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OpenTS is a new open-source reconstruction of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

Yeah, "as expected". The project showed up out of nowhere five days ago and is clearly vibe-coded to fuck and back. The talk of how "oh, it accelerated development, but we checked everything, we swear" is obvious bullshit like it is with basically all of these dime-a-dozen, dead-end slop projects that are showing up everywhere.

No, it would not "just as readily have been an entirely human passion project", because those take months to years, and you therefore hear about them organically as they're in development; they don't show up out of the aether to get a few paragraphs' mention on an obscure Linux blog. Even from a statistical point of view, those passion projects are vanishingly few compared to the slop projects.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I know it's five days old and made heavy use of AI. My comment is that before hearing about it, it's deeply cynical to expect it to be AI driven.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    before hearing about it

    while* hearing about it. The only introduction is a bulleted list of what the project is and isn't that Liam copy–pasted from their docs. Nothing about any anticipation; nothing about how long it had been in the works; nothing about the authors; no link to a release blog or previous story discussing it in any way; nothing about finally being in a playable state/anything related to the dev cycle. Liam talked about it like it popped into existence (true) and they were just hearing about it for the first time (true).

    Combined with what I said above, it's just basic media literacy that I'm reading about a dead-end throwaway project.

    it's deeply cynical

    I gave it a shot by reading the article, which was more than it deserved.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    while* hearing about it.

    Think we just have a different take on the meaning of 'expect' is all.

    nothing about finally being in a playable state

    "... appears to work on Linux with Proton 11 as captured in my screenshot above"

    copy–pasted

    heh

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    “… appears to work on Linux with Proton 11 as captured in my screenshot above”

    The emphasis in that point was the word "finally", not "playable state". As in "it's finally working after x amount of time" like you'd expect with a project that takes any appreciable time to get working.

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