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Old 10-19-2019, 03:55 PM
Vexenu Vexenu is offline
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The problem is that it is impossible to prove a negative of this sort. I could show you ten thousand screenshots and forum posts from the classic era that provide no evidence of GINA-like programs, and yet that would not be enough to provide that it did not exist.

In fact, there is NO WAY to prove it did not exist, because you can always get someone to come out of the woodwork (as we see here) and claim that it did, while providing zero evidence (note that I am not accusing dekova of lying, just pointing out that he cannot provide any evidence for his claim, which makes it essentially inadmissible, otherwise everyone's baseless claims must be given equal weight).

It's a fact that EQ was a game that was neckbearded by the hardcore from the beginning. People literally ruined their lives over the game. It was called Evercrack for a reason. People took the game very seriously and anything that gave players an advantage would have been widely used and discussed. I therefore posit that there would have been a strong demand for a GINA-like program at the time, if such a program existed, and that if did exist then evidence of it would be preserved in the same internet archives that have enabled the research that has allowed P1999 to reach its current state of classic accuracy. Further, if the production of GINA-like software is as relatively easy as dekova claims, it is very likely that multiple versions would have been produced by independent programmers, which only increases the likelihood that such programs would have been widely discussed and shared. Which means we should have ample evidence for them.

But we find no evidence for anything like GINA in the internet archives. Therefore we must reasonably conclude no such GINA-like program existed back in the day.
 


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