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glimshe
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- Very neat. Is there any reason to use this for mainline DOS games and applications? Also, how does it compare to DosBox-X for Windows 95?
- They don't require it if you don't include OSS artifacts/code in your shipped product. You can use gcc to build closed source software.
- FOSS code is the backbone of many closed source for-profit companies. The license allows you to use FOSS tools and Linux, for instance, to build fully proprietary software.
- Reminds me of college: "Hardware and Software are logically equivalent"
- For sure it did. Every possible telltale sign, but that table and the emdash were the final proof we needed.
- Many people become professional students when high education is free. This problem isn't exclusive to Europe, but less common in the US.
In Latin America, many people take on masters and PhD while living with their parents. You are often seen as smarter than the idiot who's working.
- The Hobbit had randomness and emergent gameplay in ways that even Infocom didn't quite reproduce. A classic.
- I've never played Avalon but it looks like a better text adventure. I'm not talking about hardcoded or randomized worlds, but truly reactive worlds.
In my experiment with ChatGPT, I was walking around in a museum (that was the scenario) and decided to flirt with a woman who happened to be there. The flirting was something I decided to do on the spot with no prompting from the AI. The woman had just been part of the room description up to that point. But it reacted to this new situation in a semi-realistic way, essentially creating a new "adventure" on the spot. I met her on the next day, brought a gift (and so did she), but then it started hallucinating... :(
- MUDs are a low-tech version of what I'm describing. It relies on other people being available and generally leverages the usual tropes with repetitive killing-based gameplay.
LLMs are limited today, but one day they may be able to provide the well-paced narrative you're talking about. The LLM would be a skilled fiction writer that would introduce interesting events as I explore the world.
If I decide to go to a bar and talk to random strangers, it could give me interesting life stories to listen without any action. But, suddenly, a mysterious man walks in, gives me a sealed envelope and departs without saying a word... What is in the envelope?
- It did for a long time, but depending on busy friends makes it so I can't play this whenever I want. My "dream" game is a single-player game I can play as many times I want without having to rely on others.
- One of my dream games is a truly open world text adventure. I got a glimpse of it by having ChatGPT run this game, but it started hallucinating and misremembering after a few rounds. It has to be perfect to avoid breaking the immersion, but I'd pay $100 for such a game even without graphics.
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- I remember being SO HAPPY when I got rid of all my cassette tapes and vinyl discs for CDs. I was an early adopter of digital and, to this day I don't regret it. There's no way I'm going back.
What's next? VHS?
- If you like going to a physical theater, a Paramount victory could be slightly less bad.
- Is Bing now called "Copilot" too?
- This is the year of LibreOffice on the government? I'd love if you were right, but I doubt it. The chasm is enormous, and maybe you don't use Excel enough to realize it.
- We've been seeing variations of the same article every week. The answer has been the same for a long time: this is great but unfortunately there are advantages in using Office and that's the reason we shouldn't expect mass migration anytime soon.
Excel, in particular, hasn't been unseated despite billions in investments from competitors over the years. Parity will happen someday, but it's at least a decade away.
- They make gazillions. I'm sure they can do better than that.
How many awful things in tech can be rationalized away by "sorry, but this is for you/our protection"?
I'm not good enough to fix it, but I hope one day a team of great programmers simply restart from scratch. If they simply copied Affinity's or Photoshop's UI and core functionality, we'd have a winner.