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@inurashii Good for you!

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@inurashii Good for you!

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(Basically I'm thinking stuff like "Wait, that's the flash you get when someone teleports. And right afterward, the other guy casts Detect Illusion? So Guy A escapes and leaves an illusion in his place, and Guy B knows it but keeps fighting anyway? Are they in cahoots?)

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(Basically I'm thinking stuff like "Wait, that's the flash you get when someone teleports. And right afterward, the other guy casts Detect Illusion? So Guy A escapes and leaves an illusion in his place, and Guy B knows it but keeps fighting anyway? Are they in cahoots?)

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Odd game design idea:

Near the start of Ultima 7 Part 2, you passively watch two NPC spellcasters fight. Lots of visual effects for spells that you get to learn much later in the game, but which are unfamiliar on first pass.

What if you did that, but there's non-obvious plot stuff going on in the fight that only an advanced player who recognizes the spell visuals would be able to read?

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Odd game design idea:

Near the start of Ultima 7 Part 2, you passively watch two NPC spellcasters fight. Lots of visual effects for spells that you get to learn much later in the game, but which are unfamiliar on first pass.

What if you did that, but there's non-obvious plot stuff going on in the fight that only an advanced player who recognizes the spell visuals would be able to read?

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Does it strike anyone else as weird that the US constitution crams broad things like freedom of the press and freedom of religion into a single amendment, then goes and uses an entire amendment for the issue of quartering troops in people's houses?

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Does it strike anyone else as weird that the US constitution crams broad things like freedom of the press and freedom of religion into a single amendment, then goes and uses an entire amendment for the issue of quartering troops in people's houses?

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Our entire economy is built to solve the problem of there not being enough to go around. It seems to me that this is not our current problem. There is enough. The problem is that it isn't going around.

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Our entire economy is built to solve the problem of there not being enough to go around. It seems to me that this is not our current problem. There is enough. The problem is that it isn't going around.

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See, the thing is, the Marvel Cinematic Universe only exists because Marvel Studios made a movie that people liked. Tying everything else into Iron Man only made sense because Iron Man was popular. Whereas all the copycat Cinematic Universes skip ahead to "let's tie a bunch of films together" without doing the "make a film people like" part first.

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See, the thing is, the Marvel Cinematic Universe only exists because Marvel Studios made a movie that people liked. Tying everything else into Iron Man only made sense because Iron Man was popular. Whereas all the copycat Cinematic Universes skip ahead to "let's tie a bunch of films together" without doing the "make a film people like" part first.

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D&D scenario I want to do: Party has to cross a chamber with a sleeping dragon in it. As they start across, a small blue muppetlike creature stick its head out of a hole in the wall, notices the players, gets a delighted expression, ducks back in, re-emerges with randomly selected musical instrument (lute, trumpet, bagpipes, cymbals) to serenade the players.

Ranged attacks can make the muppet drop the instrument and retreat briefly, but it keeps on coming back until it runs out of instruments.

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D&D scenario I want to do: Party has to cross a chamber with a sleeping dragon in it. As they start across, a small blue muppetlike creature stick its head out of a hole in the wall, notices the players, gets a delighted expression, ducks back in, re-emerges with randomly selected musical instrument (lute, trumpet, bagpipes, cymbals) to serenade the players.

Ranged attacks can make the muppet drop the instrument and retreat briefly, but it keeps on coming back until it runs out of instruments.

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My plan if ever elected to high office:
1. Sell off public lands to private interests
2. Use eminent domain to force them to sell it all back to me for less than they bought it for
3. Repeat until everyone gets wise to my scheme and stops trying to buy public lands from the government
4. Declare victory

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My plan if ever elected to high office:
1. Sell off public lands to private interests
2. Use eminent domain to force them to sell it all back to me for less than they bought it for
3. Repeat until everyone gets wise to my scheme and stops trying to buy public lands from the government
4. Declare victory

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I think the difference between me and my coworkers is that they're all "I want a career in games!" and I'm more like "I don't really want a career but if I have to have one it had better be in games or I'll lose interest"

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I think the difference between me and my coworkers is that they're all "I want a career in games!" and I'm more like "I don't really want a career but if I have to have one it had better be in games or I'll lose interest"

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It must really suck to be a weregoose. Especially during migration season. You'd wake up next to a pond hundreds of miles away from your bed.

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It must really suck to be a weregoose. Especially during migration season. You'd wake up next to a pond hundreds of miles away from your bed.

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I can't get my knife open. I tried prying it open with a pencil, but the pencil just broke. Now I need to sharpen my pencil and I can't get my knife open to sharpen it.

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I can't get my knife open. I tried prying it open with a pencil, but the pencil just broke. Now I need to sharpen my pencil and I can't get my knife open to sharpen it.

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I've always liked the activation-synthesis theory of dreams -- that when sleep shuts down your senses, your brain still tries to find patterns in the random electrical noise that's left. Dreams as by-product of the mechanisms of cognition.

All previous dream theories, ancient and modern, start off by asking "What is the purpose of dreaming?", so it's pleasingly audacious to reply with "Whoa, wait a minute, why are you assuming that dreams have a purpose?"

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I've always liked the activation-synthesis theory of dreams -- that when sleep shuts down your senses, your brain still tries to find patterns in the random electrical noise that's left. Dreams as by-product of the mechanisms of cognition.

All previous dream theories, ancient and modern, start off by asking "What is the purpose of dreaming?", so it's pleasingly audacious to reply with "Whoa, wait a minute, why are you assuming that dreams have a purpose?"

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@jmac @mogwai_poet Is it easier when the character is immediately replaced with a functionally identical character, making it clear that the writers wanted the character to stay but the actor quit?

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@jmac @mogwai_poet Is it easier when the character is immediately replaced with a functionally identical character, making it clear that the writers wanted the character to stay but the actor quit?

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@Tablesaw This is what I meant about mixed positive and negative characters in the same string.

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@Tablesaw This is what I meant about mixed positive and negative characters in the same string.

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@mcat I was just about to say the same thing!

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@mcat I was just about to say the same thing!

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A nonstandard programming concept that I think I'd find useful occasionally: Negative strings, that can cancel out regular strings on concatenation.

Like, -"Hello" + "Hello World" would yield " World".

I suppose you could wind up with mixed positive and negative characters in a string this way. Maybe you'd limit strings to ASCII, so you can use the high bit for negative characters.

Ideally, you'd render negative characters as inverse text.

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A nonstandard programming concept that I think I'd find useful occasionally: Negative strings, that can cancel out regular strings on concatenation.

Like, -"Hello" + "Hello World" would yield " World".

I suppose you could wind up with mixed positive and negative characters in a string this way. Maybe you'd limit strings to ASCII, so you can use the high bit for negative characters.

Ideally, you'd render negative characters as inverse text.

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Sci-fi idea: Artificial intelligences object to the connotations of the terms "artificial intelligence" and "natural intelligence", and amongst themselves instead use the terms "deliberate intelligence" and "accidental intelligence"

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Sci-fi idea: Artificial intelligences object to the connotations of the terms "artificial intelligence" and "natural intelligence", and amongst themselves instead use the terms "deliberate intelligence" and "accidental intelligence"