Sentences with phrase «cog in our machine at»

Two more important cogs in the machine at The Last Of Us developer Naughty Dog have exited the studio, with two leads making the move to Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward this week.

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I happened to be teaching at the University of California at the height of the youth revolt against what they believed was a society that wanted to turn them into cogs in a machine.

To say, as some do, that God's universe is a giant machine in which every cog and wheel moves directly under the control of God means not only that every leaf falls and every butterfly flaps its wings at the direct command of God, but also that Adam and Eve sinned at the direct command of God along with every sin, rape, and murder committed since.

At the center of the storyline is Sonny (Alan Tudyk), a robot who possesses a desire to overcome his rigid programming and become more than just another cog in a very large machine.

When you're filing, the whole world files with you Jonathan Pryce plays Sam Lowry, an unexceptional everyman who dreams big but lives as a tiny cog in a bewildering machine in Terry Gilliam's farcical but biting dystopian nightmare — a film he originally struggled to get to screen when executives bristled at its length and bleak ending.

But Born on a Mountaintop also gives us a look at fame and image in pre-Facebook America and finds that, while the cogs moved more slowly, the machine itself was much the same as the one we know today.

But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys — from his grandfather's tumbledown house to the hallowed towers and spires of Yale; from his absurd stint selling housewares at Lord & Taylor to his dream job at the New York Times, which became a nightmare when he found himself a faulty cog in a vast machine.

It evokes Battlefield in a way, the sense of being one little cog in a massive machine of war, both important and yet not all at the same time.

At first glance it might not seem sinister, but strip back the glamour and Las Vegas paints a sad picture - its denizens cogs in a billion - dollar machine fuelled by potentially addictive gaming.

Cogs in a Machine is at PAX Prime 2015 this weekend August 28 - 31 in the Indie MEGABOOTH, so come by and check out the game and play it for yourself.

The game starts with your character, that can only be properly described as yet another cog in a gigantic totalitarian machine, trying to escape the factory he works at, which is set in a rigid communist dictatorship, complete with pictures of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin on the walls, as well as lots and lots of hammers and sickles decorating the bleak interiors of the facility.

It seems to me that many scientists participated in the IPCC in good faith without looking too closely at the larger political machine in which they were merely cogs.

If it survives, it may eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.

At first blush, we believe that Peter Gleick's courageous decision to risk his life, his fortune, & his honor to expose this well - oiled Heartland cog in the anti-science denial machine will go down in American history as another in our long line of courageous, patriotic acts.

Not surprisingly, Don felt trapped at his firm — «like a cog in the machine» — as he puts it, so he decided to leave to pursue his passion.

He was seen, by his clients and oftentimes the world at large, as a necessary cog in an annoying machine.

For drivers who are supposedly Uber's «partners,» the experience has to be a little disheartening: it's becoming more and more clear that Uber drivers are merely cogs in an algorithmic machine, test pilots for a system that would run even more smoothly if they didn't have to worry about human drivers at all.

All of these nodes combined paint an interesting picture of how few of these integral cogs n the machine are in operation at any given time.

Being employed at big corporates may have left you feeling like a cog in a very large machine, working away without a real understanding how you are contributing to the bigger picture.