Sorry, why is it a stimulator and not a simulator?
Because it’s more hilarious dontyouknow. :|
If that’s an indicator of the level of ‘humour’ in this game, I already know not to buy it.
I read the article just to confirm this wasn’t a The Onion article. I understand there are games that simulate work like farming and even powerwashing. Even though I don’t play those, I can mildly see the appeal as you’re creating something (farming) or making something better than it was before (powerwashing). However, I see zero appeal for a game that simulates gig work like ridesharing. Can someone explain it to me, or have I reach a pivotal “too old” moment in my life?
there’s a certain poetry to someone making an uncritical game about a technology meant to cheat drivers out of a fair wage using a technology meant to cheat other disciplines out of a fair wage. the venn diagram of people who would make a game about this and make a game with AI is probably just a circle
Crazy Taxi.
Crazy Taxi (and Simpsons: Road Rage") were largely about driving poorly, crashing into things, and performing automobile jumps that would be considered suicidal if done for real. It was a fantasy driving game with the taxi business as the thinnest excuse to be driving. Unless I’ve drastically mistaken what Rideshare Simulator is, I don’t think Crazy Taxi example is applicable.
Fifteen years before Crazy Taxi, we had Space Taxi for the Commodore 64:
I’d say Space Taxi and Crazy Taxi had equal amounts of relevance to the taxi industry in the sense that they were an excuse to fly/drive in fantasy settings instead of an actual business simulator.
Glad I blocked them on Steam. The odds of me actually buying one of their games anyway was fairly low until a couple of days ago. Now it’s zero.
Weird AI disclosure:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2366590/Rideshare_Stimulator/
AI Generated Content Disclosure:
The main Campaign story, characters, and dialogue are written by a team of human writers.Why would you put in things that specifically are not AI in an AI disclosure?
Is that normal?I would give this kind-of-opposite answer, if otherwise my answer would be far, far longer.
If someone asks which ice cream flavours you like and you can just say “Raspberry I don’t like, that’s it”, no need to go through hundreds of options.
The questionnaire first asks you if AI was used yes/no, and if you say yes it then asks you to describe in detail how and for what, and for many devs the first thing to do is to try to highlight all the important parts that it wasn’t.
Weird Al disclosure:
You have convinced me. 👍
This would make any game immediately 3 points better on the scale of 10.
They’ve said they’re working on an “infinite” slop mode where the conversations are AI-generated.
They used to have no AI disclosure, and people had to learn about them using AI through that disgruntled writer’s story.
So now given the very mature CEO answer, I’m assuming they’re butthurt that some people want to know about their AI use, and they’re using the disclosure to claim that part of their game is not AI instead.
Also your comment made me briefly wonder why someone got Weird Al’s comment on the subject, and it was a bit funny.
Yes Weird Al Yankovic is now commenting on AI in computer games? 🤣
I hate stupid fonts where different letters look identical, but I can’t seem to get rid of them!? 😡That CEO seems very shady IMO, I read his response previously, and it was just so obviously off. I think he is genuinely a sociopath with an inability to interact with people in a normal way, because he simply can’t tell the difference.
I also notice you call him “very mature”, so I think you may have had a similar vibe.
