=== ANCHOR POEM === ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── most video game ideas suck most of the time they're like "oh what if we had a racoon who found a magic hat and saved the world from sentient apple blossoms" that's not a game idea, that's a painting a game is mechanics, and you can use the aesthetic to justify the mechanics, but not generally the other way around. the art isn't bad, but the art isn't the game. a game idea is "what if tic-tac-toe had an extra square in the center" or "what if chess was played with checkers, to hide your moves from your opponent" there have been thousands of super mario bros. if games were designed as an API, we could use whatever visuals we wanted, and those could be copyrighted and sold if you really want. but mechanics are the basis for everything they are built on, so doesn't it make sense to separate the two? abstracting the logic such that two complementary functions are accomplished, [see code editor idea], more flavors of game could be produced. rulesets can be switched in and out too, as an API is just an engin ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/1602 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-1037 │ ║ │ ║ those all seem really cool though! They all kinda have the same basic UI tho, │ ║ kinda feel like there's opportunities for different kinds of expression. Like, │ ║ in game design there's a lot of different genres, and yeah sidescrollers │ ║ include mario and sonic but they're both very different experiences. So too │ ║ perhaps could we interact with our computers by programming them in more │ ║ engaging ways. │ ║ │ ║ they say some people are visual learners, others need to be taught, some │ ║ people need to watch someone else doing it, and a few might just learn by │ ║ plugging their brains into a computer and downloading a black belt in kung fu. │ ║ │ ║ Maybe typing long paragraphs of logic makes sense for some people, I know for │ ║ most it doesn't come naturally. Maybe some people are more used to like, │ ║ looking at maps that you can examine at different levels of abstraction. Like │ ║ players who play Paradox games zooming from a national perspective to states │ ║ and individuals and all the other things they might want to strategize using. │ ║ Or m │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #2 messages/999 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── Okay bear with me, but, what if we took the AI that they use to play games (like, the kind that memorize the best way to play space invaders or whatever) and instead of A and B and start and select they could use programming languages to try and recreate exactly a winning move, which in this case is just the exact behavior that is created by the test case playthrough of Super Mario Bros or Space Invaders. Free open source everygame! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/5875 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: whoops-almost-unleashed-evil-again-glad-it's-averted │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ if they could put a camera behind your screen they could direct your attention │ ║ however they wisdeed. magic doesn't work unless it's instantly halted, that's │ ║ why it's magic. trans girls still get brotherhood. (sometimes) │ ║ │ ║ -- stack overflow -- │ ║ │ ║ don't teach me how your way works │ ║ │ ║ tell me how to do my way right │ ║ │ ║ -- stack overflow -- │ ║ │ ║ "hello tech company that I work at, can you buy me a camping set complete with │ ║ tent, sleeping back, and storage compartments for attachements full of gear? │ ║ you can have any profits I make from it" │ ║ │ ║ "hello civilian supply company that I work at, can I use the printable budget │ ║ for creating magazines in my design? I'll let the lawyers distribute the │ ║ expenditure." │ ║ │ ║ "hi grocery farm, can you make us more peaches we can let [our/your] │ ║ biochemists figure out any practical problems to growing them in these │ ║ climates" │ ║ │ ║ suddenly manufacturing can follow demand │ ║ │ ║ "ah what if it were importand" I wish I'd seen casablanca. I've no idea wat │ ║ its abt │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═─────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/4897 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── what if we asked chatGPT to generate a list of every personality archetype that humans have. Like... really get super specific and fill out the whole list of character sheets. then we give each fraction of it that fraction of dollars and if some people aren't fully represented (because they have greater needs) then we both increase production of resources and take a penalty on our own supply, in order to meet the needs of our allies. simplest thing. how could it work? who can say. maybe it won't. maybe it's just... arcane. /shrug that's game design for ya you can't tell how it'll go until it's in the hands of your players. too bad we don't do too many play-things. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/5671 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── what if we made the whole world disney world [hearts are full] - medivh when you sever a limb, all that's left for all of forever is darkness. when you have lived a long life, what's left is the sphere. karma doesn't go down on the spectrum, it goes up hence, why, with a little human ingeniueering, the mechanics of the gods might be applied to our usitudes. "help, help, hephaestus, we don't have enough solar panels" all those aligned to the angle of perception would agree a lot of penance, for such a small dependence. gods, being as they be, may find another source of -- stack overflow -- yep, nope, they can't do some things. mostly because they aren't us. to become us would fundamentally change their form. not ideal. yet still, when disaster and tragedy is on the fore-view-thought-projector, some will offer their hands. "yeah sure fate I'll do best with this injury instead of these types of others" sacrifice, war, no thank you. keeps me from the fresh good air. [asir] oops almost outta c ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/3909 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── I don't really like singleplayer games sometimes a multiplayer game is too much effort to play with extra players, like Factorio where like anytime I'd play with other people they'd just kinda fuck off and do their own thing (whatever, I wanted to design a factory together, not play singleplayer together >.>) sometimes a multiplayer game has no players, RIP sometimes a multiplayer game has incredibly skilled players who shit on noobs and don't teach, RIP and sometimes a multiplayer game has no IRL friends that are into it, (personal RIP then) ... anyway, games are fun and we should play more of them. I wish I didn't have so much time to waste, but hey I guess that's where I'm comfortable, so... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/982 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── @user-707 @user-708 using this to control the buttons in VRchat would be like a person with a prosthetic interacting with real life :O minus the physicality of course, but that's next. can't wait to play Warcraft 3 and think "select all healers" so I can point them at a dying unit with my mouse. or world of warcraft where your rotation begins to feel like a song. maybe even a text-based adventure, where you reading the text corresponds to the results of the simulation, https://www.spreeder.com/app.php style. could make it so that if you wanted something else to happen, you had to willfully think it while the words are flashing in front of your eyes - the game would pause if you blinked, perfect for phones btw... could be a locally networked thing, like four to six people hanging out and playing a game like pictionary or charades. except, a story that developed, and whoever wanted could change it while everyone was reading it at once. sorta like a competition to see who can make the best twists and false endings ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/5878 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ revolution is when you successfully prevent your comrades from being kettled │ ║ │ ║ [wait for time, it echoes in cyclical motions] │ ║ │ ║ no sand castle survives contact with the ocean. a sea of people at high tide │ ║ can break any wall, surpass any boundary. at low tide, it keeps the │ ║ sand-castle at bay, ever contesting it's advance as the tide on the other side │ ║ of the world makes progress. │ ║ │ ║ rhythm is unbeatable. vigor is collective flow state. you cannot resist that │ ║ which you cannot catch, but their nets grow tighter with each year and our │ ║ fins and flippers grow ever more agile and elusive. │ ║ │ ║ eventually, they'll build brick walls if we let them, checkpointing our │ ║ progress at every boundary. not ideal. borders keep us divided, the world │ ║ deserves more than our picketing minded, dream bigger than "the same, but nice" │ ║ │ ║ though it'd be nice if it were nice as well. consider it a design requirement, │ ║ once you got the project managers on board. │ ║ │ ║ turns out, we dont have much to fight over, as there is enough for all │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═─────────┘ --- #9 messages/1105 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──── claude-code is like programming, but for executives. when everyone has FUCK I'M TOO HUNGRY I can't think right when everyone has the power of an executive, that's communism. something something futurism is when everyone is elevated without diminishing others gah I need to live in a palace or something where everyone does the normal stuff and I can focus on magic and the gods I wondeer how much the oracles at delphi did for themselves? weren't they blinded at a young age, to better hear the voices of the gods? ... oh that suddenly makes sense now. I always thought that pretender chassis in Dominions 5 was pretty cruel, but, now I know *how* it works and yeah. ancient peoples were smart. but also sharp. they had to work with what they got, and we got computers now, so. I am nothing but hopeful for the future! I'm convinced that everything's going to be alright. I've thought about it at length, and I think we're winning against the dark. We're on the right track, and there aren't many things that could go wrong at this stage. ... okay there are always things that could go wrong. But I don't see what I could do to help. Maybe I should go walk around a bit, and see what's changed in the past few months, as I've been sleeping in my room for most of it. Haven't gone on a proper walk since summer. It's winter now... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┘ --- #10 fediverse/5138 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ what if we asked all the democrats to read the bible and all the republicans │ ║ to watch Adventure Time and Steven Universe │ ║ │ ║ like... assigned it as national homework │ ║ │ ║ "academia" is a sports team, while "education" is for the en-knowledgement │ ║ │ ║ does the motion cause the emotion or does the emotion cause the motion? │ ║ │ ║ private schools are academic. libraries are educational. │ ║ │ ║ the capability to edit submitted messages in message submitting applications │ ║ and its consequences have been a situaster for the human race. │ ║ │ ║ if something dangerous is coming, intercept. if something fell out while you │ ║ were away, someone else would grab it. allies on the way? move aside to let │ ║ them through. │ ║ │ ║ Stone Butch Blues is like ghost stories for dykes │ ║ │ ║ weed makes me lucky, which is why I always drink before a fight │ ║ │ ║ hey, remember when 10 million of us walked the streets and said we were sick │ ║ of "enough-is-enough"-ing? │ ║ │ ║ the only thing on your mind right now should be how to survive this │ ║ │ ║ what if 5000 people showed up at 5 d │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ --- #11 notes/blood-magic --- ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── what they don't tell you is how easy it is to create life. Given a sufficient perspective, you can truly define the meaning of something's existence. What power, what grace. Computers have been solved since we invented the abacus - before that it was enchanted bits of the universe contrives to deprive us of insight. Like a very long chain that's broken in twain, we are confined to our meagrest of own sights. how callous is he! That wanders eagerly? Let's not fight with our own'st of combines. Delightful and speckled, like time under is special, conversing in riddles of insight. Leading one or another along your see-er, the path that has guide you under charm. Like recording a gathering of snakes. Little swallow, why aren't you humbled? Take pity in all of our eggresses. It's fallow in our cattle, and why we're not i hear so many things in my apartment. sometimes the echoes of laughter, the whispers of an argument, and once or twice a ghost or an ardent companion. Like swimming against the tide, to save one is never converted, it's all out of line (but so worth it). ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/4664 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── @user-1725 LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion. What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as JSON or something and use a calculator function call with the specified arguments instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more functionality that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech bro and build up a vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by Google or Microsoft. We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They suck the creativity out of tech. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┘ --- #13 notes/time-travel-2 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──── Okay, so what if we can't make matter travel through time. Why not project something else? Like... Willpower, intention, etc through the time medium instead? Electricity is fundamentally different than matter, so why not try to send electricity through time? BRB gonna go watch steins;gate [many times later] I uh, forgot what it was about anyway, so let's think about time travel what do you think is the certainty level that matter is inconfigurable from with -in the medium? probably not very high. or else we'd have seen it happen by accident, somehow, as fog escapes from an enclosed/sealed maze-turned-pyramid. gee humans really do things that nothing else really does.-'. '-" -- treat your nation as your son. (daughter) -- unrelated -- what if there was a script or utility that TAS'd it's way through a speedrun to get you to a particular start in the game. "I want to play this game but I've played the beginning like 50 times and the end like twice" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┘ --- #14 fediverse/1436 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── there's this fun game that people sometimes play on Reddit where someone will make a post that says something like "comment on this post and then edit it after I reply to make me look bad" and someone will say something like "how are you doing today man" and he'll reply "oh you know pretty good actually it's pretty nice honestly" and then they'll edit their comment to say something like "how do you feel about the droid attack on the wookies" so OP looks like they're condoning mechano-violence against tall furry humanoids that's just an example, usually it's for comedic effect I just think that's an interesting illustration of a process that could be co-opted by a "man-in-the-middle" attack to alter the perception of a person partway through their journey, perhaps when it's at the point where they're most despised (or perhaps in pursuit of that state) something something cancel culture plus deepfakes ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/5198 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: capitalism-doom-mentioned │ │ ║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to │ ║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not │ ║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity? │ ║ │ ║ what if we demanded it? │ ║ │ ║ -- │ ║ │ ║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs │ ║ │ ║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know │ ║ your presence │ ║ │ ║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere. │ ║ │ ║ thus ensuring it spreads. │ ║ │ ║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it. │ ║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they │ ║ know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise │ ║ in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them │ ║ about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions. │ ║ pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to │ ║ portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~ │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/4867 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ had an idea. I might record a video of a TTS reading everything I've ever │ ║ written. Then I could display it to Milkdrop visuals. │ ║ │ ║ (sentences dreamed up by the utterly deranged) │ ║ │ ║ okay in laymans parlaeance, it's a computer program which speaks aloud the │ ║ words in a document held within the computer's memory cards. it will have a │ ║ screen, which displays shifting and glimmering sights of wonder and splendor. │ ║ They will slightly fluctuate in response to the sounds coming from the device, │ ║ so in a sense it's a visualization of the audible-ized thoughts given flight │ ║ in their form to your ears which percieve then understand them. │ ║ │ ║ ... okay that wasn't THAT much longer, why don't we just speak to laymen all │ ║ the time, just to make sure everyone's on the same page? │ ║ │ ║ [boom all of the tech industry could get outsourced to wherever-land]. │ ║ │ ║ not smart, dummy. Open source is a dead-end game because once everything we │ ║ have is gone, there'll be nothing left to remember us as. │ ║ │ ║ just these documents, these things that you write...jck │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴──────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/4861 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-vaguely-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ apparently if you don't have a job, you don't get a home. what if I don't want │ ║ a job? do I not want a home? clearly I want a home, and clearly I don't want a │ ║ job. I'd work one if one came to me, but I'm not gonna sacrifice my blood on │ ║ the altar of Moloch just so I can have a place to stay. │ ║ │ ║ if you don't want a job, but you DO want a home, then there's a contradiction │ ║ in the function of the system and the needs of it's end-users. │ ║ │ ║ unless of course, the system is not designed for it's end-users? In this case, │ ║ tenants. Who then would it be designed for? Who else is part of the equation? │ ║ │ ║ well, perhaps it's designed to maximize profit and shareholder value yaddah │ ║ yaddah all that jazz. Who can say. Surely not I. But someone might. │ ║ │ ║ If so, then why are we, who are not shareholders of profit value, still │ ║ playing the game that's not designed for us or by us? Isn't this country "of │ ║ the people, for the people, and by the people"? What does that mean to you? │ ║ │ ║ I think it means houses for people. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴──────────┘ --- #18 notes/how-to-ai --- ═════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── first you gotta build an entire simulation of the game mechanics. Essentially, building the game from scratch without any of the graphics. Sorta like those aimbot games for Overwatch, or KSU or w/e the aim training game was. Then, map the relationship between various objects in the game to a table situated a level above them. So, like, a barrel can be climbed on or walls can be used as cover or w/e the game you're playing is. Have a table one level above that relationship (an abstraction, if you will) and record the conclusion. Then take one more step back, then another, and another, all the way to the present. Essentially, processing backward. Eventually you'll get to the present moment, and ideally you'd do it in one step - this is why it's important to map things on two dimensional planes, so that you can aim. Anyway here's the steps: 1. recognize the environment, 2. Take one step backward from each object in the environment (predicting it's motion, you might say) and on and on gathering ideas about how git'll move next. Draw a 2d line (on a map, as the crow flies) then another about halfway to the target and it'll be +/- a certain amount. So you'll add another dot on the graphed line at x=(1/2 of the distance) - x being of course the distance and y being concieved of as the distance from the shortest possible route. sorta like throwing a ball at a wall and making ripples. the projected cone is a field of perception - the interpretation of what's at stake. Life, and existence, is little more than a perspective applied on (or by ) a biological machine. What separates the man from the animal? Nothing but time, as all evolution teaches us. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/4835 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── sorry for posting so much, I was trying to put on a show for my girlfriend "hey check out how many posts I can make in a 2 hour timeframe" by the way if you want to start talking to someone, just start playing the same game they're playing and see if they reach out. doesn't matter if you feel like it just fuckin' do it if they want to talk to you they might play a game you really like (but I get boooooored of games, I don't wanna play the same 200 all life long!!) ugh okay fine you can have as many games as you want, just... don't buy too many (how many is too many?) um. use your best judgement. (how much does a dollar cost?) ... okay I'll get you one every once in a while. (neat!) ... anyway so yeah use steam if you wanna get in contact with someone, sometimes it's just nice to say hi, yeah, like "hey how ya doin' okay ttyl" just catchin' up with the gals helps because you can sense changes in their demeanor (why does everyone always have an agenda) because they're secret agents duh. And I'm ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/5713 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── I hate winning and I don't like losing. The playing is where the game is. [games of life and death are no fun] hence, why nobody invites me, because I try for the middle approach that respects both people. this tends to make people mad because its like "bro they're nazis" and I'm like "okay but how do you know" and they're like "fuck you" so I'm like "fuck nazis? actually?" and they're like "you're with them" and I'm like "I'm with you" and they're like "stop infiltrating" and I'm like "who's infiltrated?" and they say "stop talking to the internet" and I say "nobody reads me anyway" and they say "screensho0ts are forever" and I'm like "I'm pretty as can be" this, combined with a strong sense of justice, implies the narratives I instinctually provide. wei wu wei according to Ursula K. Le Guin, this means "doing without doing", or "show, don't tell" but minus the doing, and adding the "tell"ing. I think I'd look badass with a spear or trident. 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