"In [an] early simulation [of the Massive software], Jackson and Regelous watched as several thousand characters fought like hell while, in the background, a small contingent of combatants seemed to think better of it and run away. They weren't programmed to do this. It just happened. "It was spooky," Jackson said in an interview last year."

I just love living in a world that has paragraphs like this:

Massive cloth can be used to generate flowing robes, cloaks, flags and much more. The massive cloth solver is up to 10 times faster than other cloth solutions, and so stable that it can be applied to hundreds or even thousands of agents at once on a single PC.

No problem, y'all.

The reports I heard said they hadn't found a why for it yet.

That's because nobody reads physics journals. We came up with an offer to time traffic lights based on our analysis, but we couldn't make anybody listen. There are big groups who do research on these topics in Germany and Japan, and they start getting heard there.

connie, this paper has the model, and this paper has the traffic lights proposal. The data regarding the obstacles and their removal was never published in such a journal. Not yet, anyway.

A krav maga instructor called me adorable. My work here is done.

We're not gonna talk about ear-fucking, are we?

I give you a classical allusion and this is where you go.

Though now, of course, you've got me thinking about freaky sex practices in the world sex trade and ear-fucking doesn't really rate in the top 10.

We can stack them one on top of the other, which is certainly nice, but it's not like all women can, or all women do every time.

From the article -- Dr. Lloyd says 5-10% of women never orgasm. And Kinsey said that 39-47% of women always orgasm, but with clitoral stimulation included

The 90-95% of women who have orgasms can have multiple ones on a fairly regular basis. For the 100% of men it's not nearly as common.

And of COURSE clitoral stimulation is included.

The 90-95% of women who have orgasms can have multiple ones on a fairly regular basis.

We can? I think I wasn't issued the proper how-to guide. But good for alla the rest of you.

That is so very cool about Nilly's project and the Massive stuff and all of it. Yay! I love the idea of the AI soldiers yelling "Run away! Run away!!!!"

ita, yes! The LotR soldiers.

There are few things more surprising than realizing that the thing that you built does something unexpected. Then, of course, you have to figure out if it's a bug or an actual feature. Usually, it's a bug and you have to hang your head against the keyboard and start all over again. But when it's not? That's when it really gets interesting.

The way Chaos theory practically started was by a meteorological computer siulation behaving badly. Mathematical properties of certain equations were discovered due to the surprising behavior of a simulation. The world is always more interesting than we think it is. I love that.

Yay! I love the idea of the AI soldiers yelling "Run away! Run away!!!!"

It is very amusing. Heh. Actually it reminds of a fantasy story I read years ago in an anthology about how the extras in old silent movies all had a kind of immortality and that they could live forever in the margins of huge spectacles like Intolerance. It was an intriguing conceit.