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by add-sub-mul-div
777 days ago
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So all competitive action games (for example) should go away and be replaced by competitive coding or scripting of action-game-playing bots? I'm hearing that cheating is a social issue and we're dumb for using technology to address it. But the social need to compete, here's a whole masturbatory fantasy of how coding is the last battlefield we'll ever need for that. The cunning and slandered cheaters have shown us a better way. Let's rewrite the whole activity of gaming so that people who are bad at aiming guns but do know how to install a script can get a trophy. |
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I believe that games that are purely competition of reflexes are inherently unfair. Bots are merely exposing this unfairness because they can reliably beat all kind of animals, but it exists in humans as well.
But here’s the thing - I don’t understand cheating in this kind of games (besides people being willingly toxic). It’s no fun at all, you just win and that’s it. There is zero competition. So, yea, you’re right it doesn’t make sense to give bot copilots in such games. Their time will come to an end when humans will learn to enhance their reflexes, until they they’ll be probably the last kind of games to keep the “no bots” flame alive.
Please notice a difference between toxic people who want to trump everyone, and normal people who want to improve their lives by using technology because they have skills for that (money is a tricky thing - I need to think about it more). Today they’re all pushed into the same ostracized group, called “cheaters”.
> Let’s rewrite the whole activity of gaming
Yes - why not rewrite? Humanity had rewritten various principles quite a number of times, and continues to do so. The time for games will come soon (not exactly yet, but it’s rapidly approaching and we can see the first signs).
A bot is just a machine (we don’t have GAI and it’s still an unanswered question if we will anytime soon). If the game is truly complex in a good way (LoL surely is not too bad in this regard) - it won’t auto-win it for a human, it will merely remove the routine and grind, exposing the true mechanics, exposing the ultimate meta.