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Deer god.
That's who needs to come save it from the Mine right now.
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Seems that this deer is enjoying beach a lot.

Edit: now got caught in a glitch in some mine

Hah, that's the first (serious) glitch I've seen in about an hour of watching. It periodically respawns in a random part of the world, and looks like it had the bad luck to respawn in a mineshaft this time.

I'm actually surprised it doesn't get stuck more often in other situations. Its controller seems pretty good at avoiding it.

Too bad he can't use his antlers...
It looks like it can or is maybe learning to. Two guys were standing on the sidewalk and it just murdered one with its antlers or possibly a head-butt. It was about to go for the second but suddenly re-spawned in the airport for some reason.
Afterwards i saw it too... I wonder of those are se pre-programmed actions or he is actually learning...
I saw it clip a pedestrian with it's antlers. I don't think it was deliberate. Still, there was blood.
The animals in GTA:V do have attacks (sharks, dogs and mountain cats bite, etc). If you use a mod to play as an animal it becomes your melee attack.

Modding support in the GTA series is excellent, and has spawned a large community. It's refreshing to see as locked down games with DLC sold for extra are becoming the norm, with a few notable exceptions such as the Fallout series.

I've been having a lot of fun using a police mod where you can spawn FIB elite units that are allies. It'd be great to command an animal army as well!

What if it doesn't respawn, but instead a new deer spawns and the camera moves to follow that new deer? Eventually, the deer could multiply then overrun the world!
I didn't know there were mineshafts in GTA:V - where is it located?
It's just stuck on a rail track :(
There was some glitch. Now the deer is trapped in a mine shaft...

Edit: Didn't know it respawns to a new location pretty often.

It has been moved. No longer stuck in the mine.
I'm legitimately looking forward to a "bird cam". If I can run it locally, I'm setting it up for Ultra-High with HighDef textures and leaving it streaming in the office. I love the GTA V cityscape.
The world in GTAV is seriously an achievement. I can say that there were points playing through it that I legitimately had to stop just to marvel at the view.

For a video game, that is pretty impressive.

This is basically why I'm really excited about VR. I had the same experience with Just Cause 2, and I think that would also be amazing with VR.

Edit: if you have a Google Cardboard-type device and a iOS or Android device to go with it, https://www.vg247.com/2015/09/24/just-cause-3-vr-app-ios-and...

Edit 2: I've also found that these Cardboard-style VR things work with the "cross view" technique: https://m.reddit.com/r/CrossView/about if you don't have anything aside from a screen but still wish to play along :)

That was achieved way before GTA V.

Even Red Dead Redemption and Just Cause 2 achieved that a few years earlier.

Sad to say that it's better viewing than almost all free-to-air TV in Australia.

Someone should extend this to script a series of characters in various games and automate Twitch production to make a living.

Honestly, why not though? Write a sufficient enough AI, get your camera angles right, and slow down the decision tree with some dialogue, and you've essentially got a movie. Not saying it'll be grand, but it certainly won't be the worst thing produced in a given year; probably guaranteed to be the best for a given cost.
Further on that, you could probably create a batshit-insane zoo of some sort which combined a variety of animals in a fixed environment. Make it an Apple TV app/channel.

In a physical zoo experience, the animals are caged and often just hide out the day. In the batshit-insane zoo, they'd be entertaining everyone all the time without any animal welfare issues.

In can foresee a time where the majority of people (e.g., not purists or those with money to travel) are more regularly entertained by virtual animals than the real thing.

Take GTA V, add Godzilla and let the public watch what happens.

That's exactly what I said! More entertaining than any Aussie TV :)
Didnt the guy that made the "Twitch Plays Pokemon" do this? He probably made an absolute killing.

That or amazon did for sure (owns Twitch)

> Sad to say that it's better viewing than almost all free-to-air TV in Australia.

and germany.

Salty Bet does something very similar to that. When there's no major e-sports matches going on, various automated fighting game characters (including custom community submitted characters) are pitted against one another in fights, which are streamed live.

The audience places bets.

I love that the deer has figured out teleportation and the humans haven't figured out how to notice a deer.
Helicopter chasing it now.
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Its currently being shot by a tank. Cant it die?
And then the Batman vs Superman advertisement showed up. I thought that was rather fitting... :-)
Jesus, Twitch is still using Flash? What year is it anyway?
Yeah, right? That said, you can avoid the Flash by streaming the video to a native video player with ttp://docs.livestreamer.io/
Interesting. I tried livestreamer first and got an error about it not recognizing the URL pattern, but then I just upgraded and it seems to be working
I'm seeing the HTML5 player.
What browser? I'm using chrome, and I had to use the devtools to hide the overlays so I could get it to play. Now the video is showing behind the text on the page, but at least I can see it.
I seem to get the HTML5 viewer by default in Firefox on OSX.
Getting streaming to work in HTML5 is magnitudes harder than normal video. You can't compare Twitch to other web video players. In fact, there is no official support for live streaming in HTML5.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/22001830/5917315

I just watched a tank shoot at the deer point blank to knock it down and then run over it. The deer promptly got back up and started running away.

The deer currently has a 4-star rating, and I don't know how it's going to remove those stars since it doesn't look like it's programmed to try and hide from the police. Looks like it's a fugitive for life.

EDIT: Okay the stars went away, not sure how that happened. It's been a while since I've played.

EDIT2: I think I know what happened. The deer was in the airport, and that gets you automatic police attention. As soon as the deer was chased out of the airport by the tanks, the stars went away.

It's likely the mod that is being used for the stream that just cleared it (periodically maybe, like the teleportation?)

In GTA, you'd have to die or get away from the police long enough to lose the stars, and obviously the deer did neither...

I just watched the deer teleport to a new random location, so it's definitely that.

It was probably teleported into the airport, then shot at by the police and army for a while until it was teleported out.

I've never played this game so I'm trying to imagine it based on parent comments. It is trippy and dark with sci fi elements.
The indestructable deer was having an Akira-like engagement with tanks for a while.
Modification of GTA V that creates and follows a deer wandering through the fictional state of San Andreas. The deer character is autonomous and will wander and respond to it's surroundings, interacting with the existing GTA V artifical intelligence.

More information from its creator here: http://bwatanabe.com/GTA_V_WanderingDeer.html

It needs to learn to jump over walls and fences and things like a real deer.
Guessing they've just replaced the player skin with that of the deer. Would make sense, since a program could read the players position from memory and pick random targets or directions for it to head towards. Also makes sense why it would be shot at...
IIRC, In GTAV you can play as an animals; deer, pegion, cat, etc.
The deer currently has it's head stuck in some red scaffolding.
It's not a deer cam. It's a drone following behind the deer cam.
Maybe it's another deer behind though. You opened my mind.
is this the next step after "Twitch plays..."?
"Game plays itself; Twitch watches."
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Some moments are art. The silence, the randomness, and the lack of purpose.
I was going to say; now it's stuck in the water, but it just started moving again.
Without risk of death of the main player, it's not as interesting.