quake
quake
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I long for the ancient times
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<3 me too, hacker.
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1337 H4X0R
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This should be easier than ever. Gaming laptops, SFF PCs, cheap monitors, Steam Deck like mini PCs, really easy networking even over WiFi 6 would be easy.
It's not the technology...... Having the time and the number of interested friends is the real challenge.
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Here you go:
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I like that the bots converse audibly and have facial expressions.
It hints to a time when they were used for human UX but were maybe later repurposed for other means.
Also the lack of wireless communication winks at the danger of botnets. 100s of these bad boys hooked up to a server, compromised by a single hacker?
Who knew that the humanoid vessel was the most secure in its inefficiency
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This was explored during the corpo-foss war, when the Mata bots' connection to the govcorp was severed!
http://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/arch_company/
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Thank you for creating merciful content!
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Blessed be the merciful, for they shall meet the spirit of the machine!
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I'm loving the mataphor
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let the poor devils play some Quake
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Thank you for propagandizing Microsoft Corporation!
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Paying homage to the ancestors
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The World War Quake Truce
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My head-cannon is that the meta bots go and find this stuff and eventually become enlightened/friends with the FOSS. When you want to find more cool shit, you eventually find yourself in open source lands.
....Or they trip and break the screen, to be replaced sooner rather than later.
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This is not too far from my own head-canon. It was hinted at a few times that the MATA Bots are fully sentient, but they are enslaved by the Govcorp (since they created them). I think they exist in the so-called slave-collar situation. You're free as long as you follow orders, but if you disobey, you get ''patched out''.
https://analognowhere.com/_/uetmcn/
Fosschild famously acquires a tool to free the Mata Bots from this predicament in Wellington pt. 2
https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/wellington2/
But there must be other ways, like you point out, for the bots to liberate themselves, as there are some seen roaming around freely in Techno-Mage 1 in Fosstown:
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My head-cannon
Whoa, be careful where you point that thing!
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I'm sad about a time period I never got to experience. Nostalgic for? My mother was much too nervous to let my little girlness go to a LAN thingy.
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Uhg. Seriously bummed I forgot QuakeCon was this past weekend. I was planning to check it out this year. Hadn’t been since they’d shut down during COVID.
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Have you posted about your workflow anywhere? I'm so curious what tools you use to capture that style. Especially the tapering at the end of strokes on your pixely brushes.
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There is this, but it might not be what you're asking: https://analognowhere.com/unix_surrealism/
As for the specifics, I use GIMP and a very cheap wacom tablet, because I am poor. Some of the more elaborate comics are story-boarded on paper and then recreated digitally. I don't use anything fancy. It's basically just the Pencil Tool. https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21386623
The fact that I can't actually draw helps the aesthetic, I think.
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The fact that I can’t actually draw helps the aesthetic, I think.
Your drawing style is especially relevant now as a visual defiance of the hyper-realistic (but soulless) style of "AI Art".
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I am poor
I hope it's ok if I link your redbubble. I really appreciate your content!
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It all being done in GIMP is very thematic
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Ancient times were indeed good.
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I'm concerned girls not getting enough sun, she's quite pale
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Pxe-booting Linux quake nodes in '99 worked way better than we thought it would. Same maps? Hells yeah.
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An upvote isn't enough to express my fondness for Quake. Fuck yeah, Quake!