Новости за 19.07.2016

Meteors. Volcanoes. Aliens. Anyone who grew up playing SimCity lived in fear of their meticulously planned metropolis being laid to waste by an act of God. Aside from this element of randomness, however, everything in the iconic 1990s computer game proceeded in orderly fashion according to a few baseline principles of apolitical Sim urban planning: If you build roads, designate residentially zoned areas and click-and-drag in trash incinerators, they will come. SimCity was a lighthearted, diverting... Читать дальше...

There’s the naked self interest, the lying, the controlled chaos, the cutthroat conniving, the backstabbing, the made-for-television “reality” meticulously packaged and presented as authenticity. They make it difficult not to think of Donald Trump’s campaign, and with it the Republican National Convention where the GOP faithful have gathered this week to crown him the sole survivor, as the perfection of the form that revived Trump’s career a dozen years ago—reality television.