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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Did any of you guys see those Skyrim AI NPC mods that were floating around YouTube around a year ago? I think they kept getting taken down for some reason.

    But honestly it convinced me that that’s a good way to go. They were able to detect what the player was doing. For instance, if you dropped a sword on the ground, they would be like “hey don’t forget that iron greatsword on your way out”. You could also ask it for advice on how to complete your quest or what they knew about someone.

    If the AI is somehow locked to only knowing information about the video game they’re in, it could really boost the immersion I think. But I think they should have to use a real voice actor to train the AI to mimic their voice or something like that.



  • I studied abroad in Australia for a semester (from the United States) and took an Aboriginal Studies course and was incredibly glad I did. It was crazy to see the parallels to how the Native Americans were treated/colonized here in the Americas. Truly barbaric stuff. They’ve got something called the Lost Generation where pretty much all of the children born during a certain time period were forcibly taken from their families and forced to become “civilized”.

    It was really cool learning about how the aboriginals would do these “prescribed burns” where they would purposefully start small wildfires to burn away the undergrowth, which would in turn enrich the soil with lots of carbon. Really neat stuff