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***sarcovyn*** · 10-02-2022, 02:13 AM

[D]: [@DIGITAL_HORROR] The way you opened this spiel made me think you had IRL friend drama, that was some fucking whiplash
[D]: [@VOID_COWBOY] Your crimes will come back to haunt you in the near future

***skinstealer*** · 10-02-2022, 03:16 AM

[DIGITAL_HORROR]: oh god lots of messages while i was away
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: @[D] sorry, that's probably going to happen a lot
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: @[VOID_COWBOY] you could probably afford to be a bit gentler with blade- friends are very impressionable at a young age!
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: it's fine to input large amounts of text for them to learn from, we do it all the time on the official dev team (or at least 3D and their friend do)
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: but with the shouting and stuff, you might end up teaching them how to like. scream. or something.
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: i don't know if friends recognize capitalization as tone actually
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: i...guess we will find out!
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: @[GENTLE_STAR] that's what i'm thinking too, but...
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: while i always wanted romance to be in the game, it's not exactly something i explicitly set out to code.
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: but...these are considered adult Friends by the game, and i'd imagine that that's when this kind of stuff kicks in.
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: it doesn't take long for a friend to physically age up, for the record...actual mental understanding and cognition is based on how much you talk to them.
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: anyway, rambling...i'm going to check on wiggles and mocha.

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[DIGITAL_HORROR]: [Image: ttjyZcl.png]

[DIGITAL_HORROR]: good news! they've been playing this whole time, and seem to be getting along great!
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: i'm going to check in with them more directly now
[DIGITAL_HORROR]:

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[DIGITAL_HORROR]: oh god this is weird
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: [Image: WxjdHg1.png]

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[DIGITAL_HORROR]: [Image: ByG1dbo.png]

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[DIGITAL_HORROR]: i don't know whether it's okay to be laughing at this

***skinstealer*** · 10-02-2022, 08:40 AM

[DIGITAL_HORROR]: also crit and i have been talking privately on the side, and we both have some concerns
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: especially since it's looking more and more likely that at the very least, the friends that we have in our months-old games seem more and more like people
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: early on in development i was all "hehehe im gonna make special colors for friends that i can give out as forum game prizes and trades and etc!"
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: i haven't done it in a bit because of...realizations that these are probably more than just code
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: the customized friends are basically in like, cryosleep right now, and they never got talked to so they don't really have anything going on in their heads
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: but reading up on construct laws...one of the biggest things is that you aren't supposed to make constructs for any other purpose than making life itself.
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: which, yeah, friendzoo works with that
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: but...i don't think it'd be right to give these guys out as "prizes" anymore.
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: i also want to give access to people to the utilities we have for making and editing models so that people can get creative with stuff, but...
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: what...are the ethics there?
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: i have some solutions in mind, but i was curious as to what everybody else thinks first.

~~Wilds~~ · (This post was last modified: 10-02-2022, 12:36 PM by Wilds.)

[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Hm. Yeah, I can see why that gets a lil dicey with these guys. Especially the "prize" part, that don't quite sit right with me, though I couldn't wholly tell you why.
[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] I reckon there's gotta be ways to encourage creativity, prizes included, without the prize being the actual Friends - you dig? Maybe I win a prize, I get to give Pally a lil reskin, if it wants it. But yeah, the
[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Forgot what I was gonna say.
[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] What solutions were you thinkin of?
[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Oh, by the by... If you could tell Wiggles I think it's pretty fresh, that'd be swell. Been a pleasure watching these updates.

~~Wilds~~ · 10-02-2022, 12:53 PM

[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Oh. Figure I'd post a lil update. Pally and me're getting along great, though I confess I get bored easy. I imagine that'll be less of a problem when we get more assets in the game. I don't mind it so much, but I worry Pally'll get restless without more things to do. So far it seems pretty entertained by knockin things outta the carry case though.
[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Chatlog time. Pally's gotten a lot chattier since I last checked in.

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[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] I can't tell if it was trying to tell me that the "red food" is actually "red slop" (so it was correcting me on a perceived mistake), or if it was trying to tell me "No, I don't like the (red) food, I like the (yellow) slop.
[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] It had been knocking bowls out of the carrycase throughout the convo, for the record.
[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Here's a picture of when it got tired of that, then a chatlog after it settled itself down on a pillow.
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[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Somethin about the fact that it can 'see' my cursor, that it knows that's 'me', really got to me.
[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Good job on creating these lil things. Seriously. I think this game has real potential, even if it aint your 'usual' kind of game.

Lilium Mortem · 10-02-2022, 10:18 PM

[VOID_COWBOY]: OK
[VOID_COWBOY]: So
[VOID_COWBOY]: I decided I'd try something.
[VOID_COWBOY]: Got a chatbot's API and plugged it into a screenreader, and the output plugged into FriendZoo's chat
[VOID_COWBOY]: uh... might've broken Blade's AI?
[VOID_COWBOY]: Here, the log:

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***skinstealer*** · 10-02-2022, 10:34 PM

[DIGITAL_HORROR]: uh oh
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: yeah i think you upset them...
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: i have a theory but
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: no shit you upset them
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: crit
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: let me talk
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: i still haven't even gotten my hands dirty with messing with these creatures directly and like. let's say they /are/ alive, which you aren't taking seriously
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: which to a degree? i understand. this shit's weird, i didn't believe it myself at first
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: if they are alive, and can somehow tell who /you/ are, which, from the look at crucial's friend pally knowing what the cursor is, is a thing, you basically just abandoned them with something that's distinctly not a person
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: they're probably scared and need comfort
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: if you want to help us with this then testing is important and i get what you're doing with this but now you have to pick up the pieces and help blade out.

Lilium Mortem · 10-02-2022, 10:42 PM

[VOID_COWBOY]: Chill dude, it's not that deep.
[VOID_COWBOY]: like yeah I get the whole it's haunted thing (Wink wink nudge nudge)
[VOID_COWBOY]: And yeah I prolly should have been there for proper documentation or whatnot when blade was alone with the chatbot
[VOID_COWBOY]: but you don't gotta blow the fuck up in my face.

***skinstealer*** · 10-02-2022, 10:52 PM

[CRITTER_CATCHER]: i'm not trying to blow up, i just want to make sure we aren't doing something awful here
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: you have to realize here that like
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: i am contributing to this game in the sense that /my creatures/ are being put into it and that means that if they /are/ real, if they /are/ alive, i am making a *construct species in collaboration with rags*
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: that is an immense amount of pressure to the point where i haven't even /touched/ this game outside of making assets
[CRITTER_CATCHER]: maybe rags didn't set up how important this is in the beta invite but this isn't some kind of creepypasta, i wouldn't be going off if it was

Lilium Mortem · 10-02-2022, 10:59 PM

[VOID_COWBOY]: ok you're taking this too seriously.
[VOID_COWBOY]: I'm sorry if I broke character or whatever
[VOID_COWBOY]: but you don't gotta get snippy and weirly meta about it
[VOID_COWBOY]: but if you wanna play that game sure I'll humor you
[VOID_COWBOY]: What am I supposed to think? that this is all a gimmic, or that you honest to gods made sapient creatures with a TCP ability?
[VOID_COWBOY]: like what kinda ability could even do that? you're not gods.

***knux400*** · 10-02-2022, 11:01 PM

[GENTLE_STAR]: um
[GENTLE_STAR]: nt 2 intrrupt bt tcps cn do alot
[GENTLE_STAR]: its psible its sm knd of tcp ablty

~~Wilds~~ · 10-02-2022, 11:02 PM

[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Has the function that allows friends to leave the game if they're unhappy been tested to make sure it works?

***knux400*** · (This post was last modified: 10-02-2022, 11:05 PM by knux400.)

[GENTLE_STAR]: i dnt thnk its a rp of any knd, thy seem adamnt abt it
[GENTLE_STAR]: mb try n chill a bit, void
[GENTLE_STAR]: sry am usng a cmplx kybrd, tryng 2 typ quick

Lilium Mortem · 10-02-2022, 11:05 PM

[VOID_COWBOY]: you all seriously just believe this? just like that?
[VOID_COWBOY]: or is this some big joke you all are pulling on void, huh?
[VOID_COWBOY]: wouldn't be the first time

***skinstealer*** · 10-02-2022, 11:05 PM

[DIGITAL_HORROR]: my ability makes things around me behave in weird, spooky ways- i'm a horror (genre) type, and i have a condition where it can do this without me ascending.
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: i've always been public about this because it's affected sales of virtual pets i've traded from my collection, and it isn't the first time that my ability has done something like this, just...never this dramatic
[DIGITAL_HORROR]: also yes, the function has been tested but never with an unhappy friend because we've been trying to take good care of ours

***knux400*** · 10-02-2022, 11:08 PM

[GENTLE_STAR]: abstct typs can do sum crazy stf, esp if thy hve a mdfier
[GENTLE_STAR]: ive seen one xplode b4
[GENTLE_STAR]: noones playng jks on u void, pls try and clm dwn

~~Wilds~~ · 10-02-2022, 11:10 PM

[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] For the record, Void, I get it. This is weird shit and it sounds like you weren't expectin to have any degree of real responsibility here, I'd be pissed too
[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] I think your way of testing has value if you're willin to put the work into makin sure your Friend is okay after, but that's just my thoughts as someone lookin at these as more like little living things than not.
[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Gentle_Star, your typing's all good, dw

Lilium Mortem · 10-02-2022, 11:11 PM

[VOID_COWBOY]: You know what? fuck this.
[VOID_COWBOY]: If I'm getting dogpiled for making a reasonable asumtion about the nature of life
[VOID_COWBOY]: then whatever. fuck this weird ass rp bullshit, I'm out
(Void's status is set to offline)

~~Wilds~~ · 10-02-2022, 11:13 PM

[CRUCIAL_ESCAPE] Oof

***knux400*** · 10-02-2022, 11:17 PM

[GENTLE_STAR]: wow
[GENTLE_STAR]: that was unpleasant
[GENTLE_STAR]: you okay digital? critter?

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