Michael Sunlin

@ID_AA_Carmack @SandyofCthulhu I remember DWANGO! It was amazing in a time of dialup and BBSes. I used to work at Babbages so I had no shortage of free demo disks from magazines or what not to play it. I still remember the day I played Carmack on it and got my butt royally handed to me.

I think you are confusing a few different things. Doom shipped with serial, modem, and IPX networking code that I wrote. It did not have internet play; maybe you are thinking about the DWANGO multiplayer-over-modem service? The issue with the IPX code was interesting — the original version used broadcast packets, which were optimal on any single network segment, but there were some large university campuses which only used Ethernet bridges (I thought all large networks used routers), so every network Doom client caused traffic on every single segment of the network. I quickly rewrote it to use addressed packets. When we brought on John Cash, who came from Netware, he did take over maintenance of the IPX code, but I again wrote the TCP/IP (internet) code for Quake.

Like anyone else, game companies can be cheated, and I witnessed this several times. In 1993, we at id Software played Doom together over our internal network. Now, you have to realize that at the time, we thought few people would want to play by modem or over the nascent internet. But we wanted that functionality, because it was super fun and we liked it. Now, John Carmack didn't want to program the internet code. We hired a guy who lived in (IIRC) California to do the code remotely. The deal, as it was explained to me, was that he was finishing a project for his current company, and doing our code in his spare time, with his boss's knowledge. When his project was finished, he'd join us in Texas. Well, when we were ready for our internet code, we called his company in California and got the guy's boss. He laughed hard at us. He told us, "This guy is a good programmer, but he is a compulsive liar. He knows he can never hold a job anywhere else, and I get he hasn't done a lick of work on your connectivity stuff. He just took your money." Well ... the boss was right. We'd been swindled. Worse, we didn't have that code. So John Carmack spent 2 weeks quickly hammering together something that mostly worked, and then we released Doom. There was some kind of issue with the way we did it, that if Doom was being played with a lot of people on the same net, even if they weren't playing each other, it multiplied the information packets hugely and crashed the system. Within a month Doom was banned on basically every college campus in the country. So we hired someone to give us new, robust, code and in a month or two Doom was all it could be. Of course John Carmack's not to blame - his strength was in 3-D, not connectivity. Plus he had only 2 weeks to throw it together. That dude in California was the villain and he can rot. 1/4

@the_ben_jamon @ArcRaiderAlerts No, it's not.

@ArcRaiderAlerts Twitter is the only place on earth where gamers think a streamer is more detrimental to a game than cheaters. Fuck no dweebs in these comments

Ninja quits ARC Raiders for the 67th time after returning to the game for the Riven Tides update only to be blasted by cheaters. He appreciates the update but says the game is basically "unplayable."

@Simplykarnage @ArcRaidersInfo Right. Raiders dont die they just get knocked out. So why would any society in Speranza not have some system to deal with rats? Could easily become a trial challenge too. "Lol bro" indeed.

@MichaelSunlin @ArcRaidersInfo lol bro wants to add a bounty system to an extraction game this ain’t Fortnite lol bro

YOU can make 1 change to ARC Raiders right now… What would it be?

@TheARCcentral Expeditions are lame. They should only exist to clear out bad matchmaking karma.

This is accurate

@DefiantLs These kind of videos earn you a block. Useless / false info

This is great advice. x.com/financedystop/…

@LancesEmporium Yes. The answer to ratting and PVP is noismakers. Totally.

@MichaelSunlin Use things like Noisemakers and other traps and they cant surprise you, you will either hear them destroying them or triggering. The game gives you so many tools, use them.

Players in ARC Raiders recently are reporting that the ABMM in the game seems "broken", especially after Updates. But it seems that not having full friendly lobbies, or lobbies where you can always expect friendly interactions, is simply not wanted by the developers. It is also not planned to do any sort of PvE only mode. In an interview the Production Director said this: Even in those servers, I hope they don't feel fully safe. I guess that's the real quote here. Players shouldn't feel fully safe. There's always Arc in their way. We never promised that they will be on full friendly lobbies. And humans, right? They can sometimes surprise you, backstab you, or abuse your generosity. There's all of that that we want to keep existing in this game. So finding a complete break where it's only PvE is probably something we don't want to explore at the moment, because we want you to not feel safe.

@LancesEmporium Realistically, there would be some negative impact for ratting. Your raiders karma is visible because Speranza would figure out who is knocking out people in the lobby eventually. Or just give us a Augment that drops a nade when knocked out. Combat Mk 3 (Ratcatcher)

@MichaelSunlin Why do you need any "punishment" for a pvp engagement? Just defend yourself.

@TheARCcentral 60% done on my 2nd expedition. Not sure if have motivation for a 3rd. Lots of blueprints i never found. The new assessors are dumb. Spam smoke and cloak and rush the lobby there for a chance. Ive probably died 10 times and lost 500k in items for 1 new blueprint there.

How’s everyone feeling about ARC Raiders lately?

@Clayt0nDotSol @Ric_RTP So you didn't read the post you responded to huh?

@Ric_RTP The jury will not be deciding whether the underlying business structures are legal or create precedent extending to other companies. Juries don't create precedent and instead make factual findings (here, related to potential fraud, misrepresentations, breach of duties, etc.).

In 19 days, a jury in Oakland is going to decide whether the entire legal foundation of the AI industry is built on fraud. Everyone thinks the Musk vs Altman lawsuit is a billionaire grudge match. Two egos, one grudge, a $150 billion damages number designed for headlines. Easy to dismiss. Easy to scroll past. That's exactly what Altman wants you to think. Because what's actually on trial on April 27 is something much BIGGER than Elon's hurt feelings... A jury is going to decide whether you can legally take billions of dollars in nonprofit donations, use them to build the most valuable technology in human history, and then quietly convert that nonprofit into a for-profit company worth $850 billion. If the answer is no, the entire AI industry has a problem. Because OpenAI is not the only company that did this: Anthropic was founded by OpenAI defectors using the same nonprofit-first mission language. xAI pitches itself as building AI "for humanity." Every frontier lab has used the moral cover of "we're doing this for the good of the world" to attract talent, capital, and regulatory goodwill they would have never gotten otherwise. An Elon win doesn't just touch OpenAI. It creates a legal precedent that every AI company built on a nonprofit or public benefit promise becomes vulnerable to shareholder and donor clawback suits. That's why this case matters. And that's why Altman is panicking. Just look at what he did this week: Elon filed a motion demanding the court remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and FORCE OpenAI to return to its nonprofit origins. Then he amended the suit to say if he wins the $150 billion, all of it goes to OpenAI's charity arm. Not him. Zero dollars to Elon personally. That amendment was surgical. It stripped Altman of his entire public defense. He can no longer claim this is about Elon's ego or Elon's bank account. Elon is now legally on record saying he just wants the mission back. OpenAI's response was to panic-write a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general asking them to investigate Elon for "anti-competitive behavior." Their strategy chief publicly accused Elon of coordinating attacks with Mark Zuckerberg. They called the lawsuit "harassment driven by ego and jealousy." That's NOT the response of a company that thinks it's going to win. Real companies with real defenses don't ask the government to silence the person suing them 3 weeks before trial. They let the evidence speak. OpenAI is scrambling because they know what's in discovery. Elon's team has been building this case for two years. Emails, board minutes, internal conversations about the conversion. The kind of paper trail that juries understand and executives can't explain away. And the timing couldn't be worse... OpenAI is trying to IPO at $852 billion. They just raised $122 billion. Microsoft has $135 billion of exposure to them. A jury verdict that even partially sides with Elon in late April or May would crater the entire IPO runway and send shockwaves through every major AI investor on Earth. This is why Altman spent the last 2 weeks doing press tours and policy blueprints and "super intelligence agendas" aimed at Washington. He's trying to REFRAME himself as the responsible statesman of AI right before a jury decides if he's a con artist. Most people will watch this trial start and think it's celebrity drama. The smart money is watching it and realizing that the legal foundation of the AI boom is about to be tested in court for the first time EVER. And if that foundation cracks, everything built on top of it is at risk.

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@jkam12 @xAIMemphis @kempsuper9 What is your success story of accomplishments for today? Putting on matching socks?

@xAIMemphis @kempsuper9 Wild that a billion $$$$ company can’t create timelines for capital projects. Did you guys hire people from the DOGE team?

xAI is committed to building a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis. This plant will protect billions of gallons of water each year. The team is currently prioritizing other more immediate projects at the site but our plans to build the water plant have not changed.

@toujoursyucky @timecaptales Oh, stfu

@timecaptales I kinda feel like Vanilla Ice was a kid in over his head at the time, and didn’t realize the weight of cultural appropriation. While Arsenio was right to call out that a white guy was getting all the attention for doing black music, the record labels and industry were to blame.

Arsenio Hall gets absolutely roasted by his own audience for coming at Vanilla Ice in 1990. Arsenio later admitted he was having a "rough day" before cameras even rolled, but the tension was palpable.

@AGONbyAOC I would love one! Pair it with my asus 5070 ti!

We’re clearing out our EU/US warehouses and found a batch of extra monitors. And we want to give them to YOU. Comment if you want one ⤵️

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Antony Starr was at Big Texas ComiCon and a fan asked about the Albert Wesker casting rumors. He immediately said no way, not happening. Then someone in the crowd shouted that he would be perfect for it. He paused, smiled, and went "You know what? Yeah, I want that role now."

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@RichSiekris @x_Carbon_x @ArcRaidersInfo I didn't say the risk should be zero. But I do think ratting should have some consequnce beyond the 10 second PVP fight.

Does Arc Raiders need a strictly PVE only mode? 🤔