Gaming notes on Xonotic + some good hashtag comments...
#Xonotic = like Quake / Half-Life / Doom etc FPS multi-player on everything Linux included
Some music while you read called "Jumping In Space" by Xonotic
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=dYHN36GNmDY
My notes and thoughts below below after having not played for years:
- Gaming is not so much a Community right? Has it changed from individuals thinking there are in but not really or only for getting fragged on?
- Regardless of that just more of a loose time killer? (your thoughts welcome and all this is neutral not antagonising at all - just my 'stage' 'phase' in life)
- I though "eSport" was a interesting term
Well I have to admit I'm against gaming in general and now suddenly feeling like maybe I could play this "1" game but glad I stopped playing and this probably for nostalgia / keeping the spirit alive for which I only probably contributed dead bodies (my own, actually in FreezeTag I did some rescues)
And since chess is literally the only 1 game right now and I'm work-for-fun based... I'm 2nd-guessing my own reasons why (nostalgia or looking for conversation or somewhere to build is probably the main reason which games maybe don't tend to do unless you good in editing sprites / making maps / being pro)
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Some other posts that I felt we good for various reasons
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- 'Woman' female playing (never saw that before).... and then on top TWO kids in same room playing... woa times have changed...
https://fosstodon.org/@codeHaiku/108065121176594681
- Xonotic is a fork from Nexuiz
- ceruds @ceruds seems a good bet because
---- > they have a mastodon account (so not emails / gmails) and probably more sane as a person / for freedom / free software
- Game is Free Software itself which is a better start than Quake / Half-Life maybe was though needed and great people probably there at the time and even maybe didn't sell out too hard or much later as it does need money at least back then
@Mehrad mentions to @opensuse -> "Kinda wish you were selecting an #OpenSource project like #Xonotic instead of Urban Terror which is proprietary freeware.
https://fosstodon.org/@Mehrad/106433795817057792
- If you like #UnrealTournament but also prefer #FreeSoftware you might want to give #xonotic a try. https://xonotic.org/
says: @uniq says:
- EU server? @devurandom@cybre.space says
gonna set up a #xonotic server for my friends. currently asking linode to migrate it from the u.s. to europe for lower ping
https://cybre.space/@devurandom/106127705382526878
- Map screenshots, not even sure it's real but looks wild if it's not just a picture edit
https://shitposter.club/objects/8850381b-5187-4a4d-a6d4-c485af0849bd
- eKreative server ---> @unfa or https://mastodon.social/@unfa
- Xonotic on #Linux - open source game with Chris Were (who I recommend for general video and 'good egg' type banter
https://share.tube/videos/watch/289871b4-dd3f-43a5-abc4-59d5e87fda27
- Dodger, the number 1 player?... of the whole game... I was wondering who is the best / proven
" I had no chance, he read me like an open book "
- Playing too many hours s hard (which is why I play chess, in and out 10mins max many times a day is ok)... anything other than that and I predict losing track of time / knowing your place / containment
https://pleroma.site/objects/dcd6882b-a284-4882-8540-1f3ccd4ac1c5
- Competition is eventually bad + PEOPLE FEEL SHIT (what do you say?)
https://pleroma.site/objects/9742c084-5a03-49b2-b033-46e09d38c2a6
- I think it's a waste of Gigabytes to put big videos and to leave it at medium and small UNTIL SOMEONE ASKS... just terrible consumption for big high res for bunch of kittens running around for hours while planet suffers almost for that 1 vid !
- #opensource #freesoftware #gaming <--- does have good ring to it but maybe just feels like community again (me tricking myself / tapping into my 'free life' feelings?)
- Mastodon bot for CTF matches... that would be crazy and addictive - especially if people could get to like each other - good idea in many ways
@jasper
- Example of someone with similar freedom loving aspects
https://social.pixie.town/@f0x/102188302234786690
- Xonotic supports multiplayer across the internet or locally with your friends.
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If you want to be friends and encourage me to play let me know...
@jasper
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@freeschool I agree gaming community is pretty atomized, people do largely come in just to play. There are discussions/talk in servers sometimes, despite it being pretty poorly suited for it. (About varying things, there are a few extreme right assholes.) I've played it for a long time.
There were tournaments, and i think some people arrange 1v1s sometimes? Possibly a missed chance that no tournament during covid.(1/N)
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@freeschool I haven't done tournaments, the range of skill levels varies a lot. I totally winning sometimes, partly because of health pickups and getting in control when you win... Still i am pretty weak against even better players.
Competitive feeling or feeling frustrated getting trounced are definitely something to deal with.. The game is largely dodging and hitting each other. (2/N)
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@freeschool I think Xonotic has better movement system than Quake.
The feeling of flow is in evading damage and dealing it, it'd be less if there was no opportunity for give and take there? For me negative emotions are mostly really pre-existing, i'll just vent some frustration a bit when it happens.. There are running servers where you have to beat a time, but i didn't find the appeal.(3/N)
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@freeschool About competition.. Really maybe shouldn't want to be the best as much.. Playing the game as best as we can is sort of a cultural expression, but attaching self-image/feelings to it is a bad side of that.
Possibly that RTS (like https://springrts.com/ ) or simulations like minetest can provide bigger more structured cultural expressions, without competition for the latter. And they do lots of things the real world can't. Think probably there is a place for them.(4/N)
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@freeschool
But yeah, it is sitting behind a screen, and not the place we give it right now. At least for people not into books(like me tbh) the more easily enticing forms of entertainment can be too easily distracting.(5/N)
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@freeschool There is also an issue for me; real world, mastodon and games are really disjoint. Which reduces how much they can act as community.(6/N)
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@freeschool Ideally should have these more aligned. WhatsApp groups are possibly a good example, they're often in a family or neighbourhood more? Perhaps something like XMPP should be used for that, and people could launch games from that so it's closer aligned to other social relations..
And also perhaps fewer "slogfest" like games like DM or in SpringRTS there was a 8v8 all the time.(versus 1v1 to 3v3 which makes more sense) (7/7)
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PS: The name change to Xonotic was basically forced by someone running with trademark? I think Xonotic is the "original branch", not the fork. That said, it seems long ago and unimportant.
