like yeah I'm pretty sure he's an explicitly anti communist chud but lmao
This guy is literally this meme that comrades keep posting here
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This already exist on the dreamcast
Don't take a picture of me, I don't want to be trapped for eternity in one spot!!!
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chuds will literally believe a video game NPC is a real person before they believe the same of a woman or black person
Sometimes I get baked and come to the trough specifically for comments like this
Westerners will believe a video game NPC is a real person before they believe the same of the Boers who are currently facing white genocide.
i'll believe ai is sentient before i believe techbros are sapient
Fuck that's a banger line
The people in 14th century paintings seem conscious.
Is this art or a simulated universe?
Ah yes, a room with a bored man, also known as The Universe.
I feel like there's some kind of subconscious existentialism in his choice of words there lol
He worked on bioshock infinite which has has a scene like this.
I must speak with Tom Universe
I wonder whether he does that on purpose.
in a few million years when octopi evolve long lifespans and a way to pass on their culture between generations, we'll have a big laugh about all of this
I want to be friends with an octopus so badly. A few million years too early 
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and how many arms have you got there?
ah, good. i was about to get the admins to tag your account with the "this user is suspected of being an octopus" message
He's some weird techno libertarian.
hence the human leather cowboy hat industry in his game lol
Yah know it's hard to gauge.
Rimworld is clearly trying to be SciFi Dwarf Fortress, and Dwarf Fortress has mechanics for some pretty Dark Fantasy shit, like the whole thing with Elves being cannibalistic. So like, Cyborgs who harvest human body parts? Psionic drones that make people go mad and rip others apart? Seems like some good SciFi-Horror shit.
But then you hear about the Dev's weird politics and you go
For what it's worth, industrial mermaid bone farming was a bridge too far for Tarn.
Well this is an interesting piece of lore...
Their refusal to change gay from being a character trait for all these years has always seemed a bit sus to me.
Bro freaking the fuck out then I show him a VHS of a dude in a room
Oh good, looking forward to the game being ruined by AI slop in a future update
The modding community will never let that game die
Everything I learn about the Rimworld dev increases my regret for having bought Rimworld
I don’t feel bad honestly. Rimworld is a community game in many ways. If I have 200 mods loaded, each with a different person’s creative vision, is it really just Tynan’s thing anymore?
Played a lot of Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress in my day, and the difference is that the Rimworld devs have always seemingly reveled in acts of cruelty while the DF devs tend to nerf them.
But I agree on the community aspect, not that every part of the community is good, but it's a big community with a lot of good in it.
Oh no, dare I ask what else you've heard? I haven't been keeping tabs on them
The devs are Gamergaters, doing the whole "ethics in game journalism is why we need to personally harass Zoey Quinn."
Like they were still going on about Anita Sarkeesian "stealing donations" even after she released her tax returns.
Back in the day the guy got a lot of shit for implementing sexuality in the NPCs by having it so all women are bisexual by default and some are gay and no men can be bisexual period
I think that one was kind of an overblown internet outrage situation. The system of sexuality was implemented in a very hacky, jank way and was mostly intended to create a reasonable looking average result, where men and women typically ended up together but sometimes formed same gender relationships.
I actually think his comment from the time is a pretty interesting contrast to his current view on AI:
People tend to think of game characters as people, but they’re not. They don’t have internal experiences. They only have outward behaviors, and they are totally defined by those behaviors, because that’s all the player can see, and the player’s POV is the only one that matters.
His point here is that there was never any such thing as a gay, bisexual, or straight Rimworld character. There were characters who presented to the player the illusion of having these identities through the patterns of their relationships, and that illusion was upheld by some jank code that could be read as treating all women as bisexual or gay if you choose to interpret it that way. But none of that was ever player facing and therefore wasn't part of the illusion intended to be presented to the player—again, in that illusion, most women appeared to be straight.
I'm not saying the code was good or shouldn't have been implemented better, just that I don't think the dev was trying to communicate anything with it.
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The Mechanical Turk really seems conscious.
Is this a machine or a simulated universe?
This is the intellectual equivalent of like a male gorilla threatening to beat up his own reflection, this sucks lmao who the fuck is this guy to talk
this is Façade by Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas
it's so fucking funny to say this as a video game developer. the fact that you do not realize that you have described, quite literally, NPC behavior as akin to consciousness is making me wonder if you actually coded the game you're selling
you know what else is a simulated universe? One where you talk to people in the computer and they talk back? Where those people in the computer pace around? Get bored? Eat? Ask questions?
Oblivion, which can run on a single computer with a 22-year old graphics card and 512 megabytes of RAM 
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Damn, he's close to independently developing the SCP wiki.
like yeah I'm pretty sure he's an explicitly anti communist chud but lmao
yeah, he most likely is, although he doesnt go daily on rants about the eeeevil insidious postmodernist judeo marxists or fucking whatever, he's a self described libertarian and comes pre-packaged with all the libertarian beliefs and quirks, like the biologically 16 year old female pawns being hardcoded to find older male pawns more romantically compatible and creepo shit like that.
the one you're thinking of though is probably Oskar, who assembles the very popular Vanilla+ modpack and frequently collaborates with the dev team for DLC updates, he's added an expansion to the Ideology addon that has an ''Authoritarian'' religion that unlocks fucking, i guess vintage european Regime aesthetics? it also adds an iron cross or a red star for you to choose as a flag or symbol, lmaao.
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brother if you want an ai boyfriend just get an ai boyfriend its not that philosophical
Imagine that one puzzle from SOMA except the sim doesn't shut off when they start descending into madness
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