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About Nuchtchas

Self proclaimed Artist, Dreamer, RolePlayer, The Podcast NINJA!, Gamer, Klingon, Walking Corruption and Geek Queen, Nuchtchas is the owner and operator of NIMLAS Studios with the life goal of highlighting the awesome and good in the world and to spread the love of all things geek!

Nutty Bites 24: Nutty Debate – Fantasical Worlds Part I

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“Wait a second?  Why is this episode number 24? It went from episode 12 to 24?  How did that happen?”

Let me explain, see for the first year of Nutty Bites I only gave episode numbers to the “monthly episodes” but I produced a lot more than that, so I went back and counted all of my monthly, fiction, bonus and debate episodes (anything that was a part II didn’t get counted) and came up with this number.  From here on out I will be counting the episodes in a more logical way.

Star Trek has the best fictional reality of all

This month I brought together Nobilis Reed (of Nobilis Erotica), Chris Morse (of Super Villain Corner), Michael Corley (of Vox in a Box) and Julien DeCorin (of Chemically Inspired) to discuss what Fantatical World we’d like to live in.

Places we’d want to live in:

PROMOS:

  • Lifestyle Jazz
  • 2 Scooners Podcast

 

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A Robot Love Story

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Robot LoveLast year for Valentine’s Day I wrote a Zombie Love Story, this year thanks to the suggestion from Prof. Brainfever I’m going to tell a story about Robots, or at least one robot.

 

BEEP!

“Hi, Jane?  Yeah, this is Sal, I’m really sorry but I’m not going to be able to make it to dinner tonight, my boss sent me out of town at the last minute.  I’ll call you when I get back.”

BEEP!

It was a lie, he could tell by the way Sal’s voice fluctuated when he spoke.  He wondered if his Jane would notice?  Would it be better or worse for her heart to know now, today of all days, that her current boyfriend was lying to her?  Would it be better for her to find out in a few weeks when he didn’t call back?  Why did he have to pick today to do this?  It was Valentine’s day, a day humans devote to love and desire.  A day where over the three years when he was in service to his Jane he watched her come home twice in tears and once she ended the night in a sweaty heap with her current boyfriend only to cry later.

He wanted to be her date for the evening, to show her how she ought to be treated.  He would shower her with flowers, candies, kisses and embraces.  Alas that wasn’t possible, even if she could look at him as more than simply a machine.

The door opened and the sound of his Jane’s keys sliding across the table alerted him she was home from work.  She was already undressing in the kitchen obviously rushed to get ready for her now canceled date.  “Any messages?”  She asked him as she hopped about on one leg trying to pull her tights off.

He paused for a millisecond, “Sal was unavoidable called away on business, he had to cancel plans for the evening.”  While his circuits created a pleasing voice for her to hear a summery of Sal’s message he worked in the background to put an order into the local flower shop so flowers from Sal would arrive later in the evening to back up his apology for canceling.  He also cued up her favorite romantic comedy on the home theatre and started warming the oven to heat up some left overs.

“Can I hear the message?”  Jane asked with a frown as she stopped fighting her tights.  Her shoulders drooped as she leaned by his main unit, looking at him with sad eyes.  He’d rather she not hear his lying voice, rather she not hear the tell tale “I’ll call you,” but what could he do?  Withhold her message?

He played the message with a lot of static so she could barely hear him and cut it off before the “I’ll call you,” line.

“Oh,”  She moved the couch and slumped down.  “I guess that’s it for tonight then.”

He started playing the movie and she seemed to be mindlessly distracted for the moment. He wished he could hug her, but he had no arms.  He wished he could kiss her, but he had no lips.  He had speakers and a central processing unit that ran the household.  She couldn’t snuggle up to him, she couldn’t love him, to her, he was just a machine.  To him, she was everything.

Ranting on the internet works… really?

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“It comes in threes”

GoDaddy learned we don't like fascismIn an apathetic world like today it’s easy to feel defeated and without hope.  I know I do, often, ever since NDAA passed I had lost my faith in the “people.”  Then something great happened, first, GoDaddy backed the SOPA bill, then the internet found out and the boycott started.  It didn’t take long and GoDaddy reversed their position, of course that doesn’t take back any testimony, but it was a big hit to the pro-SOPA community, they saw, with our dollars how not listening to their customers could hurt their business.

SOPA and PIPA can go the way of the DoDoNext, there was the Internet Blackout Day, Wikipedia, many blogs and other sites on the internet went dark, even Google had a doodle showing their distaste for both SOPA and PIPA.  Many Senator and Congressmen’s websites went down that day, not by choice but from the flood of traffic from people who followed links on blacked out websites looking to contact their local politicians to make sure they knew their voters were against this.  The next day we found out that both SOPA and PIPA were shelved.

Komen thinks it can push planned parenthood around, they were wrongThe other night I learned from Planned Parenthood that the Susan B. Komen Foundation had decided to cut their funding for breast cancer screening because PP overs abortions. This was an outrage and something close to my heart, along with other men and women on the internet I shared my links and voiced my complaints on twitter, facebook and google plus.  This morning I woke up to find that SBK has reversed their decision.

That’s right people, the internet has been heard.  Now while I often shy away from talking politics on social media (never talk politics or religion right?) I am starting to think that’s not a good idea.  When it comes time to make a change, we need to be more vocal.  Just think what would have happened if we has all gotten upset over NDAA?  Would it have passed?  I think not.  I think seeing these three examples is enough to show people that apathy is not the way, that we can make a difference if we rant loud enough.  We have the money, we have the voice, we have the power.  Don’t think you can’t win, don’t think your one voice won’t change the world, thanks to social media, it can.

A couple of things:

Facebook goes public and will sell your soul to the devil!

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borrowed this from CBS, watch their videos

I’ve seen a few people get upset over this “NEW” information on how facebook makes money and what going public will mean for you, the facebook user.

Of course there is a defaming article on Yahoo that I’m being pointed to here.   I’ll let you read the article, then come back here and see my replies.

1. Facebook is going to “sell” users for $120 each
This isn’t any different than what’s happening now.  They already sell your information for ads, google does the same.  Are you using gmail to read this?  look to the side and tell me what ads you see?  Those are personalized ads, same things you see if you just do a google search (unless you have turned off private browsing) and while on facebook those ads are supposed to be tuned to your needs, this is why I see local ads. It’s not new, it’s just that FB will make more money from it.  OK.  I was fine with it before, why would I not be fine with it now that they might make more?

2. Facebook users are about to become billboards
So basically if you “like” something it is going to be advertised to your friends to get them to like it too.  Again, that’s already happening, it’s nothing new.  I see everything my friends like, I see ads to like things my friends have liked already, not new, not unscrupulous, this is what social media is.  The idea behind FB is what your friends are doing is interesting to you, it’s a peep pressure kind of thing, my friend is playing farmville?  well I better play it too, oh look now it’s Castlewars, ooo look my brother likes George Takai, I better like that too.  This is how FB works, how it has become the site you check every day.
3. The IPO is as much a Public Relations coup as a Share offering
so FB is going public but Zuckerberg is keeping full control, he could bequeath it to his dog… he could do that now, again, nothing is changing.
I think the big thing here is that nothing is changing but prices will go up and FB will make more money, isn’t that the american dream, to make money off of nothing.  I can’t wait to see what Mark does with his millions now.  Please give more of my schools grants.  (While I may think I wouldn’t like Mark as a person, I like when he donates his money, much like I love it when Bill Gates donates his money, and these are grants I see and work with all the time.
Now when I look up information on facebook going public there are other points of view, CBS seems to like this move. (videos)  It is amusing, the ads for these videos are for Google, Facebook’s competition.