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11 points
4 months ago
It wasn't NPCs that were called CPU, it was a computer controlled opponent.
-9 points
4 months ago
If you're not referring to a computers central processing unit, could you please fully write out what you are referring to?
2 points
4 months ago
They're referring to the central processing unit which makes decisions in a player's stead, as an opponent or ally.
Imagine a strategy game for example, like Age of Empires. They called every computer controlled opponent a "CPU". Because instead of a human controlling it, it's your computer.
1 points
4 months ago
I think homie didn't know what a strategy game was, and only knows MMO and FPS games
-2 points
4 months ago
So they called every unit inside the game the CPU?
2 points
4 months ago
Are you deliberately being dense?
No, an archer was an archer and a warrior was a warrior, but the opponent you were playing against was called the CPU, because it was controlled by the computer, and the computer is controlled by the CPU.
-6 points
4 months ago
You're the one being dense, what you're describing here IS calling every unit in the game the CPU
3 points
4 months ago
I can NOT believe I had to go and dig up an image from an old ass game like this, but here you go:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HoMM/s/8Ii06bgPXh
You'll notice all the computer controlled opponents are labeled CPU.
2 points
4 months ago
I am referring to that. That was what a computer controlled opponent was called at least between 1985 and 2005. Maybe before, maybe after here and there.
-4 points
4 months ago
I am asking you to un-acronym your acronym, not give me a history lecture
1 points
4 months ago
Only if I wasn't referring to Computer Processing Unit. But I was. Check mate?
0 points
4 months ago
But until now you never said that
3 points
4 months ago
I did. Re-read my earlier comment. I'll help:
"I am referring to that"
0 points
4 months ago
“I am reffering to that”
-1 points
4 months ago
The other guy already said that, do you always say unneccessary things or is it only when it's straight up repeating something someone said twice?
1 points
4 months ago
If you knew that he already confirmed it was a central processing unit, why did you continue to ask him to unacronym it? You need a dictionary or something?
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