I love the bit where he gets the best guy in the office to play through the game with cheats and grabs the image data from the sessions in order to reconstruct the maps.
Perhaps because I've always been an, er, "dedicated" gamer, there's something about a solution involving playing the game which is really satisfying.
while this special occasion may be a different thing, doing anything on the job that's fun otherwise may poison it forever.
think of playing wow ... for gold farming.
or being a game tester? nightmare of a job.
another example: texas holdem. it may be fun playing with friends in your spare time, but i'm pretty sure it's a brain wreckingly monotonous chore if you have to do it for hours, 4 games open simultaneously at any time. not much fun in that.
assembly line working at foxcon suddenly sounds like a really diversified job.
>another example: texas holdem. it may be fun playing with friends in your spare time, but i'm pretty sure it's a brain wreckingly monotonous chore if you have to do it for hours, 4 games open simultaneously at any time. not much fun in that.
No, but writing the bot to do it for you would be fun.
Poker AI that can beat the average human you will find online is pretty trivial to write. Running profitable poker bots involves spending 90% of your time touching up your scraping algorithms to cope with the ever changing DOM of the casino sites, which shifts dynamically to prevent exactly this kind of thing.
With the level of programming skills required you can earn way more money with a legitimate job.
In this case I liked the fact that it was a one off thing, the guy had to play through the game a few times so they could get the data out of it.
Like if someone needs to take an acoustical reading from a room and you're the guy in the office who plays cello so get asked to work through a few tunes while your colleagues take readings.
Or if you're the office cycling nut, and get called on to fill in when the courier company makes a mistake but your team still has to get those plans to company B across town before 5pm.
Okay, I'm really stretching it. I know. Though that last one really did happen to me when I was 14 on work experience at an architects' firm, and I felt like a HERO. (Though in retrospect perhaps they were just concocting a story to give me a job to do...)
Perhaps because I've always been an, er, "dedicated" gamer, there's something about a solution involving playing the game which is really satisfying.