Randomini	this is a fine enough starting place
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	epicone1200	Really?
	Randomini	but it is not what your work should be about
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	Randomini	at all
	epicone1200	its so simple.
	Randomini	you need to develop this concept quite heavily
	Lily	Hi
	Randomini	before it's "good"
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	Decibelle	heya lily!
	Randomini	you have an IDE which has effects on the real world
	Randomini	now, let's think about that
	Randomini	if I was magic, and creating this weird code thing
	lionsilverwolf	Performs X task actually performs it at such a high level that it influences external reality despite no apparent means to do so?
	Randomini	why would I want that?
	Lily	Hi deci!
	Randomini	what practicality is there in creating this program that does weird things in the real world?
	Randomini	I'd say, perhaps, I have a bunch of data encoded in the real world
	Randomini	and I need to do a bunch of data entry at once
	Randomini	and I say "fuck that"
	Takov	Randomini: Double Fine made a game called Hack N Slash where you did that
	Takov	Problem was there was a very abrupt jump in difficulty that required you to know programming to get any further
	Randomini	"I'll get my IDE to magic up the data into my computer that's in these books"
	Randomini	so you do that
	Randomini	the thing about an IDE is that it is inherently designed to make coding more efficient
	Takov	And the game didn't sandbox it's code, a reviewer even demonstrated how something from Steam Workshop could make a virus that runs from the game
	Randomini	so the "magic" bits you add on need to follow from that need
	Randomini	at least initially
	Randomini	your starting point should not be "magic thing exists" for this
	Randomini	like all engineering projects, there exists a need that must be met
	Randomini	another example might be that he had a bunch of computers running code and he wanted to bugtest them all at once
	Randomini	but none of them had network cables
	Randomini	so he just magicked up a remote desktop application
	Randomini	so he could access computers running his code, no matter what they were running on or where
	nulljellyfish	yep
	Randomini	and then I can imagine this being hijacked by other people when they find it
	Randomini	"oh, this code gives us remote control of ANYTHING we put it on?"
	Randomini	"let's stick it on satellites, let's stick it in drones"
	Randomini	and then these other people do interesting things with it
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	Randomini	perhaps they attempt to streamline it, or alter it to get some unintended functionality
	Randomini	maybe they fuck it up and it starts going haywire
	Randomini	you've got all these computers networked together anomalously now
	Randomini	that makes me think of networked nodes with data transfer
	Randomini	that makes me think of a neural network
	Randomini	so perhaps this leads to an artificial intelligence forming
	Randomini	networked across thousands of computers, satellites and ground-based
	Randomini	and it might have its own needs and wants
	Randomini	now this all started from "what if you had a coding program that has an effect on the real world"
	Randomini	which is, at its core, a very simple concept
	Randomini	and as you can see, it is a fine starting place
	Randomini	but only because it can get you to interesting scenarios conceptually
	Randomini	a lot of people misunderstand when I say this and think "oh it's a good starting place so I'll start writing this concept as-is"
	Randomini	but that is not normally the case
	Randomini	you don't need to follow the path I outlined, but you should develop your concept in a similar fashion
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	Randomini	take it somewhere interesting
	Randomini	listens to crickets chirp at the awkward silence