There’s a quick way to solve this. Just google “Fr’nj questline romance” and see if anyone else gets the same results when dealing with her. If they all mention her ‘meaty’ role, then there y’go.
Unless the quests are all unique to each player but the overall questline plot is still interwoven between players and npcs.
So the same results would come up… because each player herd about what happened to character X because… it is a global event that everyone experienced… at least the people that were THERE and ON.
NPC or PC is still indeterminate from the ‘meaty’ role.
Though they must have some pretty hardcore dynamical npc-interactions to make normal people question npcs vs pcs. Yay turing compliant npcs?
That seems to be the case. Hurricane probably has a big advertising campaign about some advanced automated scripting system that allows everyone to have their own questline within the larger plot or something.
“C’mon man, no one’s going to talk about YOUR NPC. Everyone knows that Hurricane randomizes the names of NPCs for everyone to maintain the illusion of uniqueness. Duh.”
“Actually, I think I remember your bot from the Beacon’s Hill raid. It did a good job, unlike mine which was just a mess of pathing errors. I swear I had to put in like four moderation tickets before Hurricane finally fixed it by “killing” him offscreen and giving me a new one.”
Apparently, you forget it’s considered a “Beta” Game. Googling it won’t help. Besides, that crusty old man who made it made damn sure to cover his tracks.
No, when the Tubers joined, that method was in beta.
Kingdoms of Arkerra is fully fledged with multiple expansions. They mention that it’s the world’s biggest MMO at one point. You don’t get that with a beta.
Warframe, 4-player Online Co-op with persistent world RPG elements, is still technically in Beta despite soft launches on home gaming consoles alongside their actively supported PC client, and an aggressive Freemium item/cosmetics shop. We live in an age of incremental software development and minimal viable products, or in short form… “the perpetual beta”.
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Interesting. Maybe we’ll get some real answers soon. I’m still not sure if these “players” actually have any influence on the “characters” they play, or if the “game” merely tricks them into believing they do.
Eh, I don’t really think we have enough info to say this, especially since this whole thing is, in part, a magical construct.
Could be the game somehow synchronizes character with player, so the character “coincidentally” makes all the decisions that the roleplaying player would make. It would start at character creation. The magic matches an already existing character in Arkerra(who would previously appear to be an NPC) with the input given when the player creates a character. Over time the character and player would gradually come to have identical worldviews, or quickly rationalize any discrepancies in the name of roleplaying(“It’s what my character would do, not what I would do.”).
Or the player made an account, then stopped playing and just left Fr’Nj to her own devices. The secret lives of orphaned MMORPG characters…. Why does that feel like a pitch for an Dreamworks animated movie?
Um, because it is a good pitch?…No seriously make that pitch Dorje, I don’t care if your script experience is ~0 just find a writer. Thems PROFITABLE brainstorms yer havin!
Since Daniel was online for the conversation with Iwatani, he was probably online a few minutes earlier, hanging out with Sundar, Frigg, and WAV, so it’s likely he’s heard that WAV looks exactly like long-lost guildie Payet Best, said to have been killed in-game.
Not sure if the sepia-world people have brought up Best yet, but if they ever do WAV’s existence is evidence that killing a character in the game doesn’t kill the real-life person, so Chrissie doesn’t have to worry about being responsible for anything worse than a character reroll with a cringe-worthy hairstyle.
Well, we already know that the game does more things than HR expected and even goes against his programming sometimes, so obviously there’s more to it than a mere computer game. Even if she is an NPC, that doesn’t make her a bot (that is, she doesn’t necessarily she follow the code someone wrote).
“None of this makes any sense . . . unless . . . logging into the game actually takes you through a trans-dimensional portal into another world created by arcane magical spells cast by the CEO of Hurricane Software who is now currently embedded in his own construct!”
There’s a quick way to solve this. Just google “Fr’nj questline romance” and see if anyone else gets the same results when dealing with her. If they all mention her ‘meaty’ role, then there y’go.
Unless the quests are all unique to each player but the overall questline plot is still interwoven between players and npcs.
So the same results would come up… because each player herd about what happened to character X because… it is a global event that everyone experienced… at least the people that were THERE and ON.
NPC or PC is still indeterminate from the ‘meaty’ role.
Though they must have some pretty hardcore dynamical npc-interactions to make normal people question npcs vs pcs. Yay turing compliant npcs?
That seems to be the case. Hurricane probably has a big advertising campaign about some advanced automated scripting system that allows everyone to have their own questline within the larger plot or something.
It sounds like something they would say, and it’s coherent with the way the players have been talking about their respective quest lines.
“C’mon man, no one’s going to talk about YOUR NPC. Everyone knows that Hurricane randomizes the names of NPCs for everyone to maintain the illusion of uniqueness. Duh.”
“Actually, I think I remember your bot from the Beacon’s Hill raid. It did a good job, unlike mine which was just a mess of pathing errors. I swear I had to put in like four moderation tickets before Hurricane finally fixed it by “killing” him offscreen and giving me a new one.”
No one seem to notice, or care that players have no control over their characters.
Apparently, you forget it’s considered a “Beta” Game. Googling it won’t help. Besides, that crusty old man who made it made damn sure to cover his tracks.
No, when the Tubers joined, that method was in beta.
Kingdoms of Arkerra is fully fledged with multiple expansions. They mention that it’s the world’s biggest MMO at one point. You don’t get that with a beta.
I don’t know… Microsoft manages to do it in the OS market on a regular basis…
There is just a BIT of a difference between those two things.
Warframe, 4-player Online Co-op with persistent world RPG elements, is still technically in Beta despite soft launches on home gaming consoles alongside their actively supported PC client, and an aggressive Freemium item/cosmetics shop. We live in an age of incremental software development and minimal viable products, or in short form… “the perpetual beta”.
Beta or not, it’s still pretty fun. Space ninjas. In Space!
Although, kinda grindy. My friends and I
despairinglyjokingly call it “Warfarm.”Yeah, but Warframe is amazing. And you have to hand it to Digital Extremes, they listen to the community and are pretty damn active
Why is Kaye looking at Chrissie? That’s not how webcams wor- oh.
Oh dear.
Oh… oh very dear. Yep, ok.
It’s all just another layer!
Before you know it we’ll discover there’s a black and white storyline which is the ‘ultimate’ reality.
Your censored username really fits into that theory.
*Gasp* No….
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Or take both, then shit gets real.
Heheheh… Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/566/
You know, on that note… coincidence? Or super-secret hidden truth?
I was going to say panel five makes no sense… but now it does. Horrible, horrible sense.
This is the big reveal for Xan (where he unmasks as being the player behind Fr’nj).
:D
Not
:D
Just because your girlfriend has bloated hp and multiple abilities/scripts doesn’t mean she’s not a bot.
It could just be that time of the arc.
She’s an Auto-Bot
You know, of all the weird nerd fantasies I ever had, having an Auto-bot as a girlfriend was never one of them.
Until now.
Interesting. Maybe we’ll get some real answers soon. I’m still not sure if these “players” actually have any influence on the “characters” they play, or if the “game” merely tricks them into believing they do.
It’s the latter. The only question at this point is how much.
Eh, I don’t really think we have enough info to say this, especially since this whole thing is, in part, a magical construct.
Could be the game somehow synchronizes character with player, so the character “coincidentally” makes all the decisions that the roleplaying player would make. It would start at character creation. The magic matches an already existing character in Arkerra(who would previously appear to be an NPC) with the input given when the player creates a character. Over time the character and player would gradually come to have identical worldviews, or quickly rationalize any discrepancies in the name of roleplaying(“It’s what my character would do, not what I would do.”).
By this token Fr’Nj is a PC whose player maybe just hasn’t created an account yet.
Or the player made an account, then stopped playing and just left Fr’Nj to her own devices. The secret lives of orphaned MMORPG characters…. Why does that feel like a pitch for an Dreamworks animated movie?
Um, because it is a good pitch?…No seriously make that pitch Dorje, I don’t care if your script experience is ~0 just find a writer. Thems PROFITABLE brainstorms yer havin!
Maybe because Pixar already made a movie with a similar concept. It was called Wreck It Ralph. *Animation studio burn!*
Except Pixar didn’t do Wreck It Ralph. Only Disney did it. So I fail. :/
Hmm, I guess Shanna and Xan don’t know yet that Bandit “killed” Byron….
Oooohh… That brings to mind an interesting question. What happens when Chrissie realizes she may have killed the player who plays Byron?
Since Daniel was online for the conversation with Iwatani, he was probably online a few minutes earlier, hanging out with Sundar, Frigg, and WAV, so it’s likely he’s heard that WAV looks exactly like long-lost guildie Payet Best, said to have been killed in-game.
Not sure if the sepia-world people have brought up Best yet, but if they ever do WAV’s existence is evidence that killing a character in the game doesn’t kill the real-life person, so Chrissie doesn’t have to worry about being responsible for anything worse than a character reroll with a cringe-worthy hairstyle.
So could Fr’nj be? The only person who pops to mind is Carol.
Or she’s actually a “bot” and the “bots” aren’t really “bots” at all.
But that would require the game to be powered by SOME SORT OF MAGIC!
(Insert unnecessary drama dun-dun-duuun)
I love how Kaye is looking up and to her right to Chrissie as if that will help her see someone standing behind the laptop.
Uhm… I don’t theeenk so. She’s looking off screen. With, like, last words on her mind, except she doesn’t know they are last words yet.
yeah, she might be looking down the barrel of a loaded handlebar mustache
The alt-text for this one is terrific.
Absolutely. I so had to laugh. ;)
“reading” this for 6 years?
Pffft.
The one who wrote the alt-text is selling himself short, methinks…
;)
Well, we already know that the game does more things than HR expected and even goes against his programming sometimes, so obviously there’s more to it than a mere computer game. Even if she is an NPC, that doesn’t make her a bot (that is, she doesn’t necessarily she follow the code someone wrote).
I mean “she doesn’t necessarily follow the code someone wrote.” Sorry about the extra “she”.
“None of this makes any sense . . . unless . . . logging into the game actually takes you through a trans-dimensional portal into another world created by arcane magical spells cast by the CEO of Hurricane Software who is now currently embedded in his own construct!”
“Now you’re thinking with Portals.”
“Look I’m sorry, but to be honest that idea is so insanely dumb it could only come to fruition in a webcomic or subpar anime desperate for a hook.”