Koishi Komeiji posted:

https://twitter.com/Kotaku/status/1259895112152293377
This campaign just keeps getting better and better. Just try and imagine how insane it will be by November. You can't.

Powered Descent posted:

Hatsune MeToo

actionjackson posted:

he should be singing like in that weird music video with the cowboy in the clouds

Koishi Komeiji posted:

https://twitter.com/Kotaku/status/1259895112152293377
This campaign just keeps getting better and better. Just try and imagine how insane it will be by November. You can't.

The Nastier Nate posted:

i wanna meet the consultant that attempted to explain to Joe Biden what the gently caress a fortnite is

The Nastier Nate posted:

i wanna meet the consultant that attempted to explain to Joe Biden what the gently caress a fortnite is

The Nastier Nate posted:

i wanna meet the consultant that attempted to explain to Joe Biden what the gently caress a fortnite is

Chomp8645 posted:

It's the place where you get Star Wars news right?

Crusader posted:

Blockade posted:

https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1260617176291008512

Blockade posted:

https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1260617176291008512

Blockade posted:

https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1260617176291008512

SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrZJ5C_Nwg

Powered Descent posted:

Koishi Komeiji posted:

https://twitter.com/Kotaku/status/1259895112152293377
This campaign just keeps getting better and better. Just try and imagine how insane it will be by November. You can't.

Hatsune MeToo

Koishi Komeiji posted:

https://twitter.com/laurelchor/status/1260784481159442434
Get ready to do this for the rest of your life.

Koishi Komeiji posted:

https://twitter.com/laurelchor/status/1260784481159442434
Get ready to do this for the rest of your life.

Serf posted:

making air travel so much of a hassle that it can no longer be done would be pretty great

Tulip posted:

Did you notice the part where the guy going to Brunei got to skip the whole thing?

Koishi Komeiji posted:

https://twitter.com/laurelchor/status/1260784481159442434
Get ready to do this for the rest of your life.

Platystemon posted:

the shittiest possible cyberpunk dystopia is not doing that and just letting the virus churn through the proles

hobbesmaster posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feY5KhdXsUQ

Koishi Komeiji posted:

https://twitter.com/laurelchor/status/1260784481159442434
Get ready to do this for the rest of your life.

The Bloop posted:

I WISH our government would make that level of attempt at public safety

SwissArmyDruid posted:

For the past forty years, this country has been held hostage by a political party that believes that government is not the solution to the problem, but that government is the problem. It has been thirty-four years since Reagan said "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."

And you want THAT underfunded, undermanned, brain-drained, corrupt, government to do something outside of their one and only realm of expertise, to funnel taxpayer cash into private business black holes with zero accountability?

Koishi Komeiji posted:

https://twitter.com/laurelchor/status/1260784481159442434
Get ready to do this for the rest of your life.

Serf posted:

making air travel so much of a hassle that it can no longer be done would be pretty great

Ruffian Price posted:

The future will just be empty airplanes flying in circles around the world while the last remaining executives pretend it makes the economy go.

quote:

https://obscuritory.com/software/john-hiles-interview/

So going along to post-Thinking Tools work. You were involved in the Naval Post-Graduate School. You had mentioned some of the advising you had done with theses and doctorates. I had seen in 1998, you either advised or were involved in a proposal for a SimNavy-type series of products. When we spoke earlier, you had categorized this next stage as being… as opposed to bringing realistic models into games, of bringing game ideas into “non-games.” And so I’m wondering, if you could elaborate on what was involved after Thinking Tools and what you’ve done since then in that non-game field.

Well, there’s an intermediate step where I was interested in how simple a game you could build that would still support this… the player’s unconscious projection of concepts. And I did a demonstration game that was based on the operation – post-war operation – of Iraq, and with all the different factions and things, and I wanted to show kinetic actions, meaning killing people, and diplomatic actions, and to show, again, a set of principles that were interrelated and that I thought would be a good idea for people to understand a full gamut of choices that they had.

And so the participants in this SimIraq were the different political faction leaders, the Sunnis, the Shias, the non-government operations, the military – different people’s militaries, several militaries – and those were the players. And the range of actions that they all had with different amount of strength behind them, was diplomatic, [a] range of diplomatic choices ranging from very soft persuasion, sort of moral teaching, all the way up to threats. So there was an axis there that said, “How much choice does the recipient of your action have?” In kinetic operations, where you were applying kinetic force, meaning a rifle company with machine guns or a tank brigade, the people on the receiving end of that don’t have very much choice. If it’s street demonstrations, and carefully timed press releases, and things like that, then the people on the receiving end of that action have lots of choice. But you have much less control in terms of forcing them to do things, because it largely has to do with their well, and so you can see the values are starting to get connected.

[NOTE: Despite the name, this project was not developed under Maxis.]

Well that’s how I built this. You had a very sophisticated inner model. But then the displays and what not, meaning there were news programs and news bulletins and things like that – you could say, “I want to have an attack over here, blow up this,” and on the other hand, “I want to try to reach agreement with this faction, and together, have some kind of demonstration, a public demonstration, or something along those lines.” So you had a whole range of actions that were on the map, on this scale of values, that had to do with soft actions versus kinetic actions.

And so we built that. We took it to [an organization] and pulled people together to play the game. And it was enormously unpopular! We took two or three days to teach them how to play the game and then two days of playing the game, and among other things, there were academic experts on the Middle East who were there, and boy did they have a lot to say that was negative. “You are showing so-and-so” – and, you know, some leader of the Sunnis or leader of the Shiites – “you’re showing him with a range of choices that involve doing this and doing that, and I studied this guy for ten years, and I know that he would never do those things! He shouldn’t have those options. He shouldn’t have those buttons in your game because it’s misleading.” And, ahhhh, blah blah blah. And I just let him talk. We had a debriefing after one of the games, and he was going on about how stupid I was and how bad the game was and all this, and it’s misinformation, and it leads people to think that there’s rosy opportunities where there isn’t any. And so he went on for half an hour, laying it out.

That was on a Friday. It was a Friday afternoon debriefing after having the game for three days. Sunday morning, an email comes out, and I notice that it was addressed to all of the conference attendees, and it was to me, and it was from this academic. So when I saw it on my email list, I said, “Oh poo poo, he’s coming at me, he’s still coming after me!”

And he said, “Dear Professor Hiles, I was wrong. I told you that I studied this fellow and that he would never do these things. Well guess what. Friday, at his sermon, he told everybody what he wanted to do, and he decided to do one of the things in your game!” And he said, “It just hit us all blindsides. Everybody was confused, didn’t know what to do or think, and while I was analyzing it, I said ‘Wait a minute, this was in the game!'” [laughs]

Ruffian Price posted:

The future will just be empty airplanes flying in circles around the world while the last remaining executives pretend it makes the economy go.

Trabisnikof posted:

SimIraq