Doom community happenings

Here you go. Only did minimal testing. Requires omgifol.

If it doesn't work let me know.

Why is this closed? Can you explain why was this locked?
I was getting some notification yesterday that someone gave a like to a very old post of mine in this one. Then I looked further in the thread, and there was some later necroposting.
But no serious flamewars or something offensive. And then someone is like "ok we lock this"

I've seen this a lot in doomworld, even threads that are not supposed to be offensive, but someone decides "oh must lock for some reason, maybe it's too old of a subject"
I would only expect threads with controversial stuff would be locked.

I hate how moderators just decide even for trivial stuff. I see this in some other forums too sometimes and I am like "not a good place". It's so frustrating.


www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/57861-have-you-ever-run-doom-below-system-requirements/?page=4

The game is 30 years old, let's lock it

i still don't understand what's wrong with necrobumps

i don't care actually, i don't have a neurosis to call threads dead

Because it's too old for a mohel.

Yah I never got the necrobumping thing either.

1) "Necrobumping is bad, make a new thread."
2) "Wtf this has been asked a lot before, use the search feature."
3) "Wtf, why do the same evergreen, bread and butter topics keep coming up."

I agree, it's likely to be some leftover forum etiquette enforcement from times when that rule was relevant.
If enough people at DW will make a fuss about it, I'm certain staff will undo that unwritten rule.

I've said some things here and there about AI in the past few years (and reserve some accrued shower-thought opinions about demiurgical politics and game theory wrt them). I don't see a need to jump into these conversations much myself, but:
Apparently a thread about AI-and-the-Doom-Community devolved into, within one page, a discussion about Doomerboards more-so than machine learning itself.

www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/148348-some-thoughts-on-ai-and-the-doom-community/?page=2

I can't wait for parts of this AI clusterfuck bubble to burst and settle in a couple years.

Finally I find someone with the same question I've always had, I'd get it if it's prohibitted for old drama nobody cares about anymore but in any other case it makes no sense.

The thread isn't about AI, it's about the group negotiating their shared morality. Hence why dissent is punished with ridicule and shaming: it sends a message that if you challenge the group identity then you face the consequences.

It's also why it quickly turns into a strawman attack on the "others": the social bonding exercise needs a clear us/them division so everyone can establish themselves on one side of the line or the other.

If it were anything else the message would settle to "go off and build something cool, and worry less about what others do," but that doesn't happen.