The first two games, Arena and Daggerfall, were both procedurally generated on the fly.
Later games have been more of a “procedurally generate the game geography using perlin noise, freeze it, then paint the valleys, roads and cities onto it” approach. Not dynamic generation but not handcrafted from scratch.
Additional important details: spez built Reddit and sold it off to Condé Nast because he thought it was a stupid little project that would soon be eclipsed and he wanted his payout.
He spent a few years traveling and then expressed regret at having sold it because it was becoming much bigger than he imagined.
He was rehired after Ellen Pao’s very similar attacks on the user base.
Every morning he wakes up, looks in the mirror and thinks “if I’d just stuck with Reddit instead of selling it I’d be Jack Dorsey (of Twitter) right now. A real billionaire instead of a mere multi-millionaire. I invented the front page of the internet! It’s a top twenty website! Why can’t I buy an island? Like, a good one.”
That’s where he’s coming from. And he currently thinks if he acts like Elon Musk he can be as rich as him.
Somebody’s using the Magna Carta backwards again…
Nethack, Elite, Captive, Elder Scrolls, Magic Carpet, Simcity 2000 (reticulating splines)… oh, and a little game called Minecraft.
Procedural generation is common. The way Dwarf Fortress does it where the rules and game elements change is nearly unique. Pretty much just that and Nethack, AFAIK, which is why Dwarf Fortress stuck with Nethack-style ASCII so long.
Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.
And she said to her father, “Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is with me.” And he searched but did not find the household idols.
Genesis 31:34-35
The Biblical defense is clearly that she was menstruating when she hid the Bibles.
The blackout helped me to leave.
It’s difficult to rewire a dopamine pathway you’ve been traveling for 14 years.
Knowing that other people care enough to abstain for two days is useful in that process.
I never expected Reddit to change their policy. I have been surprised at how petulant, dishonest and unprofessional they’ve been. I would have expected a bland corporate response.
Anyway, onward and upward.
Weird take.
538 was one of the few groups saying that Trump had a decent chance. They were widely mocked for it. Anybody who believed 538 should have been motivated to get out the vote for Clinton.
And they turned out to be right.
How is that “Trump beat Clinton because of 538”?
It has been like this in California and the southwest for almost a decade now. In the PNW for five to eight years. Why would the East experiencing it change anything?
The jump between “this summer smoke is new and scary” to “we need to build solar and nuclear power plants” is so huge that almost nobody makes it.
By the second smoke incident it’s just weather, a normal part of life.
Yeah, that’s what Rome thought about the senate, what Britain thought about the House of Lords, and what the US thought about its Senate.
“Sober house of second thought.”
Fortunately in this case none of the members will be incredibly wealthy and it’s not a country, so you’re probably right.