game-related lolz of some fashion

The first one sounds like a modem connecting.

I was half expecting Curiosity to be a long drawn out fart app.

http://i.imgur.com/6PDl21s.gif

http://i.imgur.com/gbkRPoO.jpg

http://youtu.be/xFDthoYQr4E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xFDthoYQr4E

oh ffs. which one do i need to embed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFDthoYQr4E

http://i.imgur.com/DQZYefK.gif

that's awesome.

hahaha. i love Christian's disappointment

He's very, "Oh man! Not again!"

http://i.imgur.com/OYPhXE5.png

That looks a bit like that 'erotic' card game pr0n game from earlier this year.

http://i.imgur.com/uX2IyU2.jpg

lol

that would be me, except i'd be dead somehow

Super Galdelic Hour (PS2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpl-v6ZJQic

loooooooooooool http://imgur.com/a/C7qkS

sad but true:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/movie-game-review.php

http://i.imgur.com/WOi3aDQ.png

sad but true in 2002 maybe

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

Quaker 3

fun little thought exp regardless

ha that's really interesting

Looks totally fake, but clever

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?

yeah I don't believe any of that for one second. it even reads like fiction.

Its got a punchline and everything. Still a nice story tho.

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!).

sounds like the bots just ran out of memory

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.

If they used a genetic algorithm and the fitness function output was heavily weighted with number of deaths, this makes sense no?

the algos that made it were the ones that had 0 deaths?

Maybe the algos were set to maximize game-related lols come 2013

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxkdxEbFzU

"What in the name of fuck!"

totally want to hang with those guys.

just having subtitles of those guys talking is in this uncanny funny zone for me

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.

so good

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

callback to the quake story, less viscerally interesting but more real
http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-apple-iigs.html

That's fantastic.

haaa yeah that's fun

i don't know where else to post this but i 100%'d binding of isaac today

http://i40.tinypic.com/2nitgg4.png

goddamn, props

this is amazing:
Damage ContrLOLz 2: LOL Harder