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True Dragon Age fans don't hate one game.
They hate all the games.
These the truths the Maker has revealed to me: As there is but one world one life, one death, there is no good Dragon Age, and it is His shitpost They are sinners, who has given their love to false piss.
This sounds a lot like "Star Wars fans hate Star Wars".
Without meaning to invalidate anyone's anti-AI sentiments (I think the AI bubble is a goddamn scourge that cannot burst soon enough and that I'm not sure I really care how much "economic damage" it causes if it means buying a new SSD or memory doesn't require remortgaging your fucking house) I feel like the reactions here may have let their fury at the AI bubble blind them to what this actually might be.
(Disclaimer: this is all just a knee-jerk reaction. I haven't looked up the patent. I don't know anything.)
I suspect this is an extension of the thing the Mario games do where if you're clearly struggling on a level they'll give you the option of having Luigi play through the level so you can see how it's done (which might help you go back and do it yourself afterwards!) and move on to the next one.
The reason the Mario games can do that is that your ability set is a static known quantity; they can record the inputs of a safe successful completion and play them back on command. That wouldn't work for a game like Dark Souls or Skyrim where the player's options are more diverse and varied, because there's no (or at least no reasonable) set of inputs which can beat a boss regardless of your weapon, armour, stats etc. I think Sony has patented using something branded as "AI" to generate the inputs at runtime instead.
It will cause some wailing and gnashing of teeth from the "video games are a test of virtue" crowd but developers already largely don't care about them. If you get stuck because a book used a word you don't know you can move on and see if context fills in what it means for you, and there's no compelling reason for video games to be different.
crossposting from cohost because i'm too bummed about this for only one website to contain it
there's a new OG doom release or whatever
tbh i think it massively sucks that a massive corporation — which is now owned by fucking microsoft — bought a GPL game and started working on it again and made new releases no longer under the GPL and on fewer platforms (windows only! how do you fuck this up), when the game is only belovéd in the first place because of the staggering amount of work the community put in for free over the last thirty years
doom was like the one grand success story of an open source commercial game. without the GPL release it would've ended at doom 95. there would never have been boom or mbf, never have been any such thing as a limit-removing port. even sigil would not exist. a handful of people would still play it in dosbox and that'd be about it.
they even reimplemented boom from scratch. feels weird. most of the original boom authors aren't even alive any more. maybe i'm a hypocrite for feeling uneasy about that since i reimplemented chip's challenge, but i did that to make it more free, not to make it proprietary. i'm not using community work as a marketing bullet point for my paid product. (chip's challenge 2 did that though)
they hired some doom community people for this, and, good for those specific few people, i guess. that doesn't feel worthy of applause though. like you'd be stupid not to hire the only people around who've worked on this game recently
and no one on doomworld really cares? they care about the thing they get in their hands right now. jingling keys. people are excited that more unreleased doom beta stuff is included and all i can think about is how bethesda got mad at romero and told him to stop posting that kinda thing publicly. now we know why! they can't sell john romero's doomworld posts, but they can sell adrian carmack's unused sprites
just feels sad. thirty years of stuff built on the back of an open source release and no real appreciation for how powerful that was
thanks for all the free labor, everyone, but now it belongs to microsoft. look how magnanimous they are, with all their embracing and extending
I keep seeing these kinds of complaints about the rerelease and all I can really gleam from them is that they're incredibly alarmist over what is essentially nothing.
First of all, you can run the new rerelease on Linux with Proton, as with any other Kex engine game. That's a non-issue.
The reason the remaster's Boom/MBF/MBF21 implementations feel weird is because when you combine the fact you have to rework it from scratch with a deadline, it's not going to be perfect on launch. That is the unfortunate reality of commercial remasters versus open-source port projects. I did make a bug report thread for this release on Doomworld, and if activity on SteamDB is any indicator, the devs are hard at work patching the existing issues.
This remaster has basically no restrictive effect on existing mod, map, and source port development. If anything, it's spurring new developments with the introduction of the ID24 modding standard, which has publicly available source code and is in active development as well. We're already seeing some of its features being implemented in dev builds for ports like Woof.
To summarize: Doom's modding scene is not in danger because of this rerelease. Doom's existing GPL source release are not going away, nor are the amazing source ports that have come from it.
i'm not sure what in here strikes you as alarmist. i'm actually not sure what you think you're replying to at all
like, my issue is not "the lack of full source code could have all these negative concrete side effects". my issue is "the lack of full source code", full stop
because that is a good and noble and valuable thing to share, and a game that was open source for 25 years has now been made no longer open source, by fucking microsoft
i'm aware that proprietary software can exist, and even run! i think you will find that most video games are in that category in fact. i also think source code releases are the best thing that can happen to software as an ecosystem and that doom's legacy is an outstanding example of this, and i think microsoft is trampling on that legacy
their boom reimplementation doesn't feel weird because it's buggy. it feels weird that it exists, because they painstakingly recreated free GPL-licensed community work. and why? so they could list compatibility with more free community work as a bullet point on their paid, proprietary product.
and meanwhile they don't even have the decency to throw us a real bone, like, i don't know, official permission to remix doom assets? no, they're happy to leave everyone in legal limbo, while also packaging all the free work as more stuff you can play in the official port. their free-for-all upload system tells you how much they care about wads as creative works
proton is a joke btw. i prefer for my operating system to actually have software written for it and not just be windows with extra steps (when wine actually works) (and keeps working), especially when that software, famously, used to run on linux, and in fact had to be ported back to dos because the original open source release didn't run on anything else. if you can port this thing to the switch then it cannot be that much harder to port it to linux. it's reading input and opengl! this is not difficult! and if it were open source then it would've been ported already!
none of what i said is about alarmism or threats to the modding scene or whatever. it is about open source being valuable unto itself, and about micro-thesda-zeni-kex's attitude towards the culture it is leeching off of for profit
why is proton catching strays here, it's basically magic
Because the GP presented Proton as The Solution To Running Games On Mac And Linux as if they're not real operating systems and need a layer of I Can't Believe It's Not Windows to run anything but XBill and Frozen Bubble. Developers who do release Linux ports of their games have reported receiving substantially more and substantially better-quality bug reports (which affect all platforms, this isn't "Linux is buggy" or similar) because it turns out that a culture of "if there's a problem, figure out what you can and then tell the developer" is better for software than one of "if there's a problem, find someone to blame and then call them a slur on social media". Commercial game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine or Godot all come with the ability to generate Mac and Linux binaries by default, and developers actively choose not to use them; that's insulting to the people who already use those platforms, and actively unhelpful in a world which is increasingly looking to get away from the dual hegemony of x86 and Windows.
I wanna respect everyone’s preferences and I DO but there is a difference between Respecting and Understanding and that is where I am at with people who actively dislike Drinking Water. I know you exist. My brother is one of you. The Fuck do you mean “it tastes bad” it has the least amount of taste a thing can have. Fucking Air Scented LaCroix. “It tastes bad” fucking WINDEX tastes bad COW SHIT tastes bad. what the hell are you talking about
Water absolutely has flavour, and that flavour differs by region depending on where the water comes from and what they do with it before it gets to your tap. I live in a hard-water area; we did have a filter pitcher at one point and I do not remotely understand the appeal because filtered water tastes like depression and charcoal, whereas the water straight out of the tap tastes pretty good to me.
Final Fantasy XV is like, the Dark Souls of FF lore. And it's not even intentional, which is bullshit. I have to piece together scrap bits here and there from different periods of production, figure out if that official manga contradicts what was laid out in the game, consult the scriptures of the canceled DLC-Turned-Novel, backtrack through game patches to see what item descriptions changed, consult different localizations, consult the goddamn pocket version...
Did you know that the Starscourge, the main driving force of the plot of XV, being a disease that can turn humans into daemons, the thing that Noctis has to sacrifice his life to get rid of because even the gods can't do it, is only revealed to have come from the meteor that Titan caught (and thus be from beyond the stars) in the German localization?
i hate it here
the tags on this post are a Fucking Delight but this one killed me dead actually
DID YOU KNOW
there is legit unique lore in the owner’s manual for the one-of-a-kind custom Audi that they commissioned in advance of the game? A car, the Star of Lucis, that can only be owned by one ridiculously wealthy person, HAS ORIGINAL LORE
This is the content that is buried in the code of the archive.org site from Audi for the Star of Lucis. Due to now broken code on archive pa
you--
you're fucking shitting me
WHAT THE FUCK SQUARE
oh i've been staring at this for the past five minutes in absolute disbelief what do you mean the fucking CAR has ORIGINAL LORE
I'm so salty actually. They made a REAL CAR and can tell me how fast it goes and what the art on the car means but I can't figure out the fucking governmental structure of anything in Eos.
Who has the power to levy taxes in Niflheim? What do administrative subdivisions look like? Is it a federated state? Are there courts of justice? Does the Chancellor have to retain the confidence of a legislative assembly? (I presume the answer to this one is no, because Ardyn managed to hold the post for longer than two days.)
Can I know anything about the configuration of Lucis’ council? The names of the noble houses? How about who manages the Outlands? What about the roads that we spend all game driving on?? No??
But sure I can know that there’s three different theme named blacks for color options for the car!!
I think Square-Enix might need an intervention. Between this and the absolute mess they made of Kingdom Hearts lore they clearly have a problem with getting their dinner all over themselves and the walls.
Monolith Soft are also on notice. They pulled their dicks out of the fire once by putting all the relevant information from the Siren model kit in Xenoblade 3, but there's still messes like the localisation obscuring that the "Saviorite rebels" mentioned in Xenoblade 2 seem to be the same thing as the "Salvator faction" in Xenosaga.
Isn't it convenient how the use of AI-generated textures suddenly became okay to a bunch of people when it was in critically-acclaimed indie darling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and not one of the twelve loads of putrid shovelware uploaded to Steam in the past hour?
"Oh, it's okay, it was only two textures! They were just placeholders!" Do you really believe that? Do you really believe that they did a massive amount of work producing all the other textures in the game, but forgot two in particular which just happened to use placeholders generated with AI? Or is it more likely that other textures in the game are also AI-generated, and you just didn't notice because you haven't tracked every random texture of sand or grass or pebbles back to a stock image collection?
I would imagine it takes less time to stick "TEMP" on a blank background or grab a picture from a public-domain source than it does to type a prompt into ComfyUI and generate a slop image. If they visited the AI well for those two textures, it probably wasn't the only time.
not a translation, but i thought you might like to know that in gladiator ii there's a 3 second shot where "irrumpo imperatores" is graffitied onto the wall in the background which is a nice touch of historical accuracy imo
I've never seen the films but that's awesome. I wonder if it's based on a real preserved graffito or if it was invented for the film?
It's not grammatically incorrect, but it doesn't mean what I think they wanted it to mean ("fuck emperors", in the vein of HBO's Rome including G-rated graffiti like Atia fellat and Atia amat omnes). Irrumpo means "I burst in, I intrude, I invade" which is a bit too flowery as a graffitied threat; the verb I think they were going for is irrumo "I facefuck".
It's kinda funny that both french and castillan use the the word for silver (plata, argent) to mean "money". In german they say "geld" (gold) which is somewhat similar
Bret Devereaux has a great article on this. Coinage in Ancient and Middle Ages Europe was actually done by the most part on silver, and that mostly continued on early modernity.
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and ro
Gold was used mostly for very, very big trades, often involving things between states, it was very unlikely that a regular person could find use for a gold coin. And regardless, ancient and medieval societies were mostly non-monetary outside of big cities, so few people actually had coins of any kind. Getting gold coins must also be a hassle because you would have to find people to appraise them and give you the proper change, and since every coin had different alloys and values pre-standarization....
(It's fiction of course, but Spice and Wolf has a great take on this, where Lawrence gets some gold coins and has to spend time getting a guy to, basically, give him change, as well as entering into speculation with the coins themselves, in this era, the coins themselves were as much as a good as they were currency)
Don't know why the Germans say Geld though, maybe they were richer.
The German for "gold" is Gold, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰelh₃- which also gives us the word yellow). Geld means "money", from Proto-Germanic *geldą. a nominalisation of the verb *geldaną "to pay"—the English cognate is yield.
i kind of hate the reputation dark souls' fans have given it as this super hard pinnacle of gaming challenges. like its hard but its not even THAT hard. I'm all around pretty bad at video games and I was able to get through it without too much trouble
ds1 and 2 offer creative solutions to anyone paying attention enough to work them out, but it has become so ingrained into the culture of dark souls that you must only engage with the most basic mechanics and ignore those developer intended solutions that people call them "cheese", as though exploiting a bug or something when you use them. it's crazy.
I’ll never get over the fact that these games teach the player persistence and patience, and that every challenge is surmountable with time and consideration, and yet the core player base is so focused on the bragging rights and feeling of exclusivity that comes with Beating The Difficult Game that they gatekeep, push back on, and reject anything that makes subsequent games more accessible, easier to learn, or more fun. I also feel like there’s a separate post to be made about how that mindset has also leaked into their perception of themselves/player avatars as protagonists (“we’re canonically the most powerful beings in the world, when you think about it”) and turned a persistence fantasy into a power fantasy. it’s really strange to see.
There's definitely some stuff people suggest is intended behaviour which I suspect actually isn't—notably, people suggest throwing things over the wall at the Capra Demon but I doubt you're ever intended to beat a boss which is activated by walking through a fog gate by doing things that don't involve walking through the fog gate—but yes the change in the timbre of the playerbase from "lol giantdad one point in DEX" to "if you use spirit ashes you didn't ~really~ beat the game" and "they nerfed Radahn for the sake of casuals" really sucks. (Absolutely do not get me started on the way people glaze the fuck out of Radahn and make him out to be a "gigachad" second only to fucking Godfrey. I hate it so much.)
I am on my knees begging you to learn how to interpret metaphors and symbolism
The difference between observing reality and writing is that, while you can pick and choose what to focus on in real life, you cannot encompass every detail of every moment in a book without it becoming incredibly dense, slow, and difficult to follow.
So a writer has to choose what details to include. And while the choices they make COULD be random- making the curtains blue because the curtains in the writer’s home are blue- they also contribute to the atmosphere and message we can take away from the story
If you assume that no choice made by the writer is pointless, we can have a conversation WITH the writer- we can have a conversation with OURSELVES, with SOCIETY.
Symbolism is the body language of a written work. Sure, you can take everything the writer says at face value, but there’s a VERY BIG DIFFERENCE between someone looking you in the eye with shoulders squared and saying “close the curtains”, and that same person meekly shuffling their feet with arms crossed, staring at some place on the floor and muttering, “close the curtains.”
Sure, it could be nothing. But don’t you kind of want to know? Aren’t you curious? Aren’t people more interesting that way?
I think it's worth noting that this argument contains one falsehood: you cannot, in fact, have a conversation with the author by analysing their work. This is one of the themes of Davey Wreden's The Beginner's Guide—the narrator the reader imagines is subgradient to the author in the same way that the audience member the author imagines is subgradient to the reader.
"Money can't buy happiness" is a very easy thing to say when you can afford to see a doctor.
Nobody who has said that has ever faced a serious medical issue and had to just ignore it no matter the consequences because going to a doctor/dentist/ER was just too expensive to even consider. Like accessible medical care is the bare minimum for any happiness in life whatsoever and people just cannot comprehend that if they've never had to go without it.
I think the problem is someone somewhere in the chain has misunderstood what "money can't buy happiness" actually means. Many people have a bunch of problems which can be solved by money; for them, money solving all those problems will absolutely make them happier!
Once you have sufficient money that you can solve problems which can be solved with money as they come up, though, you may find you're still unhappy. This is a problem which cannot be solved with money; if you try to anyway then you'll still be unhappy and now have less money, which could impede your ability to solve the problems that can!
How many people are fans of Dragon Warrior Monsters without having been/become a fan of the rest of the Dragon Warrior brand? It seems like the people posting in the tag either were already fans as a result of the series' presence in the United States and moved towards DWM because it was More Dragon Warrior or became fans of Dragon Warrior afterwards, whereas I found out about it because of a magazine ad presenting it as for people who played and enjoyed the original Pokemon and wanted something similar to fill the gap that felt like an eternity until Gold and Silver came out in English. (I later learned it was the first Dragon Warrior game to be released in Europe at all.)
As a result, it seems like most people who like it like DWM2 more than DWM1, whereas while I appreciate some of the improvements the sequel made to the original game's systems (and the localisation is substantially improved courtesy of Nob Ogasawara) it doesn't grab me like DWM1's gameplay loop of delving into randomly-generated dungeons. Part of it is that I think I struggle to connect to a plot delivered purely in the form of two/three-line textboxes with no voiced dialogue (RPGs on constrained hardware don't do anything for me, but I love Panzer Dragoon Saga and the Xenoblade games) so I have neither any intrinsic motivation to follow the more involved plotline of DWM2 nor any preexisting connection to Coby and Tara to make me invested in the outcome.
I swear if the "new game" is one of the canceled games I will delete this blog
As I understand it that was about Bandai Namco Studios, the developer, not Bandai Namco Enterprises, the publisher. Code Vein's developer is and always has been Shift.
They will destroy nature and call it saving the planet.
Joshua Trees are a weird thing that stayed since the last Ice Age. They're on the decline anyways because no mega mammals eat their seeds and pop them out else where anymore. Hasen't been one around in over ten thousand years but still they persist. Sometimes they thrive in small areas and other times they die out.
Then California decides fuck the Joshua Trees and destroys four thousand of them.
Fuck California. Joshua Trees provide shelter to hundreds of different species.
Cunts.
People asking if there is anything that can be done, YES.
Conservation Groups Ask Interior Department to Cancel Solar Project over Desert Tortoise Impacts
There is a group trying to get this halted but they need to be boosted!
This is propaganda. Joshua trees aren't endangered, removing four thousand to install solar panels isn't a tragedy, and nuclear power (which credulous idiots in the notes for this post are proposing as an alternative) is a goddamn mess.
Because the official art for the character isn't final and not really hd, I have to do search for what type of gun Louis is holding
The closest I could find similar to his design was browning, probably gonna do more search later
Idk a lot about gun, but I guess it's time for me to start looking for this kind of thing for me dream job o(-(
I don't have any 3D modelling abilities so I can't do the obvious thing of deleting everything that's not the handgun, but I confirmed that it's partially modelled in there by looking at it in wireframe mode and I clipped umodel's camera into the holster itself.
Assessment from a gunsmith friend based on my gonzo photography: "not a real gun; has elements of the 1911, CZ-75, pre-export M9 and VP70".
Because the official art for the character isn't final and not really hd, I have to do search for what type of gun Louis is holding
The closest I could find similar to his design was browning, probably gonna do more search later
Idk a lot about gun, but I guess it's time for me to start looking for this kind of thing for me dream job o(-(
I don't have any 3D modelling abilities so I can't do the obvious thing of deleting everything that's not the handgun, but I confirmed that it's partially modelled in there by looking at it in wireframe mode and I clipped umodel's camera into the holster itself.
Wireless headphones are great. I end up breaking wired headphones because I want to move around, forget they're on my head and yank on the wire. I'm not taking my keyboard and mouse anywhere, though, so why would they need to be wireless?
