In more recent decades, the idea has become a staple of the science fiction and adventure genres, appearing in print, in film, on television, in comics, in role-playing games, and in many animated works.

References to specific kami or the general Shinto idea of kami appear in various areas of popular culture, including anime and manga, role-playing games, and literature.

While simple forms of role-playing exist in traditional children's games of make believe, role-playing games add a level of sophistication and persistence to this basic idea with additions such as game facilitators and rules of interaction.

During the first two seasons, the series used a gimmick whereby Jordan and her retired police detective father Maximilian " Max " Cavanaugh ( Ken Howard ) role-play the events leading up to that episode's murder, which were depicted by showing Jordan playing the part of the victim or suspect in a recreation of the scene, the idea being that such role-playing would help Jordan to figure out the circumstances of the crime, like a criminal profiler.

While writing epic romances into video games is not a new phenomenon, the idea of capturing a video game player through emotionally charged moments via the death of a hero's lover in order to produce feelings of attachment to the fictional environment has expanded, especially within action-adventure / role-playing games ( RPGs ).

A number of role-playing games have also adopted the idea, either using it as a separate realm within the multiverse ( à la the Arcadia of the Dungeons & Dragons universe ), or even using it as the central focus of an entire game system ( as in White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming game ).

The displacer beast in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game was inspired by the coeurl — the two have the same idea of tentacles coming from the shoulders, as well as a feline appearance, and the displacer beast uses " vibrations " to confuse its enemies.

In the Dungeons & Dragons family of role-playing games, the idea of the Greek elements are used as the symbolic building blocks of reality ; the four Elemental Planes form a metaphorical ring around the " Prime Material Plane " that contains all the " everyday " game settings ( Faerun, Greyhawk, et cetera ).

Princeton class of 1882 graduate Thomas Peebles moved to Minnesota in 1884, and transplanted the idea of organized crowds cheering at football games to the University of Minnesota.

Modern game theory began with the idea regarding the existence of mixed-strategy equilibria in two-person zero-sum games and its proof by John von Neumann.

The innovative idea of night games was instigated by the club and meeting the challenges, the club survived.

The game of Oh Hell explores the idea of taking an exact number of tricks specified by a bid before the hand, and differs from other trick-taking games in that players play a fixed number of hands.

The conflict was resolved after he suggested to the King of Greece that he hold pan-Hellenic games in between Olympiads, an idea which the King accepted, although Coubertin would receive some angry correspondence even after the compromise was reached and the King did not mention him at all during the banquet held in honour of foreign athletes during the 1896 Games.

Thanks to Carmack's idea of extending video game life by adding unlimited expandability ( extensibility already played a big role in Doom ), an enormous Internet community of gamers and programmers alike has arisen and many modern multiplayer games are extensible in some form.

While the idea that human beings and dinosaurs coexisted is sometimes portrayed in popular culture in cartoons, films and computer games, such as The Flintstones, One Million Years B. C.

The idea is to promote the playing of the games ( by making play against a remote opponent easier ), while supporting the industry ( and reducing copyright issues ) by ensuring that the players have access to the actual physical game.

Modern usage derives primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there.

Coubertin adopted Dr William Penny Brooke's idea to establish a multi-national and multi-sport event — the ancient games were in a sense international, because various Greek city-states and colonies were represented, but only free male athletes of Greek origin were allowed to participate.

Following the successes of his trial-run games, Foster moved ahead with his idea for arena football.

After a test run in preseason games, this idea was scrapped.

Sega started using " Tuning cards " in games such as the Initial D series of games allowing the customer to save game data on a card vended from the game ; Namco copied the idea with the Maximum Tune series.

The description depicts a typical deathmatch based on major titles such as Quake, Doom, Unreal Tournament and others, the purpose served is to give a basic idea of the concept ; however, given the many variations that exist and the manner that options and rules may be manipulated literally everything mentioned could be different to a minor or major degree in other games.

When these games turned out less than perfect and were overshadowed by the Exposition Universelle, the IOC supported the Greek idea by granting them a second series of quadrennial games in between the first series.

All of the games would be International Olympic Games ; the difference was that half of them would follow Coubertin's idea of organisati international, while the other half would follow the Greeks ' idea of a permanent home with the Greek NOC as experienced organizers.

The idea of the player being unarmed and having to avoid being seen by enemies rather than fight them has been used in many games since.

`` You are a big muscle-bound ape and you got this idea about setting a record.

Seemingly, with an unrestricted flow of ideas, all will be well, and we are even assured that `` an idea a day will keep the sheriff away ''.

The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.

But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

If both George and a piece of information George does not have are prominent in the context, but the idea of telling George is new, then dominant stress will probably be on tell in why not tell George??

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

But although the idea of communism is very old even in More's day and did not spring full-clad from his imagination in 1515, it is not communism as such that we are concerned with.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

This last point is important because if high school pupils are aware that few, if any, graduates who have chosen a certain vocational program have obtained a job as a consequence of the training, the whole idea of relevance disappears.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

The idea of community and the idea of spirit are two distinct and separable ideas.

In support of this, stories from the early literature are cited to show that Zen attacks the idea of supernatural power.

There are brain-wracking searches for the right word, the best phrase, the most helpful idea.

It is important to note that, while research supports the idea that altruistic acts bring about happiness, it has also been found to work in the opposite direction — that happier people are also kinder.

The Greeks maintained, until late in their civilization, an almost animistic idea that the statues are in some sense alive.

Instructions are usually assumed to be listed explicitly, and are described as starting " from the top " and going " down to the bottom ", an idea that is described more formally by flow of control.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

In sum, the idea was that Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic form a Sprachbund – the result of convergence through intensive borrowing and long contact among speakers of languages that are not necessarily closely related.

With this, the perspective of the author is removed from the text, and the limits formerly imposed by the idea of one authorial voice, one ultimate and universal meaning, are destroyed.

For a reader to assign the title of author upon any written work is to attribute certain standards upon the text which, for Foucault, are working in conjunction with the idea of " the author function ".