http://i.imgur.com/gbkRPoO.jpg
― 乒乓, Sunday, 23 June 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/xFDthoYQr4E
― Nhex, Sunday, 23 June 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xFDthoYQr4E
oh ffs. which one do i need to embed
― Nhex, Sunday, 23 June 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFDthoYQr4E
― Z S, Sunday, 23 June 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DQZYefK.gif
― oxygenating our wombspace (abanana), Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:22 (ten years ago) link
that's awesome.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
hahaha. i love Christian's disappointment
― Nhex, Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
He's very, "Oh man! Not again!"
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OYPhXE5.png
― 乒乓, Thursday, 27 June 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
That looks a bit like that 'erotic' card game pr0n game from earlier this year.
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Thursday, 27 June 2013 11:49 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/uX2IyU2.jpg
― polyphonic, Thursday, 27 June 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
lol
that would be me, except i'd be dead somehow
― Z S, Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
Super Galdelic Hour (PS2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpl-v6ZJQic
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 27 June 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
loooooooooooool http://imgur.com/a/C7qkS
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 28 June 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
sad but true:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/movie-game-review.php
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 29 June 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/WOi3aDQ.png
― 乒乓, Monday, 1 July 2013 04:58 (ten years ago) link
sad but true in 2002 maybe
― GM, Monday, 1 July 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
big image, likely totally fake? but kind of cool if true--dude left 16 bots running in quake 3 for 4 years and they...stopped fighting each other
http://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
Quaker 3
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
fun little thought exp regardless
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
ha that's really interesting
― goole, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Looks totally fake, but clever
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
There's enough detail in there that it might be true, but come on, who leaves a server on for four years and forgets about it?
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
yeah I don't believe any of that for one second. it even reads like fiction.
― Clay, Monday, 1 July 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
Its got a punchline and everything. Still a nice story tho.
― Random .mdb Memories (NotEnough), Monday, 1 July 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
They do use genetic algorithms, though. You can read more here:
http://www.kbs.twi.tudelft.nl/docs/MSc/2001/Waveren_Jean-Paul_van/thesis.pdf
in sections 3 and 9. There's more on neural networks for bots in Quake 3 here:
http://www.ieee-cig.org/cig-2009/Proceedings/proceedings/papers/cig2009_041e.pdf
Maybe someone can email one of the above authors and get an expert weigh in as to the plausibility of the story (fishy as it sounds!).
― bamcquern, Monday, 1 July 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
sounds like the bots just ran out of memory
― 乒乓, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
I thought about that, too, although the op describes the large files as logs rather than the AI routines themselves, and I don't know how pared down (or not) the genetic algorithms are or must be. It's not worth really intensely educating myself about Quake 3's bots' GA because the reasons behind the bots' behavior in the op, if not made up, is certainly going to be a banal one.
― bamcquern, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
If they used a genetic algorithm and the fitness function output was heavily weighted with number of deaths, this makes sense no?
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
the algos that made it were the ones that had 0 deaths?
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 05:16 (ten years ago) link
Maybe the algos were set to maximize game-related lols come 2013
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
Algo: the Oscar-nominated story of how a group of American hostages were rescued by a forum poster peddling a bogus story of spontaneous AI self-awareness in a Quake environment. Three stars.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 05:58 (ten years ago) link
I wouldn't completely rule out the bot behavior being real even if the interpretation of the behavior is bogus. One of the articles I linked to talks about the great care and attention the GAs need to make good AI, so if a server ran unattended for even a few months, I wouldn't be surprised if the AI broke, or acted strangely or unpredictably. It's also possible that the story is basically true, but the time-frame has been greatly exaggerated, or the description of the bots' behavior embellished.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 06:07 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxkdxEbFzU
― worldstar (am0n), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
"What in the name of fuck!"
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
totally want to hang with those guys.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
just having subtitles of those guys talking is in this uncanny funny zone for me
― goole, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
can't pin down exactly why that one is so LOLsy but it is. Love the idea of just infinitely clowning a hapless tank on a bicycle.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
so good
― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
the bicycle hijinks def make that one. like of course ppl are going to ride that into battle if you put that in your game
― worldstar (am0n), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
callback to the quake story, less viscerally interesting but more realhttp://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-apple-iigs.html
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 July 2013 04:28 (ten years ago) link
That's fantastic.
― JimD, Thursday, 4 July 2013 10:30 (ten years ago) link
haaa yeah that's fun
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 5 July 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
i don't know where else to post this but i 100%'d binding of isaac today
http://i40.tinypic.com/2nitgg4.png
― Mordy , Saturday, 6 July 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
goddamn, props
― Nhex, Saturday, 6 July 2013 02:20 (ten years ago) link
this is amazing:Damage ContrLOLz 2: LOL Harder
― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/2c43210a86d6a935abb69df3caa4e3ad/tumblr_mq3ix7XxxV1qj0qlso1_500.jpg
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qUGLz0CipI
― am0n, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
hitler pictured headshotting people as soon as they respawn
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link