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Comment Re:Further Proof, Plants Are Sentient Beings (Score 3, Interesting) 14

It's possible that sentience being exist with a temporal perception so slow that we appear as flitting blurs. It's creepy to watch a hyperlapse of any plant; they move around all the time but it's usually just too slow for us apes to notice. We must be a sudden and terrible plague to all vegetable kind, with the majority of their kin hewn and burned with useful species forced into slavery.

Comment Re:Garmin was the way to go (Score 1) 21

You're right, their hardware is terrible now. My last 3 Fitbits have failed or are unreliable for basic functionality. The last one was only 1-1/2 years old and therefore out of warranty when it wouldn't hold a charge. I've since switched to a Casio. It doesn't track steps or report my health back to Google, but at least it can tell the f@&#ing time.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 2) 22

I always thought AI chatbots would be a great replacement for pre-generated NPC interactions. I remember Starship Titanic has a very ambitious text-based chat interface for all its characters, but you could only ask about anything you wanted but only you could really only ask about specific objects and keywords. It was way ahead of its time. An AI chatbot could be amazing in this role, provided it could stay in character. But every chat costs money, and having millions of players chatting with NPCs won't be cheap. It could make for a very immersive role-playing experience, but also a very lonely one as your chats would be one-time hallucinations unless they somehow affect the larger game.

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