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Inauguration Day, Inauguration Hooooooraaay!
2019-10-20, 10:18 PM #15721
Originally posted by Spook:
That kind of ecology focused game I think could be pretty popular, it's something I would love personally.


Hmm. Would be something to consider if there's interest for something like that
2019-10-20, 10:19 PM #15722
Lets remodel limits to growth and make a reality tv show out of it
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-21, 6:32 AM #15723
The standard counterexample is UO, which ended up ripping out all of its ecology and economics code because deer stopped spawning and the players thought it was a game breaking bug. Just like real life, nobody noticed or understood their own contribution, but got very angry about suffering the consequences of it.
2019-10-21, 7:04 AM #15724
Originally posted by Jon`C:
The standard counterexample is UO, which ended up ripping out all of its ecology and economics code because deer stopped spawning and the players thought it was a game breaking bug. Just like real life, nobody noticed or understood their own contribution, but got very angry about suffering the consequences of it.


I mean, there's alot to a game like UO that isn't accurate to reality enough that I don't take that example to represent much. For one, no game makes combat and healing serious enough.. if a game made you take weeks in a hospital to heal bullet wounds, you wouldn't spend much time in that game gunfighting. Same with slaughtering animals. Low cost. And then I bet the size of the deer population and space for them was way too small to begin with, like they dumped 1000 apex predators into 10 acres with 100 deer.
2019-10-21, 7:06 AM #15725
Like the whole point of video games is to give the player more power than they have IRL, so any game which would accurately model anything would be incompatible with fun. They're kind of at odds.
2019-10-21, 7:07 AM #15726
Ultima Online or what?

It seems like that game stardew valley is pretty popular with frustrated millenials who want to homestead but are priced out of the market. Combine that with their obsession with 'permaculture' and if they think theyre learning and simulating their off grid food forest paradise/simulating the evils of capitalism I think you could throw in so microtransactions and loot boxes and make a **** load of cash dude
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-21, 7:17 AM #15727
Originally posted by Spook:
Ultima Online or what?

It seems like that game stardew valley is pretty popular with frustrated millenials who want to homestead but are priced out of the market. Combine that with their obsession with 'permaculture' and if they think theyre learning and simulating their off grid food forest paradise/simulating the evils of capitalism I think you could throw in so microtransactions and loot boxes and make a **** load of cash dude


Yes Ultima Online. IIRC some game dev conference talk from one of the devs talked about dynamic populations, but since it was an MMO players just slaughtered the animals en masse and destroyed the population.

I don't know if trying to create complex ecological systems is compatible with a game about feeling nostalgic and warm 24/7. Might be going for different markets there.
2019-10-21, 7:21 AM #15728
I dunno i alternate between desperate nostalgia and schadenfreude over seeing us **** up our environment in the same hour most of the time I dont think im that unusual
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-21, 8:16 AM #15729
Originally posted by Reid:
Like the whole point of video games is to give the player more power than they have IRL


For example, Pac-Man let’s you simulate eating cherries, even if you might have a food allergy.
former entrepreneur
2019-10-21, 8:48 AM #15730
Originally posted by Spook:
I dunno i alternate between desperate nostalgia and schadenfreude over seeing us **** up our environment in the same hour most of the time I dont think im that unusual


Who doesn't? We're all ****ed anyway though.

Originally posted by Eversor:
For example, Pac-Man let’s you simulate eating cherries, even if you might have a food allergy.


Rofl, yeah I guess my comment was too limited. Some games aren't exactly about that. But many are.
2019-10-21, 9:47 AM #15731
So how about Watchmen, huh? I liked it, but the politics of the show make it pretty distant from ideas behind the original graphic novel.
former entrepreneur
2019-10-21, 11:52 AM #15732
Originally posted by Eversor:
So how about Watchmen, huh? I liked it, but the politics of the show make it pretty distant from ideas behind the original graphic novel.


Need to watch the Watchmen, so I can reply....
2019-10-21, 9:58 PM #15733
but who watches the wathcers of the watchmen
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-22, 6:48 AM #15734
Can we please just skip that joke. I already have to read it on every other website.

D:
2019-10-22, 9:26 AM #15735
Reid, I think that different difficulty levels reimagined as realism levels would solve that. Players could get the experience of interacting with complex systems but with adam smiths invisible hand jerking them off and looking out for them, but harder difficulties require strict steady state economies and whatnot or a full scale collapse occurs
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-22, 10:05 AM #15736
Homestead Simulator 2020

You can play on fantasy mode where you build a permaculture paradise and get to be surprised by complex interactions, or real mode where less grows every turn and you eventually are overrun by climate refugees from Arizona demanding access to your below grade climate battery cooled earthen home.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-22, 12:39 PM #15737
Originally posted by saberopus:
Can we please just skip that joke. I already have to read it on every other website.

D:


I so deliberately tried to avoid it
former entrepreneur
2019-10-22, 12:54 PM #15738
You may have, Eversor, but who avoids the Avoidmen?

*smug*
2019-10-22, 1:18 PM #15739
Originally posted by Spook:
harder difficulties require strict steady state economies
In real life, steady state economies is hard mode b/c the US bombs or sanctions you.
2019-10-22, 1:21 PM #15740
Originally posted by Jon`C:
In real life, steady state economies is hard mode b/c the US bombs or sanctions you.


obvious evidence that they dont work id say
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-23, 8:45 PM #15741
So where do people stand now on the "we're descending into fascism" angle?
2019-10-23, 9:14 PM #15742
Originally posted by Reid:
So where do people stand now on the "we're descending into fascism" angle?


Fascism still seems to me less useful as an analytic category than as a term of reproach. But to the extent it is relevant it probably describes a prominent cultural trend amid ever growing polarization, rather than a political trend?
former entrepreneur
2019-10-23, 9:15 PM #15743
I reread Lincoln’s second inaugural today. Easy to see in it glimmers of politics today. Powerful stuff. (And short)
former entrepreneur
2019-10-23, 9:17 PM #15744
Quote:
Fellow-Countrymen:
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of this great conflict which is of primary concern to the nation as a whole, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.


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former entrepreneur
2019-10-23, 9:46 PM #15745
Dinesh, my man! f***ing democrats

2019-10-23, 9:47 PM #15746
How come that Lincoln didn't realize the war was about states' rights?
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2019-10-23, 10:16 PM #15747
because that lincoln was pen pals with Marl Karx
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-24, 2:56 PM #15748
Originally posted by Reid:
So where do people stand now on the "we're descending into fascism" angle?


https://visupview.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-lovecraftian-enlightenment.html
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-24, 3:00 PM #15749
more importantly

https://visupview.blogspot.com/2019/08/epstein-dies-long-live-new-mexico.html
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-24, 3:33 PM #15750
Bro...
2019-10-24, 3:52 PM #15751
I noticed you never guessed again in the game thread
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-24, 4:02 PM #15752
why don't you save your accusations of what i did or didn't do in the game thread for in the game thread >,'-/
2019-10-24, 4:24 PM #15753
Why don't you save your insinuations of my mental infirmness for the mental infirmness thread.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-24, 5:55 PM #15754
It’s getting hot in the kithcen
former entrepreneur
2019-10-24, 6:08 PM #15755
Wow you have no input on my belive that our slide towards fascism is actually the materialization of elder gods from the future?
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-24, 6:09 PM #15756


I had no idea H.P. Lovecraft could travel through time and was friends with Edward Snowden.
2019-10-24, 6:40 PM #15757
Originally posted by Reid:
So where do people stand now on the "we're descending into fascism" angle?


personally i’m against it
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2019-10-24, 8:01 PM #15758
Originally posted by Reverend Jones:
I had no idea H.P. Lovecraft could travel through time and was friends with Edward Snowden.


Did you even read the page? The Necronomicon is traveling through time not Howard.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2019-10-24, 8:17 PM #15759
Guys, I'm getting impeachment fatigue. Things are chugging along too slowly, and I want to see action! Besides, will it actually end up having a real effect on the D either way? I feel like it won't, for some reason.
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2019-10-24, 8:42 PM #15760
Originally posted by Spook:
Did you even read the page? The Necronomicon is traveling through time not Howard.


His posture has declined a bit and he's gained some baby fat, but...

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