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xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

165 points by benley 2y ago

bell-cot 2y ago
DANGER: Nerdsniping Hazard Ahead. Do NOT click if you might be vulnerable to ...
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Rinzler89 2y ago
For anyone wondering, this is a go at "The Incredible Machine" game series that was popular 20-30 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine
- RGamma 2y ago
  Also, I enjoyed the similar Crazy Machines, that has more modern versions available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Machines
- OscarCunningham 2y ago
  Looks like the page was renamed to just 'Machine'. I don't know why that would be. Surely not a copyright issue?
  - em-bee 2y ago
    doesn't look like it to me. where do you see that?
    - OscarCunningham 2y ago
      Where the comic title usually is, avove the top 'Random' button. It just say 'Machine'.
      - em-bee 2y ago
        oh, i was looking somewhere completely different. to embarrassed to say where ;-)
em-bee 2y ago
more details can be found here: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2916:_Machine https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2916:_Machine
- araes 2y ago
  Appears to time release additional parts to use. Good Job trophy and cup as interactive objects, with rabbit and cat as decoration (although they do hide objects). Been interesting to see the technique development over the release. People discovering jammed pipes and item combinations with some pretty clear progression of ideas among designs. One halfpipe, and then a bunch of loopdy-loops. If Munroe, Goodhart, davean et. al. read this, one cool addition would be object hard points on other objects for attachments. Like a steering wheel with rotating repulsors. Fan speed adjustment would also be nice like the repulsor strength.
djmips 2y ago
This was writen in Rust?
nextaccountic 2y ago
Ok, so this uses https://rapier.rs/ https://rapier.rs/ which is very cool Rapier, alongside https://nalgebra.org/ https://nalgebra.org/ (which it uses underneath) has seriously good documentation and some advanced features like cross-platform determinism (something made hard by the way floating point differs between platforms)
yashg 2y ago
As usual, I am too dumb to understand this.
- fragmede 2y ago
  the balls go in and want to go out. top right there is a wrench icon. click that and gain access to some tools, with which you can guide the green and blue balls into their respective destinations. how fanciful the machine to guide the balls is up to you.
  - meta-level 2y ago
    You forgot to mention that each level is part of a colaboratively built machine

165 points by benley 2y ago

bell-cot 2y ago

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Rinzler89 2y ago

For anyone wondering, this is a go at "The Incredible Machine" game series that was popular 20-30 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine

RGamma 2y ago
Also, I enjoyed the similar Crazy Machines, that has more modern versions available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Machines
OscarCunningham 2y ago
Looks like the page was renamed to just 'Machine'. I don't know why that would be. Surely not a copyright issue?
- em-bee 2y ago
  doesn't look like it to me. where do you see that?
  - OscarCunningham 2y ago
    Where the comic title usually is, avove the top 'Random' button. It just say 'Machine'.
    - em-bee 2y ago
      oh, i was looking somewhere completely different. to embarrassed to say where ;-)

em-bee 2y ago

more details can be found here: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2916:_Machine https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2916:_Machine

araes 2y ago
Appears to time release additional parts to use. Good Job trophy and cup as interactive objects, with rabbit and cat as decoration (although they do hide objects). Been interesting to see the technique development over the release. People discovering jammed pipes and item combinations with some pretty clear progression of ideas among designs. One halfpipe, and then a bunch of loopdy-loops. If Munroe, Goodhart, davean et. al. read this, one cool addition would be object hard points on other objects for attachments. Like a steering wheel with rotating repulsors. Fan speed adjustment would also be nice like the repulsor strength.

djmips 2y ago

This was writen in Rust?

nextaccountic 2y ago

Ok, so this uses https://rapier.rs/ https://rapier.rs/ which is very cool Rapier, alongside https://nalgebra.org/ https://nalgebra.org/ (which it uses underneath) has seriously good documentation and some advanced features like cross-platform determinism (something made hard by the way floating point differs between platforms)

yashg 2y ago

As usual, I am too dumb to understand this.

fragmede 2y ago
the balls go in and want to go out. top right there is a wrench icon. click that and gain access to some tools, with which you can guide the green and blue balls into their respective destinations. how fanciful the machine to guide the balls is up to you.
- meta-level 2y ago
  You forgot to mention that each level is part of a colaboratively built machine