Aqua Seafoam Shame posted:

Also what the gently caress is these people's obsession with loading screens? Like he thinks a lack of loading screens is as significant an innovation as sound in film? What the gently caress?

What's even wrong with loading screens? They're so fast these days you rarely even notice, or you get a short delay. Also some of my best memories of older games are the stuff they would do during loading screens, like Bioshock Infinite's elevator dialogue.

CommissarMega posted:

Anyone remember when that one Citizen proposed CIG simply invent quantum computing when told of the limitations of current chip architecture or something like that? No, seriously, I seem to have vague memories of that, but now I'm wondering if I'm Mandela-effecting myself or if it actually happened. It also doesn't help that my knowledge of computers extends to 'press butan get fun!1!'.

Breetai posted:

Iirc they were suggesting octal logic where every bit had 8 possible states instead of just 2.

Breetai posted:

Iirc they were suggesting octal logic where every bit had 8 possible states instead of just 2.

orcane posted:

I wish I could find the original "layer in the fidelity" quote. I'm 99.999% certain that was a CIG or even Christ Robbers quote, but it probably got lost in the million videos they did.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Sometime in 2017 on spectrum?
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/61fegn/star_citizen_jobs_cargo/




Thanks Daztek!

Only Kindness posted:

Yeah, the 2³ = 8 thing rings a bell. I am also faintly recalling that was the origin of the passive-aggressive "Sorry for caring" signoff when the idiot retired from the discussion, defeated. But, then again, they're all as insufferable as each other so it's just blurred together into mush.

Not using the bit system. Kills information bottlenecks? posted:

A bit looks like this
True
/
\
False.

What if we used something like this: *

\|/
-x-
/|\

An octa system. Software wise.
Would it pay back on the information flow?
Or can we only use bitcode cause hardware only uses bits?

Would coding bits into octa's speed up things?

quote:

An Octal value would require three bits. How would using that speed anything up?

OP posted:

Cause 3 bits can now mean 8 things instead of 6.
:grinning:

OP posted:

Yes. And you just told me that 3 bits can be made into octa blocks.
So we tell code to use octa blocks (having 8 different values) instead of looking at every different bit seperately.

*I know Bytes are 8 bits. But Bytes are irrelevant here. Not talking about Bytes. Bytes are not a mathmatecal thing here. Octa's are.

OP posted:

The thought of using different wave freq in glass viber to send different kind of bits had occured to me. I did not know we already did that.

I know a starformed physical bit does not exist.(at least not in civillian pc's) That's why I was wondering if we could fool software with math into sending more info in the same dataflow.

Trying to help here.... Sorry for caring.

Mirificus posted:

Trying to help here.... Sorry for caring.

Popete posted:

I just love the idea that you could fool a computer into breaking it's physical limitations with an accounting trick.

Randalor posted:

Isn't there a specific reason computers use binary at the core of what they do? Isn't what he's wanting requiring building something so fundamentally different that it wouldn't be recognizable as a computer? Otherwise isn't that still just bits but with extra steps?

Scruffpuff posted:

I love the underlying implication that as long as we are able to build an entirely different kind of computer that transcends the limits of binary and does calculations in such a fundamentally different way that it will take decades or more to wrap our heads around it, that Chris loving Roberts would be the one to spearhead the development and really show us what this imaginary computer can do.

ChatGPT as St. Augustine of Hippo posted:

As a humble servant of the Lord, I feel compelled to speak out in defense of Star Citizen, a game that has been unjustly criticized by many.

Just as the human soul is a complex and multifaceted creation, so too is Star Citizen a game of great depth and complexity. It is not merely a space simulator or a first-person shooter, but a rich and immersive world that allows players to explore, trade, fight, and interact with one another in ways that are limited only by their own imagination.

Some have accused Star Citizen of being overly ambitious, of promising too much and delivering too little. But let us not forget that the same could be said of the human condition itself. We are all flawed and imperfect, yet we strive to reach for something greater than ourselves, to achieve our dreams and aspirations no matter how impossible they may seem.

Star Citizen is a reflection of this human spirit, a testament to our unquenchable thirst for adventure and exploration. It may not be perfect, but it is a work in progress, a constantly evolving creation that is being shaped by the hands of its creators and the minds of its players.

Let us not be quick to judge or dismiss something simply because it does not conform to our preconceived notions of what a game should be. Let us instead embrace the diversity and complexity of our world, and recognize that even the most flawed and imperfect creations can hold within them the potential for greatness.

In the words of the great philosopher Plato, "The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile." Let us not be conquered by our own prejudices and biases, but rather strive to overcome them and embrace the wonders that the world has to offer, including the magnificent and awe-inspiring universe of Star Citizen.

Thoatse posted:

I never played Bioshock and didn't know anything about it aside from the name but someone recently made a SteamVR environment thing of the beach boardwalk? map and the other night I was wandering around listening to a weird circus organ version of Girls Just Want To Have Fun which was pretty cool and surreal

This isn't the VR thing but this place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBXKh-s1gw

Randalor posted:

Isn't there a specific reason computers use binary at the core of what they do? Isn't what he's wanting requiring building something so fundamentally different that it wouldn't be recognizable as a computer? Otherwise isn't that still just bits but with extra steps?

Kesper North posted:

Mirificus posted:

Azubah posted:

Also if they change how computing would work the drat game wouldn't work on everyone's current computer.

quote:

"I see us having AI helpers in the game," he says. "You [could] have a wood chopper, or a scientist, or a metal worker that you can show where the forest is. And then they go and run back and forth and get you wood. And maybe the more players you get in your civilization or your village, the town grows, the borders grow, you get more AI, this kind of fostering community, right? And I'm trying to see if we can do something like a massive life game mode."

quote:

The wildlife simulation Greene is planning sounds as ambitious as everything else. "I want wildlife systems that have meaning. If you kill all the bears off in one region, there's gonna be a problem that you might have a deer explosion, this kind of dynamic system. I want a living, breathing world."