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From: sonix@schunix.dmc.com (Duane Morin)
Subject: Re: NPC brains
Message-ID: <1994Mar6.134446.22758@schunix.dmc.com>
Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, MA, USA
References: <1994Mar5.232226.17139@schunix.dmc.com> <grady.762921342@xcf.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 94 13:44:46 GMT
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In article <grady.762921342@xcf.berkeley.edu> grady@xcf.berkeley.edu writes:
>    You are in a large cave.  There is a troll here.  There is a toaster
>    and a rabbit here.
>
>    The troll comes over to you and says, "Me hungry."
>
>    Tell troll, "Toaster is food."
>
>    The troll thinks for a moment.  The troll grabs the toaster and eats it.
>    The troll spits out the toaster, yelling "bleah!".
>
>    The troll says, "Me hungry."
>
>    Tell troll, "Rabbit is food."
>
>    The troll thinks for a moment.  The troll says "No believe you" and
>    eats you.
>    [RESTART?]
>
>Unfortunately, I can't remember any more of my original thoughts, but
>perhaps this might trigger some discussion.  (Needless to say, I never
>actually implemented anything.)

Sounds good to me!  How come you never implemented anything?  Did you
run into a technological roadbloack, or just time/resource tradeoff?

>--
>	Steven
>"Did you know the phone company uses the bone marrow
>of Third World babies to make microchips?"

Duane


