A idea like this has been on the back of my mind but more like forming a taxonomy of embellishments and dramatic license. Figure out which ones are somewhat necessary and which ones are "bad". Particularly bad would be those that villainize a real person which role in the actual event was more benign. Coach Dan Devine in "Rudy" and boxer Max Baer Sr. in "Cinderella Man" come to mind.
I've internally thought of a similar metaphor. Previous generations didn't have to conscientious of food intake. Food options were more limited, there wasn't as much processed/calorie-dense food, work was more manual in nature and people likely walked greater distances. My dad who grew up during the Depression in the U.S. weighed 140 pounds in his '20s, but hit 280 in his '40s. That generation was kind of blindsided by the affect of this.
Likewise, my generation is dealing with an explosion of easy to consume streams of information and entertainment and we are kind of blindsided by that I have to conscientious of spending too much time consuming online information with Reddit being my biggest vice.
I was just thinking about something where I could design web based workflows that could use online services to perform transformations on items dragged into a dropped and perhaps the output would be downloadable.
Maybe this exists elsewhere, but is is free?. It is still a thought and I haven't dig deep to see what exists, but Flyde seems kind of close.
Hey, author here.
Did you try tools like Make or Pipedream for this use-case? Curious about what was missing for you in them.
With Flyde you can do that, and one of the monetization strategies I have planned for Flyde is Trigg - https://www.trigg.dev, a "visual serverless" platform based on Flyde, that can run the work flows for you and expose them as APIs. And for "ejection" purposes, one could always download the flow and use the lower-level Flyde to run it self-hosted.
I did a tiny bit in the late '90s at Mastercard. Wrote my share of TACL macros before that.
When I first saw the "99 Bottles of Beer" site, I was working for a company the was using the POSIX-layer OSS and C. I was able to "drop down" into Guardian and re-learn enough to contribute: https://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-tandem-tal-437.html
Bad stuff has always happened, but when something bad happens now, more people are made aware of it.
For example, when I was in high school in the the early '80s there was a shooting at a high school in my Midwestern US city. A kid brought a gun to school and shot two kids who said something about his brother. The shooter then turned the gun on himself. One of the other kids died too.
This was big news locally, I don't remember national TV coverage of it. There was no internet so if someone was 500 miles away, they never knew about it. It didn't spur a national debate about gun control, kid's mental health or school safety.
The idea of turning this into a simulation game is a possibility hence "warz" in the name.
It is a bunch of Jupyter notebooks being served by Voila. The "Blank.ipynb" one is more interactive but the ergonomics need work.
It is running free tier hosting so it could swamped if enough people use it simultaneously:
https://sportwarzsim-production.up.railway.app/
https://github.com/daltontf/SportWarzSim
There are instructions to run locally via Docker in the README.md