It's been about six months since I posted my blog now, and not a single person has said a single word too me about any of it. This doesn't seem possible, and yet it just happened. Apparently there is no level of experience, knowledge, or achievement that can compare to a few years at the Devry School of Game Design. Maybe I should sign up, sleep through all of the “classes” so as not to be corrupted by any of their bad elementary school-level of advice, and then try again! Even reaching the height of simulation design in the world today, the ultimate evolution of 70 years of continuous work by dozens if not hundreds of game designers, and finally arriving at the ultimate goal of simulation design, a simulation of time combined with reality which turns out to also be a functioning simulation of God and is the fundamental basis of “The Matrix”, cyberspace, an insubstantial holodeck, and eventually even a self-programming computer with omniscient communication (MeeSo Confused!!!), is completely irrelevant to modern “game designers”?

The only explanation of this that I can think of is that you don't know enough about game design to recognize that Rube is literally the “Holy Grail” of simulation design. You don't know enough about simulation design to recognize how important this is. Rube is a “universal simulation”. The ultimate goal of scientific simulations, a uniform simulation of anything and everything! Rube can simulate anything and everything that exists in reality, or everything that exists in reality simultaneously. It is the long-sought after “Holy Grail” of scientific modeling. Forget about revolutionizing games, that's just what I would do with Rube. Rube is, quite possibly, the single most powerful tool of science in existence today. Rube is a God, and a God can do anything. Rube can even simulate things at the sub-atomic level! Rube is a functioning simulation of God, which you should all recognize as the Holy Grail of simulation design. But you clearly don't. You clearly don't know enough about game design to even know this. I can't think of any other explanation for nobody having a single word to say about it after six months of patiently waiting. There is nobody in your industry who knows enough about simulation design to understand what is being described too you, none of you have ever even heard of this before. Nothing else makes any sense.

So far not a single person has said a single word too me about the PDU or Rube, other than to try and insult me for having discovered Rube. Not one word... the blog I put up is over 500 pages! Amazing, isn't it? I bet I could invent a warp drive and a phaser and nobody would care, other than wanting to insult me to discredit the idea because they can't understand it. That wouldn't be any different than this, it's just a different field. In fact, that would be my advice to anyone who does discover the fundamental basis of a warp drive and a phaser... save yourself a lot of time and effort and just immediately throw it in the trash! Nobody is going to care. Wow. In fact, the most common reaction is that people just become angry that you would dare to have done such a thing when they don't understand how it can be done. They don't have any questions for you, or even a single comment. Nobody will even even tell me what they think of the story, not a single peep at all. Just insults for you daring to know something that they are incapable of understanding. They just want to attack you for suggesting it, nobody has any interest at all in actually trying to find out anything about it. It just offends them. Rube is potentially much more important than a warp drive. It is a functioning simulation of the combination of time and reality where everything... everything... falls into place so perfectly that you can't help but wonder if this actually is the true nature of the universe and how time and reality really do function together... and nobody cares?!?!? “Moments of time containing reality!”

If you do come up with a warp drive and phaser, just throw them in the trash. I'm serious. Believe me, that is how it will work out the best for you. Save yourself the trouble, all that work is just going to get you hatred and insults from arrogant people who are certain that if such a thing were possible they would have thought if it before you possibly could have... even though they have decades less experience with the subject than you do, and their entire process is based on the group that you came from. I think the English language is, at this point, in need of a word that means “more than arrogant” just to describe these people. This doesn't work like everyone thinks it does, if you do wind up discovering something that exceeds humanity's current understanding of something... just throw it away! Don't waste your time on it. Nobody is going care, although many people will be offended by it and attack you for claiming to have come up with something that they are not capable of understanding. The only thing you will get out of it is people attacking you to protect their own fragile little egos. Rube will apparently die with me because I don't have a hilariously laughable “degree” from the Devry School of Game Design, and even if I did that would just be the same thing as having a lottery ticket. Entirely random luck. I only know ten times more than that, and have been doing this for decades before their silly little “school” ever even existed... which just greatly angers them. It doesn't impress anyone, or get you anywhere, it just draws incompetent people who base their self-worth on the delusion that they are “experts” out of the woodwork to attack you so that they can continue with their delusions of grandeur. It's a psychological disorder, really, that they all seem to share.

Whatever their criteria are in looking for “game designers”, experience, knowledge, and achievement are certainly not factors at all.  I am undeniable proof of that.  So if designing games is a goal of yours, don't waste any time on gaining experience, knowledge, or achieving anything significant in the field. None of those things count at all in their minds. Rube and I have finally managed to absolutely prove that beyond any doubt at all! Apparently it's kind of like a lottery. It's based entirely on pure luck that has nothing to do with anything relevant to game or simulation design, and Rube proves that beyond any doubt. Just buy a lottery ticket once and if you don't win move on to a new career. Don't waste your entire life like I did on, when it comes to simulation design anyway, this completely incompetent group of people. No matter what you do, no matter how much you achieve, no matter how much knowledge of the subject you accumulate, none of that will ever matter too them in any way, shape, or form. If the E=MC2 of simulation design isn't enough to get their attention, then obviously nothing is. They don't know enough about the subject to even realize what they are looking at. It doesn't do you any good to achieve something great in this field because they are incapable of recognizing it if you do. If it is more complicated than Axis & Allies then they are incapable of comprehending it. It really does appear to be essentially a random lottery, based on no actual criteria at all that is discernible. Rube and I have now proven that beyond any doubt what-so-ever. I was certain that this was going to work this time. I was certain that they could not be so incompetent that they would not recognize what Rube means too them. Obviously, even I had always vastly underestimated just how totally clueless and incompetent they actually are when it comes to game design... and that really is saying something!

The source of the problem has become very clear too me now. It's that modern “game designers” believe that they invented game and simulation design in the early 1980's. They are absolutely convinced that game and simulation design did not exist until they invented it to make computer games. The don't know that modern game design actually began in the 16th century with the “Ruler & String” games played by real-world military men (see Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock for a modern example of a “Ruler & String” game, and a game that Rube could work wonders for). Their history begins in the early 1980's, when the actual history begins over 200 years before that. They don't even know, for example, that a simulation of God was the literal “holy grail” of scientific modeling (how science did simulations before computers), so they don't even recognize the significance of Rube. They literally don't know enough about game design to know this, so it is not relevant too them. And they are never going to know this, because they become enraged if anyone tries to tell them about it... and ban them for life from their forums for trying. That way they can maintain the delusion that they are the “world's leading experts in the field” when, in reality, they know almost nothing about game and simulation design. The fact that they have no interest at all in Rube, the literal holy grail of simulation design, finally proves this beyond any doubt at all. They are little kids playing in the sandbox at the edge of our field, they aren't even actually in the field!

Maybe I should become a computer game industry critic. I'd love to hear a programmer-called-game designer explain how their computer science education qualifies them to pat people from Avalon Hill or ADB on the head as if we are children and speak too us as though we actually have something to learn from them. It is very much the other way around, obviously. Although, that probably isn't actually an option because I am pretty sure that none of their web sites would be willing to publish the opinions of someone who has been doing this since before they were even born. They don't take criticism very well and just silence anyone who tries to offer any... even after having asked their permission ahead of time to do exactly that! “Of course, go ahead, we can take a little criticism”... it then took them less than two weeks to ban Pirate Lord for life, because they resembled those remarks! I didn't just come out of the blue back then, I asked the moderators if it would be OK first before I did that! The complete lack of interest in Rube really says all that needs to be said about the modern game industry, and the world will lose this knowledge solely due to their extreme incompetence when it comes to game and simulation design. It certainly won't be for a lack of me trying. Anything more complex than Axis & Allies/Civilization is simply beyond their ability to comprehend, and the suggestion of the existence of anything more complex than Axis & Allies/Civilization just enrages them.

So, this really is for real, then? My entire life was wasted because none of you actually know what you are talking about? I should just take the fundamental basis of The Matrix, cyberspace, a holodeck, and a self-programming computer with omniscient communication and throw it in the trash? That is really, actually the response of the one industry that should care about Rube? “Nobody cares, throw it away?” You really and truly are this incompetent? I really would like a serious answer (insulting me to protect your own ego is not a serious answer) too this. I'd really like to know why my entire life was wasted, and why I should just throw it all away even though it is the Holy Grail of simulation design and would be among the most important tools of science known to mankind. I really would like a real answer. This is for real, then, nobody cares about the final answer and Holy Grail of simulation design, and I should just throw it away? This really is the response of the modern game industry to what is the “Holy Grail” of your own field? I just want to be clear on this before I throw the fundamental basis of what would be among the most futuristic technologies on this planet in the trash and forget about it all.

14 minutes ago, Kylotan said:

What I don't think you appreciate is that you have spent thousands of words talking around your concept, but hardly any time talking about what it actually is.

Yes, this hits the hammer on the head.

Unfortunately, I've spent 20 minutes reading his "blog" and he had this to say about it:

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I want to point out that I am not trying to explain Rube in this blog, in fact I am intentionally wanting to keep anyone from being able to fully figure it out while revealing enough to make people realize that this really is something real. I am completely unconcerned about the vast majority of people on the planet being able to decipher Rube from what I am revealing here. It would take a 300+ page book for me to explain Rube to most people,. Not because I am smarter than anyone else, or because it is too complicated for people to understand, but because having deep a understanding of the phased-turn, the concept of "assembling the battle" within that type of system, and the SFB Impulse Chart are the pre-requisite knowledge to have any frame of reference from which to understand it. The first 200 pages of that book would be bringing everyone up to speed with ASL/SFB, only the last 100 would even be about Rube.

It's a catch 22. Kavik Kang wants to convince people his concept is the next great thing without having to provide proof.

@Kavik Kang

We would be fools if we were to simply take the word of some random internet stranger such as yourself that your concept is the next big thing. Either talk about it, or stop wasting everyone's time with your senseless rants.

You should already know the significance of a functioning simulation of God.  Rube is, in reality, shockingly simple.  No, I am not going to give Rube away and watch you all make games based on my work while I am still not making games.  I doubt you would give such a thing away simply to be plagiarized, either.  Would you?  The phrase "functioning simulation of God" is all that I should need to say to attract the interest of game designers.  It is your industry's lack of knowledge of the subject that is the issue, not my unwillingness to simply give it too you and watch you all run away with it as you continue to insult and ignore me.

I know there were 70 comments, I mentioned that the only response has been to attack and insult me over it.  There has not been a single response expressing any interest in Rube you, not a single person has said a single word too me about it.  If your industry has no interest in Rube, that just proves that everything I've been saying about you for the last 10 years is true.  Rube proves that beyond any doubt at all.

I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or not, but let's assume not.

Do you think you're the first guy to think of something that seems revolutionary on the surface? We've all done it, and most of the time we then come to realize how crap / unsustainable / etc... the idea really was, so we put it to rest and didn't rub our faces with denial. And to be honest I don't care you're in denial / whatever, I care that you're rubbing your arrogance in my face.

What I personally think is happening is that you realized the amount of effort that's needed to become an expert / professional in this industry (Which I am not, but I'm trying) and have no wish to partake in the struggle, so you've decided to cling onto the extreme cases hoping to catch some luck and bloat about your "brilliance". That's not to say that you shouldn't try the extreme ideas, you absolutely should, but accept them for what they are.

But given your responses.... F#ck it, you're a god of technology and science, just keep it to yourself until you've got something workable.
    Welcome to reality and I won't be your guide.

If you have a functioning simulation of "God," answer me this: what is the meaning of life?

EDIT: I'd also like to know why my C++ compiler spits out the most cryptic messages for the simplest of things?

This isn't about me, it is about Rube. It isn't about me wanting to insult the modern game industry, either. That honestly is the only reason that I can think of that nobody in a “game industry” would be interested in the ultimate evolution of game and simulation design. After 30 years Rube has finally shown me that there can't be any other answer. And this is not about me but, I am not “some random person on the internet saying he has the next great thing”. I have been designing games since before your industry existed. I was a member of the SFB Staff in its early days, the original group of modern game designers who literally invented the process by which you make games today. But you will pick 20-something a recent graduate of the Devry School of Game Design over me every time because you don't know your own history. Your history begins in the early 1980's with Infocom. And that's all about Rube, too. It really is.

This is the right thread to be talking about Rube, it is the ultimate evolution of simulation design finally arrived at, a functioning simulation of God. If that isn't a game design discussion then I don't know what is. So, let's talk about Rube. That was what the original response here said I should do, and that is exactly what I had come here to do. And also because recently I have discovered a whole new way of describing Rube to this audience. My blog, especially the first post, actually explains almost everything about the physical construct that is Rube. That physical construct is the literal E=MC2 of simulation design that leads too... almost anything you want it too within any simulation of anything. I only leave a single “key piece” of the puzzle out of that first post on the blog, but it is a key that is 50 years ahead of where you are so you aren't going to imagine it. But it's actually all there, except for one critical element of it that brings it all together. I'll explain Rube in a way I think this audience will at least start to see a hint of what Rube actually is using one of your own games. Somebody in your industry is making a “proto-Rube” game right now! What they are doing is a simple Ruler & String game on the computer, using Steve Cole's Impulse Chart (probably without realizing that). Like I've said before, Rube is a part of nature.

Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock, which I've spent a few hours watching games on Yahoo to dissect exactly what they are doing, is a “proto-Rube” game. It is a Ruler & String game on the computer, and it is running on Steve Cole's Impulse Chart which is the precursor of Rube. Rube's cardio-vascular system is the next generation of SVC's impulse chart. That little “bar of time” that counts down on the bottom of Deadlock's screen? That is a “moment of time containing reality” which they appear to be defining as 1-2 minutes. On the map the max range line is the string, the ruler would measure distance for movement and shooting, and a turn gauge governs maneuver. This is a modern version of the original “modern games”, the Ruler & String games played by real-world military men since the 16th century. Those “toy soldiers generals played with” were not toy soldiers, those were games that were simulations of warfare. They are the basis of Avalon Hill games, and the many imitators of Avalon Hill that was the foundation of the hobbyist game industry of the 1960s-1990s. This is exactly what BSG: Deadlock is, it is a classic Ruler & String game. And since it is, probably accidentally, using a version of Steve Cole's impulse chart it is essentially also a very primitive and incomplete version of Star Fleet Battles. SFB actually comes with the turn gauges to play it this way instead of using the hex map.

Take a look at BSG: Deadlock. You are looking at the very first baby step towards Rube. If the makers of BSG: Deadlock were to spend the next 50 years continuously refining the game with a staff of 2 dozen or so “Staff Members”, they might eventually arrive at Rube. But we are already 50 years ahead of them, and I am already at Rube. You are already making a Rube game right now, Rube is a part of nature. It's just that your Rube is a newborn baby that is still 50 years away from growing into Rube, and ours is already there.

Scouting Ninja: So you are saying that I should have to reveal every detail about it, so that anyone can just run off and do it on their own, before anyone should have any interest in it at all? I am pretty sure that is not how it works for everyone else, and that's not how it is going to work for me. I am not just giving it away to be plagiarized while I am still not making games. That would be insane. As for your other point, you are providing a perfect example of everything I said in the first post. You are saying that I, with 40 years of experience designing games going back before your industry even existed, should sit down and shut up and listen to “my betters”. That people with, in most cases, less than half of my experience and knowledge know what can and can't be done and that I don't. You have that exactly backwards, said the other way around that is true... and Rube proves it. The fact that this makes perfect sense too you is just making my point for me. You are talking down too me and patting me on the head as if I have something to learn from you, when I am the one that has been doing this twice as long as you have. I am the one who's knowledge is based on over 200 years of history going back to the Ruler & String games, and your knowledge is based on your reboot and re-invention of the wheel that began in the early 1980s. You have provided a perfect example of exactly what I was saying in the first post. You honestly believe that when a 20-something graduate of the Devry School of Game Design speaks that I should sit down, shut up, and listen to their vast knowledge. After all, I've only been doing this for 40 years. Right? In reality, we are literally 50-70 years ahead of you. You have it exactly backwards.

And to one of the other replies, it does not “seem revolutionary on the surface”. Rube exists, and is based on 200 years of simulation design history of which you are unaware. Rube is a continuation of the work of Avalon Hill and Amarillo Design Bureau. It is not an “idea”, in fact the basis of it is older than your entire industry.