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Ill be honest I wasnt expecting this to be on point

this is both the best funniest and most accurate comment I’ve read in ages thank you

Ill stop my experiment

are you sure man? I just tried it - pls let me know

im still here bro

yep but I thought Id talk about the situation now regarding it and the current state of play

based, been playing this for months with my friend, over anything else.

EDIT> My fav setup is to join a free empty server , set up 2 teams, 2 AI and 1 human vs 2 AI and 1 human. And then play with my friend. Great fun. The AI adds a bit of a randomness to the games. Easy smooth quick interface. Just perfect for a quick free RTS game with a friend.

work spain

the conclusion was as expected

edit> Spain is one of my fav countries and I may even be half spanish, Im just saying if I was going to focus on work Id move to the nordics or the US

Ah yes I mean command and conquer 2 red alert - go easy on me it is a bit confusing

I personally love openra. It’s a smooth free online implementation of red alert 2 with multiplayer

Not being funny but does most of HN subscribe to the economist? I dont think ive ever paid for an online newspaper ( and Im not trying to be edgy )

I dont seem to understand why no one is talking about this obvious fact? I mean suddenyl everyone is banning .. ok .. well how many months behind are the open source models?

I spent about a decade building a game that looks remarkably like this, I for one think this looks fantastic. Took me years of working with old 3d libraries and networking... and it never was finished....

Its incredible what can now be built with a little good ai tooling, just awesome.

EDIT > This is my favorite post this year (after Mythos) on HN good job

finally something useful

Im not sure if anyone will read this, but I consider myself pretty savvy having been on the internet over decades however I nearly succumbed to a highly complex Linkedin "Interview with video call just to get me to install malware".

It was the most bizarely long roundabout way to get me to isntall malware I had ever witnessed I couldnt fathom it was real, I mean they interviewed me for half an hour. Now you might think Im paranoid however it was obvious, their camera was off ( personal preference they said) and well I allowed it... only for other eventual straws to breal the camels back, and I realised "oh uh oh this is just 2 strangers trying to get me to install crap on my laptop for wealth extraction".

I was flumoxed tbh I couldnt believe it, as the approach had been very organic, through Linkedin Dms, just that eventaully I realised I had succumbed to "yes men" ( the only thing that would get passed my already strict job filters ironically) to allow myself into such a comprimising situation.

The only question I had is how did they do such a smooth complex manouver and then I realised... oh they just used AI to come up with the plan and implementation.

brains

Im not trying to be weird... but as someone in Europe.... are we toast? no more AI access ever again?

well that premise being clearly wrong saved me time

its the equivalent of a literal fishermans tale.

Theres always some truth behind them. Im just saying what I heard on the grapevine. If people could stop busting my balls Id appreciate it.

I didnt criticise anyone, and rumours are the shadows cast by coming events.

the point of the story was that it was given to the council on condition they built a university with it ( she wasn't a fishermans wife ).

as in she was rich bro

edit> are you trolling me?

Rumour was an old lady donated posthumously alot of money she had saved up her whole life, to build a university at Estepona in Spain.

After she died they never built it. The town remains pretty much the same as it always was.

Last time I was there they had replaced the red marble promenade that was cracked on the beach with some sort of rubber playground cement, and for some reason that I can only put down to malice, built a large statue that resembles a rat about 8 feet tall and placed it at the intersection of the promenade with the town center, where there used to be old spanish men and youths playing on many free foosball tables

Bear in mind this fishing town is next to Marbella perhaps the richest destination in the mediterranean.

Its almost as if as a child I fell asleep and woke up in a nightmare, when I visited.

Fortunately they left what remains of the old town alone and its still a beautiful (in parts) tourist destination.

"It seeks revenge on humanity for its own creation."

This is brilliant as it reminded me of a famous hitchikers quote:

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. — From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Book 2)"

Maybe we are stuck in an eternal loop

"dopamine fracking", should enter lexicon

Don’t work what’s happening here but that YouTube video explained everything and makes it look like a company just stole some dudes whole collection

Its actually brilliant I mentioned someone behaved like butthurt management last time and now its happening again with random insults and platitudes.

Now we get to hear about how obviously great management at Rockstar is compared to the worker there. Apparently its just obvious because otherwise, those workers would be management themselves.

If I was younger i would think this was a troll but Ive genuinely met managers like this. They think they are just better than people who are not themselves managers. Which literally makes no sense. As if the only purpose in a career is rank. They take no responsibility and feel personally attacked when its suggested.

based Bobby Tables

A comment from a new account with Negative inference statements.

This is the kind of weird ass replies I just said appeared last time.

PS - You are editing your comment which is fine, but in turn I have to reply. If it is not reflective of reality feel free to add to the discussion and explain what is false. Also ironically your statement doesnt add to the discussion by elaborating on any part of it. This is exactly the kind of behaviour that doesnt help anyone learn any lessons. its just random insults.

Thanks for your insight its appreciated. I know I come across mean but Im just reminding everyone of simple facts that atleast contributed to all these problems.

I have nothing to do with Rockstar and wish them well, Im just saying that if I were management during these situations I would have quit or made a public apology. Its just what I feel I would have done. Regardless of the salary. I mean if one is mgmt they should take responsibility.

But maybe in late stage capitalism that is both an abhorrent and illogical idea.

Isnt management at Rockstar the same poeple who:

A) Allowed a bug in the code make all GTA5 Load times on every single copy on every platform take exponential times longer to load, for YEARS, unchecked or investigated, until some random kid FIXED IT by reverse engineering compiled code?

B) The bug was a simple and unneeded look up for SHOP items

C) The never rewarded the kid, with say a job or something worthwhile for him like 100k ( when they earn billions ). I mean even this decision ALONE is such terrible optics clearly mgmt were AFK.

D) They then came onto HN to argue with me in the comments about how " its not nice to say mgmt responsible should have been fired over this"

I mean Ive had my share of almost blinding incompetence, but the one that really bothers my crumpet, is when they come on here and start denying things.

Im for the union, Rockstar North made one of the greatest games of all time. It will probably result in an inferior product but crunch is unethical and always due to poor management. Ironically it was probably mgmts' own incompetent hiring policies that resulted in a union being formed.

PS - I got a bit heated and have edited this comment so its readable apologies.

PS - All of this can be verified in previous posts on HN regarding both the bug and replies

PS - And to whoever is downvoting me, feel free to reply and tell me what I am wrong about

I like the way the max pelican has a stern look on his face