Video Games

import os
import re
import shutil

class Item:

    def __init__(self, path, index, no_name):
        self.path = path
        self.index = index
        self.no_name = no_name
        self.next = None

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.index) + "\t" + self.path

    def __len__(self):
        ii = 0
        current = self
        while current != None:
            ii += 1
            current = current.next
        return ii

    def insert(self, path, index=None):
        head = self
        previous = head.advance_to_index_predecessor(index)
        if index == None:
            index = previous.index + 1
        item = Item(path, index, self.no_name)
        if previous != None:
            item.next = previous.next
            previous.next = item
        else:
            item.next = head
            head = item
        item.increase_indices()
        return head

    def advance_to_index_predecessor(self, index=None):
        previous = None
        current = self
        while current != None:
            if index != None and current.index >= index:
                break
            previous = current
            current = current.next
        return previous

    def increase_indices(self):
        current = self.next
        previous_index = self.index
        while current != None and current.index == previous_index:
            current.index += 1
            previous_index += 1
            current = current.next

    def remove_path(self, path):
        head = self
        current = head
        previous = None
        while current != None:
            if os.path.samefile(path, current.path):
                if previous != None:
                    previous.next = current.next
                else:
                    head = current.next
                break
            previous = current
            current = current.next
        return head

    def bunch(self):
        index = 1
        current = self
        while current != None:
            current.index = index
            index += 1
            current = current.next

    def erase_index(self):
        self.index = None

    def save(self, directory_path, prefix_length, delimiter, copy, simulate,
             verbosity):
        name = self.extract_name()
        name = name.lstrip(delimiter)
        prefix = self.build_prefix(prefix_length)
        if self.no_name:
            file_name = prefix + self.extract_extension(name)
        else:
            file_name = prefix + delimiter + name
        path = os.path.join(directory_path, file_name)
        self.write_path(path, copy, simulate, verbosity)

    def build_prefix(self, prefix_length):
        prefix = ""
        if self.index != None:
            prefix = str(self.index).zfill(prefix_length)
        return prefix

    def extract_extension(self, name):
        return "." + name.split(".")[-1]

    def write_path(self, path, copy, simulate, verbosity):
        if not os.path.isfile(path) or not os.path.samefile(self.path, path):
            if not simulate:
                if copy:
                    shutil.copy(self.path, path)
                else:
                    shutil.move(self.path, path)
            if verbosity > 0:
                print "Wrote:", self.path, "=>", path

    def get_largest_index(self):
        current = self
        while current.next:
            current = current.next
        return current.index

    def extract_name(self):
        file_name = os.path.basename(self.path)
        match = re.match("^[0-9]*(.*)", file_name)
        return match.group(1)

<?php

define("STYLE_SHEET", "style.css");
define(
   "PAGE_TITLE",
   "Elemental Parents &#187; Lightweight Hierarchical Database");

display_page();
function display_page() { echo build_page(); }

function build_page()
{
   $markup = "<html>\n\n";
   $markup .= build_head();
   $markup .= build_body();
   $markup .= "</html>";
   return $markup;
}

function build_body()
{
   $markup = file_get_contents("elmp.html") . "\n";
   return $markup;
}

function build_head()
{
   $markup = "<head>\n";
   $markup .= "<title>" . PAGE_TITLE . "</title>\n";
   $markup .= build_style_sheet_tag();
   $markup .= "</head>\n\n";
   return $markup;
}

function build_style_sheet_tag()
{
   $markup = "<link href=\"";
   $markup .= STYLE_SHEET;
   $markup .= "\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\"/>\n";
   return $markup;
}

<?php

define("OPEN_ELEMENT_CHAR", "(");
define("CLOSE_ELEMENT_CHAR", ")");

define("NAME_COMPONENT", 0);
define("ID_COMPONENT", 1);
define("DATA_COMPONENT", 2);
define("COMPONENT_COUNT", 3);

define("ELMP_VERBOSE", True);

<?php

// The refrigerator picked up a mix of transmissions from Andromeda, one of
// them was a loop, "Attention All Humans..."

class Element
{
   public function __construct($id=NULL, $name=NULL, $content=NULL)
   {
      $this->id = $id;
      $this->name = $name;
      $this->content = $content;
   }

   public function __toString()
   {
      return "Element $this->id -- $this->name\n";
   }

   public function count()
   {
      return ((is_object($this->content)) ? $this->content->count() : 0) +
         (($this->next) ? $this->next->count() : 0) + 1;
   }

   public function measure_depth()
   {
      $current = $this;
      while ($current)
      {
         if (is_object($current->content))
         {
            $nodes[] = 1 + $current->content->measure_depth();
         }
         $current = $current->next;
      }
      return ($nodes) ? max($nodes) : 1;
   }

   // Run a user supplied function on every member of the tree.  Return the
   // concatenation of the values given by each recursive call.
   public function format($editor, $indent=False, $level=0)
   {
      $markup = call_user_func($editor, $this, $indent, $level);
      if (is_object($this->content))
      {
         $markup .= $this->content->format($editor, True, $level+1);
      }
      if ($this->next)
      {
         $markup .= $this->next->format($editor, False, $level);
      }
      else
      {
         $markup .= call_user_func($editor, $this->next, $indent, $level);
      }
      return $markup;
   }

   public function convert_to_raw_string()
   {
      $message = "($this->name $this->id";
      $message .= ($this->content || $this->next) ? " " : "";
      $message .= (is_object($this->content)) ?
         $this->content->convert_to_raw_string() : "";
      $message .= (!is_object($this->content)) ? "$this->content)" : ")";
      $message .= ($this->next) ? $this->next->convert_to_raw_string() : "";

      return $message;
   }

   public function convert_to_tabbed_string($level=0)
   {
      $string = str_repeat("   ", $level);
      $string .= "$this->id $this->name";
      $string .= (is_object($this->content)) ? " »\n" : ": $this->content\n";

      $string .= (is_object($this->content)) ?
         $this->content->convert_to_tabbed_string($level+1) : "";
      $string .= ($this->next) ?
         $this->next->convert_to_tabbed_string($level) : "";

      return $string;
   }
}

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December 3, 2013♦

Where in the mind's prism does light shine, inward, outward, or backward, and where in a plane does it intersect, experientially and literally, while possessing itself in a dripping wet phantasm?

Fig 1.1 What happens after you turn on a video game and before it appears?

The taxonomy of fun contains the difference between gasps of desperation and exaltation, simultaneously identical and opposite; one inspires you to have sex, while the other to ejaculate perpetually. A destruction and its procession are effervescent, while free play is an inseminated shimmer hatching inside you. Unlikely to be resolved, however, in such a way, are the climaxes of transitions between isolated, consecutive game states.

You walk through a door or long-jump face first (your face, not Mario's) into a painting. A moment passes for eternity, viscerally fading from your ego, corpus, chakra, gaia, the basis of your soul. It happens when you kill too, and especially when you precisely maim or obliterate something. It's a reason to live, a replicating stasis.

Fig 1.2 Sequence in a video game

Video games are death reanimated. You recurse through the underworld toward an illusion. Everything in a decision and logic attaches permanently to your fingerprint. At the core, you use its energy to soar, comatose, back into the biosphere, possibly because the formal structure of a mind by human standards is useful in the next world.

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