Crossroads of the Multiverse

[Garth's Equipment Shop]

Noun 1. crossroads - a community of people smaller than a village

• a. A place where two or more roads meet.
  
  b. A small, usually rural community situated at an intersection of two or more roads: asked for directions at a remote crossroads.
  
  c. A place that is centrally located.

2. crossroads - a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made

There are no rules, you can post anything you like here. It's more of a general chat area. You can of course use it to show off something your working on or finished as well. It doesn't necessarily have to be ACK related.

[Admiral Ackguh]

I'll just wish everyone a merry Christmas and happy holidays.

[joebonk]

Merry Christmas to You and to everyone as well.

[Garth's Equipment Shop]

Merry Christmas and God bless everyone! My Christmas wish is for 2014 to be the year that long awaited WIPs finally see completion and inspire many new adventures throughout the year!

[ishtenos]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Agreed, it would be awesome to see some WIPs reach the finish line!

[Admiral Ackguh]

I just wanted to have the first post of the new year.

[Garth's Equipment Shop]

2nd! :D

[Garth's Equipment Shop]

Completely revised the intro post. Check it out.

[Garth's Equipment Shop]

Hi all. How you been?

[Garth's Equipment Shop]

Decided to go with a much shorter simpler intro post so as not to steal anyone's thunder in this thread nor confuse new comers trying to get their bearings here.

I'm working on a concept now for a game contest to encourage everyone to submit a finished game. I'm drawing inspiration primarily from those various game programming challenges out there such as:

Ludum Dare in which programmers agree to a certain theme and set out to program a game over the weekend

or...

24 Hour RPG (and at 24hourrpg.com) where contestants race against the clock to develop a full, working, playable role-playing game within a mere 24 hours

I figure if they can do what they do in that short amount of time (which is some pretty amazing stuff I might add), surely us ACK designers could come up with something over a weekend or even 24 hours.

[joebonk]

Basic Futurama:

Now all we need is a futurama step macro

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[Joe.Bonk]

Deus Ex Creator Warren Spector to Lead System Shock 3 Development



Warren Spector couldn't say no to working on another System Shock.

[Admiral Ackguh]

Here's a real robot that will knock your socks off:

http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/n ... incredible

[Garth's Equipment Shop]

Holy shit! That's some serious AI. To make all those decision changes on the fly. Course or path-finding corrections including it's own position or angle to stay lined up with an object. The coordination to maneuver unpredictable terrain and adjust to keep from losing balance, and even the ability to pick itself back up from a fall. Imagine such AI being applied to language parsing and conversation decision trees! Perhaps it could navigate messy or complex conversations the same way it does random terrain and unexpected interruptions of it's programmed tasks.

[Joe.Bonk]

...Imagine such AI being applied to language parsing and conversation decision trees! Perhaps it could navigate messy or complex conversations the same way it does random terrain and unexpected interruptions of it's programmed tasks.

This Robot Says She Wants To Destroy All Humans
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000502094

[ishtenos]

...Imagine such AI being applied to language parsing and conversation decision trees! Perhaps it could navigate messy or complex conversations the same way it does random terrain and unexpected interruptions of it's programmed tasks.

This Robot Says She Wants To Destroy All Humans
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000502094

So in other words, human-hating AI is not such an unlikely scenario after all...

[Admiral Ackguh]

Someone needs to come up with a Futurama ACK game!

[Joe.Bonk]

Talking Horses Are Real

Seems Ultima got it right.





STORY:Scientists discover horses can communicate with humans by pointing at signs

[Equipmentshop Poltergeist]

[SentientBastardSword]

Indeed, I concur!