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Re: Rats Play DOOM

#101

Post by zeristor »

Has anyone 3D printed the levels, VR headsets are one thing but IRL is above that.

Perhaps I’ve just done too much miniature wargaming.

Re: Rats Play DOOM

#104

Post by zelphirkalt »

Here is a thought: Maybe we are all just living in some gigantic experiment, that some incomprehensibly advanced civilization has created, to make us indirectly play DOOM, without us even realizing. Any progress we make is just one step further in their experiment, a reward, every issue like war, climate change, corruption, put in place by them as a challenge, while behind it all, in higher dimension, it is translated all into input for their version of DOOM, while they are watching us perform for them. One of them found it funny or interesting, to give us our own DOOM to play with, and now their scientists are speculating, whether it is always the case, that when you give a test population a DOOM, that they will pass a DOOM onto other beings, recursively.

Re: Rats Play DOOM

#105

Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #104

Here is a thought: Maybe we are all just living in some gigantic experiment, that some incomprehensibly advanced civilization has created, to make us indirectly play DOOM, without us even realizing. Any progress we make is just one step further in their experiment, a reward, every issue like war, climate change, corruption, put in place by them as a challenge, while behind it all, in higher dimension, it is translate…

This is a very popular theme, unfortunately without any practical conclusion.

Re: Rats Play DOOM

#106

Post by zelphirkalt »

observationist wrote: post #24
chickenhun wrote: post #23

Good news: Here's a cute video of Todd being habituated to the setup: https://x.com/yolorun_capital/status/1999598643339227564 Bad news: no video of them playing on this setup, just on the previous version. We iterated on v2 too long, our pet rats grew old and couldn't be trained. We open-sourced the hardware and software so others can build upon it. You can TLDR the whole thing in this thread: https://x.com/yolorun_…

I was worried this was going to be one of the petri dish of neurons type things, but the reality of it was awesome. More gaming rigs for rats need to be developed - it looked like Todd was actually enjoying it, and you toned down the potentially scary bits in a good way. Kudos for the experiment and giving your pet an awesome enriching environment!

From now on every future Doom game will have to contain a "rat" difficulty.

Re: Rats Play DOOM

#109

Post by jadamson »

This website causes my browsers (Chrome/Brave) to use a huge amount of CPU. Firefox handles it better but still has higher CPU usage than I'd expect.
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