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So every day, you gather what you can find, and you carry it to the pile. The pile is a never ceasing fire, burning in a mile high chimney, errected in competitions among tribes. Its hard to ignore- all those walking towards the firestorm, carrying sacrifices- once the sunrise and sunset mass orgasm subsides.
Maybe you found coal, you have talent, you are worthy, you can feel the burning envy of the others. The one left to you, carries some brushes, the one right to you carries a struggling fat deer. Oh, how it will burn, oh the joys.
All of you have the mycelium behind your eyes- that spark never to cease. At the distance, some youths howl insults at the caravan, not strong enough to carry yet, dismissing the joys of the front row out of jealousy. They will find something, find their place, they will wake up to the joy, carrying some dehydrated, light husk to the pillar of awe. Even now they are hiding some candle or torch.
You slough towards the heat, some sweating the ash off, some collapsing, even in spasms- the eye on the inferno and its priests. Some are deprived off the joy, to deliver coolant, to maintain roads or shovell ashes. The joyless, you pity them- you hit them if they come between you and the pyre. Then the orange fills the world, joy is you, and you dance, forward, backward. Foam is on your mouth. Till you collapse from your body giving way. A Joyless carries you home, some lonely replaceable hole, in a well organized dessert, a empty cave in the anthill on a empty plain - where you, where you all sleep. For tomorrow, before dusk you will rise.
You will walk out into the inferno- telling yourself, that you are pure. One of the lucky few, to be burned away, for another day. You are the burning men. You always wanted this.
Also the expression of neuro-diversity is usually more severe (do not have a linke for that one).
While we are at it, can we talk about the loop deformation, too?
Aka, evolution as a blind machinery, adapting humanity to the cycle of strife, by allowing neuro-diverse speacilizations to exist, which in turn try to propagate the circumstances they thrive in.
Thanks to science, we had a nice 90 years of surplus and plenty, basically bribing ourselves out of natures grasp. Now the whole messy affair returns with a vengance, and it will be interesting to see, if leviathan-cybernetics ( aka societal implants (cellphones, self-surveilance etc.)) can reign the forces of the old world in, were wishfull thinking and society regulation mechanisms (religions, rules, etc.)fail.
"You have developed a new product with broad market appeal, and sales already found you a huge first customer, which would secure you for years to come. In return they expect you to tailor the product to there needs. How do you react?"
It sounds mad, but it seems somehow to be expected by some. Like they expect you to test your company for warning flags as thoroughly as they test you..
After that reforms. Lots of them.
That is ones library. It can be adapted to the task.
So, the bonus point is to find subsets of relationally related games, that can become the parent.
I still wait for actual hard-social-sci-fi - but its author(ess) would be hunted down the streets by the mob. Because humans are deeply flawed, and exploring those bugs and the hacks used by meta-organisms (like companys & states) would make for a thoroughly uncomfortable read.
TL,DR: There is very little hard, uncomfy social scifi. Because we rage when dragged out of our mental comfort zones.
Now you created a whole zoo of new troubles, including a whole set of troubles you cant even predict, because you didnt know about them when you made this giant default behaviour case.
if (specific case){
} else (everything else that could ever happen, inlcuding all future edgcases){
// here be dragons
}
Examples? Leveldesigner adds elevator, that transports player and npc ocassionally outside of the teleport box.
Skybox entitys are npcs that live outside of the box- so space battle npcs, get telported to bunks..
etc. etc.
Handling the unknown - with any other paradigm then the fail early, fail loud - is the root of evil.
Speedy development is all fun and games, until your luck runs out and you toast a whole highway filled with familys in one afternoon.
After that, nobody is going to hold cheery fanbois liable who enabled this culture. No, it will be engineers, who where forced to make fast decisions. Remember Toyota-Bar - why dont you justify your senseless optimism, in the face of physical danger and accidents, to the victims of sloppy development?
Why is the burden of proof not on you? After all that blood at least should be on your hands.
Sometimes i think, this was the plan behind the piracy support by some companys for some time. Disrupt the media companys and then take over.
Supply what others depend on for free - and wait until the industry collapses, then rule the wastelands.
Not interesting on a industrial scale.. which is why you usually get only the tasteless whitebread you usually get.
To return from such a dark age, seems unlikely.
This "shield" hides the lack of risk taking away from the general public - after all the buisness seems to boom - meanwhile the actual wealth creators & innovators go soft or go elsewhere.
In the final phase, when there is actual resistance/competition to those shody practices, the thin fassade crumbles inwards, reavling nothing but corruption and accumulated incompetence.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Markus_Reuss/publicatio...
Not enough room? You can build a floating solar panel, that just ships over the ocean, generating charged LOHC which then is collected by a automated ship.
PS: If you look at the references of this paper you can see the BMW research that is referenced.
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/19496773.pdf
Well according to this paper lohc still has a better energy density then batterys and we would loose the recharge waits. Also existing infrastructure could be reused and it allows the indefinite storage and transport of renewables, if created at source with no additinal conversion loss.
As far as i know there are several varieties in research - with one condensend form (which isnt liquid- sorry im not really a expert on this) - beeing a factor 10 energy denser.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09268...
I think this one is the paper.. I can not say how serious these technologies are driven. The trad car companies have a lot to loose when the car is reduced to 4 engines and a steering wheel.
I still think lithium ion batterys have some use- as birthing help to alternatives, who would otherwise be stuck in development hell.
If they could make the economics of scale happen, they would rather prefer something like lohc as energy carrier.
http://www.framatome.com/customer/liblocal/docs/KUNDENPORTAL...
Its storageable hydrogen, so its the natural product of decentralized renewable energy production. It has not recharge time, no battery decay. Only problem is- there is nothing but the car-industry who wants this.
The tradeoff for this limited space is though a complex ruleset and to recreate the data, lots of computation.