Epic!! Quake 3 bots learn to live in peace and harmony

scamalert · 02-07-2013 02:56PM

Doesn't make any sense,16 bots and after 4 years 3 remaining :cool:
On a funny side it this was anything true id like to see them bots in game like minecraft building $hit together or simcity

Duggy747 · 02-07-2013 03:29PM

Did he upload the log files or did he just take a screenshot? I'd take anything from 4chan with a pinch of salt, especially when there's no other proof of it.

--Kaiser-- · 02-07-2013 03:44PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Did he upload the log files or did he just take a screenshot? I'd take anything from 4chan with a pinch of salt, especially when there's no other proof of it.

Valid point

Canis Lupus · 02-07-2013 03:51PM

Maybe it's explained in the pics that I didn't read but what system has an uptime of 4 years? No power outages, crashes etc. I find that unlikely at best.

Dyr · 02-07-2013 03:56PM

Motherf**king Campers :mad:

Nemeses · 02-07-2013 04:01PM

Bambi wrote: »

Motherf**king Campers :mad:

I like Tents.

Gone Drinking · 02-07-2013 04:07PM

Sounds like horse****

UCDVet · 02-07-2013 04:10PM

Sounds like b.s.

Kidchameleon · 02-07-2013 04:53PM

I just recompiled Quake 3 vanilla from the source there with a high delta value. I started a bot match on DM6 with 16 nightmare bots. After what equates to aboout 1 month of play the bots are visibly less agressive, after about two months they are just standing around. Pretty cool.

kraggy · 02-07-2013 05:01PM

The moral of this story is reminiscent of the point made by many people on the thread about the cop killing the Rottweiler.

All of the world's problems are because of us.

Gotham · 02-07-2013 05:07PM

You guys know this isint real right?
Look at the files in the folders, this means he was using win7 from 2009 to 2011 constantly.
(Also, who runs game servers on windows)
The bot file sizes dont make sense. Why are there 2, why do they max out at 256? Normal bots dont create files starting out at 256. None of this adds up.

IF anything in this story is true, then it sounds like the bots just ran out of memory and stop moving, and he lied about them attacking him.

sea_monkey · 02-07-2013 05:19PM

yeah what kinda servers does he have if they didnt even crash once?

CrazyRabbit · 02-07-2013 05:33PM

Nemeses wrote: »

What difficulty were the bots at?

"Pacifist" level obviously.

Seedy Arling · 02-07-2013 05:34PM

sea_monkey wrote: »

yeah what kinda servers does he have if they didnt even crash once?

Who cares lads? I want to believe the future self aware computers will be pacifists and all they'll want to do is smoke jazz fags with flowers up their holes.

02-07-2013 06:18PM

If anyone hasn't heard of "BEN Drowned" (the haunted Majora's Mask), then they should definitely check it out. Fake or not, it's an intriguing story.

On September 7th, 2010, 4chan[6] user Jadusable posted a thread about his experiences with a haunted Majora’s Mask cartridge for the N64. He explained that after receiving a suspicious looking Majora’s Mask cartridge from an old man, he went to his dorm-room to play it and noticed it had a save file named “BEN” on it. He decided to ignore it and created a new file, but during the course of the game characters would refer to him as “BEN” at various moments. Figuring it would help the problem, Jadusable deleted the “BEN” save file, but this caused characters to not refer to his name at all. He then attempted to perform the “4th day glitch”, a hack that allows players to get an entire extra day to the game, and was ported to the Majora boss battle at the end of the game. He noticed that text was being displayed incorrectly, and the music being played was a reversed version of the game’s “Song of Healing” before being ported back to Clock Town. At Clocktown he discovered that the textures were missing, the music was distorted and the town was empty of the normal characters. He began posting links to YouTube videos he claims to have recorded while playing.

Source: knowyourmemes

You can read the crepypasta article here, where you can also watch all the videoes here.

"You shouldn't have done that ..."

wexie · 02-07-2013 06:29PM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Maybe it's explained in the pics that I didn't read but what system has an uptime of 4 years? No power outages, crashes etc. I find that unlikely at best.

hmmm....I used to look after a Proliant 3000 that was never rebooted during the entire 3 years I worked for the company.

Wasn't a Windows system though

scamalert · 02-07-2013 06:38PM

can still someone explain this hoax to me 16 boots then only 3 left ? So what rest twelve decided f it i wont re spawn anymore or committed mass suicide.
As i read main goal of ai was to become best at killing,making ai smarter every time he got killed.Now this guy spun a story how bots managed to create peace treaty :pac:

Clandestine · 02-07-2013 06:43PM

"I've read over the Quake 3 source and bots are programmed to react to players given reaction time and accuracy constraints and traverse nodes around a map. They are not self learning, they do not aggregate information for use later. It's a cool story, but unfortunately, not real."

Sorry guys

02-07-2013 06:49PM

You're killing my dreams

A Primal Nut · 02-07-2013 10:03PM

Even if it was real, it would depend on how they were programmed. All the original story would tell us is that programmer forced the bots to learn to achieve balance (between number of kills and times being killed) which would allow them all to learn to achieve balance eventually rather than to kill more times than being killed.

Fr_Dougal · 02-07-2013 10:10PM

It's fake...but that doesn't really matter in AH.

Update: Alas. As we suspected (see our note at the end of the original story), it appears that this wonderful tale was too good to be true. We've been tipped that the original post was actually a joke, and that it was subsequently taken too seriously by the Internet - and, well, us. Apologies for those who found hope in the tale, but we still feel there may be a lesson in it for humanity, somewhere. Put down the guns, Quake 3 aliens, robots and killing machines. All you need is love - and a taste for viral internet humour.

Nemeses · 02-07-2013 10:12PM

Wished our bots in our unreal Tournament Server did the same, All they do is camp -.-

SirLemonhead · 02-07-2013 11:43PM

The boss has spoken:

"John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack 14m

Stock Quake 3 bots don't use neural networks, folks.
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Poor Uncle Tom · 03-07-2013 09:02AM

allibastor wrote: »

It is true though, its funny how the new insertion of the human element to the game made ALL the machine turn on him to wipe him out. Terminator anyone.

It is funny though, if you were to analyse human behavior and activitiy as an organism we would be a deadly virus. we multiply and consume and do not really give anything back to nature.

I hope machines never figure this out.

Not true,

look at all the cool cars, bikes, boats and planes which will be left for the cockroaches when the last humans finally check out.......:D

returnNull · 03-07-2013 09:10AM

allibastor wrote: »

I hope machines never figure this out.

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CruelCoin · 03-07-2013 09:15AM

Wow, just wow.

Maysa07 · 03-07-2013 10:21AM

I hope there's no skynet out there. :pac:

snausages · 03-07-2013 03:12PM

This reminds me of when the original Japanese version of Pokemon reportedly caused kids to go crazy and kill each other because of the Lavender town theme.

Which you can listen to here.

Rabies · 03-07-2013 06:38PM

Nemeses wrote: »

Wished our bots in our unreal Tournament Server did the same, All they do is camp -.-

Same as human players in most online FPS games unfortunately.
Fire rockets, flash bangs and grenades randomly around the map. Usually pisses them off enough that they run around and get nailed.

03-07-2013 08:58PM

snausages wrote: »

This reminds me of when the original Japanese version of Pokemon reportedly caused kids to go crazy and kill each other because of the Lavender town theme.

Which you can listen to here.

Jesus christ 5 seconds of that and I'd be killing too

Epic!! Quake 3 bots learn to live in peace and harmony

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