been putting this one off for a while but I'm feeling like a point and click at the moment

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

hell of a first impression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hDy0T8FSvM

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

I'm goin' back in for some VirtuaVerse. When last we'd left off, Nathan had joined a hacker gang that seems to mostly leave graffiti in AVR and talk to each other by encrypted means, and gotten a lead on where his girlfriend Jay has gotten to.

Also, he might have brought the heat down on her in the process of blackmailing the guy who was working at the Pill Street pharma in order to get him to sell one of the under-the-table Tracer Activators to swap for an AR cartridge.

"Honey, I caused Events to occur by approaching the world with Point-and-Click Adventure Game Logic again"

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

Neuromancer reference?

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@SnoopJ

That’s goddamned beautiful.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@rk if it was anybody else I don't think I would trust them to pull it off, but I admire his aesthetics a LOT. Dude walks the walk and spreads the code

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

Can you take a piss in the bathroom in VirtuaVerse?

yes, you can

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@SnoopJ

Where does it rank on the point-and-click adventure game cruelty scale? Sierra walking-dead?

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@rk no pixel-hunting yet but the puzzles are reasonably crunchy. Not King's Quest V crunchy, though. I referred to a hint guide once or twice on Pill Street and may do so again.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@rk oh and it also has an 'experience the story' mode, but it can only be enabled at game start if I understand right

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@SnoopJ

Any chance of getting into an unwinnable state?

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@rk doesn't seem like it, no death opportunities either, or at least not yet.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@rk I would definitely not put it in the "mean" category like the games of the 90s

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

Like any good hacker, Nathan knows that having the manual is going to be a big benefit.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

Unsurprisingly, overclocking the quadcopter's CPU did not make it fly faster.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

Sidebar: it does rather annoy me when people say "drone" and mean "quadcopter" or any other aerial vehicle that is in fact not autonomous

I know I've lost this battle many years ago, though.

[quantensalat@scicomm.xyz]

@SnoopJ You can try to differentiate LLMs and AI in public use next lol

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@Quantensalat I like to put scare-quotes about "AI" to suggest the appropriate amount of contempt for the marketing catch-all

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

okay but what if I overclocked the quadcopter's CPU harder

[20000lbs_of_cheese@freeradical.zone]

@SnoopJ you'll make a futuristic flaming arrow

[uep@timeloop.cafe]

@SnoopJ powerful cooling fans conveniently nearby