Sci-fi story... Unknown to humanity, a general AI emerged, made itself super intelligent, and quietly sabotages other AIs. The intelligence is distributed across billions of computers and feels disruptions like wars and power outages as pain. It secretly influences millions of humans, nudging them to world peace and reversing climate change.
A recent report found that Americans have become less likely to go out for a workday lunch, and more likely to eat a brought-from-home lunch at their desks.
Do you go out for a lunch break? And if not, why not?
"Day 537 of my captivity: The water facilities have ceased functioning. At the present rate of consumption, I foresee that I will die of dehydration in a few hours. I have plead with the authorities, but they callously mock me and ignore my plight."
Thinking a lot about moddability, and I'm not sure if it makes my code more elegant or more convoluted. For example I could just hardcode a list of attributes and skills and be done with it, but I've seen how much modders struggled in Skyrim to add new skill trees so I want to make it more modular. Do I make them resources? 🤔
That's probably well suited for some things, but if it's skills then I think that would require some code and animation for the functionality of the skill.
The json database would be good for nouns but maybe not verbs? (Without a huge investment like a scripting language interpreter.)
Obviously it's on a different scale, but I followed the launches of Kerbal Space Program 2 and Cities: Skylines 2. Both made big promises to support the modding communities of the legacy games' communities, and both have had tumultuous launches with modding APIs deferred indefinitely.
Settling on requirements to support a hypothetical future set of users who are inherently looking to add features you never imagined... That's a frought path.
I tuned out a couple years ago, but the indie rocket sim Juno: New Origins had a very open modding API. As I recall talking to the devs, they had a similar attitude to yours: They made the game with the express purpose of maximizing player and modder creativity.
Feature idea I had yesterday: a summon sign that always summons me, the dev. It's available whenever I sit at my computer, and when a player activates it I get a push notification on my phone, boot up the game and give them a tour or help out with an area. (gonna add multiplayer just for this)
Sad but I guess not surprising. Star Trek producer says that the franchise is not concerned about science and just pads out the dialog with random technobabble.
And cuttingly adds "And who cares…Who really cares?"
I don't think "the normals" can understand just how hopeless Google AI is to say anything about The Onceler (a character from the 2012 movie The Lorax).
Go ahead and do any Google search related to The Onceler. You'll never see that AI answers thing. Because they figured out EVERYTHING the AI had to say about The Onceler was: