him. I know everyone of you admires him for many reasons, and some of you... you may even dislike his practices more than I, but HE IS PRACTICING and that is more than I can say for myself most of the time.

Even if his games are small :} he has big ideas, and I want ... I want a friend too.
Someone I can relate to and find a reflection in. I'm a very selfish creature.

I don't know what might happen to me in the near future.
I'd like a moment, a time, where from then on I can remember what it was like for us to have shaken hands, or to have hugged one another and can remember each other from then on, with fonder memories than before.

That's all.

Then maybe we can make interesting games together, or whatever happens after that.

I just find it hard, to focus on some of the important things I feel I should be doing, which keep me away... things where I risk my life, my health and my future, when I consider the people responsible for what I've left behind. Even if they are just playing characters. They're still playing, and that's better than not being around anymore.

It's funny, demon expressed a concern to me that Jason was spending too much time on Twitter. I interpreted that far worse than what I saw there. He's just using the platform to share his work, at least, that's the way it appears on the surface. And that's all I have to go by.