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Messages - Solonoid
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« on: September 29, 2023, 08:24:43 AM »
The real problem is people conflating illustration with art.
AI cannot create art because art is part of human expression. Art is a medium by which people can communicate their emotions to one another. If the primary goal of an illustration is NOT to communicate emotions, then the illustration isn't art.
The people who are under threat here aren't actually artists. they're career illustrators who have always been more interested in the paycheck they get from illustrating professionally than in the merit of producing a piece purely for artistic expression.
I guess what I'm saying is, if you think an AI is even capable of filling the role an artist is actually supposed to occupy in a society, then your view of art is mostly economic and your idea of an artist is mostly professional, and you kinda missed the point.
Not like I don't feel for all the illustrators who invested years of their life cultivating the skills to work in this field, but when you consider that art is not economic and professional illustration is not art, it's pretty obvious that what's happening here is more akin to auto workers being replaced by robots, and less akin to the well of human culture being poisoned by a scifi eldritch horror we cooked up in a lab.
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« on: August 15, 2023, 10:36:43 PM »
Witch Queen to me felt like the last hurrah for Destiny. Everything since then has been "vaguely adequate" at best but all largely forgettable with a very "minimum viable product" quality to it. Even then the fatigue with the seasonal model was starting to set in around Chosen/Splicer. And Bungie have made clear that they're committing to the seasonal model, and that putting any effort into the core playlists (beyond bloating it with Battlegrounds) would take resources away from that. As long as people continue buying the Annual Pass every year I don't see that changing sadly.
I find myself often wondering if we'll ever get another patrol area as varied and interesting as the ones from long ago. The standard has long been three large areas each with one lost sector. I very sincerely hope that the area added in the final shape will feel more holistic, like the EDZ or Cosmodrome. To say the least I have been bored with the seasonal model ever since they abandoned trying to make interesting and engaging encounters for each season decided "fuck it make it a strike with a twist". Black Armory forges may have been lacking in terms of depth but at least it was something different to do with your time, and more importantly it still felt like Destiny. I haven't really felt that way about seasonal content in the last three years.
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« on: August 14, 2023, 09:13:02 AM »
Now Baldur's Gate 3 was being criticized by some AAA devs because how dare they launch a finished game in 2023!
This isn't actually the case, IGN just put out an inflammatory headline to get Gamers riled up. It's based on a tweet about how the conditions and dev cycle behind BG3 were an anomaly and something within the wider AAA space would have to change to make more games like it possible. IGN made it sound like when those shithead Ubisoft devs were shitting on Elden Ring last year but this is a bit different.
Developers know that gamers are willing to play fewer good games a year in order to avoid playing more bad games. Publishers continue to demand annual releases and for games to receive a Hollywood style hype train. The difference is in Hollywood the hype train begins once the movie is at least finished with principal photography and usually after the first rough cut has been made. In gaming it's unsustainable because it begins before there's any way of knowing whether or not the game will actually be coming out any time soon or if the product they're advertising is the product that will actually be delivered, which is a big part of the reason Marty lost his job. He was upset when Activision put out the first Destiny trailer because it did not line up with Bungie's vision of the game, and he was very vocal about it publicly.
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« on: August 13, 2023, 09:28:40 PM »
I mean, no.
What year do you think the leads on all of the Halo projects left Bungie?
All you have to do is look at the pictures of the staff from 2007 and compare to the most recent ones to see that yes, all of them left long ago.
Christopher Barrett is still there, I heard he recently did a guest spot on Alex Seropian's podcast The Fourth Curtain and spoke about some stuff. He's actually game director for Marathon which gives me some hope for the title. All around, Marathon seems to be more in line with what we were hoping for from Destiny, but it's also probably going to rely on mechanics ripped straight from other extraction shooters, which is a big disappointment.
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« on: August 06, 2023, 10:58:27 PM »
I can't really remember why was this forum created again? Who could possibly have seen this coming? If only we had some way of predicting this... perhaps a pattern of behavior?
Pre-order Marathon to Tarkov today!
Seriously though, thoughts regarding the State of the Game Bungie put out, and community backlash leading to, and coming from the article?
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« on: October 23, 2022, 08:44:38 PM »
How do I allow my vsftpd (Linux FTP Server) to be accessed by WAN?
It's for a project I'm doing at work to overhaul our network infrastructure. I built a server and have been deploying new features on it for a few weeks now.
Im trying to get an easy solution for our Sales department's reliance on cloud storage, and in the process make our in-house operations more robust against internet outages.
If anyone knows about this kinda stuff, I'd appreciate some advice.
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« on: August 01, 2022, 09:53:09 PM »
hey guys remember when Obama said "we got 'im" and the whole country had a moment of unity? what if we did that again but made it freaky af 
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« on: August 01, 2022, 09:49:53 PM »
Traps lives in his head rent free and that's really funny
or i just saw solonoid log on and decided to annoy her with something that we used to argue about for old time's sake
but also that, yeah sure
wasn't that second thing a quote from class though
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« on: August 01, 2022, 09:48:18 PM »
I wonder what Solo's boss' opinion was on traps when he was interviewed about them on InfoWars.
idk the media says he's a racist, misogynist, homophobe, etc but for the most part he's kinda just obsessed with the idea that the government is run by Satanists and race, gender, sexual orientation, etc are never really brought up and he just kinda likes people who work hard and don't act entitled to shit also he freaks out if anyone tries to play anything other than r&b over the speakers at work oh uh, TL;DR he basically has no opinion on traps
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« on: July 31, 2022, 08:01:33 PM »
Dude comes in out of nowhere and starts defending traps when nobody asked
This is called denial exhibit A
false it's actually exhibit C exhibit A is his Astolfo wallpaper on the phone he hates that he needs to be a (begrudgingly) functional adult unfortunately data on exhibit B has been lost
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« on: July 31, 2022, 02:53:58 PM »
When you first saw Alex Jones were you blinded by its majesty?
no, but I was deafened by the blaring sound of indisputable truth
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« on: July 31, 2022, 02:53:04 PM »
have you accepted the cold hard truth that traps are not gay yet
traps are only not gay if they have a straight bf
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« on: July 30, 2022, 08:47:41 PM »
so alex jones interviewed your boss?
yes
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« on: July 30, 2022, 08:20:11 PM »
Are you one of the frogs?
Yes. I'm the frog that made the other ones gay. Alex only thought it was the liberal Monsanto machine
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« on: July 30, 2022, 08:19:41 PM »
link?
sorry, don't wanna post it because my boss is highly googlable, so it would doxx me, but I walk through the background at one point during a video interview segment
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« on: July 30, 2022, 07:11:13 PM »
T4R
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« on: May 12, 2022, 06:13:54 PM »
A fitting move considering their last decade of games have been complete abortions! Just remembered something I haven't thought of in years: after Microsoft gave BUNGiE the boot, their next project was "Crimson Steam Pirates?" A mobile game which didn't take off.
oh yeah I forgot about that lol literally never played it but I remember the icons on bnet
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« on: February 01, 2022, 03:31:16 AM »
What a waste of $3.6 billion
for real, a studio with a history of ingration and rebellion, most recently having gone so far as to have become a completely self published enterprise, and sony thinks this will be a profitable endeavor? perhaps, if Bungie's upcoming IP in development is a PS5 exclusive there will be significant payoff, and I will almost certainly be playing it on my ps5 since there have been no titles I've been interested in since Demon's Souls, but an IP worth 3.6 billion? and given Bungie's track record of not buying themselves out but making deals for their freedom? for some reason I doubt they will be able to emulate Halo's success for Sony, in spite of how natural the partnership seems given the Destiny exclusives they've offered playstation I can only imagine Sony has determined that the best course of action is to acquire as much independent talent as possible, starting with bungie as they are the largest independent studio today if they attempt to acquire CDPR next, or soon, my theory will be confirmed, and it will become clear that the 9th gen console war will be determined by ownership, and Sony will be hedging its bets with studios that desire creative freedom for exclusives, while microsoft will deign acquiring publishers such as bethesda and activision-blizzard most profitable
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« on: February 01, 2022, 02:49:42 AM »
nintendo ownership by 2040
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« on: January 30, 2022, 12:53:11 AM »
yeah, it seems like discord has started eliminating many forums of our nature
I come back from time to time to see if there are any topics of interest, or to ask questions that I feel require extended discussion, which is an advantage forums have over instant messaging, but for the most part, I guess we should all just be grateful that Cheat sees this place as worthwhile to keep around as a sort of resume project
although we have slowed in activity, many of us are still present, and although we have said most of what any of us will ever want to say to each other in this format, we can still communicate in this way when we need to
I think, that in this natural evolution there is no sorrow, rather a beauty
also I blame verb ban him immediately
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« on: January 21, 2022, 08:10:49 AM »
I ran into a few locked chests early on and came back later after finding the quest that got you the key. I haven't actually come across any of those though, guessing it's because I didn't spend much or any time looting houses. There's a lot of items in the world that say locked if you can't do anything with them, like alphy said.
Interestingly, I've got a huge collection of ported witcher 3 models. Never saw that chest in those files either. Not that it means anything, just weird that I sunk a solid month into that game and never bumped into those.
they appear in almost every boss room and at the end of almost every quest as well, for example there's one in avallach's lab, a dirty one on the island near Aki's remains, one at the top of the tower you go to for the white lady quest, etc they're literally everywhere this one is on your way back out of the var Attre's house after giving Rosa a fencing lesson they seem placed strategically to reward you for completing quests a la borderlands, but if nobody knows anything about opening them maybe CDPR decided to just cut that and didn't bother removing them from the game, or intentionally left them in because they knew it would upset me 
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« on: January 19, 2022, 04:18:57 AM »
No amount of searching has yielded any results, I can't even find a name for these things, nobody seems to have anything to say about them. What is the deal with these locked chests that are EVERYWHERE.  Does anyone know anything at all? Are they just here to drive me crazy?
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« on: October 08, 2021, 04:11:31 AM »
Hearing the story of a civilian in the US being tried and sentenced to death by a military court is deeply disturbing, beyond any regard to the crime he committed.
that was 30 words
who gives a shit
i don't think anyone "gives a shit" that you can't follow basic instructions, per se, but that doesn't change the fact, nor does it make it any less funny to point out (only makes it funnier, really—but then you'd need a sense of humor)
okay
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« on: October 07, 2021, 04:02:36 AM »
Hearing the story of a civilian in the US being tried and sentenced to death by a military court is deeply disturbing, beyond any regard to the crime he committed.
that was 30 words
who gives a shit
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« on: October 07, 2021, 01:09:21 AM »
Hearing the story of a civilian in the US being tried and sentenced to death by a military court is deeply disturbing, beyond any regard to the crime he committed.
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« on: September 30, 2021, 02:20:37 PM »
yeah bro that's faggy as shit
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« on: September 29, 2021, 11:41:10 PM »
working
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« on: September 20, 2021, 09:44:38 PM »
I have a similar opinion about gluttony as you have about lust.
It's disgusting and I hate it, but it's beyond doubt the sin I find most indulgent.
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« on: September 19, 2021, 12:57:06 AM »
Oh yeah, a record you can't even buy.
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« on: September 19, 2021, 12:53:26 AM »
Just for uploading some songs and footage that he deleted in the end when they sent him a cease and desist?
Not exactly. Here's what happened, more or less. So, the songs leaked and Marty decided to upload them since they were already out and there's no official way to hear his music. Bungie sends him a cease and desist, tells him they're going to release the songs themselves, and Marty does the right thing and decides to take them down. Then, Bungie releases the songs as bonus content available exclusively with the Destiny vinyl soundtrack, which was available only in limited quantities. Marty said fuck it and reuploaded the songs since obviously there's still no way to listen to them officially except on a fucking record. I don't really care about the fact that bungie was legally in the right or that Marty knew this would end up happening. They fucked him coming and going and this is obviously about spite, not money.
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