I enjoyed the humor and the ending, it reminds me of some DOS games I grew up with. Nice work Neal :)
Clicker games can be considered banal, but when there is an interesting unexpected story or comedy behind the progressions, they are fun little pieces of art.
Two games I have played in the past of this ilk are Spaceplan [0] and Nodebuster [1], both of which only take around an hour or so to progress through. Fun and interesting like Neal's game.
The maintenance costs on this would be enormous! I sail regular old boring wind powered boats, and I have to admit, if I could afford this I'd probably buy it!
Saying that though, I have no idea how it would work legally in ports. I'm guessing you'd have to stay on surface in most territorial waters without some kind of crazy custom private clearance.
I live in Australia and I don't reckon authorities would be very happy if you decided to submerge in the middle of Sydney Harbour!
I tried to hit the 600 post limit by scrolling through my feed quickly, after about 2.5 minutes the tweets I was being shown were mostly the same ones but on a loop. I kept scrolling for another 3 minutes and yeah, it's like the last 100 odd tweets shown over and over and over.
Which honestly is an ironic metaphor for the platform as a whole.
What country are you in? I have YouTube Premium and I don't get _any_ ads at all from YouTube, only the sponsored segments from creators directly (and no, NordVPN, I don't need a VPN, yes I know you exist).
The sponsored segments as in advertising that creators have negotiated directly? I have YouTube Premium and that's the only type of ad I get, I don't get anything else.
Templated output means you could build flexible user interfaces to interact in novel ways beyond a mere text input. What I find absolutely incredible right now is that any novel idea I have about "it would be nice if you could do X" is only taking a few days to reach any mainstream tech news source. I used to think the same thing about RubyGem ideas in the late 2000s, and within 6 months a useful package would come out. I put it down to many people consuming the same information at the same time coming up with the same ideas. It's happening much faster this time. 12 months from now who knows what's going to happen!
I've wondered if despite instruction it forgets due to a context limit. There's a lot I still don't understand. I found if it forgot to format in a certain way you could 'remind it', and it would get back on track, but it's an odd way to think of writing software. Kind of like 'turning it off and on again'.
Induction is the best of both worlds, but you do have to have induction pans. Stainless steel last a lifetime, and are not _that_ expensive, and you can also use cast iron!
My fridge has touch buttons, and they often go haywire and reprogram the desired temperature! They at least beep while the ghost is interacting with them, so I can go and make sure my drinks don't end up frozen.
My top of the line Android Auto compatable head unit is pretty ordinary. A RAM mount on the windscreen holding my phone is significantly more responsive!
It's often of poor quality and not in 4k. I rented a movie from YouTube the other day and the stream supported HDR, and if I had a 5.1 surround that would have worked, too!
If you're not watching 4 hours of TV per day it's not that expensive to rent content, but I'm saying this from the point of a westerner. For other parts of the world a $5 USD for a movie for 48 hours doesn't make any sense over straight up piracy.
I've been a subscriber to basically everything for years. The only reason I haven't cancelled 90% of them is because my retired parents use my accounts. I almost never use the streaming services they use (I use YouTube Premium _a lot_, but I don't share that).
Given our combined minor usage, the day they lock one of us out it's all over, I'm cancelling them all!
I don't invest in streaming produced series any more as they have a tendency to want to eat their cake and have it too. They won't tie up a series but don't commit to producing a second one to tie it up, then arbitrary cancel them. It's like reading The Hobbit and the last two chapters are missing, never to be written, and there are plenty of actually finished books out there!
And for some reason half of the world have port and starboard channel markers as red and green, and the other are green and red. I don't know who's fault that is!
There's also what society values. While I'm no art historian, it looks that after the invention of the camera, painters shifted to different styles that were not replicable by cameras (e.g. landscapes and portraits to abstract), and high society began valuing the new art, while continuing to value the old, the new shifted aesthetics.
I think that as we're progressing into a world where anyone can press a few buttons and get a dubstep banger in 30 seconds, culture will place higher value on different types of expression and experiences.
"We went to see a band play an entirely improvised performance, capacity was limited to 20 people and all recording devices were confiscated upon entry."
Thanks for this! The compare feature is very cool, especially being able to play around with GPT4 settings (I'm still on the waiting list for GPT4 API so having access to this now is fantastic).
Clicker games can be considered banal, but when there is an interesting unexpected story or comedy behind the progressions, they are fun little pieces of art.
Two games I have played in the past of this ilk are Spaceplan [0] and Nodebuster [1], both of which only take around an hour or so to progress through. Fun and interesting like Neal's game.
[0] http://www.spaceplan.click/ [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3107330/Nodebuster/