Simulator games are getting ridiculous now
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We all know about games like Euro Truck Simulator, Surgeon Simulator, and Goat Simulator. And some of us will have heard of Simulator Simulator. But now, I think it's safe to say the whole Simulator thing has gone so far it's not funny anymore. Why? Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad.
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It's the internet. What did you expect would happen when we made development tools more readily available and started teaching people how to use them?
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/me clicks on the link
urg.....
Suddenly i don't feel so well...
Sorry, sorry.... i couldn't stop it.... Oh goddess... i think i'm going to puke again.....
/me runs off in search of the john
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It's the internet. What did you expect would happen when we made development tools more readily available and started teaching people how to use them?
BUT EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO SHOULD BE ABLE TO PROGRAM AND YOU'RE AN EVIL PERSON FOR SUGGESTING OTHERWISE!
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Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
5 months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txX21N_OJ2M2 days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvUdy7MkTtw
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To be honest... that simulator is one of the better ones IMO.
I mean, they went with something silly / provoking and chose a fitting art-style (8-bit), terrible "dad"-puns and at least some gameplay.
If you look at the flood of real "simulators" out there, they are usually really bad without trying to be. Which ranks them way lower in my book!
Filed Under: To each his own, I guess!
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Sorry, that quote is a habit.
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It still looks better and more fun than Once Bitten, Twice Dead...
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But now, I think it's safe to say the whole Simulator thing has gone so far it's not funny anymore.
This had happened before Goat Simulator.
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Oh I think there is one more step that can be taken:
A simulator of somebody playing a simulator. Not only do you get to control what and when they do things to "stay alive" (bonus points added / subtracted depending on social life etc), you get to play the simulation game that your simulation "gamer" is playing.
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A simulator of somebody playing a simulator.
I'm pretty sure you can make your Sim play The Sims in one of the newer installments.
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Probably, I wouldn't know. What I had in mind was that you had an over the shoulder view of a chair / desk / screen. On the screen would be a real simulation game. Only your simulated game player could interact with it. I.e if it was there and you clicked on the in-game game screen it would point and click. If you sent it off to get some food, and the in-game game exploded, you would get a ringside seat and little else. I don't think you should be allowed to call it back and do something, because you wouldn't in the real world.
Unless it was multi-player and in there is another it controlled by somebody else that is in the same VR. But that would be v2 or later
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you can make your Sim play The Sims
Yes, but it just cycles through a few static images of Sims 1 while they point and laugh at the guy on fire.
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...which is in the same room in which you'd Shower With Your Dad™.
We all know what you're really up to.
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Clown vomit?
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Yes, but it just cycles through a few static images of Sims 1 while they point and laugh at the guy on fire.
Still better than Twilight.
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DYM
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Oh I think there is one more step that can be taken:
A simulator of somebody playing a simulator. Not only do you get to control what and when they do things to "stay alive" (bonus points added / subtracted depending on social life etc), you get to play the simulation game that your simulation "gamer" is playing.
All someone needs to to is make a Sims mod that lets them play Dwarf Fortress.
You'd have a hard time keeping them alive though.
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So that's where it went when Jeff banished it from Dischorse.
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@ben_lubar does this sound accurate
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Here's a printscreen from right now when I clicked on the notification.
Yes, I am configuring Dwarf Fortress.
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Yes, I am configuring Dwarf Fortress.
Presumably there's not an option for "make it much less shit"?
INB4: there is an option and it's called quit
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holy hell, how did you manage your DF to look just like a Windows OS with multiple windows. You even recreated a TDWTF-Tab! Thats just amazing!
Filed Under: One should always use DF to configure DF!
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I'm confused. How is this a simulator?
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Well, it's Turing complete so it would disappoint me if nobody had ever tried to implement some software in it.
Hey, @ben_lubar, here's an idea. Instead of compiling to BIT or whatever language you're doing now, make something that compiles to Dwarf Fortress.
Bonus points if you can create a nice i/o interface for the programs.
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Instead of compiling to BIT or whatever language you're doing now, make something that compiles to Dwarf Fortress.
The Evil Ideas thread is thataway
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It's got a ruby 1.8 interpreter and a lua interpreter.
GitHub - DFHack/dfhack: Memory hacking library for Dwarf Fortress and a set of tools that use it
Memory hacking library for Dwarf Fortress and a set of tools that use it - DFHack/dfhack
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Presumably there's not an option for "make it much less shit"?
I believe the option you are looking for is "Uninstall".
Filed Under: I went there.
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###SimSkittles - Puke the Rainbow!
Nah, stick to third-person action-adventure:
(It's actually not a horrible game.)
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The idea of using Skittles for magic reminds me of A Boy and His Blob.
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You'd think so, right? But no, the "Skittles are rare in the land" and serve as a limiter on which combinations of spells you can have equipped at one time.
I never had A Boy and His Blob as a kid, but it looks like a game I would have loved. (It's in my pile of games to play "someday", just like all that stuff I've bought from Steam sales.)
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I had a copy of Boy and His Blob I tried to figure out as a kid with a friend. Problem is, we had no manual. We didn't get very far. And Zelda II was more fun anyway.
Later in life, I looked up the manual on the interwebs and it was like a horde of angels descending on me singing their holy song.
What I'm saying is: read the manual. Among other things, it tells you what all the various colors of jellybeans do.
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Later in life, I looked up the manual on the interwebs and it was like a horde of angels descending on me singing their holy song.
What I'm saying is: read the manual. Among other things, it tells you what all the various colors of jellybeans do.
I thought it's going to be a rant how badly that game is designed because everything should be immediately obvious to anyone without having to read anything. But I guess you just can't criticize things you like.
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I thought it's going to be a rant how badly that game is designed because everything should be immediately obvious to anyone without having to read anything.
That is true, and A Boy And His Blob fails utterly.
But I guess you just can't criticize things you like.
I don't like the game.
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Did someone hijack your account or do you have an evil twin?
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I didn't like the game.
But the manual explained everything about it that my buddy and I didn't figure out in hours and hours and hours of exploration.
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But the manual explained everything about it that my buddy and I didn't figure out in hours and hours and hours of exploration.
Yes, but you're the person who thinks no one should ever have to read manuals.
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Right; and I still think that.
I don't... I don't understand the confusion here.
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For starters, you read the manual anyway and recommended that others do so as well.
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Right; because the game is inscrutable without reading the manual. We've been over this. What the fuck is the problem?
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I think everyone deserves a really good steak. Steak is awesome.
That said, I had microwave pizza for lunch.
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Mistakes made by developers long retired working for defunct companies are water under the bridge. Those mistakes should be learned from in newer titles, but it's pointless getting bent over the original incarnations now.
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The problem is that it's the first time you say someone should RTFM. Also, it's rare when you talk about shit software without capslock or equivalent.
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Not to mention his usual reaction when someone suggests that he should RTFM.
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The problem is that it's the first time you say someone should RTFM.
They shouldn't have to RTFM.
But if they're going to play the game, then yes they should RTFM.
I honestly and truly have no idea what you or antiquated have a problem with here. I guess just shoulder aliens?
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As I said, you're using so little capital letters and express so little emotions that I wonder if you're not perhaps sick or something. You know, kinda like when a fat child says he doesn't want chocolate now.
Darkened Skye - Wikipedia
