King Kriggle Pre class for 2/18/10

well here we go again...another crazy french dude...there is one thing that got my mind going a couple of times. When the man talks about the "hyper real" and how it "was produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere"(Baudrillard pg 454). This got me thinking about the matrix and movies like that such as a scanner darkly. Movies where people had alternative realities or situations in which they werent really what they felt they were. it makes you think about Descartes and how what if we were just a brain in a tank somewhere and this is our reality. The frenchman then goes on to talk more about how it could be a "perfect descriptive machine that offers everything of the real". I thought about all of this and how everything around us is continually seeming to tell us what is real and what isnt. we almost are not allowed to make up our own minds about it anymore. this was a little in the discussion we had toward the end of class last time. When someone or some company tells us what our reality is and what we should believe then is it really reality? where do tv and video games overlap in this depiction of reality, but at the same time how is it that people can play a video game and understand that it is not real, even though it portrays a sense of reality no matter what type. Whereas if people watch a "reality" tv show they are sometimes forced to believe that this is reality. where is the line drawn because with the advent of better technology games have become more and more realistic and it will one day get to a point where they seem even more realistic than they are now and perhaps will take the place of reality tv, much was the case in the movie surrogates. well it certainly is an interesting topic to think about because it is so weird. It is just a really interesting distinction. I would really like to do a little research into what makes the differences to the people. when does a simulation become a reality for people. i admit i have lost myself in video games a lot easier than i do in movies, but it never does seem to be real to me. I think even when the models are exactly the same as in a movie it will still not be the same.