I mean, it’s an obvious scam. Always has been. They only have a few tech demos, and bunch of polished marketing material. There’s nothing to actually release.

I recommend taking a look at RAMP 2023, which is a community project that just finished with 296 maps made in just about 2 weeks.

Gzdoom can run voxels too. Here’s a video of voxel enemies, weapons and objects.
https://youtu.be/71AXYp1X_SA

BUT the thing is, there’s so much more than that. Comparing it to build, even with the improvements from ion fury isn’t fair because that’s still fundamentally build. Gzdoom has replaced even physics, movement and hitbox detection. There are so many changes and bugfixes present in the stock doom engine in gzdoom that speedrunners refuse to use it. Speedrunning requires accurate behaviour. But there are other engines for that.

The original doom engine was open sourced pretty early on, and even before that, people were making maps and custom content very soon after release in 93. And maps are being released every day since then. As soon as the source code got out, a bunch of “source ports” aka custom engines started popping up. Some with aim to fix bugs, some to extend the feature set. And because it’s open, the community started to standardize. So most modern ports that focus on compatibility (unlike gzdoom) are compatible with behaviour of multiple other ports. What I mean is this.

Dsda-doom is focused on speedrunning. So it has plenty QOL features for speedrunning, and is compatible with old ports that extended the feature set. Limit-removing is most common, there are hard limits in the stock engine, like number of enemies on screen at once, map size (block size), how many sectors are on screen at once, and many more. Exceeding many of those will straight up crash the game.
Boom is an engine that removes all these limits and also extends the base feature set by adding new trigger actions, enhancing RNG calculations, and much more. That is the second most favourite. Speedrunners love it, and dsda-doom supports it so you don’t need to use the ancient executable. There is dozens if not hundreds of ports, and a lot of those are still in daily use. Thanks to compatibility settings, when somebody makes a new map, they can say “it’s boom compatible” and people get their modern port of choice, run it in boom compatibility mode, and the map/mod runs perfect for everybody.

Gzdoom supports nearly all the ports, and feature sets throughout history, and has plenty extra of its own. Like portals, coloured lighting, advanced scripting with zscript and much more.

That’s what I mean when I say it’s not fair to compare it to build. Doom in one way or another was worked on by the community for 3 decades, build didn’t see nearly as much attention. Gzdoom doesn’t aim to make doom better, it aims to make a good environment for old and new doom-like games. The active communities on doomworld and zdoom forums are in tens of thousands of people. It’s fast more active than many modern games’ communities. It’s a 30 year old game, just let that sink in.

Oh, by the way, there are even people who make content that is vanilla-compatible, which means it would run perfectly on the original DOS executable from 93-94 on a 386 machine.

Though i agree it could be fun at first, conspiracies are legit dangerous. People are so desperate for meaning, 17% of Americans believe the government is lead by a kabaal of satanic lizard people eating babies and shit like that.
My mom is deep into the rabbit hole of nonsense, and it genuinely consumes her. Nearly all her friends abandoned her, she almost lost her job, and that’s only reinforcing these convictions. If something like January 6th was happening in my country, I bet you, she’d be there. The time conspiracies were harmless fun are gone. They ruin people’s lives.

Nice write-up and good examples!

I think it’s worth thinking of GZDoom as an sprite-based FPS engine with Doom legacy. It can work with 3d models but it works much better with sprites. Which gives it a certain aesthetic. And is much easier to work with than other engines in my experience.
The Doom community goes incredibly strong on the old forums and many discords. Very vibrant and cheerful bunch of people, I wholeheartedly recommend checking in

That’s very interesting, actually. Because manufacturers of self-driving cars say they’re only drive-assisted, not autonomous. To dodge liability for their cars causing accidents. If the car is without a steering wheel and therefore fully autonomous, and the car runs somebody over, is the car gonna go to jail?

I’ve seen the vlc addon that can play torrents but doesn’t that kill them? You’re not seeding anything by just streaming and leaving when the movie is over. Idk, seems like a shitty thing to do

Well, there are some significant negatives to a powerbank solution.

• Charging from a powerbank takes a long time. Swapping a battery for fully charged one can be done in half a minute.
• You need to make sure the cables stay connected. How many times did you have phone on charge in a backpack for an hour, only to find out it wasn’t charging because the connection got a little loose?
• Each charge cycle reduces lifetime of the battery. If you have two batteries to swap between, you effectively double the overall lifetime.

And of course, when (not if) the battery dies, you can replace it at your leisure, instead of searching for a repair shop in the case of phone being glued shut. Battery is pretty much the only perishable component in your phone. If you keep your phone safe from falling or drowning, it can work just fine for decades. But the battery will need to be replaced one day, regardless of how careful you are. You also wouldn’t need to pay the extra service fee if you can open the phone and put the new battery in yourself.

Honestly I always felt kinda awkward after getting one, knowing somebody paid real money for a stupid icon. What a waste. Good riddance, I say.

Before signing up you best check how the payout works. So it’s not like Roblox. Encouraged to create within the system but making any money is near impossible, and even when you reach the minimum payout limit, the conversation ratio is insanely bad.

Honestly, I never buy a phone without an audio jack and sd card.

Thickness of your phone is now dictated by cameras. Because of focal lengths and what not, they need to be a certain size, that’s why they’re always with an overhang.

Pretty much all Androids I have taken apart were Phillips head screws. iPhones have like 5 slightly different types in each phone, it’s nonsense

It’s mentioned in this thread here that there is the xCover model series which have user replaceable batteries still. The 6 pro was released just last year So much for manufacturers having to figure things out from ground up bollocks

Has anyone else always had a spare phone battery in the pocket to swap on the go?

Imagine you could just do that.

Here’s a thought, what if phones weren’t made to be disposable?

Now i hope it says something about availability of the replacement batteries…

Due to unexpectedly high demand, the $300 battery you ordered has 5 months waiting list. Payment in advance, of course, for your convenience.

Remember that consumers expect certain things from smartphones nowadays, which will mean that OEMs can’t just go back to the old way of doing things. An IP68 rating would be very difficult to obtain while still offering a premium-feeling device with an easily replaceable battery, for example. These are hurdles OEMs will need to get over to be in compliance.

this is straight-up BS. there were many phones with ip68 and user-replacable batteries back when sealing the battery in a phone was frowned upon. not all but many.

interesting. But that seems to rely on Chrome, which I’ve removed. I’m using Duckduckgo as main browser instead. So I just fireproof the login, bookmark and I’m good. Thanks for the explanation, though.

edit: there seems to be a sandboxed webapps browser on f-droid

install … a website? is that a thing?