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How did you find DarwinBots?
Havvy:
There's a link on wikipedia to the DarwinBots page on 'Open Source Games'.
Peter:
I have found it at the home of the underdogs web site, if have seen some of the other A-life sims, but at this program you could too program your own bots and it works best compared to the ones I have seen.
Trafalgar:
I found out about it from a link posted by someone in a thread about Spore (which had long since gone off-topic) on a forum (which isn't about Spore).
The person's first post about it, where he didn't mention it by name, was a rant about animal rights activists beginning with "It just happens that I read a news article to the effect that at one of the conventions for this simulator, there were many protesters outside. Guess who they were?" - He believed the fake news story posted on these forums.
Someone asked what simulator he was talking about, and he named it and linked to the "news article" (and the link went right to the fake news post on these forums). He later realized the article was fake and went "Oops!".
I stuck a link to the DarwinBots site in my Firefox bookmarks toobar, and about a week or so later, downloaded DB to try it out.
Numsgil:
That is the absolute best story for finding Darwinbots I've heard yet!
Testlund:
What story is that? Could you provide a link? I hope it's not about treating simulations like real life, because it's only data.
It reminds me of a friend of mine that was wondering what would happen to my bots when I said I had my computer turned off for maintanence for a few days, like they would die or something. I've heard people with Tamagotchi's get so attached they even have cemetaries for them. The same goes for people who complain about violent computer games. It's all just graphical data! There is nothing in there but zeros and ones!
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