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Hmm, a CLI interface for consumer purchasing. Can I pipe that order through to a payment processor and delivery method? Script my meals for the week?

by tithe 2y ago

solardev 2y ago
Everquest has you beat by a couple decades: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7020132 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7020132 In that game you can type /pizza and it'll get ordered and delivered
- tithe 2y ago
  Nice. I was wondering if this had been done somewhere before. "Sony plans to integrate the pizza function more tightly into the game", which every game should do, of course :)
  - codetrotter 2y ago
    Game programmers: it’s a video game, we don’t need the same kind of application security that other programs do Hacker: Hold my beer while I exploit this dude’s game client and makes it order 10,000 pizzas to his door
    - ethbr1 2y ago
      Why would you order 10,000 pizzas to someone else's door? Unless you don't have 10,000 hungry friends.
      - codetrotter 2y ago
        To cost them a lot of money for all those pizzas. And to cost the pizza shop money if they can’t collect payment for the pizzas. And to cause general grief and misery, as trolls are wont to do :(
        ethbr1 2y ago
        But, you could also not pay the money AND have the pizzas.
        gavindean90 2y ago
        And you left a paper trail
        ethbr1 2y ago
        That's why you order them to a neighbor's house who's out of town. Eastern Europe's been having fun with variants of this since the 90s.
        deleted 2y ago
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        floam 2y ago
        By killing the delivery worker? AFAIK the ol’ unlimited free pizza by killing the thread trick no longer works. It sure was nice while it lasted, especially on platforms that easily let you kill a thread id, even kids could do it. Remember how on BeOS there was a GUI for it? Great for unfreezing a crashed app that had state you wanted to try to recover or free leaked pizza. Now worker threads spawned for delivery hold a lock preventing new pizza being placed in the oven for that address, which is not released until the add payment callback is successful. Destroy the only thread holding the lock, and pizza orders just queue up forever. :(
- ethbr1 2y ago
  That makes me miss the days when "but in 3D!" was a novel business model... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=everquest+gameplay&t=fpas&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=everquest+gameplay&t=fpas&iar=imag... Hard to be formulaic when there's not a formula. "Why not real pizza ingame?"
  - solardev 2y ago
    The Everquests certainly seem dated today, but for their time, they were pretty neat! The gameplay was simple (especially by today's standards), but it was a pretty unforgiving game that required a lot of teamwork. It was the social aspect that kept most people playing, I think, especially in guilds. I remember a lot of the playerbase kept asking for significant changes to make the game less grindy and hardcore, but the main game designer would always push back and reiterate The Vision™ (in their words) and stick to their plans. Not only did they not ask for feedback, they would actively fight back against it and reinforce their stance. Well, they must've done something right... 25 years later, EQ is still alive, celebrating its anniversary, and making new expansions (after several sets of publisher/developer changes, though). If not for EQ, we wouldn't have had World of Warcraft and all the other MMOs. But today's MMOs have all become basically "massively singleplayer" in that grouping is rare outside of guilds and limited end-game raids, with bots and boosters of various sorts taking the place of what used to require multiple real people (AI really IS ruining everything!) The social aspect has been heavily deemphasized nowadays (Diablo and Destiny don't even have global chats anymore) and you mostly just see the ghosts of people doing their own things with no real need to interact with them anymore. Too bad =/ Showing off /pizza or other fun commands (emotes, music, crafting, etc.) was a big part of the old-school experience. These days there are still some semi-social MMOs (New World has an awesome group music jamming system, where multiple people can get together and jam like Rock Band/Guitar Hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWZJNnaLNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWZJNnaLNU)... but sadly no more in-game pizza that I know of. ----------- If anyone's looking for an old-school MMO in the style of EQ, Project Gorgon is an indie MMO made by (I believe) a mom-and-pop dev team: https://store.steampowered.com/app/342940/Project_Gorgon/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/342940/Project_Gorgon/
    - 2y ago
- robertlagrant 2y ago
  > Demonstrating a deep understanding of what its computer-gaming audience, Sony has built the ability to order pizza into its latest online multiplayer game. NBC's command of language might not be good, but it turns out it is consistent.
- hk1337 2y ago
  Pizza Party beat this by a few years, I believe. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/04/05/07/138238/pizza-from-the-command-line https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/04/05/07/138238/piz... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J691aLfkWP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J691aLfkWP0

Hmm, a CLI interface for consumer purchasing. Can I pipe that order through to a payment processor and delivery method? Script my meals for the week?

by tithe 2y ago

Hmm, a CLI interface for consumer purchasing. Can I pipe that order through to a payment processor and delivery method? Script my meals for the week?

solardev 2y ago

Everquest has you beat by a couple decades: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7020132 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7020132 In that game you can type /pizza and it'll get ordered and delivered

tithe 2y ago
Nice. I was wondering if this had been done somewhere before. "Sony plans to integrate the pizza function more tightly into the game", which every game should do, of course :)
- codetrotter 2y ago
  Game programmers: it’s a video game, we don’t need the same kind of application security that other programs do Hacker: Hold my beer while I exploit this dude’s game client and makes it order 10,000 pizzas to his door
  - ethbr1 2y ago
    Why would you order 10,000 pizzas to someone else's door? Unless you don't have 10,000 hungry friends.
    - codetrotter 2y ago
      To cost them a lot of money for all those pizzas. And to cost the pizza shop money if they can’t collect payment for the pizzas. And to cause general grief and misery, as trolls are wont to do :(
      - ethbr1 2y ago
        But, you could also not pay the money AND have the pizzas.
        gavindean90 2y ago
        And you left a paper trail
        ethbr1 2y ago
        That's why you order them to a neighbor's house who's out of town. Eastern Europe's been having fun with variants of this since the 90s.
        deleted 2y ago
        [deleted]
        floam 2y ago
        By killing the delivery worker? AFAIK the ol’ unlimited free pizza by killing the thread trick no longer works. It sure was nice while it lasted, especially on platforms that easily let you kill a thread id, even kids could do it. Remember how on BeOS there was a GUI for it? Great for unfreezing a crashed app that had state you wanted to try to recover or free leaked pizza. Now worker threads spawned for delivery hold a lock preventing new pizza being placed in the oven for that address, which is not released until the add payment callback is successful. Destroy the only thread holding the lock, and pizza orders just queue up forever. :(
ethbr1 2y ago
That makes me miss the days when "but in 3D!" was a novel business model... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=everquest+gameplay&t=fpas&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=everquest+gameplay&t=fpas&iar=imag... Hard to be formulaic when there's not a formula. "Why not real pizza ingame?"
- solardev 2y ago
  The Everquests certainly seem dated today, but for their time, they were pretty neat! The gameplay was simple (especially by today's standards), but it was a pretty unforgiving game that required a lot of teamwork. It was the social aspect that kept most people playing, I think, especially in guilds. I remember a lot of the playerbase kept asking for significant changes to make the game less grindy and hardcore, but the main game designer would always push back and reiterate The Vision™ (in their words) and stick to their plans. Not only did they not ask for feedback, they would actively fight back against it and reinforce their stance. Well, they must've done something right... 25 years later, EQ is still alive, celebrating its anniversary, and making new expansions (after several sets of publisher/developer changes, though). If not for EQ, we wouldn't have had World of Warcraft and all the other MMOs. But today's MMOs have all become basically "massively singleplayer" in that grouping is rare outside of guilds and limited end-game raids, with bots and boosters of various sorts taking the place of what used to require multiple real people (AI really IS ruining everything!) The social aspect has been heavily deemphasized nowadays (Diablo and Destiny don't even have global chats anymore) and you mostly just see the ghosts of people doing their own things with no real need to interact with them anymore. Too bad =/ Showing off /pizza or other fun commands (emotes, music, crafting, etc.) was a big part of the old-school experience. These days there are still some semi-social MMOs (New World has an awesome group music jamming system, where multiple people can get together and jam like Rock Band/Guitar Hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWZJNnaLNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWZJNnaLNU)... but sadly no more in-game pizza that I know of. ----------- If anyone's looking for an old-school MMO in the style of EQ, Project Gorgon is an indie MMO made by (I believe) a mom-and-pop dev team: https://store.steampowered.com/app/342940/Project_Gorgon/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/342940/Project_Gorgon/
  - 2y ago
robertlagrant 2y ago
> Demonstrating a deep understanding of what its computer-gaming audience, Sony has built the ability to order pizza into its latest online multiplayer game. NBC's command of language might not be good, but it turns out it is consistent.
hk1337 2y ago
Pizza Party beat this by a few years, I believe. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/04/05/07/138238/pizza-from-the-command-line https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/04/05/07/138238/piz... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J691aLfkWP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J691aLfkWP0