LupertEverett

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[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I haven't tested it but it should work. OldUnreal's patches are backwards compatible.

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

IIRC it has been 10 years since Tim Sweeney talked about open sourcing UE1. I don't think it is gonna happen anytime soon, sadly.

At least we still have Surreal Engine.

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Considering the OldUnreal team still has access to the source code for these two games, and develop patches for them to this day, I find it, thankfully, extremely unlikely!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21988112

So, great news!

Not too long ago, the folks at OldUnreal announced in their Discord server that they got permission from Epic Games to distribute two particular links from archive.org to download Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament.

Now they've published installers for automating the installation process, as well as installing their patches on top of Unreal/UT.

The installers are available to download on the links down below:

Unreal Gold Installer: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unreal/full-game-installers/

Unreal Tournament Installer: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unrealtournament/full-game-installers/

These are Windows only, but Linux and macOS installers are also gonna be released sometime soon, it seems!

Enjoy!

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

The absolute disregard of having any moderation is what does that. If there was any, there wouldn't be the cases like having someone be there by their third account, after the first two got banned.

Not to mention that controversy = angry people and trolls = more clicks = more ad revenue. I don't think Michael wants to miss out on it.

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

The "you wouldn't download a car" statement is made against personal cases of piracy, which got rightfully clowned upon. It obviously doesn't work at all when you use its ridiculousness to defend big ass corporations that tries to profit from so many of the stuff they "downloaded".

Besides, it is not "theft". It is "plagiarism". And I'm glad to see that people that tries to defend these plagiarism machines that are attempted to be humanised and inflated to something they can never be, gets clowned. It warms my heart.

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Its something happened waaay back during the technical preview days. Just like with this instance, the workaround was to rename the installer executable.

https://winaero.com/microsoft-to-block-classic-shell-in-windows-10-here-is-why/

And I think you should update to OpenShell at least.

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This looks promising. I always yearned for Foobar2000 to be on Linux natively.

However layout editor part is quite confusing (adding widgets seem to add them not where I want them at), and I couldn't get it to play any music, as both drag and drop to a playlist and open file option in the menu causes the program to crash. Plugins didn't load at all until I manually copied them to the places fooyin was looking for, though I wonder if this is an AUR package issue or not.

I'll keep using DeaDBeeF despite some complaints I have with it for the time being, and will keep a close eye on this one.

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Remember the days when Microsoft would block ClassicShell the same way they did StartAllBack here, on Win10?

Pepperridge farm remembers :V

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The reason it is so shit is that because there is NO moderation whatsoever (nor there is any care for having it, as there wouldn't be cases like someone that had done ban evasion twice still being active on the forums otherwise). And I think I can safely say that it is just like the same as other social media:

More heated and stupid arguments = more page clicks and views = more ad revenue (Michael definitely inserts some ads into the forums, like come on now)

I have absolutely no regrets using adblockers on there (or internet-wide), and Michael has the GALL to call his subscription service "Premium"... unbeknownst to him that a golden coated excrement is in the end... still a piece of excrement. :V

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So people are catching up to the fact that the thing everyone loves to call "AI" is nothing more than just a phone autocorrect on steroids, as the pieces of electronics that can only execute a set of commands in order isn't going to develop a consciousness like the term implies; and the very same Crypto/NFTbros have been moved onto it so that they can have some new thing to hype as well as in the case of the latter group, can continue stealing from artists?

Good.