In a weird and perhaps slightly twisted way I am hoping that LLMs become so good at spam and creating garbage to flood the net in english that they forfeit the ability to do so in other languages resulting in a balkanization (in a good way) of discussion and thought back to the native languages of peoples and thus more integrated with their culture.
in practice translation engines (e.g. deepl or LLMs themselves - though i still expect deepl to be better) probably will throw a wrench into this, but perhaps some localization approach in CAPTCHAs or simply just outright banning geoips not belonging to the countries with natives of that language (or significant minority populations) is a quick enough fix. i know some imageboards (e.g. british ones) use this because otherwise they would be flooded with americans.
In practice it may well mean the anglophone internet fills up with spam as the ESLs realize their formally dying(or dead) websites and forums and boards are basically free from digital black death and intellectual thought makes a retreat from the world language.
The irony here is that the Finnish internet will probably be less impacted by AI spam as a result. Perhaps in the end internet times it will be nothing but bots and finns. A fitting outcome.
There's a lot of stuff in various news articles about various forms of imperialism and such, but i would eat my hat if the internal workings of LLMs makes their high jouranlistic cutoff for publishing.
Tokenization strategies will almost certainly play a significant role in language extinction, and as someone with tremendous respect for linguistics and the role that language plays in thought and culture, it pisses me the hell off.
Fate was probably determined at the point that combat came out, xmenu just accelerated it with absurd upgrades that let one person steamroll the server (though it was sometimes fun to be that one person, it wasn't for the other half of the server...)
At least your mod brought back the building aspect, cheers for that.
It unironically helped accelerate the death of the game.
This wasn't counter-strike with millions of players and a huge esports scene, this was a tiny mod with maybe a few thousand players that required ~5v5 or higher for a good experience
Was für eine Überraschung, ein arroganter Deutscher, der nie Natural-Selection gespielt hat, hält einen Vortrag.
Hier geht es um die Gemeinschaft des Spiels, nicht um das Spiel selbst. Dieser Mann hat das Spiel nicht programmiert, nur eine kleine Ergänzung zu einer Ergänzung.
I used to play NS a ton, even was in a clan for a while. It was one of the most original and novel video games i've ever played, only planetside comes close.
Combat played a sizeable role in killing the original game and turning it into something i'd expect from a CS mod. An entry level, bland generic version of the original that gutted all the strategy and coordination and teamwork that you required to win on ns_ maps. (A good commander alone was worth gold)
You built upon what many people considered cancer (combat to some extent, but definitely xmenu combat) - tumors get serious when they hit the lymph nodes, and they probably saw it as that.
I quit before this era happened but I probably would have hated you if i hadn't - even if you aren't technically the one to blame.