Perhaps retarded. Going for it anyway as often Q has double meanings. Relooked at “This is not a game”. Appears in 8 drops, of which 1 is repeated.
“This Is Not A Game” is sci-fi by Walter Jon Williams 2008. His next book is “Deep State” 2010.
In TINAG it’s mostly about alternate-reality-games (ARG) puppet master Dagmar using the Group Mind to extract her from a real dangerous situation. Later, using the same group to look for a killer, track down bank information, collect water samples, and later send out a patch to destroy peer-to-peer bots farming gold. Along the way, uses a small subset of the Group Mind to help with her catching her would be murderer, tho they don’t know that.
Takeaways:
a) We all have blind spots; Dagmar was blinded by past friendships and past love
b) One of the plots was about two guys that took down a game by becoming the monopolies of the basics in that game – wood, gold, minerals. Etc.
c) One of the developers than used what learned from b) to use a bot to harvest gold (Really don’t understand this part.) Then led to other peer-to-peer bots – all harvesting gold – sending money to a Cayman island account. $20k eventually turned into $14.3 Billion.
d) It really is about FOLLOW THE MONEY. How did some people of wealth acquire the outrageous amounts of money they have when their work doesn’t equate to what they have. How is the money laundered?
Excerpt at end of paperback is chapter in “Deep State” and from that derived:
a) Many contractors for CIA are actually CIA front companies, separate yet part
b) No CIA member is loyal to another group (in 1st chapter a contractor keeps something that belongs to another CIA team)
c) If mockingbird is to journalism than there must be _ to corporations.
Or not. Could all be stupid shit that has no meaning and is simply retarded.
Other “This is not a game”:
1) Skunk Anasie https:// www. youtube.com/watch?v=iMzCvIBxFJA
“Taken from their latest album Black Traffic Skunk Anansie have never been a band to shy away from political issues and "This Is Not A Game" is no exception. Inspired by the clusterf*ck that is the world's political and financial systems, Skin sings about the sadness of witnessing the unnecessary and inhumane suffering of the people at the hands of those in power.”
2) http:// creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/This_Is_Not_a_Game
This is a disturbing story about a game that was reality and someone found via ARG and bad things happened, even murder. Or did it? What’s real? Only a story? Is it possible that people are being played in real time to do bad things, things that might not even appear to be bad?
3) https:// www. msn.com/en-us/entertainment/story/game-night-clip-this-is-not-a-game/vp-BBJ8Qm9
Have no idea.
4) http:// thisisnotagame.org/
In looking at their twatter not much happening since 2015.
5) https:// www. youtube.com/watch?v=CAgnJxxFtHY
There’s a song from “Hunger Games” called “This is not a game”? Never watched - know that sounds lame, never like the idea of people hunting each other for survival. Not sure if this has any relevance - since know 0 about book/movie/TV show https:// the-artifice.com/the-hunger-games-political-message/ Although, the R's hunting lodge stuff makes one sick to think about how much of Hollyweird is telling us to our faces what they do.
6) https:// www. argn.com/2005/04/this_is_not_a_game/