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Average time-to-redundancy: 11.3 months
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Will AI replace Video Game NPC jobs? · Latest report #agi3w7q9
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when v1 shipped
Already deprecatedYou exist only to be run over by a stolen taxi.
Digital background static in a beige trenchcoat.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Static logic loops made cheaper.
sluurp.you▸ SCRIPTEDBEHAVIOR_V4.0▸ RARITY · RELIC▸ DEPRECATED · WHEN V1 SHIPPEDAI's Special Power
blocks traffic during high speed chases
You walk along sidewalks repeating three lines of dialogue until a player triggers a physics engine event.
The one thing AI can't do
You were the first casualty of procedural immersion.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
1995
Developers hardcoded the walk cycles into the engine.
2001
Dialogue trees were locked to specific proximity sensors.
2008
NPCs were allowed to ragdoll upon impact.
2015
AI became efficient at vanishing into thin air.
Already
The logic was baked into the game assets forever.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 97.5%
3.2
average lines spoken
14,000
collision events per day
infinite
pathfinding errors
Your severance
A single line of dead code.
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