{"id":3246,"date":"2011-01-24T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2015-01-23T22:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T22:58:38","slug":"reviews-from-the-far-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/2011\/01\/24\/reviews-from-the-far-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews from the Far Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently posted about a bunch of year-end accolades Osmos has received. (Sometimes you just have to toot your own horn I guess. Toot toot!) But some of the articles we&#8217;ve come across are&#8230; different: philosophical, scientific, amusing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a selection of a few of our recent favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Think Like a Bacterium: Osmos, Na\u00efve Quorum Sensing, &#038; the iPad&#8221; by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ryandewey.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/13\/think-like-a-bacterium-osmos-naive-quorum-sensing-the-ipad\/\">Sport Linguist<\/a> relates Osmos to &#8220;quorum sensing&#8221; and &#8220;technological human enhancement&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>This &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamegavel.com\/forum\/entry.php?b=113\">review<\/a>&#8221; by Alexandre Guimond begins with Carl Sagan and ends with how Osmos is &#8220;the metaphorical statement of what we have become as a species, and how far we have come to understand the Cosmos.&#8221; Wow.\n<li>&#8220;Osmos and The Free Market&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/danielprimed.com\/2010\/12\/osmos-and-the-free-market\/\">Daniel Primed<\/a> takes an economics slant and compares Osmos to the free market. Interesting&#8230; though I guess that raises the question of whether or not our economy is a zero-sum game like the mass in Osmos.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And last but certainly not least, a four panel rage comic summing up the Osmos experience for one player<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 640px\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" src=\"\/images\/osmos_cartoon.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">original comic posted by lordmortekai on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/eo2td\/osmos_rage\">reddit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently posted about a bunch of year-end accolades Osmos has received. (Sometimes you just have to toot your own horn I guess. Toot toot!) But some of the articles we&#8217;ve come across are&#8230; different: philosophical, scientific, amusing&#8230; Here&#8217;s a selection of a few of our recent favorites: &#8220;Think Like a Bacterium: Osmos, Na\u00efve Quorum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-osmos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/osmos_cartoon.png?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5C9wi-Qm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}