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I thought QC meant QuakeC, the language John carmack made to code game logic in quake 1. Was so confused for a moment haha

Other than quake 3, the quakes have all been subpar after the first one. I liked aspects of 2, but 4 was trash. Quake live is just a revamp of 3, and quake champions is okay looking and kinda fun but starting to charge for it is the opposite move I would’ve expected because it’s just kind of okay and not many people will pay for it.

I wouldn’t say that Quake is more slow-paced, for me it was even more dynamic, especially if you start using rocket jumps etc.

In my opinion, the visuals were not, as you put it, “boooring”. I liked the atmosphere and I remember there being more colors than just brown ;) But it’s true that in general it has a rather gloomy palette.

Agree with everything you wrote but especially those ^

It was dark and gloomy on purpose and I loved (and still love) that. Op makes it sound like the art direction was lacking and that is hella-untrue. It’s just not their favorite kind of aesthetic.

would consider the multiplayer part of Quake nearly its own thing.

Well yeah. It was always the main thing. Quake 3 is just the first one where id was upfront about it.

It doesn’t sound like you played multiplayer. Which was kinda the point of quake.

I take issue with this review. Quake was awesome. The aesthetic, the graphics, the soundtrack and sound effects, the multiplayer, the weapons, all of them even today kick ass.

Primarily because it makes your setup easily repeated and able to be quickly stood up on new machine

A moron is recognized by most. Congratulations, you’re famously so.

Every fucking weird claim you make about Linux is so stupid/false it’s not worth the effort to disprove. All you are is an idiotic troll with nothing better to do than shill for corporations. I guess you left your safe space where you control the narrative because you banned everyone from countering your beyond-stupid lies there.

Lol says the infamous Linux hating weirdo troll. What are you doing outside your little safe space anyway?

Agreed. This app is pretty solid.

I think we are on the same page there… I kinda think we are probably doomed, but I don’t want to fully give up.

and never think much about it

Actually a lot of people do think about it. Which is what I’m really advocating for here. I don’t expect or demand AI to go away. What I see as the problem is the same as the root problem elsewhere: all or nothing thinking. Either AI is good or it’s bad. I want there to be a world where we don’t run full speed with AI, dismissing valid point from detractors. In a world where 98% of people are not thinking about the dangers of AI, I’m glad 2% are, even if sometimes they come off like zealots…

but they aren’t necessary to have AI

Does that matter if a thousand billionaires are building those based upon investors being convinced of the precise opposite? I’m not even sure what the truth is but it seems not all that important since I don’t get to decide what gets built. What I can do is have tiny influence on the people I speak to. I can make them aware of the problem and maybe that can bubble up to a larger understanding if enough people spread that awareness also.

I’m not sure anyone is insisting on calling things slop which cannot be discerned isn’t human-written. Like another commenter pointed out, it’s the obvious-slop that is the subject of ire.

you’d have to be really stupid to give AI such unfettered access to your repository

So 1) we absolutely know people are much stupider than that. and 2) does exactly that has widely been observed.

They’re even worse for the environment than AI

…no. Likely not even close. You’re really saying that the likely ~10% of the world population playing video games an hour a day on average (admitted total guess but it cannot be super high) is going to exceed a technology that is getting shoehorned into literally everything? You cannot even search the internet anymore without these GPUs heating up to run AI for you whether you want it or not. Web searches are something any connected person does. You can hardly type a sentence these days without AI software running in the back. And that’s all only going to increase.

If the attitude is “fuck it we’re doomed regardless” then there’s no societal problem anyone can convince you to care about. I feel that way too sometimes but it really isn’t helping anything. It might be hard to contain that feeling for you, but I hope that changes. It overwhelms me a lot too. But I do hope we can fight that feeling off long enough to turn some key things around. The only hope we’ve got is to fight that fight.

I use AI a little here and there, and want it not to be the evil that it is. But it fuckin’ is. It’s going to cause so many problems and it uses tons of electricity. Worst thing for the environment since cars. And even if you ignore all of that, it just plain makes so many mistakes that even ignoring the societal implications… it’s lacking at best.

I used to think like you (seem to), until I started noticing just how oblivious everyone is to the downsides. Actually seems like a good thing to have some people “overreacting” imo. It’s better than billions underreacting. Ignoring everything else, what are we going to do as a society when 60% of jobs go away? You imagine it will be an easy fight getting a universal basic income or some form of socialist policy? I think millions are going to die during that fight, very much best case scenario. This is going to disrupt society in so many bad ways that it’s hard to even anticipate.

Huh. I mostly read the use of “slop” and “vibe” to be fair depictions

It’s unclear to me – does it have any kind of wine or proton integration?

I was about to say, that sounds just like libation! Turns out it is the same. Either “liberate” was a typo (no shade, just noticing) or they changed the name?

In any case that app is fuckin awesome. It makes short work of freeing your entire audible library of drm.

If you had half as much bile for Republicans, one might think you’re an actual leftist.

… You just literally said hosting shouldn’t exist. You are using the Internet right now.

Gotcha. We’ll see, I guess.

Are you advocating for an self hosting to only exist locally. Or are you advocating for hosting everything on corporate servers?

Then they aren’t doing it correctly, or lying. That is an included/free feature. They advertise it that way and other users ITT say it works. I’ve no reason to doubt them.

I didn’t realize I did that. Given that my opinion on OSes is that “the larger the budget, the shittier it is”, I don’t knowingly do what you’re suggesting here. Linux over windows and macOS any day.

Yes, they changed the free featureset, and afaik those changes were fair. Providing a tunnel for remote streaming for free doesn’t seem like a good business plan. I mean, yeah they could always back out of the promise of what a lifetime pass is, and if they do I will find a new solution and hope they’re sued for it.

If they do back out of their lifetime commitment, I suspect that would drive some other similar apps to get better. Maybe I would even learn to live with jellyfin as it currently exists in that situation. But so far I don’t see a reason to, and that would almost have been true if I never paid for plex.

God I hate humans

Here’s a controversial and complex stance, but you may be able to understand it eventually:

Don’t buy it.

I am a proponent of FOSS too but that doesn’t mean anything built for profit is shitty, let alone “cancer”.