{"id":4691,"date":"2008-08-20T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/20\/open-thread-whats-beyond-the-edge-of-the-pac-man-universe\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T21:14:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:34:10","slug":"open-thread-whats-beyond-the-edge-of-the-pac-man-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4691","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: What&#039;s Beyond The Edge Of The (Pac Man) Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article in Harper&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/laweekly.blogs.com\/joshuah_bearman\/files\/harpers_billy_mitchell.pdf\">pdf link<\/a>), about (among other things) the philosophical implications of what&#8217;s beyond the final screen in Pac Man and other classic arcade games, is the best thing I&#8217;ve read all week. I&#8217;d never before realized that Pac Man models a deterministic universe &#8212; but Ms Pac Man doesn&#8217;t. (<a href=\"http:\/\/laweekly.blogs.com\/joshuah_bearman\/2008\/08\/finally-the-kil.html\">Curtsy<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, consider this an open thread. Post whatever you like, as long as you like, with whomever you&#8217;d like. Self-linking is beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article in Harper&#8217;s (pdf link), about (among other things) the philosophical implications of what&#8217;s beyond the final screen in Pac Man and other classic arcade games, is the best thing I&#8217;ve read all week. I&#8217;d never before realized that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4691\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}