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> JC DENTON: "Echelon... the surveillance system for the United Nations -- so Daedalus was an MJ12 tool and rebelled?"

> EVERETT: "More of a pattern-matching error. It classified Majestic 12 as a terrorist group, alongside the NSF and Silhouette."

-- Deus Ex (2000)

(The joke with this game being that whenever someone mentions it, at least some other person is inspired to reinstall or replay it.)

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Just did! I hope one of the AI applications coming soon is pure post-treatment of old videogames for graphic quality. (e.g: I play an old game, it's upscaled / retextured locally without any interaction with the code on my own GPU). Even the remaster is showing its years in a distracting way, alas.

I've tried playing it with better texture-packs, but unfortunately they tend to backfire by creating inconsistent levels of detail in a scene, which I find harder to deal with than a uniform low-res experience.

That said, lighting improvements--especially to stop banding in shadows--are much appreciated.

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