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If you want to give them the benefit of the doubt: it may be fixing some not yet public CVEs.

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I was waffling on the recent sale; now I'm glad I went for it.

Neither the developer or publisher have anything else listed on Steam, so with this game being removed, they surely won't survive (if they haven't already folded).

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Quoting: JarmerI guess there's reasons for it, but ... I suppose this is a perfect example of "don't buy ea games yall".

It really depends. Some games are absolutely safe to purchase in early access.
Factorio was a blast way before it fully released and would have been "fine" even if development had stopped the moment you purchased it back when.
Same for Caves Of Qud, same for DRG: Survivors, same for Palworld, and many more.

What all of this is really an example of is: "Don't purchase blindly. Do your research."

This game in particular had quite a few red flags when looking into it (most of all a clearly unsustainable vision unless it would've been a mass success, which seems impossible given the lack of mass appeal), long before this announcement.
Then a VERY lengthy stay in early access (this can go well, but is definitely a flag).
Then the issues they kept dancing around through their updates.
Then the update pace.
I'm sure there would be more.

And it's not like purchasing games that are not in early access is safe from purchasing an unfinished game in any way, I'm sure I don't need to give examples here...

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Quoting: LoudTechieThere's one thing I hope AI'll bring the ability for non-technical people to check source code for backdoors.

This just results in low quality / incorrect bug reports, wasting the time of whoever has to review them.

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Boy, that sure is Dramatic.... 😅

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One of the biggest issues with modding Windows games under Linux is related to RETRO games, or OLD GAMES which have OLD windows tools that don't like wine for whatever reason.

A good example of this is the modding tools for Dragon Age Inquisition, and I think DA2 as well. But there are many other examples where the modding tools straight up have a fit under wine! resulting in almost all mods being unusable!

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That'll stop those Operating Systems exploiting young children...........................................................................................................................................................🤔

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Like many, I didn't even know it existed until now. And it looks like a decent Star Trek Flick game.

Is it a complete game or kind of broken development title?

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i can't wait for the multitudes of legislators supporting this nonsense to get hacked and their infomation changed to deny them acces to anything because they're too young.

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Would it be technically possible to externally have achivements if a game didn't have any to begin with?
It'd be cool for active communities to nominate and vote on player submitted achivements.

Is there any kind of standardized, open protocol for achivements?
Imagine if indie devs could simply build a small structute to talk to Sentinel and the community handles what is an achivement, the SS of it or other graphic representation or reward, name of it, and guides to accomplishing them.

No idea if any of that is doable in any capacity but, those might be really interesting next steps to expand Sentinel.

That said, I only pay so much attention to achivements to begin with but, it is nice getting them. I am curious to see what's available and make some amount of effort on obtaining what I think I can.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: RubyRose136Not specifically related to this article, but this may be a concern for you: Luanti is [now being coded with AI](https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/commit/e6f0377ea2cb60c0c267b9ea570c1b4cc059d5b7) and its ContentDB [allows AI-generated content](https://content.luanti.org/policy_and_guidance/#43-ai-generated-content) as well.

As much as I despise genAI, this kind of commit is how it should be used - security checking existing, well-written code for best practise

And tools like this existed for years before the 2022 genAI "boom", it was simply that the masses couldn't afford them, because they were Enterprise-level CI/CD DevOps tools.

correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't genai broadly based on technology we've had for decades? like I was under the impression the only meaningful difference between cleverbot and chatgpt is modern genai stuff uses an ungodly amount of data, and the reason that something like it wasn't done before is because it was impractical to get that amount of data legally and process it in a way that could be turned into a profitable venture (and looking at modern AI companies, it looks like neither of those issues were ever solved)

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like I said with the california bill, would *love* to see how this would be enforced with open-source software redistributed through a billion different services with no personal ownership by any person or entity

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yet another reminder that piracy laws should be updated with a whole lot of exceptions

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Quoting: scaineFeels like you're still defending base degradation as a good thing, or at least as an irrelevant thing. Not sure why.

I had over 100 hours in the game when I stopped, but the base degradation, while probably necessary in an MMO-setting, was infuriating. There is no positive, for the player, to have base degradation, other than getting some land back when a player stops playing entirely.

If my generators run out while I'm on holiday, or traveling for work - coming back to find all my storage boxes emptied by scavenging players would instantly stop me playing this game. Giving me some bonuses later for rejoining doesn't give me back the hours I spent creating my base, building the vehicles, collecting tens of bodies for water, all the unique components I'd collected from science sites, all the custom weapons I'd gotten during runs.

I genuinely loved playing this game while it lasted. I really hope they offer self-hosted options to remove degradation, and I can actually see myself getting back into it again.

This reminds me another Dune fan who said that Dune: Awakening is too much about spice farming and not enough about whatever he thinks the core pillar of the Dune lore is. If they had not done sandstorms or sandstorm that degrade the bases, it would be just a different people being mad that it isn't a thing.

I have never gone on a month long holiday without knowing about it in advance, so I don't understand about those people who bring out the travelling narrative. If you backup your base, you can continue where you left off in no time or just store the "valuable" items in the bank. Your account doesn't get wiped, your base does, very slowly (it takes weeks on top of the already 4 weeks you can have it powered). Your storage boxes doesn't open before your sub-fief is destroyed (cannot be done by players in PvE).

This reminds me many Dune: Awakening players, who are pissed now that the game is made too easy, doesn't feel like a harsh desert anymore, more like a playground for kids - there is nothing at stake. I wonder, who will keep the game alive longer, those who quit for any nuisance or those who embraced the survival?

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Feels like you're still defending base degradation as a good thing, or at least as an irrelevant thing. Not sure why.

I had over 100 hours in the game when I stopped, but the base degradation, while probably necessary in an MMO-setting, was infuriating. There is no positive, for the player, to have base degradation, other than getting some land back when a player stops playing entirely.

If my generators run out while I'm on holiday, or traveling for work - coming back to find all my storage boxes emptied by scavenging players would instantly stop me playing this game. Giving me some bonuses later for rejoining doesn't give me back the hours I spent creating my base, building the vehicles, collecting tens of bodies for water, all the unique components I'd collected from science sites, all the custom weapons I'd gotten during runs.

I genuinely loved playing this game while it lasted. I really hope they offer self-hosted options to remove degradation, and I can actually see myself getting back into it again.

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Quoting: tmtvl

Quoting: LachuBut any other implementation than field in passwd is bad.

I'll quote from the article:

Quoting: Liam Dawerather than relying on self-reported ages.

Hence just having a box that says 'how old are you?' with a simple input is not good enough.

Some options for how it may actually work:

• Scan your ID card to verify (although many people in the USA apparently don't have an ID card because they don't really need it and don't want to spend the money, which to me as a Belgian is wild).


• Scan your driver's license to verify.


• Scan your birth certificate to verify.


• Input your SSN (Social Security Number).


• Submit a blood sample.


• Maybe you'll be able to request some kind of certificate from your city hall which can be scanned.


• Or perhaps something else I didn't think of.

Of course, those could be defeated by having someone else do it for you, so maybe monitors will have iris scanners and keyboards fingerprint scanners so you're constantly being verified (government of the USA, I'll take payment for my contributions to your cause in silver or Ethereum, thanks).

Having someone else do it for you is the least of our worries.
People have direct access to the checking code how do you keep them from making a mod that always says it's good to go?

Also, which wallet address(jk.)?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo if they're not selling the game at all, is it still piracy or should it properly be called "game preservation" instead?

legally it is still piracy in most of countries

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AI being used by experienced developers is one thing (maybe almost acceptable), they can usually spot mistakes and all that, but with increased use, less experienced devs will also think it's okay to use AI, but will not be able to see errors and code will start degrading. I think the idea of spaghetti code and nobody around that knows what exactly it's doing or why it's the way it is, is going to be a humongous problem beyond what it is today.

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Quoting: tmtvlScan your ID card to verify

I guarantee every device & account in the house will be registered to whoever the most tech savvy adult is & that will be that.

Why yes, I DO have 5 profiles on this Windows PC just for me. They just happen to be called Jane, John, Jimmy, Suzey & John Jr. 😝

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Had this game on my wishlist for a long time. Sounds interesting and it definitely looks amazing, but between the incomplete state, slow updates, poor communication and steep price for the package, I never could justify a purchase. Looks like it was the right call, unfortunately.

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You thought the cookie consent nonsense was silly, just wait for this insanity.

I'm a parent of 3 young kids. It's NOT that hard to keep an eye on what your kids are doing online. And it's already a nightmare to try to manage parental controls on most devices.

I'd be happy if they would stop at:

1) Force all media apps (like Smart TV apps) to allow the setting of a parent PIN + a kids profile where parents can set the age of content (like Netflix does it).

2) Social media platforms with over X users should have the ability to create a supervised account for children where parents can see their chats & approve their connections (like Kids Messenger). F*ck SnapChat & their disappearing chats.

3) Router level website filtering that doesn't suck.

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Frankly the state of parental controls is abysmal. I'm a fricking programmer & I find it all convoluted, annoying & unintuitive. And that's when it's even available.

We don't need age verification - parents will just register all users as 18+ to avoid the headaches of having a device that suddenly can't access things when you need it. Unless you're going to fingerprint ID a user everytime they log in.... this is going to be more surveillance for no benefit.

The parents who care are already doing a pretty good job.

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Quoting: MarlockSo the mechanic in PvE is that even if you only want to play solo you HAVE to play again every X time you your progress is wiped out.

So basically what I already said.

X time is long, but I have savegames in Steam that are a a couple years old and I went back to play them, so "a week" is not the same as "never" looses progress while not playing, which is what would happen if degradation only happened while actually playing.

Nope, that's still not the mechanic. Your progress stays intact, you don't lose your character, just your base deteriorates if you don't refuel the generators that power the shields or you doesn't back up the base and store it in the bank.

And even if you lose your base, you get plenty of materials to build a new one when you return 28 days later. You might not get the same amount back what you had in storage boxes, so if makes sense your store your valuables at the bank.

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Star Trek was dying the moment they shoehorned the product placement into the first reboot movie. (Gene Roddenberry was rolling in his grave.) Sure, there have been a few decent things since then, but it's just been mostly crap or not how it used to be. Sorta like Disney ruining Star Wars, I guess. Paramount's new owners are even worse than the old ones too. So I'm not expecting anything to get any better either.

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Ah, Mindustry. I always get burned on it quite fast, but still come back to it regularly. Guess it's time to dig in again.

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Quoting: emphy

It could go either way with it simply asking for people to enter their date of birth ...

The pro and anti big government politicians in the us seem to have settled on bad government as a compromise.

Silly buggers.

That's the plot twist. The politicians only campaign on anti-big government. After the campaigning is done, all the politicians are for big government. "my top down command and control government is better than your top down command and control government, totes". Vote Blue no matter who or Big Red Wave!! It's all the same; different coat of paint.

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"TRX" just makes me think of the RAM truck that put Ford and their Raptor in their place. lol

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So, it's basically abandonware now.. I know that's not legally correct, but in my eyes that's free game then. And that really sucks, the developers at Dramatic Labs deserved that revenue from what I can tell. Never knew it existed until I saw this article, but it looks like a damn solid Star Trek game.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo if they're not selling the game at all, is it still piracy or should it properly be called "game preservation" instead?

Nobody will judge you for preserving a game ;-)

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they probably can't announce that they will have to remove the game due to licensing issues, those contracts are full of small lines... the brand owners do not want to be blamed of anything... so they did the big promotion, so any fan could buy it one last time and when it is announced is already too late

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Just a heads up on availability: yesterday i noticed that they had some steam decks in their refurbished section available here in germany (so i guess its for all the EU area).
I was unlucky, and i tried over an hour to get one, but checkout failed (probably because someone else was faster every time!). Keep an eye out if you want one, perhaps there will be another batch coming and you are luckier than me. I want an OLED...

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