Just watched, quite fascinating. I suppose us primates would only become comparably important to life by populating the galaxy or something like that! Oh yeah, we'll need to take the worms with us though.

Almost a W:A meme:

Quote from: Impossible on October 30, 2024, 10:47 PMpersonally, i'm stuck searching for meaning.

it has been going for years, since i was a kid. i've read all the philosophy and religious books, and I haven't really found an answer. all texts try to penetrate the question of meaning, but not one can give a satisfactory answer. and the rest of philosophy has no purpose without the meaning, so it always comes back to that one question. i found answers that satisfied me for months and years, but each one eventually fell apart.
i can discuss this forever. i feel that one day i'll be able to find an approach to this question. but so far, my search has only taken me further from this goal.

I pondered it on and off for a month and I think I finally figured out the Bloopy answer. I was mulling over 'my philosophy' before my page 1 reply to the thread, but this is sort of a whole new puzzle piece to fit back into that picture later...

I'm basically atheist and I don't think there's any inherent meaning to the universe, at least not one we can discover. So meaning as I know it is something created by the brain. At every level, the brain interprets signals to make sense of them, from hearing a simple humming sound, to feeling a complex mood based on a variety of factors. Following that train of thought, the meaning of life would be something like the overarching interpretation that arises when one ponders life as a whole.

So when I meditate on the entirety of existence and life as we know it, what sense does my mind make of it? That it's everything. It's tragic, it's entertaining, it's venerable or absurd, overwhelming or underwhelming, serendipitous or zemblanitous, it's like being inside a computer or labyrinth, it's a toy to play with, it's like being a slave to events beyond your control yet having the freedom to do anything within the bounds of physics and/or society, it's a chance to leave a legacy or even try to leave no trace at all. The meaning of life is the infinity of possibilities. Once I worked that out then I realised not only did Komo basically already say it ("we dream therefore we can"), but my ex also considers this meaning a core part of her identity. Funny knowing the Bloopy answer was already right in front of me since 6 years ago.

Philosophers get caught up on separating out different definitions of "meaning", particularly 'purpose' vs 'making sense of'. However, I think purpose is just more layers of interpretation. If someone finds a strong purpose, that helps them fill in the details of how existence makes sense to them. Or in my case I can take what sense I've made of life and ponder some ideas on top of that for my brain to conjure up a purpose.

I realise I may have a bit of a non-answer here. What it is is that it's possible, because if it wasn't, nothing would be...

Wormy Justice is a well-known song about the Worms games, or so I hope. I also used a Worms speech effect in a Bloopmongler track called 'LIFE'.

Quote from: FoxHound on November 13, 2024, 01:39 PMEdit 2: I think probably the reference of Ready Player One is the Holy Hand Grenade that has to do with Monty Python and the Holy Grail and not necessarily Worms.

It could be reasonable to say the movie meant it as a reference to games and Monty Python simultaneously. Team Fortress 2 helped take the HHG mainstream as a game weapon, and they were partly referencing Worms, so you could mention that. But apparently the first games to have a holy hand grenade may have been Moraff's Revenge (1988) and Moraff's World (1991).

If anything else Worms-related appears, it flashed by too fast for me to notice.

All I can think of is the web comic VGCats referenced Worms twice:
https://vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=235
https://vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=238

I had a WA dream where the map & scheme were vaguely like drive-by shopper, but my map was a bit intricate and maybe not intended for completing a whole lap in one turn. One player had to quit, so they skimmed their worm across the water to the right side of the map. After a couple of bounces the worm hit a graphic of a ship or oil tanker I'd put there. This version of the game had newfangled things to collect that were a bit different to crates. I think I collected something resembling a packet containing the 'phone' message graphic, which was scripted to cause a long clapping sound effect to play. No idea why, I was just waiting for it to stop so I could hear what was going on again.

Quote from: Kradie on October 30, 2024, 12:11 AMBut, I don't go around thinking about what quantum physics, and what it does around every corner. It doesn't really help and guide me much around in my life, but to know of it.

We may actually agree somewhat in the context of the thread. Maybe you missed that in the paragraph where I mentioned quantum physics, I was saying that stuff is on another level that doesn't seem so relevant to this thread.

The rest of my post wasn't my philosophy, but rather just to try and understand what we're talking about when we say "a person's philosophy". Even if I did include my viewpoint along with the list I gave, ie. my way of thinking, my way of interacting with others and so on, I think it's inevitable that my viewpoint aligns quite well with one of the numerous religions from somewhere around the world. Of course for me it'd probably be an Eastern religion or some branch of Satanism or something. But my point was to push the metaphysical stuff aside and list general aspects that anybody could have an answer for no matter what they believe.

Interview imminent - now happening 3rd November!

I like the idea of posting one's philosophy as a thread so I'll gladly acknowledge this one. While trying to outline my own philosophy I realised I also had to work out what it even means to say "a person's philosophy". I figure it means a thing with multiple aspects, of which I came up with 4 so far:

1. Way of thinking
2. Way of interacting with others
3. Understanding of the cosmos
4. Way of moving through time/seeking one's destiny

I suppose #3 covers awareness of this world we exist in and saying hello/goodbye to it. #1 and #2 for I am and we are. #4 for remembering the past through to dreaming/planning to create in the future and the butterfly effect of our actions. So I'm hoping I've got all the important aspects covered.

This all has lots of assumptions built in about reality etc. which I suppose metaphysics deals with. I tend to doubt we have any free will to shape the world, with our actual 'self' merely being the consciousness experience observing helplessly (unless consciousness is some sorta quantum thing, given in quantum physics we can't interact with anything without altering it). But these questions seem to be on an entirely different level to the above. For example, "way of thinking" may be the processes of one's real self, or it may be the processes of the brain we have no control over. It doesn't matter either way if our goal is just to define the philosophy of the creature which may or may not really be 'us'.

Some web browsers have this protection, but there's usually something small you can click to make an exception and allow the file to download.

Oh hey, I found a wild Diddy

The bit about graffiti was great. The wormer ThePope once said he effectively started his career in WA. His first graphic design was making flags & graves for Worms, and then he went on to make the boot_error web comic, then got into designing & spraying stencils on the streets (and made another web comic, Graff), and now makes a living as the artist Pahnl. I'm not aware of him spraying any Worms-related art though.

Watched on YouTube:

#1: In this scenario you can use backspace,enter to try a back jump safely

Me as a worm. He asked which band shirt wormy me would be wearing, so I figured it'd be the one of the band that inspired my wormy song.

He's offering to draw people as a worm for a fiver (NZD currency here but I'm sure exact amount isn't too important):
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-JPWdry9aq/

He has played Worms, but not for decades, so more just a worm in his style. Here's his worm drawing of himself: