What's a common feature of video games we could really use in real life?

I did hear about some odd sleeping pill, not sure if it existed or if it was just a concept someone thought about...

The pill was a normal sleeping pill, but with a core of cafffine, it would be designed so that it would take X hours to dissolve and once it got to the core, the caffine would wake you up on time.

The more I think about it, the less I believe it would ever work.

I’d play the stock market, set myself up for life, then live like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.

You mean by pausing before you speak?

People who take time to formulate a sentence before speaking are actually infuriating on some level. Like I've got this friend, son of a diplomat, NEVER puts his foot in his mouth. Can you imagine trying to have a fast argument with someone who considers everything they say!

I can say from experience that it is discomfiting, and maddening if you're actually passionate about the topic.

Seems I’ve been dealing with that aspect my whole life.

Statistically better than the choices I've made thus far I suppose.

I cant tell if you are agreeing or if you just didnt spec any points into speech & charisma and you speech options were [Grunt / word / punch in face]

We’ll bang, ok?

It’s a lot easier to build in the uninteresting areas, though.

I imagine every time someone says "flying car" an air traffic controller somewhere has a nervous breakdown.

Because they look awesome.

A floating arrow telling me where my "next mission" is would be super annoying.

Can you explain to me, a layman, why it should be Linux based and why that is a good thing?

The oldest quicksave point takes precedence. Nobody actually experiences anything until the player with the earliest quicksave establishes a new save point, or otherwise becomes permanently incapable of restoring that earliest point. Whatever was experienced between the oldest and second oldest quicksave then becomes the unalterable historic record. Everything else is an aborted timeline that never actually exists.

I would assume there is an order of operations to the madness. And quicksaves are stored globally, so whoever quicksaves first is able to undo the later quicksaves. In this scenario, if your boss quickloads before you do, then they would retain their memories and go back to before the meeting knowing you were going to insult them in it before you even did the first quicksave.

I just thought "hur hur, Nazeem" and save scumming skill checks, dice rolls and tricky input in mostly singleplayer games, without any nasty precedence or concurrency issues. Extending it to multiplayer and also being inside the game seems, uh, complicated. I'll give it an undercaffeinated try:

Each player gets an individual "marker" they can place at their current time, and a function to restore the entire universe state to that point.
"Whose marker is when" seems like it needs to be part of that state. Otherwise, reverting and then having someone else reload a formerly earlier, now future/orphaned state... just sounds like a clusterfuck. Or it's unproblematic and just weird, I'm not sure.

Keeping memories across reloads would at least not happen "naturally", since everyone has their exact brain state reverted. You could just say it does for the purposes of the experiment, but it seems like it makes things more complicated.
At least, remembering stuff through someone else's reload is right out: everyone on the planet quickly ends up with a bunch of memories that have no longer happened, and no way to tell what's what. Psych horror time!

Whoever saves first does get to revert everything since then, but assuming no memory retention, you could still safely shit talk your boss all day long, at least. If their checkpoint reverts yours, they will forget the rant, you can still revert. It would be further back than you intended then, but you would be blissfully unaware of that fact. Of course, you also wouldn't remember the rant, so it doesn't sound very cathartic either.

But, if memories are retained, Boss could reload on you - they now remember the rant and you don't, which sounds like a bad Christmas Party. While reloading would still be a win for you, you wouldn't know to actually do it, and could risk saving at a position where you've screwed yourself. Common risk of save scumming.

Yeah, but it blows up if they don't print just the right amount relative to taxation, so is it really a free lunch?

Also high frequency trading generating money from dips/spikes in stocks' values that are too short lived to affect anything on a human scale. And banks lending money (and thus generating interests from it) they don't actually have yet but I think it's related to the fiat currency thing ?

With a proper mayor, said Karen will be elevated into a 4m² mountain, over 2km above the rest of the place, where her ego from "being atop everyone else" will keep her from realizing nobody can hear her screams.

Also, "building" an entire forest also happens in a snap

Have fun in Groundhog Day

That would also be awesome. Also just walking normally. I broke my ankle/leg severely in October while walking my puppy and my gait is going to be slightly fucked up forever from it. But I'm a cyborg now, which is dope.

Unless it is, and every NPC knows exactly what you do to them. They just aren't allowed to break script.

Just some food for thought...

You're bang on good sir/madam.

But will it give me a card with my opponent in scantily clad clothing if I win?