thread: 2009-05-05 : Reconsidering Sim (the word)
On 2009-05-07, Jim Henley wrote:
My Big Model Heresy (relates to the two previous posts):
The Ephemera layer is trumps.
There are Ephemeral Agendas, and to the extent anything has primacy, it's them.
Every other layer exists to produce ephemera in a satisfying (or displeasing) proportion.
We game for the same reason we do most unnecessary things: to feel certain ways. It's the at the ephemera layer that we feel.
