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Super interesting! I'm curious what the purpose is, though? Edit to answer myself: Looks like this is more of an offshoot of the FreeHL projects by the same au

by sho_hn 8mo ago

Super interesting! I'm curious what the purpose is, though? Edit to answer myself: Looks like this is more of an offshoot of the FreeHL projects by the same author, which rewrite GoldSrc game logic to QuakeC to get those games to run on open source engine stacks, where the utility is more obvious. I guess it was just fun to see how hard it'd be to get HL2 content running. A bit similar to the OpenMW project working on Oblivion and Skyrim content loading on the side, though perhaps that's a more obvious future vector for that project.

its_magic 8mo ago
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- __alexs 8mo ago
  Why not just install it from Steam?
- jjordan 8mo ago
  Someone did something interesting to them and shared it with the world. That you feel is a waste of time does not add to the conversation and more broadly acts as a chilling effect on others who might want to share their interests. When it comes to something like this, mom's advice is golden: "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything."
  - its_magic 8mo ago
    It's a waste of time made necessary ONLY because of copyright law. As I explained. As is THIS ENTIRE COMMENT THREAD. And 10,000x other comment threads exactly like it, with you fools arguing back and forth for 300 pages about the subject. What a complete waste of time and energy. Thanks, copyright law.
    - sho_hn 8mo ago
      Nonsense. People reimplementing stuff to see if they can is unrelated to copyright. See the many implementations of vi.
- bottlepalm 8mo ago
  I'm also wonder why, but who cares, it's cool and fun. If someone wants to spend their time doing it, great. It's a lot more valuable than the time you spent writing that disparaging comment.
- aeturnum 8mo ago
  Tho I also disagree with you, I just want to point out the many HN guidelines[1] you are violating: > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." > Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. > Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. I don't think downvoting your comment is super useful either but there are elements of how you are interacting that are not related to your argument that you could change to be less likely to be downvoted. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Der_Einzige 8mo ago
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  - wholinator2 8mo ago
    I'm curious, what value do you actually derive from the website? Why stay?
    - its_magic 8mo ago
      [flagged]
      - Sabinus 8mo ago
        Are you invited into polite company in real life or do you restrict your egotistical and paranoid rants to online only?
        its_magic 8mo ago
        Another great question, and another good opportunity to supply you with true facts and deep knowledge of reality. Here we go. (This is turning into a real educational opportunity, unexpectedly.) I have never--not once in my entire life--been so mistreated in person as I have been online, here or elsewhere. It simply does not happen, for some reason. At all. Ever. This is not to say I haven't ever met any of you online abusers in real life; no, statistically speaking, I'm sure you're out there in the crowd somewhere, presumably within earshot when I speak truth. It's just that (for whatever reason) you simply never, ever think to approach me in the same manner as you do here. (Maybe you can think of one or two good reasons why this is so. I'm sure whatever explanation you reach will be completely self-centered and self-serving, just like your other justifications and rationalizations about everything, which always reach the same conclusion: that I'm wrong, and terrible, and that you're a Good Person, and it's OK for you to just shit all over me.) Since there is no such thing as downvotes or flags in real life--and since you don't have any actual rebuttal to offer to what I say, in 95% of cases--therefore your only choice (other than listening and, you know, learning) must be to sit quietly and fume in the corner, were you to suffer the indignity of hearing my horrible and unacceptable opinions spoken in the vicinity. So I guess that's what you do. If you run into me in real life, feel free to speak up and make yourself known next time. Be sure to froth at the mouth as you call me a lunatic and a maniac and so on. Really, the more hatred you launch in my direction, the more success you will surely have. Everyone who hears will be thoroughly impressed at how right you are and how terrible I am.
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roywiggins 8mo ago
Speaking of: https://openmw.org/2024/from-bsp-to-esp-how-s3ctor-abused-quake-editors-to-redefine-the-morrowind-modding-experience/ https://openmw.org/2024/from-bsp-to-esp-how-s3ctor-abused-qu...

by sho_hn 8mo ago

its_magic 8mo ago

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__alexs 8mo ago
Why not just install it from Steam?
jjordan 8mo ago
Someone did something interesting to them and shared it with the world. That you feel is a waste of time does not add to the conversation and more broadly acts as a chilling effect on others who might want to share their interests. When it comes to something like this, mom's advice is golden: "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything."
- its_magic 8mo ago
  It's a waste of time made necessary ONLY because of copyright law. As I explained. As is THIS ENTIRE COMMENT THREAD. And 10,000x other comment threads exactly like it, with you fools arguing back and forth for 300 pages about the subject. What a complete waste of time and energy. Thanks, copyright law.
  - sho_hn 8mo ago
    Nonsense. People reimplementing stuff to see if they can is unrelated to copyright. See the many implementations of vi.
bottlepalm 8mo ago
I'm also wonder why, but who cares, it's cool and fun. If someone wants to spend their time doing it, great. It's a lot more valuable than the time you spent writing that disparaging comment.
aeturnum 8mo ago
Tho I also disagree with you, I just want to point out the many HN guidelines[1] you are violating: > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." > Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. > Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. I don't think downvoting your comment is super useful either but there are elements of how you are interacting that are not related to your argument that you could change to be less likely to be downvoted. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Der_Einzige 8mo ago
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- wholinator2 8mo ago
  I'm curious, what value do you actually derive from the website? Why stay?
  - its_magic 8mo ago
    [flagged]
    - Sabinus 8mo ago
      Are you invited into polite company in real life or do you restrict your egotistical and paranoid rants to online only?
      - its_magic 8mo ago
        Another great question, and another good opportunity to supply you with true facts and deep knowledge of reality. Here we go. (This is turning into a real educational opportunity, unexpectedly.) I have never--not once in my entire life--been so mistreated in person as I have been online, here or elsewhere. It simply does not happen, for some reason. At all. Ever. This is not to say I haven't ever met any of you online abusers in real life; no, statistically speaking, I'm sure you're out there in the crowd somewhere, presumably within earshot when I speak truth. It's just that (for whatever reason) you simply never, ever think to approach me in the same manner as you do here. (Maybe you can think of one or two good reasons why this is so. I'm sure whatever explanation you reach will be completely self-centered and self-serving, just like your other justifications and rationalizations about everything, which always reach the same conclusion: that I'm wrong, and terrible, and that you're a Good Person, and it's OK for you to just shit all over me.) Since there is no such thing as downvotes or flags in real life--and since you don't have any actual rebuttal to offer to what I say, in 95% of cases--therefore your only choice (other than listening and, you know, learning) must be to sit quietly and fume in the corner, were you to suffer the indignity of hearing my horrible and unacceptable opinions spoken in the vicinity. So I guess that's what you do. If you run into me in real life, feel free to speak up and make yourself known next time. Be sure to froth at the mouth as you call me a lunatic and a maniac and so on. Really, the more hatred you launch in my direction, the more success you will surely have. Everyone who hears will be thoroughly impressed at how right you are and how terrible I am.

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roywiggins 8mo ago

Speaking of: https://openmw.org/2024/from-bsp-to-esp-how-s3ctor-abused-quake-editors-to-redefine-the-morrowind-modding-experience/ https://openmw.org/2024/from-bsp-to-esp-how-s3ctor-abused-qu...