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Readit NewsPaul_S commented on Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge clearsky.dev/blog/xr2000/... · Posted by u/richmans
Paul_S commented on Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition projecthyperion.org... · Posted by u/codeulike
> love that most of those designs give bigger houses to people in a spaceship than modern houses in the UK on planet earth
Would such a project be particularly volume constrained?
> doubt democracy would get them through more than 250 days, let alone 250 years
I don't. You'd be selecting for extraordinary individuals and educating them. These sorts of societies propagated for hundreds or even thousands of years in antiquity just fine.
The colonists be in a life-or-death system in a community small enough that everyone knows of everyone else personally. To the extent humans are almost uniquely exceptional at one thing as a hominid, it's exploration and colonization--I woudn't be surprised if this group winds up more functional due to scratching an underlying human need to explore and push boundaries.
Are you telling me a country is more constrained by space than a spaceship?
As for democracy "These sorts of societies propagated for hundreds or even thousands of years in antiquity just fine" - I don't know of any that practised the consensus driven democracy that almost all these proposals use. Ant if you're reaching into antiquity then not even normal democracies. Unless you're talking about a Athens with their slaves and adult male citizen population having a vote. In which case sure, I can get behind that but that's not what those spaceship designs propose. They all assume all decisions will be unanimous and no one will ever break the law.
In actual fact history proves the opposite and all exploration and conquest is driven by strict hierarchical organisations and the idea that you can fly a spaceship across light years without a captain who can condemn people to death is laughable.
Paul_S commented on Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition projecthyperion.org... · Posted by u/codeulike
I love that most of those designs give bigger houses to people in a spaceship than modern houses in the UK on planet earth.
Love the designs, doubt democracy would get them through more than 250 days, let alone 250 years.
Russia has a population of 144m.
1m is not a lot
Edit: as per my comment below, casualties are not deaths. It's a wider definition.
That includes women, children and elderly. If you count fighting age men only, 1M becomes significant. If you count men actually available for draft, you're already at 10% loss.
Does anyone know a game where 2d sprites sit on 3d chairs? This is something this engine will have to tackle.
Paul_S commented on An indie studio created a game based on Stanislaw Lem's novel invinciblethegame.com/?hn... · Posted by u/mgl
I really wish HN would have less of this negative bile you just spewed on someone elses work because it didn't conform to your every whim.
I played the game and didn't like it, you're welcome to disagree and engage with me by showing examples that disprove my assertions from my original post.
I think I'm on safe grounds calling it a walking simulator. The gameplay is limited to walking down a linear path and clicking on things until all combinations are exhausted - western equivalent of a visual novel (but with less branching).
Paul_S commented on An indie studio created a game based on Stanislaw Lem's novel invinciblethegame.com/?hn... · Posted by u/mgl
Amazing novel but this is neither a direct adaptation nor faithful to the novel's message and ideas. It's a modern walking simulator with a the most surface level veneer of what we now consider retro futurism but otherwise modern in its messaging. I'd rather they kept the core and modernised the paint.