@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-03-27 00:21 UTC
@regehr @lritter it's just like with anything, you start up building a religion to give you divine input to find a counterexample to the Goldbach Conjecture or whatever, but once the infrastructure exists and works you stop asking the Oracle questions like "what is the meaning of life" and start asking it questions like "is it sunny outside? I can't be bothered to pull back the curtains"
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@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-27 00:32
@regehr @lritter as an aside, the idea that the arcane (the concept) in Arcane (the show), rather than purely a mechanical facet of how that world works, is strongly implied to have agency and starts "acting out"/getting pissy when treated as a mere utility to be tapped on a whim, is IMO a genuinely inspired world building idea and a cool fix for this kind of thing
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@regehr@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 00:50
@rygorous @lritter the specific software testing usage seems to be from 1978