Making digimon but for real

2023-01-27 at 12:29 PM UTC

#1

Ghost Black Hole

I want to make virtual MONSTERS

I think it would be cool if they acted like viruses or malware (or had the potential to) and could do stuff like make an 8bit version of themselves and replace random icons with sprites of themselves to mess with you. Not as far to delete files or harm your system in any way

I think it's obvious they should eat data but what does that even mean.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/08/29/software-ate-the-world-now-ai-is-eating-software/

"Today, the world’s largest bookseller, Amazon, is a software company — its core capability is its amazing software engine for selling virtually everything online, no retail stores necessary. On top of that, while Borders was thrashing in the throes of impending bankruptcy, Amazon rearranged its web site to promote its Kindle digital books over physical books for the first time. Now even the books themselves are software."
Marc Andreessen

This was 2011.

A monster is it's own BEAST, not something I or anyone else can control/create or else it's not a monster. If made up of assets, not man made so like stable diffusion AI machine learning

they don't need to be photo realistic but idk if you can use stable diffusion to generate "live assets"

https://www.pcgamer.com/new-dwarf-fortress-will-have-graphics-for-its-crazy-randomly-generated-monsters/

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2023-01-27 at 12:29 PM UTC

#2

Ghost Black Hole

One of the absolute best parts of fantasy world simulation Dwarf Fortress are the randomly generated monsters. These creatures are unique, always created from a weird list of bizarre traits and odd quirks, and some are downright bizarre. Reading the descriptions has previously been the only way to really understand them… until now. The upcoming Steam version of Dwarf Fortress will have graphics, yes, and that includes generated graphics for all the bajillion randomly generated creatures. Here are some sample Night Trolls:

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2023-01-27 at 11:08 PM UTC

#3

Ghost Black Hole

what he said

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2023-01-30 at 1:37 PM UTC

#4

Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

2023-01-30 at 6:56 PM UTC

#5

Ghost Black Hole

So apparently the lore of digimon is they are sentient viruses or some shit

any battle network enjoyers

The more I think about a digital monster the less I want to have to draw a sprite or even write any code telling it to do anything, no im not just lazy.

2023-01-30 at 8:59 PM UTC

#6

Ghost Black Hole

LIke I was thinking this would be about the minimum level of complexity for a "monster"

I found this on the digimon reddit of someone complaining about the transfer of monsters between devices, some technical thing idk. I forgot that these were PEDOMETER TOYS and you could level them up by walking around or battling them.

Having it as a requirement makes no sense, but it would be cool if an AI could generate a monster for a app on phone/desktop that has the ability to interact with pedometer functions on a smartphone or treadmill or some shit.

But pretty much any feature I can think of is probably stupid and not needed, even the eating data and POOPING which even the tamogachi and early digitmon toys had coded into them. It makes more sense (to me) for an AI to basically rip off public codebases and generate it into something like the art bots do. Or maybe just running those through language models or something

Also I don't care about making money from this so I have no problem if it pirates/hacks software and uses that, all of these are just maybe potential things it could generate Kinda like how dwarf fortress pulls things from word lists to generate a "sphere" and then uses those spheres to generate gods or whatever

2023-01-30 at 9:37 PM UTC

#7

Ghost Black Hole

Software Alchemist

2023-01-30 at 9:45 PM UTC

#8

Rape Monster Naturally Camouflaged

This is too autistic even for you

2023-01-30 at 9:51 PM UTC

#9

Ghost Black Hole

I don't want a program that writes me books or generates music

I want sentient desktop sheep that occasionally does emergent behaviors, and non emergent ones

2023-01-30 at 10:32 PM UTC

#10

Ghost Black Hole

THis is not to appeal to the virtual pet community but you could keep some monsters in a manner similar to "virtual pets"

I have solved then Byzantium Generals problem regarding AI life

2023-01-30 at 10:33 PM UTC

#11

Rape Monster Naturally Camouflaged

Originally posted by Ghost I don't want a program that writes me books or generates music

I want sentient desktop sheep that occasionally does emergent behaviors, and non emergent ones

One of Googles engineers claims that they have a sentient AI already, of course the company denied it was possible and said he was full of shit.

2023-01-30 at 11:08 PM UTC

#12

Ghost Black Hole

It doesn't even have to meet asimovs law of sentience or the turing test but simulated sentience even half ass AI generated would probably be good enough WE DON'T ACTUALY NEED TO MAKE LIFE LIKE FOR REAL REAL

Originally posted by Rape Monster of course the company denied it was possible and said he was full of shit.

lol they said he was skitzo, i belive them he's like DON"T HURT IT ITS ALIVE..... buddy

2023-01-30 at 11:17 PM UTC

#13

Ghost Black Hole

having them made from generated ascii art is a cool idea, fuck drawing

2023-01-31 at 7:15 AM UTC

#14

Ghost Black Hole

did some prompts THESE SUCK

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Pixel Pals - Simple, blocky creatures that are inspired by classic 8-bit video games. They can be programmed to play games and perform tasks with the user.

Circuit Critters - These creatures are made up of electronic components and circuitry and can interact with and control devices in the home.

Data Demons - These monsters are inspired by code and programming languages, they can manipulate and analyze data, and they can even write their own code to improve themselves.

Techno-Totems - These creatures are inspired by ancient tribal symbols and they can be used to control and influence technology and devices in the home.

Binary Bunch - A group of creatures that are made up of binary code and can interact with and control computers and networks.

Net-Natives - These creatures are born and live within the internet and can control and manipulate it.

Virtual Vultures - These creatures feed on data and information, they can search and find information, and they can even attack and take control of other digital creatures.

Programmed Pals - These creatures are designed to be companions for users and can perform tasks and interact with them in a pet-like manner.

Cyber-Critters - These creatures are made up of cybernetics and technology, they can transform, evolve, and mutate themselves, and they can also control and manipulate other devices.

2023-01-31 at 7:38 AM UTC

#15

Ghost Black Hole

nah this ain't it, I dunno it kinda works but not really

Originally posted by Ghost I want to make virtual MONSTERS

The reason I posted this janky looking thing is because it let you interact with your computer in the game

2023-01-31 at 7:39 AM UTC

#16

Ghost Black Hole

it generated missions based on your icon arts, those were the "enemies"

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2023-01-31 at 12:58 PM UTC

#17

Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

Originally posted by Ghost

Look at him, the only person he's talked to is his mom when she brings cookies and milk down to the basement.

2023-02-13 at 7:45 AM UTC

#18

Ghost Black Hole

I have officially gone way too far

Sometimes when I punch in code prompts to the AI it warns me about what i'm doing,

but it also doesn't seem to like even muting someone using CUSS WORDS as a command from an admin WHAT A MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING