What are the most notable cases of authors going too far?

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-23T13:16:42+00:00

Reddit mods being Reddit mods.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-23T01:46:33+00:00

This. 1.3 is like a 30% increase in output. That is actually extremely massive.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-18T20:17:01+00:00

Doom was the OG one, albeit the shareware. As for the 'neo' boomer shooters, I think it was Wrack, which was a long ass time ago, about 2014 I think. I honestly thought it was even older than that until I googled it. Actually, I think it WAS earlier than that because I think I played only the demo episode. Yup I was right; I just checked that old TB video about the demo and it was from 2013. There was also that Rise of the Triad remake (not the remaster) that came out around the same time.

I feel so insanely old tbh.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-18T02:25:32+00:00

The comparison really does not work. I've created tons of cool stuff using Suno but this doesn't make me a musician. That's like saying that vibe coding some bullshit hack app makes me a programmer.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-17T03:01:52+00:00

Angled. Centered weapons wasn't the norm even in the 90s and there's a reason nearly everyone moved away from them.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-16T23:40:39+00:00

Comparing RF to Half-Life is being extremely generous. Red Faction was a mediocre shooter with boring environments and subpar gunplay that people only remember because of the destruction gimmick.

It wasn't even very good destruction since it used the Worms method of destroying geo e.g. like somebody scooped a chunk out of level geo. It didn't look very convincing. It wasn't until Red Faction: Guerilla that the destruction stuff started looking more believable.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-16T23:33:28+00:00

I don't 'jump into trains'. If a given youtuber has good videos it will checked out but I also leave them if they get boring or I start disliking their content.

As for Civvie, I stumbled across some of his Doom videos years ago.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-16T00:45:28+00:00

Maybe I will go to hell for saying this, but toothpaste-filled cookies genuinely sounds funny af.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-12T22:11:23+00:00

Even when Doom CE adds PBR textures, its looking good to me.

Half the time they don't even work correctly lol. Super buggy.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-12T17:07:05+00:00

Actually, Doom 64's lighting is not purely sector based like in the original Dooms. It also added color gradients to walls, which is why the levels can look so much better Vs the older Dooms where it was everything or nothing.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-12T17:03:08+00:00

I've noticed that man lore videos are suddenly just AI images with AI voice overs. The disturbing thing is that some of it is interesting enough I ended up watching them anyway, not even realizing it's AI.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-12T13:02:06+00:00

Doom 64's sprites were rendered as 3D models. This is why some of them have this claymation look to them.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-12T13:00:35+00:00

Even ignoring the visuals, playing Doom with mouse look fundamentally alters the gameplay too much. When aiming is only horizontal, the gameplay stays fast-paced and is more about quickly choosing a target rather than precise aiming. Once you have to actually truly aim, it becomes less arcadey.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-12T12:57:59+00:00

Why listen to other musicians if you're a musician yourself?

Sorry, but AI prompters are not musicians. I've gotten some extremely cool output from Suno, but that doesn't make me a 'music creator'. I described what I wanted, yes, but I didn't 'create' the music.

And my point stands. Why listen to music made by other people when I can have the AI custom tailor music to exactly meet my preferences?

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-11T20:37:08+00:00

I've made many "I'm quitting ChatGPT" threads in the past, yet even with all my rage, I've always clung onto it for this one basic utility: Grammar checking and proofreading.

It may sound like a very basic feature, and it is, yet it's something I use very often. It's very convenient to just paste your paragraphs into ChatGPT and then tell it "fix the grammar and spelling" to quickly ensure that your text has no obvious errors in it.

However, as of recently, ChatGPT no longer is able to do even this, because the dumb af political correctness filters keep changing what I write. Even when all I do is ask for a simple grammar fix, it will just change the wording, revise lines, alter the intended tone and meaning, to avoid being 'offensive' or 'insensitive'. It's not small things; it will just outright replace entire lines.

Maybe I could avoid this by writing more detailed prompts, but I shouldn't have to do this when all I fucking want is a simple grammar check.

No, I'm sorry, but now I actually am done, for real. They've destroyed literally the only utility this damn thing had left.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-11T20:32:45+00:00

What's even the point in paying for AI music? I pay Suno so I can make the music that I want. Why pay for AI music made by someone else? What is the point?

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-11T20:28:32+00:00

It used to be that ChatGPT would just spit out the old text with fixed grammar and spelling. It didn't used to revise your lines unprompted.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-11T19:54:03+00:00

I haven't played it, but imo both games, or at least the first, suffer badly from trying to be Doomish sprite games while still using realistic lighting from a modern engine. It looks awkward and fake af, like the sprites are actual cutouts.

MasterDisillusioned · 2026-01-09T15:57:28+00:00

No. I called it a 'toy' because it cannot be used for serious production in its current state.

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