santaslabyrinth

Moodboard for an imaginary game

In January 2023 every day I made a room with a robot in it, and maybe wrote a little program for the robot in the room. This was also mixed in with rules, lore and rechosted inspirations. Nowadays this is just posts that evoke a particular feeling. Probably like 80% rechosts from @randochrontendo


The colossal war machine [Juggernaut, Is, Victory], now retired from whatever long-lost war it was created to end, will quickly and gladly answer query broadcasts in its vicinity on a broad variety of topics. Robots with persistent storage can use it to gather facts and knowledge.


Some example exchanges with [Juggernaut, Is, Victory]. These exchanges look for a single object that fulfills multiple relationship constraints by using the "Aliases" construct. The answer will appear resolved to the alias in the responses.

Here the Juggernaut identifies a famous comedy duo that broke up in 1956:

Q: [
    ( aliasing allows us to require the *same* object for
      each solution below, rather than allowing each to be
      resolved independently )
    [X, "Aliased", $X],
    [X, "Is", "Comedy Duo"@"Heroes and Champions"],
    [X, "Is", "Movie Star"@"Heroes and Champions"],
    [X, "Broke Up"@"Good Times", "Year 1956"@"Calendar"]
]

A: [
    [X, "Aliased",
         "Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo"@"Mid-Century Magic"], 
    [X, "Is", "Comedy Duo"@"Heroes and Champions"],
    [X, "Is", "Movie Star"@"Heroes and Champions"],
    [X, "Broke Up"@"Good Times", "Year 1956"@"Calendar"]
]

Here the Juggernaut is answering a question about Ron Howard’s television career:

Q: [
    [X, "Aliased", $X],
    [X, "Is", "Misc. Television Series"@"Movie Night"],
    [X, "Occurred After"@"Basic Relationships", "Year 1974"@"Calendar"],
    [
      [
        "Ron Howard"@"Mid-Century Magic",
        "Is", "Actor"@"Movie Night"
      ],
      "Starred In"@"", X
    ],
]

A: [
    [
      X,
      "Aliased",
      "The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang"@"Mid-Century Magic"
    ],
    [X, "Is", "Misc. Television Series"@"Movie Night"],
    [X, "Occurred After"@"Basic Relationships", "Year 1974"@"Calendar"],
    [
      ["Ron Howard"@"Mid-Century Magic", Is, "Actor"@"Movie Night"],
      "Starred In"@"", X
    ],
]

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