Almost done with Hollywood, Ending by John Green

Not what I’d normally read, but i liked Greens writing in The Anthropocene Reviewed and wanted to give his fiction a shot. I am enjoying the book, which is mainly about two young Actors who meet during shooting a Movie about Andy Warhol, which puts them in the spotlight of media outlets and lands them their next role in a major Blockbuster Movie.

Both of them had traumatizing things happening to them in their childhood, which now comes into focus during the presstour for the Warhol Movie.

I’d guess the book is mainly about how past trauma still influences those who endured it and a bit about the conflict between industrialized entertainment and the work of creating art itself and the effects that industry has on the artists.

overall: good book, glad i left my fantasy comfort zone for a bit.

ah, daikatana. the reason why i won’ let anyone make me their bitch, not even John Romero.

that only gives them an extra button press.

the button is one of the coolest things in the fediverse and @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip keeps coming up with fun ideas around the game.

i think nginx has an oauth_module which would allow you to use something like keycloak, if you want more than basic auth.

for apache mod_auth_openidc exists.

setting up an oauth-provider is not exactly trivial, but well documented and could be worth it if your other services offer oauth2-support or don’t feature a login at all.

for many people homelabbing is a way to gain knowledge they can use on the job.

other than that: proper single sign on across your services is nice even if you don’t expose them to anybody else.

etlegacy clients should be compatible with the latest server version, so yes.

no need tu buy it, you can download it from splashdamage themselfs. https://www.splashdamage.com/games/wolfenstein-enemy-territory/

and with etlegacy exists a modern client.

one affordable house!

well what stuff do you like in other media?

yes, but what are “grooming gangs”?

yeah, i think almost all the stories from the book where part of the podcast by the same name, but i didn’t knew about that before picking up the book. I was vaguely aware of John Green as the author of “the fault in our stars”, which never seemed like my jam, and the only other touchpoint i had was the first epsiode of Hank Greens “Humans”-Podcast, which made me think he might have stories i’d enjoy, which i did.

The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green

finished it yesterday actually. The Book is a compilation of stories, memories and thoughts of John Green in the form of short reviews. Quick read, some stories had me laughing others are very touching, revolving around the loss of a dear friend or concerning his mental problems, but it’s mostly about how John Green views Humans and Humanity, he appears to be a big fan which is a suprisingly refreshing take.

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i think it’s that our brains like to do mostly easy things and learning new words is not easy, it has to fire up those neural pathways for that and create new connections for not a lot gratification for many people, simmiliar to how children often need external motivation to start to learn an instrument or other complex endeavors, because the fun part of it requires a suprising amount of practice and expertise, and if no one is pushing them to get through a specific book they’ll pick an “easier” read or something else entirely for entertainment.

and I’d describe works by Fontane or other german authors as “old german”, when it’s merely old fashioned with words not in common use today, or not used in the same context, for which i remember using a dictionary. I know they used the same language as i do, there was no great shift in how the language worked, but the style and vocabulary used is enough to trip over if one is not used to it.

I don’t think an llm is a good tool to engage with a text one thinks is difficult, but it’s better than not engaging with the text at all.

Firefoxes reader mode seems to bypass the paywall just fine, for anyone wanting tobread it without using archive.today/ph/is/…

I’d normally copy paste it into a comment, but this one would span multiple comments and i am lazy.

I’ve not read clockwork orange, but i know plenty of people who’ll stop reading a book if they had to look up words in a dictionary, maybe the students first instinct just wasn’t a dictionary?

which is still not great, but way less terrifying than people needing an actual translation for a work written in their native language in the last century.

you won’t need them where we are going.

quick copy paste from firefox reader mode:

www.timeextension.com “You Can’t Rule Out The Possibility That Executives Are Idiots” - John Carmack On Microsoft’s Gutting Of id Software Time Extension 3 - 4 minutes

“The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through” “You Can’t Rule Out The Possibility That Executives Are Idiots” - John Carmack On Microsoft’s Gutting Of id Software 1 Image: id Software / Xbox Game Studios

While we predominantly cover retro gaming here at Time Extension, we often cast our gaze across other sectors of the industry – especially when news impacts long-standing studios with amazing legacies, like id Software.

I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that Microsoft, which acquired the legendary DOOM and Quake creator when it purchased ZeniMax Media in 2021, has gutted the studio as part of its recent layoff campaign.

According to reports, id Software has effectively been reduced to a support studio following the release of DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations.

id Software co-founder John Carmack – who was previously quite vocal about the advantages afforded by the company being Microsoft-owned – has taken to social media to give his take on the whole sorry affair.

“I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs,” says Carmack, who founded id Software in 1991 alongside Adrian Carmack, Tom Hall and John Romero. “My ‘Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand’ statement isn’t aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month.”

Carmack adds that he’s “saddened, but I can’t muster anger or outrage over it. I don’t have access to the books, but I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft’s perspective. I believe the reports that Minecraft revenues have been carrying several other studios. To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved.”

He continues:

"You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games.

Could they have gotten more with a different pricing strategy? Could they have created more things for fans to buy? Could they have cost-effectively marketed in a way that reached more players who would have loved and bought the games? Could they have changed the game designs and broadened the appeal to more players without alienating existing ones? Could they have produced the games at a lower cost, faster or cheaper? I really don’t know."

Despite the pretty dire state of affairs, Carmack ends on a semi-positive note. “The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through.”

I can’t imagine any of the remaining id Software staffers share his optimism right now.

Damien McFerran

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension, the network’s newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming’s past glories.