Games?

[Hope Sunshine]

Hey, everyone! I think it could do us all good to start having more fun and be more relaxed. Life is too short to constantly quarrel about ultimately unnecessary things. So how about some edutainment? Does anyone know some games that are both fun to play and educational at the same time? I just stumbled over the game "Bully" but thought that might be not such a good idea at the moment... haha ... no, how about some serious games. Anyone any recommendations? 

[Hope Sunshine]

Good night everyone, see you back tomorrow. :-)

[archytas]

Having fun would be a good idea.  Don't we know you already?

[archytas]

It would be handy to have Gabby along to play Grand Theft Auto.  Die neuen Farben würde uns in San Andreus getötet.  You sound a safer :bet for the hot coffee mod Hope, but down and dirty playing in cop mode given my relevant experience, I would need Gabby's steel to balance my good cop routines with her bullet-spraying mayhem.  And really, for GTA, Hope goes to bed too early.  

I am sure Gabby, as a democratic bully, would insist on spin the bottle to choose game partners, so I'm watching the BBC's second episode on women's emancipation in case I have to team up with Hope to gain some 'new man' conversation.  Gabby, of course, would slap any such rot down as a flagrant attempt to get inside her head by bewitchment and far too wimpy for a real man.  Bully is a wimp version of GTA with bicycles, so she wouldn't play that anyway.  Should I have to take this assignment, we would speak German to sound more menacing and ensure her standard corruption of anything I say was genuinely a matter of lost in translation.  Other teams might pull out at the beginning if the dream team killers were put together by the bottle spin, though with luck the Gabbseraptor (her screen name in Dark Spore) would soon enter a killing loop with Allan's dead body and the rest of us could follow Molly in pacifying the neighbourhood through self-development.

Should the group be prepared to take on this mission impossible, Hope Sunshine will fade to rain in five seconds.  On the whole, I have decided on a previous engagement in Philadelphia, of preferably Rigsy's cooking and a bottle of malt.

[archytas]

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 10:31:56 PM UTC, Hope Sunshine wrote:

[facilitator]

Reminds me of the computer on "War Games":   "Want to play a game?"

[archytas]

I long thought Gabby was a bot Tony.  Ich bin Hope Sunshine, jawohl!  Reminded me more of an invitation into the gingerbread house.  In for a penny in for a pound I guess.  Grin and bear it stuff,   I mean the poor dear has lost a tooth and killed her dentist or something.  One forgets easily at my age and I could probably be suckered into a relationship with the south end of a north bound tram.  I've been trying out the language on Bertha at work, our AI test bed (no cunning acronym - she's named after a kids; programme)  So far the machine has only asked for more context on sado-masicism and obsessional compulsive disorder..Normally, I would have expected the strategy to continue with an invitation to us all to sit in the oven to keep warm.  Van Helsing has been round with some garlic and a few boxes of silver bullets and the RAF are running sortie patterns against a Luftbroome raid.  The holodeck safety protocols are on.  A lot will depend whether she has the real sword of squirm or a vicarious one.  

[facilitator]

At least her name gives me that "Sun'l come out tomorrow" feeling

[allan...@gmail.com]

Good morning hope  never knew you were here..  thank you for being part or group..

تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others

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[Hope Sunshine]

Thank you for the unconditional welcome Allan. :-)

The other boys came up with a sort of war game training. I have hoped for something more enlightening and educational. Have you maybe come across a "game" like that?

[Hope Sunshine]

Oh yes Rigs! And maybe you will also find Pat somewhere there! They were forgotten on the list of dearly missed former members of Minds Eye. Thanks for bringing her up again. :-)

[allan...@gmail.com]

When I came years ago it was more like that.. I always enjoy tearing ideas apart then look t the segments that evolve..  oddly I have had my concepts of spirituality have evolved..  the foundation has remained the same.. but my perspective has evolved.. i try to ignore Gabby's bullying but I am not always successful.

[allan...@gmail.com]

Rigs is older than I am by at least a decade. I have no idea as to what is happening with her but i think her children placed her in a nursing home.. 
As for Pat.  I have not heard from him personally in a long long time.. I tried contacting his publisher with no results..  i always like Pat  and miss both of them very much

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تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others

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From: Hope Sunshine <donna...@gmail.com>
To: mind...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 8:31 AM
Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Games?

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[Hope Sunshine]

The scientific method, first analyse then synthesize! :-)

Why should we not try to become more successful and raise our spirits? Why not tear apart Gabby's misbehavior to make the bully shut up once and for all? From what I know the soul knows no ignorance, which is why I say: Stand up and speak up against discrimination! Each and every time so we can live in peace and evolve to our higher nature, yes.

[archytas]

Rigsy is still about Allan.  She is on a genetic quest too.  It seems we share a highland connection some time after Gabby's grass porridge lot came with agriculture 3000 years ago.  Rigs comes from the MacDonalds, my lot were MacArthars - though at some earlier point we must have been MacGabby. Rigs is still cleaning her own windows and quite easily has me wishing I'd been a few years older.

Hope is so obviously the splendid person Allan imagines, with the surf rising as she smiles, as Tony implies.  Indeed, she already has us playing ring-a-ring-of-roses, the traditional plague celebration of my youth.  I am, as I'm sure she knows, missing Gabby already. It's a sort of Daniel in the lion's den sort of thing, where you have to keep putting the thorn back in to bring her back.  Sure, you soon realise she is putting the thorn back in while you sleep, but this is surely just part of some fairytale she tells to inform one of Nietzsche's eternal return.  Now she is working on Hume's concept of self in her lair (surely 'retreat'?).  And what Hope we have been given.

The war games are educational.  It depends on how one looks at them.  For me, unless on a killing spree with Gabbyraptor, including women in short leather skirts and our Russian Zombie allies against the evil machines (see earlier photos) - these games are an example of the fetish of the current Utopia of Rules and the secret pleasures of bureaucracy.  The games model bureaucracy to a 'T'.  If only Gabby were here we could get a linguistic understanding of what a 'T' is.  Hope will no doubt offer her new therapy-educational gaming to help with my Gabby-withdrawal symptoms.  A cake at the Cafe Atopia perhaps, rather than a tour of the Bullshit Bingo (TM) board?

Hope has already started our needed re-education with an interesting gambit on the internet self.  I welcome the sunshine unconditionally, though it's overcast here and the nation is mourning the demise of our leading boystoys presenter, suspending for chinning a BBC producer.  Some of us welcome the sunshine that will come with the absence of Top Gear for three weeks - though with this now first-up news we are seeing even more of Jeremy Clarkson.

Gabby was prone to instruct us to do all the work on her suggestions Hope.  One hopes you will lead us by example, explicating an exegesis of your own ideas.   Bureaucracies create games that are in no sense fun, and it would be good to see what you mean by educational content and aspiration.  Indeed, Mind's Eye could become such a game.  In loving memory of Gabby, for surely forgiveness is educational, and in your beaming new presence, we might give Thiedy Bears as prizes.  Perhaps an early boss fight could be between Allan and Gabby, involving overcoming the bully through educational means.  I volunteer to write the scene, if I can be drawn away from cuddling my Thiedy Bear - assuming I can retrieve it from the dogs' bed.  Allan will triumph through attribution study, extreme value analysis and conclusive proof of global warming.  To add spice, the Hope Sunshine surfboard will help in slaying the anti-educational Bokoharam vampires.

Hope Floats was a movie I intended to send to Gabby for educational purposes.  I think it had Sandra Bullock in it and couldn't stomach watching it myself.  The educational purpose, of course, was that if the bullying ceased I would send no further examples of American waterboarding.  Now we have Hope to re-educate Gabby, such dire measures may not be needed.

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[archytas]

What lovely thoughts Hope.  Sunshine exudes from every pore.  Though aren't you rather discriminatory concerning the formidable Ms Thiede?  One has to be reflexive you know (Habermas, any of two million pages).  Humpty-Dumpty didn't patch together well after she pushed him off that wall.  I know some say she did this just for the thrill of turning out all those horses and king's men or egg-racism.  Surely, under your new guise, we would attempt a contemporaneous reconstructive deconstructiion?  I know you don't like fables, but I did find Brer Rabbit's treatment of that fox lacked paradoxical embrace, yes?  How about a more fairy tale scenario in which Gabby is reformed from the bully-sleep by a kiss from Prince Jeremy Clarkson?   This would have the added benefit of killing-off Clarkson via the poison on her lips. .

[allan...@gmail.com]

I miss rigsy. When in contact give her my greetings.. both emails still work  and i would enjoy hearing from her..

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[archytas]

I doubt starting off by saying she is at least a decade older than you would be the best start Allan.  We are in touch most days.

[allan...@gmail.com]

I figured that out she voted in the '50's I could not vote for a decade later.. Age has nothing to do with anything..  she always had good insights that comes only with age, that is very enjoyable..

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[archytas]

So age is irrelevant and then relevant as good insights only come with age.  Some of us just get more grumpy.  

[allan...@gmail.com]

No wait a minute the title of "Grumpy old man" is mine..  no stealing.. lol (",) ♡

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[archytas]

No theft needed old chap - we can clone it now!

[allan...@gmail.com]

Darn  I thought was unique..   now you are telling me i am nothing more than a clone..  what more demeaning can be said.  I am no longer special.. sniff no longer have a high horse to ride. sniff sniff

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[archytas]

Don't even rocking horses snort Allan?  Sniffing is a bit wimpy.  Fear not dear chap, you were the original on which we are all modelled.

[allan...@gmail.com]

LOL (",)

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[archytas]

I fear Gabby may have been abducted by a cloner.  We should really hire a rescue team.  How about International Rescue?  I did phone, but they said the Thunderbirds weren't go because all the pilots were celebrating.  Do you still have influence on Tracy Island?

[allan...@gmail.com]

No, they have seemed to have severed all links including back doors, windows and vents. . . .  sorry

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Dangermouse has agreed to take the job when he gets back off holiday in a few weeks.  I'd do it myself, but you know how ungrateful she gets when you try to do something nice for her, like the endless hours of teasing I put in so she could play 'whackamole'.  One could rescue her from Grendle and she'd claim you;d interrupted a sisterly embrace.  Been a while since we sailed with Beowulf.  Do you think we are still up for it?  And who would feed the dogs?  We could ask Hope - she's a ray of sunshine, after all.

[Hope Sunshine]

Two grumpy old men reaffirming themselves they are not. Hahaha. You two are really funny. And educational. ;-)

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[archytas]

Do you know the rules of Bullshit Bongo Hope, or do we need to teach you?

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[Hope Sunshine]

I do understand that this is a rhetorical question. So what is it you want to warn me about? You sound menacing again and not at all funny. Educational games are fun to play. 

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[archytas]

Fear not, it's only the smell Gabby left ...