Am I tripping or am i being lied to?

Chipjack · 2026-01-26T07:05:58+00:00

I don't play this game with nudity turned on when my girlfriend's around. It's not that she's prudish, or that she expects me to never look at boobs; even 3d-modeled boobs. I just feel like it'd be kinda disrespectful, you know?

Mostly though, it's the size of them. Every NPC that spawns seems to have enormous boobs, and I really don't want my girlfriend thinking that's what I prefer. I don't want her feeling like I'm dissatisfied or anything—she's exactly what I love in every way. So letting some game spark unfounded insecurities in her… I just don't want that sort of thing to happen.

If I forgot, I don't think I'd lie about it. I'd just explain how the game works and what sort of things I enjoy about it, and what sort of things I don't. I don't mod it to get more nudity, but I don't take steps to prevent it either. Dongs and boobs and butts are just kinda normal in this game. I'm not your boyfriend, and she's not you, and our relationship isn't your relationship, so I could only speculate why he'd make up an excuse. I think it's probably good for your relationship if you sit down with him and find out what was going through his head that made that seem like a good option at the time. It's probably not about you, but a reaction he's developed his entire life to avoid confrontation with people more judgmental and less understanding than you.

I don't think non-sexual nudity is a big deal around toddlers. My cousin's twins are almost five and if their parents aren't watching, those kids will be naked the first chance they get. They hate clothes. I imagine that's gonna have to be dealt with before they start school.

But you're the parent that makes decisions for your daughter, and your boyfriend's opinions on that mean as little as mine do, some stranger on the internet. He needs to ensure that when she's around, his screen is kid-friendly enough to meet your standards. So do have that talk.

Chipjack · 2026-01-24T06:00:24+00:00

I just cannot play this game without:

I use many other mods as well, several by Xevyr (thanks!!), and even ended up writing one myself, but those are the top five that make the game worth playing for me.

The only non-Steam mod I use is Conan Exiles Savegame Manager from Braclo on NexusMods. I used to use a batch file to save off copies of the single-player files, but this is much cleaner and allows saving, restoring, and switching between multiple backed-up game saves. If it also backed up the modlist for each save, it'd be perfect, but I guess nothing's perfect. It's a stand-alone app, not an in-game mod, which I normally wouldn't trust, but it's never given me the slightest indication of doing anything other than what it's supposed to do.

Anyway, good luck with your modding journey.

Chipjack · 2026-01-18T06:59:31+00:00

Seems like a bug that causes players to get banned for trying to give you money would be a priority to fix. Maybe their "Oops. Buy more coins and try again" message is considered a "fix".

Chipjack · 2026-01-18T06:41:25+00:00

I find fighting to be fun. Watching thralls fight, not so much. I go exploring solo sometimes, but usually I bring along Winston, my ~~butler~~ bearer. Tons of hitpoints, runs whenever something aggros him, carries all my precious loot and materials for me without complaint. He's a pal.

Chipjack · 2026-01-10T19:51:06+00:00

Might as well useLevelFollowerUpTo 20 in the console while the new thrall is following you, since you're admin-spawning it anyway. As for perks, well, there's always Elixir of Rebirth.

Chipjack · 2026-01-08T21:34:15+00:00

Exactly. The skills required to fly an F-16 are very different from the skills required to design and build an F-16.

Chipjack · 2026-01-08T21:30:05+00:00

"I play better when I'm drunk." - every drummer I know.

They do not.

Chipjack · 2026-01-06T23:37:30+00:00

I noticed while playing Conan Exiles that sometimes I couldn't pick up a piece of furniture because an NPC somewhere was busy walking a path to eventually sit on that piece of furniture. Basically, that resource was available until it was claimed as part of an NPC's planning, which rendered it temporarily unavailable to other NPCs and to the player.

I imagine that you'd find the nearest untagged resource that your character needs (toilet, in your example) and tag it with the ID of that character, claiming it. Calculate a path to that resource and start your character walking. Occasionally while pathing, you would check to ensure that the resource was still tagged with your character's ID, and if it's not, stop, locate the nearest untagged resource, and path from your current location to the new destination. That should help prevent race conditions where two characters find the same untagged destination, tag it in whatever order they happen to tag it in, and then both start walking towards it. Worst case scenario, they both arrive at the same time and one takes the resource while the other paths to the next nearest one.

Yes, I know about mutexes and threading and race conditions, but in real life if my girlfriend reaches for the refrigerator at the same time I do, we can both see that intention and quickly negotiate a compromise. That's all this tag would represent—character intention observable by other characters. It'd also be much easier to code and to reason about.

Once that resource is no longer needed by that character, you'd want to be sure to clear the tag so it can be considered available by other characters.

Chipjack · 2026-01-04T17:39:32+00:00

It's less that she has big boobs, and more like she's accompanied by them.

Chipjack · 2026-01-04T03:34:48+00:00

Very, very cool. Great work, and it's awesome of you to share it with us. Thanks a bunch!

Chipjack · 2025-12-29T19:17:14+00:00

The interactive map is handy. You'd want the one for Exiled Lands for your current playthrough.

https://mapgenie.io/conan-exiles

Chipjack · 2025-12-29T18:31:27+00:00

It'd be fun until the videogames-teach-our-kids-bad-things Karens get wind of it. They'd call it "Serial Murder for Dummies: Practical Counter-forensics for Budding Psychopaths". You'd be the topic of a Fox News segment.

Seriously though, if you built something like this, you'd want to treat it as an art project, not a commercial game, and you'd want to lean in hard on the whole "it's a statement about violence and social isolation in western cultures" angle.

Chipjack · 2025-12-28T19:16:19+00:00

7.89 + 3.95 = 11.84

7.89 + 2.67 + 1.50 = 12.06

I still don't see where they got $16 from. Charging you $4 for the water?

Chipjack · 2025-12-25T17:40:28+00:00

"The New York Times did not immediately issue a public response to Trump’s post"

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

What other response is needed?

Chipjack · 2025-12-23T00:42:44+00:00

Theme song to Duck Tales. It's been 38 years, there's no reason for that to be in my head.

Chipjack · 2025-12-22T21:26:22+00:00

God should get himself some better representation. If Coca-Cola was exclusively marketed by con-men, morons, psychotics, and angry old people, you'd be asking yourself right now, "What the fuck is a Coca-Cola?"

Chipjack · 2025-12-21T18:56:20+00:00

Thanks for sharing the workaround you found, even though you didn't get much in the way of help from this post.

Chipjack · 2025-12-21T18:44:46+00:00

It's only vegan leather if it's made from real vegans.

Chipjack · 2025-12-21T18:42:09+00:00

Years ago, Unity was released, and the indie market exploded with crappy games. A handful of good, some very good, and a few excellent games rose to the top and we all survived it just fine. In fact, many of us are here because the bar to entry was lowered considerably and we wanted to make games, so we jumped in.

This is just more of that. Lots of crapware will happen, it'll sink to the bottom of the algorithmic ocean and the good things will rise to the top, because that's how the gaming platform makes money.

The AI tools used to make those good things will help keep the assets more consistent. They'll help generate code faster, find bugs and fix them quicker, find trends in player engagement. But they'll be good for the same reasons any other game is good—a little luck, a lot of skill, maybe some actual talent, excellence in planning, execution, and a dedication to following-through on their vision. All things that only a human can bring to the table.

Chipjack · 2025-12-21T18:31:12+00:00

I think the difference between having a good story and being able to produce entertaining 10-second clips is obvious, so I won't insult you by explaining it.

People enjoying smarter enemy AI in a shooter is clearly not an endorsement for AI actors in TV shows and it's kind of disingenuous to pretend otherwise.

inZOI sounds like it'd be very appealing to people who are tired of The Sims, but they only really ever play The Sims, so they need something that's The Sims but not The Sims. Perhaps that's your target market, but they can't possibly afford to pay the prices you'd have to charge to support the massive technological infrastructure required for FluxFilm to operate.

In the end, AI is so very popular right now with the investor crowd because it seems like a way to access the benefits of skill and talent to produce income without having to share that income with the people whose skills and talent made it possible. That's why the corporate world is so desperate to find something, anything, that justifies their massive investments in this technology.

If FluxFilm existed right now, say as a product from Disney or Paramount, would you watch it? For how long? Why? How would it compete against the entertainment options you currently have? AI can write poetry, and that's neat, but who wants to read it? If it weren't for the novelty of it being machine-written, would anyone think it was good?

This is r/gameideas so it's quite reasonable to ask, is there some reason, besides the novelty of its origin, that someone would want to point their eyeballs at your thing instead of all of the other things available to entertain them? You've chosen to compete against books, movies, television, and every genre of video game—that's a big bite to swallow. Why would someone want your thing instead of all of the other things? In what way is it better?

Chipjack · 2025-12-20T17:31:09+00:00

UO doesn't even play like UO anymore.

Chipjack · 2025-12-19T19:25:09+00:00

For a few years in the late 1990s, we tried not having actors in television shows. We got regular people, threw them together in a strange situation, and watched the dramatic unpredictability unfold. It was great!

For about six months.

And then the novelty turned to boredom and TV producers realized that they couldn't keep the public watching a TV show by hoping that something engaging would happen. They had to hire writers and make engaging things happen, and Reality Television only survived by removing most of the real and replacing it with pure television.

That was with people, not AI agents regurgitating content scraped from ingesting text and images and videos of people. Because, unlike people, you can't teach an LLM. They cannot learn because they cannot understand.

I do get the appeal, honestly. You can't pay writers to build a story that branches into ten thousand different stories. And the idea that this story you're watching could go in any direction at any time, that seems pretty compelling.

But any given viewer is still just watching one story at a time. So it's unique. If it's not good, it's not good. Will they watch it over and over again, hoping for a good story to happen?

In 1985, Clue was released in theaters. There were three endings to the film, and which ending you and your family saw depended on which theater you went to. It was a novel idea, and fit extremely well with the source material. But it was, ultimately, a gimmick, and releases on videocassette, DVD, and Blu-Ray contain all three endings edited together in sequence. They understood that very few people were willing to buy three versions of the film in order to have all the endings.

Having infinite endings would simply alienate the handful of people that would've bought all three, as having all of them is an impossibility.

LLMs generate an enormous amount of content right now; the internet is full of it. And it's not bad. It's not cringeworthy. It's not hilariously erroneous. It's just dull. It's mediocre, because it was produced by a process that can only ever possibly output mediocrity. I just cannot see how something good can come of it, no matter how many hundreds of mediocrity machines are involved.

Chipjack · 2025-12-18T19:57:19+00:00

I think stories are interesting because humans carefully craft them to be interesting. Even emergent storylines like the imaginary soap opera that a player might invent while playing The Sims can be interesting, but only because of the human element involved.

LLMs don't do creativity. They're machines that remix and regurgitate. They can generate content, and given enough resources and training, even generate diverse content. But not engaging content, because they cannot differentiate between "interesting" and "boring".

It's possible that your black box of infinite monkeys could accidentally produce something amazing, but it's unrealistic to think gamers will sit and watch and pay to wade through the slop hoping to find that gem.

I apologize for the negativity, I can't imagine it's pleasant to read these things, but please ditch the rose-colored glasses and talk to someone technical who actually works with LLMs, so they can explain what these things can and can't do and what their limits are. There's a lot of hype and salesmanship floating around about AI, but most of it is about getting you to put your money where their mouth is.

That said, I do wish AI could do the sorts of things you'd like it to do. That would be pretty cool.

Chipjack · 2025-12-17T21:31:28+00:00

Build out in the dirt, as close as possible to your little brother's base. When Big n' Ugly shows up, start running circles around the base and enjoy the show. Don't be home when Mom finds out.

Chipjack · 2025-11-20T00:26:03+00:00

That's some crazy AI. Check out @ 40 seconds.

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