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[TheBronzePickle]

One interesting idea I've had is that of a game where levelling was infinite. It would take work to prevent griefers from fucking up the universe, but the basic premise is that people level whatever skills they work on with a parabolic ability to level and a certain small amount of decay to simulate the idea that a person can only become so strong on their won.. After reaching the balance point between the ability to level and the decay, the person has to complete a sort of milestone (presumably requiring the aid of another player or several in order to prevent griefers from abusing the system) to reset the parabola at the level they've reached so they can continue levelling. Those who have reached a high-enough level could theoretically become the in-game gods, with strength-based gods being so physically powerful they can manipulate and move the world itself, and magic-types being able to cast extremely powerful buffs in the form of blessings. The spells would be player-generated, with players being given a certain amount of points based on level to manipulate the spells, as well as them being able to learn certain ways to increase the effectiveness of the spell at a cost (like learning how to make a fireball spell more powerful by using a small amount of your own physical strength or bodily integrity.) It would probably be a fairly popular MMO.

[hemmingjay]

a pvp game where each player wagers a random file from their computer. The winner gets a copy of a random file, let's say up to 5MB. Competition would be keen given the potential loss/embarassment/unknown.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

So much porn, viruses and spyware.

[Draco18s]

a pvp game where each player wagers a random file from their computer. The winner gets a copy of a random file, let's say up to 5MB. Competition would be keen given the potential loss/embarassment/unknown.

Have you ever played Lose/Lose?

[Matz05]

Don't. I've heard of that.


...Sounds like an interesting way to decomission an old computer though. Shoot poor defenceless aliens files until the computer crashes...

[Kay12]

a pvp game where each player wagers a random file from their computer. The winner gets a copy of a random file, let's say up to 5MB. Competition would be keen given the potential loss/embarassment/unknown.

Have you ever played Lose/Lose?

That's not such a biggie, assuming the game doesn't use overwriting the files should be easy to recover. But embarrasment from having one's porn spread? Can't unsee.

[Draco18s]

a pvp game where each player wagers a random file from their computer. The winner gets a copy of a random file, let's say up to 5MB. Competition would be keen given the potential loss/embarassment/unknown.

Have you ever played Lose/Lose?

That's not such a biggie, assuming the game doesn't use overwriting the files should be easy to recover. But embarrasment from having one's porn spread? Can't unsee.

Uh, Lose/Lose can delete critical system files and eventually cause the OS to crash.

As for porn.  Not really.  So I look at hermaphroditic anthropomorphic birds,¹ what's so embarrassing about that?

¹Not really, but I've seen some!

[Kay12]

a pvp game where each player wagers a random file from their computer. The winner gets a copy of a random file, let's say up to 5MB. Competition would be keen given the potential loss/embarassment/unknown.

Have you ever played Lose/Lose?

That's not such a biggie, assuming the game doesn't use overwriting the files should be easy to recover. But embarrasment from having one's porn spread? Can't unsee.

Uh, Lose/Lose can delete critical system files and eventually cause the OS to crash.

Heh heh, no biggie, if you know your way around... I assume you've never accidentally the whole system?

[hemmingjay]

thus why I specified "a copy of a random file". It's nice to have a trophy from each conquest. I also thought that after accepting each match and while it is loading, there would be a screen that shows the name of the file each person is wagering. I imagine there are some files that people might be more desperate to keep private and therefore will play harder that round.

[TheBronzePickle]

I know people who (at least, before the FBI found them) would have lost a lot more than dignity if certain files got transferred to another person. Of course, I doubt they would have played the game anyway, except maybe with each other.

It certainly would be an interesting game, though. Especially when someone stocked their hard drive to the brim with reaction-inducers like Goatse.

[Draco18s]

It certainly would be an interesting game, though. Especially when someone stocked their hard drive to the brim with reaction-inducers like Goatse.

Personally I'd play on a clean install of a virtual machine.  There's no random files other than system files, default programs, and the game itself.

[Kay12]

thus why I specified "a copy of a random file". It's nice to have a trophy from each conquest. I also thought that after accepting each match and while it is loading, there would be a screen that shows the name of the file each person is wagering. I imagine there are some files that people might be more desperate to keep private and therefore will play harder that round.

Another nice idea... a heuristic that approximates the "shame value" of files. This heuristic is then used to bias the random selection of files. Before each round, the player can either accept the file offered - or in the event the file is among the worst imaginable, he can choose a "?" option that is guaranteed to be a different file... chosen with even heavier heuristic bias.

[Draco18s]

Another nice idea... a heuristic that approximates the "shame value" of files. This heuristic is then used to bias the random selection of files. Before each round, the player can either accept the file offered - or in the event the file is among the worst imaginable, he can choose a "?" option that is guaranteed to be a different file... chosen with even heavier heuristic bias.

There's no way to calculate the "shame value" of a random file.

Hell, I have a text file on my computer that when opened in notepad (i.e. fixed width font) you get some nice porn (at least, what's doable with black and white ascii characters).  Unless the filename was something incriminating and not generic (I don't recall offhand, I think it's like "asciitest" or something) it's shame value would be really, really low.

Likewise I have a porn story written in German on my desktop right now (I keep meaning to run it through Google translator and see if I can at least read it, I have no idea if its even good, translation errors aside).  What's that file's shame value?

And that's not even taking into consideration that I might not care if my raunchy porn collection gets shared out to the internet at large.

[thatkid]

Chances are it's already shared with the internet at large

[Draco18s]

Chances are it's already shared with the internet at large

Considering that I got it off the internet?  Yes.
Incriminating evidence is only incriminating if the person who I'm playing with knows who I am.