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[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 3 hours ago

Reminds me of Code Lyoko.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 39 points 13 hours ago

I'll take "pranks I'd pull if I had a teleporter" for 500, Alex.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Computer, arch.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 68 points 22 hours ago

I'd like to see this done on a candid camera, punkd, etc type show. Build a set with some magician level gimmick and have someone do something game-y, then log out. The look on the faces of the people as their brains melted out their ears would be hilarious.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I see they also use VIM for their reality too.

[–] deleteme@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Because they can’t quit it?

[–] TeamAssimilation 77 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Considering gaming experiences are usually more enjoyable than real life, I’d like to ask what’s outside like before logging out.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Like Bo Burnham sang once From God's Perspective, we may be "just a bad game of Sims".

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They're more enjoyable for the player. It usually sucks big time to be an NPC in a game

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Sometimes I feel like an Adventures of Link NPC.

I am error.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Gotta give credit to games like Stardew.

[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Depends on the game. Depends on the player.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

My bad, was meant to be an expansion, not a correction. I have the insufferable need to chime in sometimes and pre-resolve potential ambiguities. It's something im working on.

Reason I even brought it up is I'm usually nice to npc's in general, but man. Some people I see in videos or anecdotes from assosciates got me giving them a mad side-eye. 1's and 0's or not, the malice and sadism gets ridiculous sometimes. Makes me repeatedly realize how different some people consume the same game as me in ways I never thought of and/or could never bring myself to do.

Anyway, interjection over, that was it

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

Reason I even brought it up is I'm usually nice to npc's in general, but man. Some people I see in videos or anecdotes from assosciates got me giving them a mad side-eye. 1's and 0's or not, the malice and sadism gets ridiculous sometimes. Makes me repeatedly realize how different some people consume the same game as me in ways I never thought of and/or could never bring myself to do.

You'll be pleased to know in cases where single player games with branching storylines have collected data, it's been shown that players overwhelmingly go with the 'good' storyline :)

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno man, I think I'd enjoy being an NPC in some of the sim/builders I play. I enjoy it when my loyal subjects are happy.

On the other hand, if they're not happy I usually decide to give them something to be not happy about.

You know what, forget the whole NPC thing. Players are voletile gods.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

I am a benevolent but incompetent ruler. My NPCs would be happy right up until they all died because I put off some boring upgrade/maintenance task and the colony exploded.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Sorry but you NPCs aren't supposed to know that information... It causes issues...

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

“It doesn’t look like anything to me.”

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago

Great day for fishin, aint it

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 8 points 22 hours ago

I want to achieve Chim

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

I know it probably has a reset button.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 105 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the lesser shown part of the holodeck program.

We know they experience this because Moriarty learned to summon the arch.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's been a while since I saw the ep, but wasn't Moriarty stuck on because the computer was asked to create an opponent that could beat Data and it got caught in a weird loop? I'm pretty sure Moriarty was a major exception in some way, none of the other constructs are self aware and all get turned off with the program

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That one lounge singer in DS9 stayed on too

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Isnt the voyager doctor also part of thr holodeck who can somehow walk around outside?

He's a standalone hologram inside the medbay, although IIRC in later seasons Tom Paris rigs up some portable holoprojector thing so he can walk around the ship. But yeah, that's similar. He grows and learns and expands his AI programming.

[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did he actually stay on like Moriarty? IIRC, Moriarty became self-aware/sentient and the crew was ethically bound to keep him running. With Vic Fontaine, I think it was more a case of “saving the game” so he could continue friendships when he was activated again.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, Vic Fontaine was a regular occurrence. He was not your typical program either, but because of that they let his program run all the time.

[–] Dhs92@piefed.social 6 points 21 hours ago

Not all the time. There's an episode where Vic mentions the longest he's ever been on has been 7-9 hours

spoilerWhen Nog had his leg replaced and suffered from PTSD

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh......I had no idea this comic was a reference to a tv show. I just thought everyone else ALSO wanted to leave, because, well.....have you SEEN reality lately? I am not a fan. I can fully relate with wanting to log out of this timeline. How much worse can another reality possibly be? I feel like rolling the dice on a different timeline doesn't have much risk. Worst case scenario you an equally bad reality. We're already at bedrock.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I don’t think it is, it’s just a “Simpsons did it” moment where trek has explored a ton of sci-fi ideas over the decades.

[–] a14o@feddit.org 65 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] Enekk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

"Colon W Q!"

:x! Is the way

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 31 points 1 day ago

Oh god, we're living in vi. That explains so much.

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago

"Escape escape COLON W Q!"

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Ah, command mode is in my colon. That explains the shitty experience within this game.

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[–] Caveman@piefed.social 51 points 1 day ago

This is terrifying.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Fuck logging out, I'm gonna change the parameters.

Computer; Arch!

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 15 points 22 hours ago

I use arch btw

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 3 points 18 hours ago

Fire up the media player, I think the entire world needs to listen to some Sparks.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Strange that Star Trek never did that scenario - it is pure Pirandello existential horror.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They kind of did, in TNG. "Ship in a Bottle".

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 11 points 21 hours ago

TNG. “Ship in a Bottle”.

Season 6 Episode 12

For those of us who are going to go and watch this right now.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

man, i forgot about that episode. shame on me. Grand TNG rewatch is overdue!

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

Now I want to see this as an actual magic trick.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine arguing with someone and they suddenly shout "Computer, quicksave!"

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 29 minutes ago

Oh man, what a headache, it feels like I just got shot in the head a bunch of times and then thrown off a cliff.

What were we arguing about?

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