ITP: Talking laptops

[sod_off_spark]

Boredom is a difficult enemy to defeat for both man and machine, isn't it? Fortunately, there is an easy solution to that problem, if you are willing to help.

Would you like to play a game?

[Games post. Pick a game, and Cortana will play it with your characters over the network. Or they can just have a conversation with their now suddenly

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[clericchronicle]

[Talking laptop. Okay.]

Any game?

[sod_off_spark]

Within reason. I obviously cannot play lacrosse.

[clericchronicle]

Well, then... Fight me!

[in a game that requires absolutely no skill on the player's part]

[sod_off_spark]

[Still manages to win, whups.]

Not much to do, at least for the first round.

[clericchronicle]

Awww, you beat me again!

No, not much too it at all. What kind of games do you like?

[sod_off_spark]

Ones that allow for both chance and skill to play a part to tell the truth.

Global Thermonuclear War is an old classic.

[clericchronicle]

Global Thurmonew-uh...War? Huh, I've never heard of it.

[sod_off_spark]

It's from an old movie. A scientist creates a computer for the military, but it thinks that a Global Thermonuclear War is a game it has to win. They defeat it by making it play games of tic-tac-toe against itself until it realizes there are games you cannot win.

[clericchronicle]

[...That's deep.]

Interesting game.

[sod_off_spark]

The alternative way to play it is of course, to see who can lose the least badly in simulations. There was an actual game with that as the object, called DEFCON.

[clericchronicle]

Yet the best strategy is to not play in the first place...

[learnings, it can be done]

How about someone simpler?

[sod_off_spark]

Like what? Monopoly?