people are looking in their lives for story. I think story's very important and very powerful, and when you combine the two successfully, you get the best of both worlds . But it is a... You know, there is a tension always there. I think in a game like GTA IV, which I worked on and loved and I thought the storywas great, but we got criticized because people felt there was almost too much story, and that meant you cared too much about Niko, and he wasn't as
really interesting argument to be made that simulations will outnumber real worlds and therefore there's a chance that right now we are in one of thosesimulated worlds . Does it change anything even if that's true? No, I don't think it does. And I
west side story by bernstein and basically in this story for those of you don't know it it's two kids that are trapped in opposite worlds they're trapped apart just like people have been over the last few months all over the world and they're singing about um animaginary time in the future that is better and where there's
make head nor tails of. Worlds that they could exploit not just through game products like modules, but to take to novels, to calendars, to computer games.
for planets. So let's imagine for a moment we could transport ourselves to one of these, not the TRAPPIST ones, but some planets orbiting a slightly bigger star. worlds , we have no idea what they are like.
Tale. I'm going to go through and introduce each of our panelists. We'll start with Todd Emo who straddles both worlds . Um Todd is the writer of A Piggy's Tale and is one of the founders of the organization Darwin AnimalDoctors. um and has done some other cool stuff which we'll hear about. Andrea
New costume for me. Worlds are created. Classes, what classes?Classes. No. So this one it was weird.
And then they would all stand around the edges of the view, observers and maker both, and leap out onto the little worlds and trample them to a chaos of torn sand worse than the mud at a caribou ford.Gods destroying worlds , and while it lasted, it was the best dance of all.
They're powerful; they're dangerous; they're beautiful; mysterious; they're difficult and much more. And I discovered they're often at the center of very fascinating worlds . Worlds that wouldn't exist without them. An insect collector that I met in Tokyo, a man called Daisaburo Okumoto, told me that insect lovers are anarchists.And I think that he meant that he loved these impossible, unmanageable creature because they're impossible and unmanageable not despite the
worlds and therefore there's a chance that right now we are in one of thosesimulated worlds . Does it change anything even if that's true? No, I don't think it does. And I think that's the beauty. If I'm in a simulation, I'm going to live out my life in this simulation to the fullest.
Vance's personal charisma, but it is a bet that he's the one who has a foot in both worlds , both uh the most likely everything Donald Trump endorsement and kind of uh kind of support from the inside of the White House. While he's also made the podcast circuit, made the MAGA round.
And that's the spooky action at a distance that he invented. The worlds appear, like it or not.
And that's the spooky action at a distance that he invented. separate worlds . Now, there's a bunch of questions you can ask about the many-worlds interpretation.
That is another narrative that is-- I don't think some people realize how powerful video games are, in terms of how they represent the worlds in those games. You talk about first-person shooters, for example.
It's a Trump thing that's happening, and these people were getting their news at these Trump rallies not from the classic Fox News or at all CNN, they were getting it from these more fringier worlds and sites, like the "Infowars," the "Breitbarts," the "Daily Callers." It was like, I think this world of paranoia and fringe feels like that moment that we want to start to play around in.
By the end, I think, I'd been living with it for the best part of a year, and was inside the whole eccentric sort of worlds within worlds that exist. I'm sure many of the listeners will know about that world.
or or Kelly um we just try to make the characters seem as if they come from their worlds and their tribes without doing Roman clay kind of stuff because I think that gives us more latitude to tell the stories that we want to tell which are at the end of the day we try to be very balanced and show both the
whole worlds . My point is, it was a relief to see "Queer City" can happen without the--
Fictional worlds were supposed to look like the real world.
physical worlds . And they're actually all descriptions of the same thing.
Blue worlds going around, points of light.
And worlds seem to be, instead of like universes being bound by like actual hard physical science, worlds kind of seem
The worlds changing, new tech!î Ed Yourden: I think it was in between, I think.
your worlds and characters is effortless.
The worlds of football colliding.
New worlds for the weary New lands for the living I could make it if I tried I closed my eyes, I kept on swimming
imaginary worlds and fantasy worlds and doesn't even mix them that is something you can't teach a
So is many worlds local?
an insanely chaotic, violent, dark, satirical world, and Absurdiverse, which is a comedic action-adventure world. I'm excited to explore all three of these. I have spent hundreds of hours in worlds that Dan has helped create, so this conversation was an incredible honor for me. And on top of that, Dan and I talked a lot after and in the days since, and he has been just a wonderful human being.
figures outside of the worlds of sport and entertainment. The controversy around those remarks had led to him
we have discovered some worlds that share these key characteristics that do
"Making New Worlds ." Thanks so much for joining us, Erika.
And the many worlds interpretation sat in obscurity because Einstein didn't like it and Niels Bohr didn't like it.
exist as multiple worlds -- and you can think of it as multiple timelines.
There are two worlds -- the outer world.
in different worlds , and been exposed to different aspects of real life.
millions of worlds have been spent on the subject.
And maybe other worlds are developing their own AI technologies.
The two worlds -- yeah, I was going to ask about that.
of different worlds , and ways of existing, and ways of being.
If the multi-- many worlds hypothesis is true, there must be a mechanism that can instantly create copies of the physical universe, which means that it's
These two worlds are going to collide because you can't occupy the same space.
In certain worlds of media, especially in fashion media, it was not that way whatsoever.
and in our worlds and in the minds of three quarters or maybe four fifths of humanity, real changes.
see gold medal at Worlds or Olympics, they will put that here.
called Emoji Worlds . It's taught by Joan Kee, who has a PhD in art history and a specialty in Asian art contemporary,
can live in both worlds .
I know that our worlds are so crazy, but if you could do one thing today, what would you suggest doing?
towards these worlds of fantasy that are beautiful and important.
in developing worlds and the way that people are finding talent and stuff like that.