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  5. Posted

    1 hour ago, Bubbabooie said:

    Haven't seen pt 2, what's your beef with it?

     

    I'll put it into spoilers in case you are unfamiliar with the book or want to see pt 2 on theaters:

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    Dune part 2 changes key character traits from Paul, Jessica, Chani and Feyd Rautha. It changes so much they are not even the same characters from the book anymore. Feyd Rautha is a smaller less dumb Rabban. Jessica is now a schemer and manipulator, Chani is given the "strong independent" treatment. Instead of becoming a cunning and terrible prophet that holds back the Fremen to not destroy the whole galaxy, Paul becomes a zealot. 

    Alia, one of the most fun characters in Dune, is missing. 

    The time skip and events that move the plot towards the war are missing. Paul's rise in power feels rushed. 

    The whole reason Paul's ascent works is because he holds the spice hostage and the Spacing Guild and Emperor have not choice but to yield.

    In the movie, even though Paul threatens with nuking the spice, the other houses still decide to not accept Paul's ascent to power, rendering the threat of nuking the spice irrelevant. 

     

    As a standalone movie I'd say it's really good, a technical marvel.

    As an adaptation of the book however, it deviates too much from the source material, for the sake of progression and modernization if I had to take a guess. This deviation changes core elements from the plot and characters to the point it doesn't feel like Dune anymore, but rather fanfiction territory. 

     

     

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    My dad installed this on his pc when I was like 5. It was the most terrifying, visceral and violent thing I had seen or heard before. And even though I was scared shitless enough to have nightmares every night, I couldn't look away, less forget it and move on.

     

    After that, when I was 14, I knew sufficient enough english that allowed me to navigate doomworld idgames and download wads. Also my pc was a potato and I could only run doom at decent framerate. I played the community chest wads for hours. 

     

    Right now, Doom is part of my dna. I don't even see the pixels anymore, my imagination does all the work and I keep seeing the vast strange skies, the corpses on walls and the infinite unfathomable darkness of the black void texture. 

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  22. Posted

    5 hours ago, Rudolph said:

    With all the talks these days about whether ChatGPT and other algorithm-based stuff are not actual AI because it is not intelligence and yada yada, I have to ask: is it still appropriate to refer to the monster behaviours in Doom as "AI"? I admit that for the longest time, I have been using "enemy AI" to refer to them myself, but now, I am having doubts.

     

    If those generation tools can be called AI, then Doom's enemy behavior can be considered some sort of rudimentary AI. 


    But then again, AI is just a word used by those trying to sell you their text, image and sound generation services. It is no intelligent by any means, but it sounds more marketeable than "image/text/sound generator". We are many many years away from anything resembling an artificial neural network and actual intelligence. 

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