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roguebanshee wrote on Apr 13, 2025, 06:39:
The original Marathon was a noteworthy milestone for two reasons:
1) Being a FPS game for Mac
2) Using logs to tell the story/provide lore
Also:
3) The first FPS to let you look/aim up and down
4) The first FPS to have weapons with an alt-fire
5) The first FPS to let you dual-wield certain weapons
6) a rudimentary physics system (entities had mass and could be moved with explosions, leading to grenade-hopping years before rocket jumping in Quake became a thing)
The original Marathon (1994) was ground-breaking and imaginative. This game looks like the opposite of that.
As an old-school original Marathon trilogy fan (I liked Bungie before it was cool, dagnammit), this teaser did nothing for me at all.
Am I so out of touch?
No. It's the children who are wrong.
Am I so out of touch?
No. It's the children who are wrong.
FFS Razer, nobody wants this crap. Invest that money in improving the build quality of your hardware.
Sepharo wrote on Feb 19, 2025, 21:37:People say stuff like that because they understand how Gen-AI works - it doesn't create, it only remixes. In technical terms it's a probabilistic copier pulling from an extremely large dataset. If a piece of AI generated "art" looks original to you, it's not because it's new, it's because you're unfamiliar with the original works that were copied, or because it's changed just enough to make it hard to identify. They're glorified plagiarism machines.
Dunno why people say stuff like that all the time.
Generative AI absolutely can do synthesis and create new things that it's never seen.
Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 23:38:
Amen! but...
in all fairness, isn't that how we worshiped the flag, I mean saluted the flag here in America back in the day? Infact that shit was even mandated by law in June of 1942. The Bellamy salute.
I'm Australian and we never did that kind of thing, but when I see Americans being all creepy and patriotic on TV aren't they doing it with their hand over their heart?
Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 21:18:
yeah... you're not wrong, but I give him an alibi for being all autistic and shit.
I'm autistic but I know what a Nazi salute means and I know never to do it even as a joke.
fujiJuice wrote on Jan 12, 2025, 00:17:
Indeed. I just interpret that headline as they don't plan on spending a lot of time on a story.
I'm interpreting it as "Our games are mediocre at best, but if we pay lip-service to the the anti-woke nutjobs then we might get a few more sales at least."
All art contains a "social and political agenda". If that agenda is invisible to you, that's because it's echoing or reinforcing what you already believe.
Choosing to ignore DEI (ie: embracing your lack of diversity, equity, and inclusivity) *is* a social and political agenda.
Choosing to ignore DEI (ie: embracing your lack of diversity, equity, and inclusivity) *is* a social and political agenda.
GHOB wrote on Jan 7, 2025, 01:08:
I rarely use Nexus Mods these days. The website keeps pushing a very particular extreme left wing political agenda and is anti gamer. I also don't believe their pronouncement about getting 'death threats'. Just fake progressive victimhood.
BWAHAHAHA!!!
...you're a parody account, right? There's no way you're being serious.
It tells you something about people's motives for voting when "Outstanding Visual Style" goes to Silent Hill 2 instead of HADES 2.
I've never heard it pronounced as anything other than 'jib' for as long as it's been in use.
*looks at the GOTY nominees*
Am I so out of touch?
No, it's the children who are wrong.
Am I so out of touch?
No, it's the children who are wrong.
Zerg wrote on Nov 11, 2024, 18:54:
No, no, he has a point. Deus Ex has always dealt with conspiracies. The kinds of conspiracies a lot of people knew about but didn't buy into.
Sadly, it seems that they are now bought.
As a writer I can totally sympathise with him. My Sci-fi webcomic (started in 2006) was all about galaxy-wide conspiracies, evil corporations, and the dangers of "Patriotism weaponised by Tyrants" (as one of my character put it). By the time the second story arc wrapped up in late 2020 it had become rather depressing to work on, so I had to end it.
8 hours in and I'm having a blast. It's different, so some people are bound to hate it, and it's BioWare/EA, so some people will choose to hate it regardless, but it's a solid game with fun combat.
To those hating on it for being 'political' or 'woke': It's Dragon Age, you fucking tourists.
To those hating on it for being 'political' or 'woke': It's Dragon Age, you fucking tourists.
Loved this when it was first released on PC. Cool story, fun gameplay, likeable protagonist, fascinating world, and really pretty to look at. If I ever choose to replay I'll get the remaster upgrade, but I don't see that happening any time soon - especially not with Veilguard about to drop.
Generative AIs aren't intelligent at all. They don't think. They're just probabilistic copiers, spewing out regurgitated content based on keyword tags without any kind of interpretation or understanding. They're glorified plagiarism machines. If they ever "threaten" us it'll because we've become too stupid to live.
If Musk really wants to prove gross negligence on the part of Twitter's former executives, all he needs to do is say "Those idiots let me take charge!"
An idiotic decision that's just going to make a lot of people feel even less safe on twitter.
Meanwhile, Bluesky has reached 10 million users, has no advertising, full block features, and far fewer nazis...
Meanwhile, Bluesky has reached 10 million users, has no advertising, full block features, and far fewer nazis...
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