NPR covers One Hour On Life

jasonrohrer · 2018-08-15 00:44:06

On the show To the Best of Our Knowledge

You can listen to the interview by pressing the blue Listen button on this page:

https://www.ttbook.org/interview/you-ar … low-player

Here's a little Let's Play that they made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05FzuMP … e=youtu.be

Uncle Gus · 2018-08-15 01:38:47

Cute

SweetMamaSun · 2018-08-15 02:26:39

Everything is doomed? lol Dude! Good interview.

Turnipseed · 2018-08-15 02:57:42

Well they somehow circumvented the tutorial lol

carbon · 2018-08-15 04:10:24

After watching the Let's Play, I really want to see someone with absolutely no knowledge of the game skip the tutorial, avoid the tech tree, the "/" command, and play relying only on other players directions to see how well they can learn the game.

Maybe I'll pay someone to play it for 2 hours a day for a whole week and record it...

startafight · 2018-08-15 04:12:59

cool! their lets play drove me crazy. it was like watching sports!

annjust · 2018-08-15 05:35:22

carbon wrote:

After watching the Let's Play, I really want to see someone with absolutely no knowledge of the game skip the tutorial, avoid the tech tree, the "/" command, and play relying only on other players directions to see how well they can learn the game.
Maybe I'll pay someone to play it for 2 hours a day for a whole week and record it...

Cool idea, I will subcribe your video XD

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Uncle Gus · 2018-08-15 06:00:29

It was a bit painful to watch them struggling, but it was also a nice reminder of the pure and innocent early days of playing this game. It's nice to watch unruined players enjoy the game.

Commodore · 2018-08-15 09:51:09

carbon wrote:

After watching the Let's Play, I really want to see someone with absolutely no knowledge of the game skip the tutorial, avoid the tech tree, the "/" command, and play relying only on other players directions to see how well they can learn the game.
Maybe I'll pay someone to play it for 2 hours a day for a whole week and record it...

That's how I started back when it first released, and I assume most people were the same. I learned everything by my parents teaching me, and enjoyed it so much that to this day, with every new update, I don't go on wikis and rely on being taught or figuring out myself.

carbon · 2018-08-15 14:30:38

Commodore wrote:

That's how I started back when it first released, and I assume most people were the same. I learned everything by my parents teaching me, and enjoyed it so much that to this day, with every new update, I don't go on wikis and rely on being taught or figuring out myself.

Oh yeah, that's right... The tutorial and the search function are a relatively new addition to the game.

LaughAtlantis · 2018-08-15 15:45:38

Uncle Gus wrote:

It was a bit painful to watch them struggling, but it was also a nice reminder of the pure and innocent early days of playing this game. It's nice to watch unruined players enjoy the game.

This was my experience too. I yelled at the screen a lot - my partner kept saying, "It's not interactive!" and I explained my frustration.

Me: "It says 'drank breast milk' right at the bottom of the screen! They aren't observing anything. They need to stop MOVING!"
Partner: "Okay, yeah, but you lived for thousands of years in that game. What were your first lives like?"
Me: "... Shit."

Neo · 2018-08-16 02:23:11

I let babies like that die most of the time. I cringed everytime they ran off. But to be fair they got some crap camps. Would've been funny to see there reaction to a big city.

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Auner · 2018-08-16 03:00:25

I remember in it's first week of launch, I only saw a backpack once for about 3 lives and wondered what it was.

sanchez · 2018-08-16 03:58:57

carbon wrote:

After watching the Let's Play, I really want to see someone with absolutely no knowledge of the game skip the tutorial, avoid the tech tree, the "/" command, and play relying only on other players directions to see how well they can learn the game.
Maybe I'll pay someone to play it for 2 hours a day for a whole week and record it...

That's how i did that shi

jord1990 · 2018-08-16 12:07:51

Auner wrote:

I remember in it's first week of launch, I only saw a backpack once for about 3 lives and wondered what it was.

Ah the mystery of the backpacks and clothing. you would finally find someone that had it, but then when you asked how to make it theyd be like I dont know dude I just found it.

Seeing the first floors and carts was also magical and carts were an even bigger mystery

The_Llamacorn · 2018-08-16 12:11:20

I can't stand watching someone play a game badly that I know how to play xD

Turnipseed · 2018-09-24 21:32:44

Rise from the dead!

Catfive · 2018-09-24 22:30:50

Horrible let's play, fantastic interview!

Morti · 2019-07-18 03:22:19

Things are not doomed, Jason.
At least, not that we are sure of.

We have the potential to move the Earth.
Towards the Sun, if the core cools too soon, and away, if the sun expands too fast.
Just one space shuttle, weighs 165,000 pounds.
The Earth, weighs 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds.
If we were to double the number of space shuttle's worth of mass, we sent out into space, every ten years, how long do you think it would be before the entire mass of the Earth, were out there in space?
Let's, for simplicity's sake, even round that number down. Let's say we start by sending 100,000 pounds out into space.
10 years later, 200,000. Doesn't seem unreasonable does it?
Let's carry on doubling, every 10 years.
And you tell me, at what point you think we shouldn't double anymore, otherwise, I'll just keep going, and we'll see how long it takes before we've sent the entire Earth, out into space.

Yr Double Total
10 100000 0+100000= 100000
20 200000 200000+100000= 300000
30 400000 400000+300000= 700000
40 800000 800000+700000= 1500000
50 1600000 1600000+1500000= 3100000
Starting to see a pattern here...
60 3200000 3200000+3100000= 6300000
70 6400000 6400000+6300000= 12700000
80 12800000 12800000+12700000= 25500000
90 25600000 25600000+25500000= 51100000
100 51200000 51200000+51100000= 102300000
You know, I'm kinda lazy, let's look for a power of 2 table...
We're shootin for half the weight of the Earth in pounds, so...
13170000000000000000000000/2 so, 6.585e+24

2^0 1
2^1 2
2^2 4
2^3 8
2^4 16
2^5 32
2^6 64
2^7 128
2^8 256
2^9 512
2^10 1024
2^11 2048
2^12 4096
2^13 8192
2^14 16384
2^15 32768
2^16 65536
2^17 131072
2^18 262144
2^19 524288
2^20 1048576
2^21 2097152
2^22 4194304
2^23 8388608
2^24 16777216
2^25 33554432
2^26 67108864
2^27 134217728
2^28 268435456
2^29 536870912
2^30 1073741824
2^31 2147483648
2^32 4294967296
2^33 8589934592
2^34 17179869184
2^35 34359738368
2^36 68719476736
2^37 137438953472
2^38 274877906944
2^39 549755813888
2^40 1099511627776
2^41 2199023255552
2^42 4398046511104
2^43 8796093022208
2^44 17592186044416
2^45 35184372088832
2^46 70368744177664
2^47 140737488355328
2^48 281474976710656
2^49 562949953421312
2^50 1125899906842624
2^51 2251799813685248
2^52 4503599627370496
2^53 9007199254740992
2^54 18014398509481984
2^55 36028797018963968
2^56 72057594037927936
2^57 144115188075855872
2^58 288230376151711744
2^59 576460752303423488
2^60 1152921504606846976
2^61 2305843009213693952
2^62 4611686018427387904
2^63 9223372036854775808
2^64 18446744073709551616
2^65 36893488147419103232
2^66 73786976294838206464
2^67 147573952589676412928
2^68 295147905179352825856
2^69 590295810358705651712
2^70 1180591620717411303424
2^71 2361183241434822606848
2^72 4722366482869645213696
2^73 9444732965739290427392
2^74 18889465931478580854784
2^75 37778931862957161709568
2^76 75557863725914323419136
2^77 151115727451828646838272
2^78 302231454903657293676544
2^79 604462909807314587353088
2^80 1208925819614629174706176
2^81 2417851639229258349412352
2^82 4835703278458516698824704
2^83 9671406556917033397649408
2^84 19342813113834066795298816
2^85 38685626227668133590597632
So, 2^82= 4.8357033e+24
and 2^83= 9.6714066e+24
but we started with 5 zeroes, remember, 100,000 pounds.
So, we can go up this, to numbers with e+19 places, right?
And, we find 2^66= 7.3786976e+19
Now, to convert that back to our first chart...
2^1= 2
But if I want to turn that power of 2 into tens of years, I'm going to have to add 1
So, where 2^0= 1, that 1 is really 1, hundred thousand pounds and that 0 is really 1, times 10 years.
Make sense?
So 2^1 represents 20 years, and the 2, is really 200,000 pounds and the total is that + 100,000 pounds.
All that said, correct me if I'm wrong, but
2^66, would be 670 years, and in that time, we would have moved 73786976294838206464, add the 5 zero places, 7378697629483820646400000, 7,378,697,629,483,820,646,400,000 or

Years Double Total
670 7378697629483820646400000 7378697629483820646400000+7378697629483820646300000= 14757395258967641292700000

14,757,395,258,967,641,292,700,000 pounds moved out into space, after, 670 years. Earth is
13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds.

Now, obviously we're not going to aeresolize the Earth into 131,700,000,000,000,000,000 shuttles, 65,000 pounds lighter than the space shuttle, in 670 years time.
But we don't have to do it that soon, we don't have only 670 years, or only 6,700 years, or only 67,000 years, or only 670,000 years, or only 6,700,000 years. No, we probably have more like 670 million, based on what we know about the expansion of the sun, and the time it's going to take before it's boiling all the water on Earth, and, thats if we don't speed it up ourselves, or, and here's the kicker, slow it down, at some point in the future.

But even if we only did that doubling every 100 years, it would still only be 6,700 years, before we had entirely relocated the Earth by turning it into 131 quintillion, 65 thousand pound smaller than shuttle, sized vessels.

You're still worrying about small stuff Jason.
The Earth, the Sun, the Solar System; small things, for the humans... the beings, that are going, to be working throughout space, millions of years from now, let alone billions (10^9), or trillions (10^12) or, you know what, how about you scroll down this list and look at some of those 10^n, where n>12, numbers, and you keep in mind, just how amazing human beings are, when we make machines, that make machines ^n, like the automobile, when we put our minds to it.

You've heard of the Kardeshev scale, I take it?
Type 1 - We master everything about our planet.
Type 2 - We master everything about our Sun.
Type 3 - We master the galaxy itself.
Well, try to imagine a normal day, on a type 1.572 planet, where the flights between planets are like taxis in New York.
Or a 2.195, when generations aboard interstellar vessels, are measured by the fraction of the distance they travel between their parent and child stars.

Don't you worry Jason, Blade Runner wasn't a prediction made by scientists, it was just a story.

arkajalka · 2019-07-18 12:44:31

Im pretty sure im the mother in the 3rd birth, or atleast it gives me de ja vu feelings XD.

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