Citadelvania

Citadelvania t1_jegr1s8 wrote

As a developer... technically yes... practically no. It would really be a nightmare. Developers are EXTREMELY careful with what information is given to the player and how it's presented.

The idea that an NPC can "go rogue" and start telling the player something that isn't correct is a non-starter but even the idea that an NPC might start talking about things that aren't relevant to the player is potentially extremely damaging. Like, say an NPC goes on and on about how much crime there is in part of the city. As a player they think "ah this must be something I can go take care of or interact with" but it's just speech, when the player gets there no events are happening.

Not to mention things like going up to a guard and convincing them to open the gate. Now the gate doesn't open, you're supposed to sneak in the back and the guard/chatgpt is explicitly told to never let anyone in the front gate. Except chatgpt can be coerced into agreeing to things so a clever player manages to convince the chatbot to open the gate. Except the gate can't open and the guard has no ability to do so. So the guard just sits there saying "alright fine go on in but don't tell anyone I let you in." except you're still stuck staring at a locked gate.

You also have to coordinate what people are saying. Like if someone in town says "ah yes we primarily grow wheat at this farm" and another person said "ah yes we primarily grow corn at this farm"... well which is it? Do either match the graphics being used? I guess now I have to manually tell every npc what the farm grows... and when it was started.... and who's in charge... so I just have to anticipate any question anyone could possibly ask and make sure the npc knows the information to answer that... oh dear...

So yeah because of all of these issues I would say it's almost never going to happen in a game that isn't entirely procedurally generated and even then I'd expect issues. It would be a massive undertaking to implement in any reasonable way, maybe even impossible.

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Citadelvania t1_jdgqq4u wrote

I've had teachers that would have zero sympathy, give me a zero and tell me to learn my lesson and double-check next time regardless of what I did or didn't submit. I've also had teachers give me a 1 or 2 week extension with no hesitation and tell me to take of myself first and worry about their class second. It varies a lot.

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Citadelvania t1_jd03aw4 wrote

...that's not the job of the president? Since when does the president choose how tax dollars are spent?

I mean "power of the purse" is explicitly a congressional power and when Biden tried to cancel student loans (which strictly speaking isn't actually giving money it's more like declining to ask for owed money) he got sued and it got stopped because he's explicitly not allowed to dictate how tax dollars are spent.

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Citadelvania t1_j908zod wrote

2 hours? You didn't remember even when you got home? Maybe they should have someone else handle stuff like this in the future...

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Citadelvania t1_iukbawd wrote

People always post on these going "lucky I love the pink ones!" but like there are supposed to be 4 flavors and you only got 1. Not everyone is going to like that flavor. It's actually super annoying I would post this to r/mildlyinfuriating.

Given how common this is I have to wonder if the pink ones are just the cheapest to make or something because it's way too common to be some sort of simple manufacturing error.

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