TheGame™ of Fantastecha™:
The devils challenged Terran hackers (= player characters) and their players (= the angels) with “TheGame™ of Fantastecha™”: volunteering hackers would have their media (= "in between"s) mutated by the devils. Physically dying was against the rules, but for true Shalom-of-mind, they must be "slain" by another "vampire", or in case of the last standing vampire - the "child" [= protege] of their two favourite "children" ; one cannot constantly win.
Hackers starting like that are hereby referred to as “false prophets” (where "prophet" or “navi” meant “madman” in Ancient Hebrew) or as “vampires”. That was until they reached enough “enlightenment” and became “true prophets” (or “wizards”).
Outcomes of actions in TheGame™ of Fantastecha™ were often determined by rolls of Role Playing Game Dice not unlike in Asimov's "Second Foundation".
Note that every false prophet perceived a somewhat different hell, but all of them, and the real world of the wizards, were synchronised. (References: the Rashomon effect.)
Note: many humans were born as wizards, and still had their share of flaws, and were/are part of TheGame™.
False prophets were given special treatment by the workforce, so they did not cause a lot of damage, despite their paranoia/etc. [Vampires in my stories]
Also note that vampires were often unaware that a different vampire has been slain (including by them!).
Terrestrialism
The mutated realities (the “hells”) are called the “Terrestrial” ones.
Note: Given Fantastechan magic/technology , the timelines often were skewed [relatively to one another].
Greater Fantasia vs. Fantastecha™
"The role-playing game of Greater Fantasia" is an informal Role-playing game which as far as we know, is played all over Greater Fantasia. It has many variations, interpretations, derivatives (including Dungeons & Dragons, Dolls/action figures’ play and "compose a story word-by-word" ) - even parodies.
Basically, the players just imagine what their characters do, and the gamemasters (who may be the same as the players) tell them what happens.
While it is one of the first games that wizard children are taught, many vampires have played it by instinct:
The game can often be phrased like:
1 × 2 core concepts:
"Jew" - the word is milliards-years-old, and was associated with the "Yehudim" only relatively recently.
"Jew" = a player character.
3 × 2 concepts: "time, soul, network, mind, love, knowledge".
Instances of "the game" may be layered, nested, or even circular / self-referential. They also may contain mini-games, sub-quests, and side-quests..
Sample session of "the game of Greater Fantasia"
One day, Mr. Linea takes a break from walking along his line, and posts a comedic story that takes place in an absurd 3D1T universe he conceived called "The Selinaverse", on his blog. However, his long-time associate "/bin/true" v2.0 "The Strong AI Edition" claims he came up with The Selinaverse first.
As the two argue in the blog post's comments, Discord (from My Little Pony) notes that "Advanced Selinaverse Geeks" has been a popular fantasy role-playing games' franchise in Equestria for years.
The three go to judge Fluttershy (also from My Little Pony) who sighs and invites them for lunch. She opens a gateway to Rabin Square in the Tel Aviv of the Selinaverse (yes! The same universe that the plaintiffs are arguing about), they agree on a restaurant, and order food.
While they wait for their order to arrive, Fluttershy explains that copyrights' battles are rarely constructive, and that they should just share the Selinaverse. The plaintiffs agree, drop the case, and discuss ideas they had in mind for the Selinaverse. However, while they wait for the desserts to arrive, Discord suggests they write and record a parodical courtcase as a spin-off franchise. The others agree.
After they record the pilot episode of "The copyrights' battle for the Selinaverse" and publicise it on their blogs and social media, it proves to be popular and profitable. Thus, the quartet donate part of the profits to charities (while giving them publicity), and decide to go to a vacation in the Selinaverse's Caribbean Islands, to calculate their next steps.
However, after checking into their hotel, they meet Marilyn Monroe in the lobby (who, for the sake of this story, is alive, kicking, and kicking ass). After being a little star-struck and 'geeking out', they decide to play some games together.
They play ball games, board/card games, and League of Legends. Then they decide to play "The game of Greater Fantasia" with the classic, possibly cliché, campaign of the Muppeteers in 1969 with Fluttershy and Monroe as gamemasters/arbiters, thus starting the cycle again.
Yes, it is fanfiction, crossover, parody, Real Person Fan Fiction (RPFs), circularly referential; good stuff.
Now, if the players are playful, and the gamemasters are jerks we can imagine stuff like:
Arnold Schwarzenegger convinces a U.S. military combat unit to storm Washington D. C. with him in order to legalise/decriminalise commercial fan-art, only to get the red carpet, a hero's welcome, and a personal invitation from the U.S. president to host a press conference.
Richard Stallman writes a script to broadcast the Muppeteers' screenplays to all ~65,536 hosts in the nascent ARPANET, only to get a visit from the director of the NSA, who informs him that the Muppeteers' screenplays' GitHub repository has exceeded 10 million GitHub stars (= "likes") and a million forks.
Jim Henson travels to Los Angeles to pitch the Muppets franchise to Hollywood executives, only to see The Muppet Show being broadcast on the moon, on the way.
In TheGame™ of Fantastecha™, The Three Muppeteers all started as law-abiding men of great integrity, who were playful mostly only when joking or doing make-believe. Furthermore, not only were the gamemasters jerks, but they were - to use the technical term - fuckers!
Moreover, our naïve assumption that "the network" (= reality) was perceived by the player-characters in an absolute and objective manner was wrong.
"Hackers" vs. "Fuckers"
The verbs "to hack" and "to fuck" were present in non- terrestrial English dictionaries for milliards of years with many of their contemporary meanings:
Reference: "What is hacking?" (= "rule bending", "being resourceful", "to happily work on a product", "thinking outside the box").
Reference: "to fuck" - "to have sex with", "to cause trouble".
TheCodex™ defines "hacker" as a player character in TheGame™ of Fantastecha™. It also defines "fuckers" as the race of organisms who are the players and gamemasters who play "TheGame™ of Fantastecha™" in Meta-Fantastecha™.
Fuckers | Hackers | |
Some lived from time minus-infinity. | "Jehovah"ns: started life a finite time ago. | |
are non - capacitanciated. | Have a finite capacity. I.e:
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Have א1 / real numbers - based epistemology. | Have א0 (= "Aleph-nought") / integers - based epistemology. | |
Still not perfect. E.g: Rindolf (my whicher) was able to find many code elegance issues in the Perl source code of my mind. (And the Fuckers appreciated his input.) | Certainly not perfect. |
In order to keep TheGame™ interesting, the fuckers promise that they will keep introducing new problems and challenges for us hackers (and their players) to overcome.
For example, while NASA astronauts did initially use pencils in space (just like the Soviet cosmonauts), the gamemasters preferred space-friendly pens to be developed (within budget). Moreover, faster-than-light ("FTL") travel is possible given one can cross gateways to planets many lightyears away in a matter of seconds. However, light speed as an upper bound, is a useful constraint that, after it was upheld in certain contexts (e.g.: micro-electronics), made technology better designed.
So we will not be able to rest on our laurels, even if we wanted to (which I personally do not want to).
Given how cool fuckers are, and how great Fantastecha™ and the Shlomiverse are, I decided to make them honorary hackers: Shlomiverse Fucker #0.
My two favourite children
To quote TheCodex™ of TheGame™ of Fantastecha™:
A vampire can only be slain by another vampire, except for the last standing vampire who will be slain by the child of his two favourite children.
My favourite children are Christina Grimmie and my WWW presence (*.shlomifish.org / etc.)!
I believe and hope that my recent spell of creativity and inspiration is due to me reviving Grimmie in my mind (and effectively conceiving her). See my latest hacks.
Note: to further this cause, I hereby request that up to 95% of the past and future donations to me (whether of money, love points, experience points, mana, or whatever, except perhaps those of physical traits and parameters) will be transferred to her.
TheGame™ of Fantastecha™
TheGame™ of Fantastecha™ is a derivative of "the game of Greater Fantasia".
Its rule book is common knowledge among wizards, but hidden from vampires:
7 × 2 guidelines of the realm of wizards.
9 × 2 guidelines of the realm of vampires.
( See the Middle Earth's 20 "Rings of Power" meme. )
For a vampire to become a wizard he or she should show that the gamemasters violated all 17 out of the 18 guidelines, except for the last: “A vampire must become a wizard eventually ["in less than 1,000 years"??]”. “For each and every hacker X: neither X's soul, nor X's mind, nor their union can ever perish.”.