I have this old & tiny b&w laser printer that someone gave me that is actually perfect for the 2 prints a year I need to do, by my calculation the toner it came with should last me roughly another 250 years.

A game was inspired by past games… Wow !

Autofill with my fake profile info.

Name: Go.
firstname: Fuck.
Email: yourself@with-gravel.com

but I’ve always been impressed with the technicians at the store.

Yeah me too. Each time they gave me the price for a repair I was very impressed. It was always more than I expected. :D

Accordingly, an author’s decision to remain anonymous, like other decisions concerning omissions or additions to the content of a publication, is an aspect of the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment.

US Supreme Court, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995)

More:

https://epic.org/issues/democracy-free-speech/anonymity/

Oh and I never actually tried Eve. It was great to read summaries of the big events but actually playing it seemed more like a 9-5 job than a game.

I remember reading, a “how-to start in eve” and thinking “hell no, I’m already doing that shit in the office”.

Yes, I totally and entirely agree with all of that. I also would love to see permanent impact of actions on the world and ditch player is the chosen one, hero of the ages paradigm like the 2k other players.

Let design a game together and we’ll just need a 100 millions $ to produce it :D

I wasn’t thinking of an AI generating the world map and dungeon. I was more thinking of an AI driving the agency of world actors. It doesn’t have to have a complete theory of mind, a reactive AI or limited memory AI, aka “chess engine” could “simply” drive the opposing faction.

We could imagine a war scenario, where the AI plays one side and the players the opposite and the effect of war would naturally change the world. That town where the wiki tells you you could buy that cute horse? Well too bad the AI invaded it or reduced it to rubbles. The HQ where the commander is supposed to be, well it moved back 20 clicks after the last player attack, etc…

The AI doesn’t really need to understand the purpose of its objective.

Of course it’s a frigging huge undertaking, it would probably cost the GDP of a small country and need it’s own nuclear powerplant to run (hello Microsoft!) but not impossible with today’s tech.

which are capable of small, precise movements.

Ah someone who never had to deal with handicap or accessibility issues who think since he can do it no one else needs it.

Do you complain about ramps because staircase are just fine since legs can easily climb them too?

Well, the opposite might be possible as well. An AI and genetic algorithms could keep a world ever evolving making information obsolete over time and since we know data mining will happen, I’d look at making it a game mechanic somehow.

That reminds me, I haven’t experienced a MMO that was successful at fostering a community since asheron’s call for the reason you describe.

The game didn’t have any of the “quality of life” features you can find in modern games, no fast travel, no markets, no difficulty indicator, if you wanted to travel to another region, it was a quest in itself or you’d have to beg top levels players to escort you there or open a portal for you, and since you could only hold a single portal to a location if you were a high enough level mage (I think) it wasn’t that easy to find.

Death was punishing, you’d lose most of your gear and you’d have people begging for help to retrieve it on every village square and because that actually mattered, it’s something you could do out of good will or for a fee.

The only way to get good gear was to get it from player who could craft, and since crafting was bitch to level up, guilds were the only one who could afford it.

Oh and that’s not really a part of the game, but internet was young and games didn’t yet have hords of people dissecting game and dumping every possible details on wikis or at least not as fast. So actually discussing quest, place and strategy with people mattered.

PVP was rough, no level limit, barely any zoning, a level 60 could camp your noob spawn and grief you forever, until you asked your guild for help and it turned into a week long manhunt to punish the griefer.

To be honest I don’t remember if the game has quests, a few I guess, mostly forgettable, most of the good memory I have from the game were from player induced adventures.

The game did eventually end up having all the tools you’d expect a community to build including XP allocation optimiser for cookie cutter built and a large database, which fucked it up, people would race their glass canon to level 60, kill a couple of the highest level monsters and get bored.

I wonder how you could build a game like that nowadays without the community ruining it with a wiki.

I kinda remember those conversations, wasn’t there an issue back then that Microsoft had a patent on the ribbon ?

I prefer the ribbon. It makes everything easier to discover and use.

It’s also entirely configurable so i was able to tailor it specifically to my needs, even include button for my macro, logically grouped and not thrown together with no heads or tail in a “macro” submenu.

It also allows widgets with much richer informational content than menus.

The ribbon is also entirely keyboard navigable with visual hints. Which means you can use anything mouse free without having to remember rarely used shortcuts.

And if the ribbon takes too much space, and you can’t afford a better screen, you can hide and show it with ctrl-F1 or a click somewhere (probably).

It’s actually a much much better UX than menus and submenus and everything hidden and zero adaptability. At least for tools like the office apps with a bazillion functions.

Most copies of the ribbon are utter shit though because the people who copied didn’t understand the strength of the office ribbon and only copied the looks superficially.

It’s funny to see people still hung up on the ribbon 17 years later.

It’s because of people like you that we still use qwerty on row staggered keyboards from the mechanical typewriter era. ;)

You’re joking but infinite growth is the broken basis of our financial system. Shareholder are legally entitled to request growth.

YouTube has cornered the earth market, they have practically no room to grow, the only thing they have left is to increase the revenue per view, so ad stuffing will get worse quarter after quarter. Eventually they’ll have to put ads in the ads and play them 5 at a time.

Even the biggest YouTube stars represents nothing in terms of views compared to YouTube overall and they don’t have any alternative places to go with the same reach if they left YouTube.

Mrbeast does ~500M views a month, Google has 2.5 billions active users generating between ~5 and 10 billions view a day. He represents 0.002% of Google total views. Would you bother negotiating for 0.002% of your salary ?

People who made a carrier of YouTube videos are Google’s prisoners, they have literally zero negotiating power.