A tough read.
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"(Wildfire firefighting) was once done almost exclusively by government crews, but ... after a series of staffing cutbacks, the USFS turned to logging and forestry companies for help. The contracts were so lucrative they launched a new industry. ... A political backlash against the practice of sending inmates to fight wildfires for dollars a day has further accelerated this trend in places like California, where the use of contract crews has tripled..."
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And, that's not a different set of problems from the ones they already solved. They could have made each planet far more interesting without having to store any more data. 32 bits defines the planet, no matter the complexity.
I get the game decision to have a variety of worlds you have to visit to get various resources...it'd be a different game if you never needed to travel into space, but there's already a lot of ways to play the game, maybe a landlubber play style would also be fun. 4/?
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The idea is you build a system that takes as input a seed, and for each unique seed, you get a unique world. The key being every time you input that seed, you get the same world. So, random, but repeatable. Given this, if you want two billion worlds, you need a 32-bit number for the seed. Everything else is boring implementation details.
But, my wish is that the system knew how to build more variety and realism on the planet. Why aren't there poles that are colder? 3/?
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So, you know how the pitch here is that there are billions of different worlds in No Mans Sky? You could play forever and never see them all. OK, fine, neat trick, but there's a remarkable amount of "sameness" to every planet.
I have done literally no research on how NMS, specifically, works, but I think I understand how they make a game with billions of worlds, based on my understanding of procedural generation in games (an area I like to read about, but never actually do anything with). 2/?
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I know y'all come to me for hot takes about the latest games, so I've got some opinions about No Mans Sky (only 9 years old, it's practically brand new).
It's a remarkable game, very fun, very engaging. Love it. But, also, I can't help thinking all the time about how it could be better...I mean, yes, it still has a surprising number of bugs for a nine year old project still in active development and still selling OK. But, also... 1/?
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If you didn't see, here's new context which makes this thread more interesting https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lyyqtzb7ns2m
> Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk.
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Damn these posts are quite a thing to go back to
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@gwcoffey I didn't but I read about PiFS which used offset into pi as a FUSE filesystem, and a friend of mine used it!
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@cwebber Did you ever read that story about the guy who tried to use "offset into pi" as a compression algorithm?
