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"If you think inequality is bad you would just destroy wealth instead of reappropriate it for social welfare programs" isn't even technically correct it's just stupid
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Interesting that he's super self-aware of his lack of care for his fellow man, but also chooses to maintain a twitter account. edit: It's totally okay to say whatever you want as long as you preface it with "I'll probably get flack for this" first, right?
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Oct 12, 2020 19:18
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CJacobs posted:Interesting that he's super self-aware of his lack of care for his fellow man, but also chooses to maintain a twitter account. His emotional intelligence is low. I've known people on the spectrum who worked to grow theirs, but even Carmack's long-term coworkers and friends described him as an alien with bizarre notions of personal boundaries and day to day interactions. I really appreciate the good things he's done for the industry and for the tech sphere at large, but there's a gap in his understanding of the world beyond tech that becomes very apparent when he starts talking like this.
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Oct 12, 2020 19:32
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I'll probably get flack for this but there is new Doom Mod Madness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCt_C49zjiQ Also Civvie11 uploaded a new video for patreons and it's Death Wish
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Oct 12, 2020 19:33
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site posted:"If you think inequality is bad you would just destroy wealth instead of reappropriate it for social welfare programs" isn't even technically correct it's just stupid He isn't saying that. He is saying 'if everyone would be super poor everyone would be equal but still would be a very bad thing, so technically "inequality" isn't 100% objectively bad'. It's so much a theoretical talk of the meaning of a word that it doesn't mean a lot, much less 'if you don't like inequality you would destroy wealth'. Even he has to know that there are ways to redistribute wealth in the real world.
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Oct 12, 2020 19:39
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CJacobs posted:Interesting that he's super self-aware of his lack of care for his fellow man, but also chooses to maintain a twitter account. Anyways, he's just sharing his opinions, some of which aren't great and many of those for which he's called out. It would be better if he was more empathetic and more educated on social issues, sure, but there's some value in the discourse itself. Seeing someone you respect as a "smart guy" get smacked for not-well-thought-out opinions is its own experience.
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Oct 12, 2020 19:40
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repiv posted:the funny thing is he totally bungled his last few iterations of id tech, and it was the new team of ex-crytek people who brought it back to relevance 'last few' is too many, imo he only failed with Rage. Megatextures were a hilarious mistake. My pet theory is that he finally got bored of doing 3d engines, and unconsciously or not, he went into a more unique direction with MT because of that.
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Oct 12, 2020 19:42
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Turin Turambar posted:
He literally says "If you truly think so you would consider us better off if the wealth of the rich were simply destroyed. Not spent on your favored causes, but just removed from the world." site fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Oct 12, 2020 |
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Oct 12, 2020 19:44
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site posted:He literally says "If you truly think so you would consider us better off if the wealth of the rich were simply destroyed. Not spent on your favored causes, but just removed from the world." You are right, I misread. It's a pretty stupid thing to say, Robo-Carmack should see how objectively you diminish the inequality faster if you donate or whatever instead of destroying the wealth.
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Oct 12, 2020 19:52
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Turin Turambar posted:My pet theory is that he finally got bored of doing 3d engines, and unconsciously or not, he went into a more unique direction with MT because of that. I'm pretty sure what happened was that, like someone mentioned earlier, the id toolchain had gotten so bad that it was borderline unusable, especially to third parties, and they were feeling the pressure from Epic and others whose engines came with mature, documented, accessible editors. idtech 5 was an attempt to orient an engine around easy and efficient content creation, which is why the pitch was that artists could do whatever they wanted and let the toolchain sort it out.
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Oct 12, 2020 19:52
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SeANMcBAY posted:It’s amazing how such a brilliant programmer can be such a loving moron too. I knew he was libertarian but yeesh. I'll never get used to people being really smart about one thing but then absolutely loving stupid to an insane degree about very basic things.
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Oct 12, 2020 20:09
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haveblue posted:I'm pretty sure what happened was that, like someone mentioned earlier, the id toolchain had gotten so bad that it was borderline unusable, especially to third parties, and they were feeling the pressure from Epic and others whose engines came with mature, documented, accessible editors. idtech 5 was an attempt to orient an engine around easy and efficient content creation, which is why the pitch was that artists could do whatever they wanted and let the toolchain sort it out. Which it was a good idea, it was actually insightful of him (unlike his socio-economic ideas, heh) to focus on the artist figure, more than in the pure tech. I think the most visually striking games at this point are the ones with the best artists (and the artists that had more time, better tools, better toolchain to not waste time, etc), it isn't like in the old times where the engine itself decided it. But the rest failed. The toolchain also had problems from what I heard, it needed super beefy clusters in the backend, the idea didn't work well as it required too much storage and the final result wasn't that superior to traditional techniques, the real time loading was too visible, etc.
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Oct 12, 2020 20:27
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On the other hand how many home runs in a row had the guy hit at that point? Keen, Wolf3D, idTech 1, Quake, idTech 2, 3, and arguably 4? Picking a path that ended up being a dead end was bound to happen eventually.
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Oct 12, 2020 20:33
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I want this dating sim
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Oct 12, 2020 22:47
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Arcane Dimensions 1.8 is out! http://www.simonoc.com/pages/design/sp/ad.htm
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Oct 12, 2020 22:57
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c0burn posted:Arcane Dimensions 1.8 is out! For people who want to load the new maps directly: quote:v1.8+ Maps
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Oct 12, 2020 23:01
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So. Pretty.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:32
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I watched Civvie's video on Heretic. I've only played the first couple of levels of Heretic, and I didn't know that much about it, so seeing how some of the powerups seems improved over the Doom variants, and how none of the enemy attacks are hitscan was interesting. That said, I think he also touches on one of the reasons why Heretic has never really held my interest; that being that the game seems like it can be a slog with a high number of bullet-sponge enemies. As someone mentioned, his next video is going to be on the Death Wish mod for Blood, which pisses me off because I still haven't played Death Wish yet, and now I feel like I should play the mod first before I watch it. That also reminds me that I haven't played Sigil yet.
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Oct 13, 2020 03:45
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Beat episodes 1 and 2 of Wolfenstein 3D. I’m enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. You really have to play more stealthily than in Doom, at least you do on Bring ‘em on! It’s really charming to see their attempts to make things like bathrooms and kitchens in such a limited engine. Time to take down Mecha Hitler now. 
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Oct 13, 2020 03:47
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heretic absolutely turns into a gigantic pain in the rear end unless you're on like the easiest difficulties. they pack so much egregious poo poo in there.
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Oct 13, 2020 03:52
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Max Wilco posted:I watched Civvie's video on Heretic. I've only played the first couple of levels of Heretic, and I didn't know that much about it, so seeing how some of the powerups seems improved over the Doom variants, and how none of the enemy attacks are hitscan was interesting. That said, I think he also touches on one of the reasons why Heretic has never really held my interest; that being that the game seems like it can be a slog with a high number of bullet-sponge enemies. I've been playing more of Doom recently (finally got around to actually beating the original game + Thy Flesh Consumed on UV. For some reason I decided the best order to play the games on UV having never done so before would be Plutonia > Doom 2 > Ultimate Doom) and I think an interesting aspect about it and part of the reason why it holds up really well is that a lot of the enemies are actually very fragile. In the original game the only really tanky standard enemies are the Cacodemon and Baron. Everything else dies in 3 shotgun blasts, tops (and with the zombies you can sometimes get a few of them with one shot). Doom 2 introduced more tough enemies, but also balances it out with the SSG. So the pacing to the combat is so much faster and it means that prolonged fights tend to be more about massive hordes of relatively easy to kill enemies vs. one really big one. You always feel like your attacks are consequential because basically every shot means that something dies.
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Oct 13, 2020 04:05
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I have very fond memories of Heretic but yeah I was of course playing on the easy settings as a kid. The warfarer's tomb mod seems like a good way to revisit it since it has a pretty light touch but generally buffs up the weapons a bit and most importantly replaces the firemace completely with an actually good weapon.
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Oct 13, 2020 04:12
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SeANMcBAY posted:Beat episodes 1 and 2 of Wolfenstein 3D. I’m enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. You really have to play more stealthily than in Doom, at least you do on Bring ‘em on! It’s really charming to see their attempts to make things like bathrooms and kitchens in such a limited engine. Are you planning on doing all the other episodes? Apart from the Nocturnal Missions (Episodes 4/5/6), there's also Spear of Destiny and the two mission packs for it (Return to Danger and Ultimate Challenge). Johnny Joestar posted:heretic absolutely turns into a gigantic pain in the rear end unless you're on like the easiest difficulties. they pack so much egregious poo poo in there. I don't plan on playing on the super-high difficulties. I think I started a Heretic playthrough on the lower/moderate skills, but I can't remember which it was. MMF Freeway posted:I have very fond memories of Heretic but yeah I was of course playing on the easy settings as a kid. The warfarer's tomb mod seems like a good way to revisit it since it has a pretty light touch but generally buffs up the weapons a bit and most importantly replaces the firemace completely with an actually good weapon. While I was watching the video, I was wondering how the game might play with tweaked enemy health values or something. I'll have to check it out.
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Oct 13, 2020 04:14
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i have a huge soft spot for heretic and i really think it comes into its own on Black Plague (its Nightmare analogue). i think that's when enemies are deadly enough that you're actually forced to use your whole arsenal and all the items you pick up, instead of just mindlessly plinking everything down with the crossbow. the fact that nothing is hitscan and everything moves so fast, projectiles included, makes it a very different experience from Doom and personally I think it's very fun disclaimer: I love heretic enough that i cleared it on black plague, wand start (pistol start but also clearing out your inventory every level) and no mid-level saves, which is one of the hardest gaming experiences i've ever managed
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Oct 13, 2020 04:17
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Oct 13, 2020 04:19
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Serephina posted:You may have a problem, sir. ma'am and i just like doing challenge runs 
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Oct 13, 2020 04:20
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Right on. Max Wilco posted:While I was watching the video, I was wondering how the game might play with tweaked enemy health values or something. I'll have to check it out. I find that's pretty fun. gzDoom makes it pretty easy with custom skill settings via zmapinfo txt files and whatnot. For me the level design is what rocks, and I'm playing on a controller etc, let's just give me some more ammo pick-up and enemies a bit less health, why not. And maybe give my Heretic guy a cool little goatee.
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Oct 13, 2020 04:38
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Max Wilco posted:Are you planning on doing all the other episodes? Apart from the Nocturnal Missions (Episodes 4/5/6), there's also Spear of Destiny and the two mission packs for it (Return to Danger and Ultimate Challenge). Not immediately but I do plan on checking them out if the level design isn’t total bullshit. So far I find it to be good to decent with the mapping features of ECWolf.
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Oct 13, 2020 04:40
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SeANMcBAY posted:Not immediately but I do plan on checking them out if the level design isn’t total bullshit. So far I find it to be good to decent with the mapping features of ECWolf. I know I went through a lot (if not all) of the Wolf3D/Spear of Destiny stuff. I think the mission packs for Spear of Destiny is where I really started getting lost, and I had to start referring to maps in order to figure out where to go.
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Oct 13, 2020 05:02
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Brief heads-up: The new Arcane Dimensions release is bugged. Look out for a hotfix tomorrow. https://twitter.com/SimsOCallaghan/status/1315784860766666752
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Oct 13, 2020 07:55
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Lost Souls are absurdly tanky. Well, no, obviously they aren't, but they should go pop with a single shotgun shell and I feel personally wronged that you have to shoot them any more than that. Also they're really into Stalin for some reason?
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Oct 13, 2020 08:00
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Lost Souls are absurdly tanky. Yeah I guess the thinking on lost souls is that because they're melee enemies, they need to be able to tank a hit or two otherwise it would be way too easy to never get hit by them, but it does feel weird how tough they are for their size.
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Oct 13, 2020 08:03
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They should take bonus damage when you shoot them while charging, thats pretty much all they need
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Oct 13, 2020 08:51
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Barudak posted:They should take bonus damage when you shoot them while charging, thats pretty much all they need This would be a great change honestly.
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Oct 13, 2020 14:00
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I always felt that the Vore would be dramatically improved if it was tweaked into basically being a new take on the Pain Elemental instead of a Revenant. Have the spikeballs be their own entities with AI that would pursue the player, but also with their own health value and hitbox (I realize that Quake's gigantic cube hitboxes may be a real problem here). Have the fight be split between shooting down the spikeballs and damaging the creature itself. Or use them as pseudo-barrels to damage other foes and have them infight the Vore. Then make it 300 feet tall and give each spikeball Shambler levels of HP. SANDY!
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Oct 13, 2020 14:53
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lol I watched a YouTube of the Xbox-"exclusive" E1M10 and man what a shitshow 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lol I watched a YouTube of the Xbox-"exclusive" E1M10 and man what a shitshow 
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Oct 13, 2020 15:27
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Max Wilco posted:I watched Civvie's video on Heretic. I've only played the first couple of levels of Heretic, and I didn't know that much about it, so seeing how some of the powerups seems improved over the Doom variants, and how none of the enemy attacks are hitscan was interesting. That said, I think he also touches on one of the reasons why Heretic has never really held my interest; that being that the game seems like it can be a slog with a high number of bullet-sponge enemies. I love Heretic more than I do Doom 1 and 2 although I didn't play it on the nightmare equivalent where everything is faster/more ammo. The thing is the level design is consistently better than Doom's in almost every way so even though enemies take a pounding there's always something interesting for the player to consider beyond the battle dance of navigating enemies which is also more interesting because the lack of hitscanners makes the game about physically dodging although playing on nightmare makes that tough when projectiles are faster. It really goes to show how good level design changes up the game. Doom 2 was a slog for me, most of the levels are just plain boring. Plutonia on the other hand makes the levels smaller and more intricate so even though it's just Doom 2.1 the actual game is far more interesting.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lol I watched a YouTube of the Xbox-"exclusive" E1M10 and man what a shitshow Why?
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