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Soylent & Me: self control is not my strong suit

I was going through a bit of a change: a new job had me driving an hour each way for training. This wasn’t the worst thing in the world – early mornings were simply made a bit earlier, and late nights a bit later. It’s worth noting this was at Wegmans, a high end grocery store with a cafe inside. Right around this time I was first introduced to Soylent. Soylent, for the uninitiated, is the meal-in-a-bottle food of the future straight out of Silicon Valley...

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What is Life? – A Look at Non-Playable Characters

The latest scientific theories regarding our reality hypothesize that we aren’t real at all. In fact, we are likely holographic projected representations of data stored on a flat disc. I’m not saying that this is true, it’s just a theory.  But this could be ‘just a theory’ in the same way that evolution is ‘just a theory,’ and evolution is a damn good one. For the sake of the rest of this article let’s assume that this theory is true. That we are, as the...