This thread peaked my interest, I should go back to tinkering. Linux on arm is a thing now… Tbh I stopped using it as a daily driver because 1. htc stopped maintaining the android build, and the phone was so niche, cyanogenmod android also stopped building for it. I’d rather have a full keyboard in a niche, ancient brick, than 5g I would reckon. I hope you find sth. on your search!
I still use my htc desire Z for my parents home automation, it’s running cyanogen mod and does not have 5g sadly :/
Have you played e.g. marathon 2? Since you haven bought it, I can assume you haven’t played Marathon, so it’s a bit weird you are so opinionated on it? Is it because you are a D2 player? Because i am playing that still. Its as alive as its ever been.
What are your top3 reasons it qualifies as „abomination“?
Marathon is not an exclusive.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle comes to mind, the first few CoD, and at least the first MoH. Gearbox made a quite good Brothers in Arms game.
I don’t think this is a 0-100 thing. They were pressed for time and money, had a whole foot in ML already for the pathfinding stuff. AI resentment was nowhere near its current level and only vocal in niche dev instances on the fediverse. The two actors in the vidoc at least claim they were really well compensated and their contracts protected their rights fairly. At least Embark did not go full hog AI praise - they remade character models, re-recorded voice lines. Ofc. fuck gen AI, it’s a planet eating shit machine, made to entrench and disown creative work and workers.