Colonel_Panic

That's a lot of documents to black out Trump's name from. They better get moving if they don't want to break yet another law by missing the court ordered deadline that was 5 days ago.

I now want to make a game that does exactly that.

If you quick save in an area with killable NPCs they would know and some would look at you and back away slowly, others would turn an run like in GTA, maybe one or two go wide eyed and freeze and just stare at you waiting. If you had previously killed any and reloaded then one goes "Oh no, not again."

I would make puzzles or locked areas that are impossible to open UNTIL you figure out that knowledge, but if you reload after learning that and try to shortcut the process the puzzle would either change so you fail again or even better, you could solve it and like a door opens, but then when you go into the next room there is a scroll or book tome thing that would lecture you about cheating or something funny and then make you do a second different puzzle to proceed, that would be an infinite series of rooms if you reloaded, but if you solved then organically then you could finally escape the loop and the door exits the loop.

If you don't play for a while and load up an old save, make some characters aware of the passage of time and comment things like "oh I thought you forgot about us." Or even specifically call out the exact amount "Really? 49 days waiting on you. Did you even think about me?"

I LOVE the idea someone else mentioned of an in-game antagonist being able to corrupt your save file or even transfer themselves to one of your other save files. How freaky would it be if they corrupt your save, so you have to load an old save before you met that antagonist and then they fucking show up and KNOW WHAT YOU DID.

Or if it reads your other saves and the NPCs could make rude or insulting comments about them. "Been playing Mario instead of spending time with us again? Is a plumber really better than us? Ouch." Or if you played any spicy games one of the characters would look at you and wink and go "I was watching you Friday night, you animal." And really freak you out.

I really love the 4th wall break idea of an antagonist that becomes self aware and breaks out of the game. There was a Star Trek TNG episode where Data and Geordi do a Sherlock Holmes holodeck thing and create a Moriarty character that could "outsmart data" and he becomes sentient and breaks out of the holodeck and it's a whole thing and I love that concept for a game.

There are so many amazing possibilities.

I want my corrupt government asshole to be at least CLOSE to my age.

I don't think the system works.

You can of have flushing toilets with a septic tank. It doesn't have to be an outhouse.

Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? It's like losing your rights in a free country. It's being pro life, but not feeding a kid. He's done 10,000 crimes and no justice. It's doin everything right, And still get mugged by ICE.

Whoa, whoa, whoa there, that is unfair. I'm not entirely sure they even have badges.

I have hoements every day.

We want a 1 in the streets, but 20 in the sheets.

I feel very reasonably that warrantless searches and seizures while not in uniform and face coverings and no badges IS A BREACH OF THE LAW!!!!

Not to even mention all the countless people that have been disappeared or deported to God knows where with no information given to their families or anything. Just poof gone. No jury, no trial, no proof they did anything wrong, no positive ID they are even who they are. None of it.

Please explain how any of that could possibly be legal and how any reasonable person wouldn't consider it evil and terrible and utterly terrifying and dystopian?

How is everyone NOT upset at how awful this all is?

I really liked that one Study? Experiment? Whatever it was that had people program different strategies to play a game for them. It was a "game theory"/"prisoner's dilemma" type game. The kind where if you play nice you each win a little, but if you play mean you might both lose or you might win a lot.

Anyway, they made a whole bunch of AI type strategies that would compete and over time, the cutthroat or evil strategies would win in the short term, but over long term the cooperative play nice strategies always prevailed.

It may or may not be true, but I choose to believe that the best, most efficient, most beneficial strategy is always the one that favors cooperation, mutual aid, and forgiveness over cutthroat, deception, grudges.

Put another way, fighting and competition wastes more resources than it ever gains, cooperation and sharing is a better strategy.

I only read your first sentence and I agree with you.