Life may not be a simulation but whoever wrote the code came up with some very elegant solutions for advancing game play:
1. Go out in springtime and throw a handful of seeds on the expectant earth; then sit back to watch the show or else you can play along on your own with a spade and hoe;
2. Later on you gather up food scraps in a stand-alone pile and watch the rules run in reverse.
Play once through and you’re hooked; it ought to be illegal it's so highly addictive.
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I wrote this #haibun this morning at the community compost pile after emptying a few bins of scraps from the New Moon restaurant, which means another few weeks of full employment for the maggots and worms here in town. This compost is no simulation either.
