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  • simple@lemmy.mltoGaming@beehaw.orgThoughts on minetest?
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    1 year ago

    Minetest is really cool but it’s always struck me as kind of a shameless Minecraft clone instead of trying to do something new. The graphics are identical, the UI is similar, the gameplay is practically the same, there isn’t a huge reason to play it compared to Java Minecraft + mods. It is free and open source though, which is cool.

    I’m more of a Vintage Story enjoyer myself. It has its fair share of issues but I appreciate how it’s not trying to be Minecraft.






  • This is the stuff that makes me really excited for AI. Sure, having a personal assistant is nice. Generating images and music is also very cool. Optimizing software and hardware though, this is where things get amazing.

    Modern software is pretty abysmal when you think about it. In the last 20 years we’ve focused more on making things faster rather than making more optimized things. We ended up with ultra bloated operating systems, regularly 100mb+ apps, RAM sucking programs like web browsers and background apps that make even 8 gigabytes of RAM not enough, and so on.

    I’m waiting for a point where AI can start optimizing legacy code and say “Wait, this is really dumb and wastes so much energy”. Imagine Windows running on only 100mb of ram. Imagine apps and websites being 10x more efficient than they are now. It’s not that crazy of a concept, only a matter of time.