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Re: Rats Play DOOM

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Post by komali2 »

Buttons840 wrote: post #60
apt-apt-apt-apt wrote: post #47

As an evolutionary cousin of a rat, the half-second delay after firing my weapon and the response would make me want to eat my whiskers. This would completely kill any potential reward (and replace it with the opposite, frustration) you're trying to train me with, please fix immediately.

One of the most important traits of intelligence is understanding and appreciating delayed reward. I saw a gambler win the jackpot. He was really excited and started gathering up all the chips he'd won. Why he was so excited to win a bunch of plastic chips, I'll never know. What's so great about plastic chips? Why was his brain so excited when all he was doing was gathering plastic chips? ... A half-second delay does…

The colorful plastic chips work well enough to trick our dumb monkey brains, just like red notification bubbles.

Re: Rats Play DOOM

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Post by notfed »

chickenhun wrote: post #66
purplecats wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i think its just people being out of touch with reality. perhaps engineering minds not thinking enough product. its too commonplace for me to even complain about. someone builds something primarily visual - a robot, a GUI application, etc. and links to their github/etc but they ensure that there are no visuals included.

This is far from primarily visual, but I do understand your point. I could not take videos unfortunately. I mentioned it in other places, but this project took so long, I just wanted to put it out there and get some feedback. I'm glad that people are this receptive to it, and I hope someone would take the project over!

> I could not take videos unfortunately

Why?

Re: Rats Play DOOM

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Post by xeonmc »

chickenhun wrote: post #62
godelski wrote: post #44

I absolutely love this! # Suggestion: You really should release parts as parametric or at least the source files. I see everything is an STL and STLs are just a pain to work with. Suppose we want to try with mice? Or what about my cat? I do not expect just scaling in my slicer is going to end up with a good result, I'll need to redo everything from scratch. But parametric parts? That gives us a lot faster iteration.…

Gonna be honest here, I've worked on this for so long, so many iterations, lots of versions for each 3D part, software and all, at this point I just wanted to publish everything I had and do it fast. And you are totally right, publishing without parametric source files was a mistake, I'll upload everything I have shortly, prices included. Note: mice require smaller setups and that just leads to the redesign of most p…

Is the graphics rendering modified to output actual barrel projection to match the display, or did you just take the original perspective projection and stick it on a distorted screen?

Consider making the screen panoramic around a larger radius rather than just around the head, perhaps on the order of ball diameter. This reduces the visual stereodisparity mismatch and lowers the cognitive load for habituation.

Consider also making the trigger chin- or bite-activated to allow simultaneous shooting and moving.

Re: Rats Play DOOM

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Post by boneitis »

mnls wrote: post #48

Whats the fascination with Doom? I keep seeing running Doom on this and that and now Rats playing Doom. I mean ok, Doom runs on everything and now rats playing doom. So what?

Why do videos go viral? Why do memes become memes?

Re: Rats Play DOOM

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Post by efskap »

escapecharacter wrote: post #10
ginkoleaf wrote: post #6

For those afraid to click: This does not appear to hurt the rats or involve doing any surgery on them.

Is it ethical to turn rats into gamers?

It's more like locking humans up in the matrix. Note lines like "preventing it from leaving the apparatus" in the build guide. Would an ordinary gamer be restricted from exiting such a contraption?

Re: Rats Play DOOM

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Post by DANmode »

godelski wrote: post #44

I absolutely love this! # Suggestion: You really should release parts as parametric or at least the source files. I see everything is an STL and STLs are just a pain to work with. Suppose we want to try with mice? Or what about my cat? I do not expect just scaling in my slicer is going to end up with a good result, I'll need to redo everything from scratch. But parametric parts? That gives us a lot faster iteration.…

Anecdotally: Cats like fruit ninja.
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