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Quoting: scaineMan, I can't believe we're still defending genAI. As I've pointed out in many other comments, the top reasons I hear for the "negative resentment" are, in no particular order:

1. Negative impact on environment, slap bang in the middle of a climate crisis.
2. Driving job losses based on exaggerated claims of "efficiency".
3. Lowers IQ (I can't be bothered digging out the link yet again)
4. Slows down development (even in cases where developers claimed it sped them up, evidence showed otherwise)
5. Driving a nuclear age (Meta, Google and Microsoft have now all commissioned their own reactors)
6a. Societal impact - talking people into hurting others and/or themselves, sometimes leading to deaths)
6b. Societal impact - driving non-consensual nudity on Grok, including child pornography. When Musk learned of this, he paywalled the "feature". He paywalled it... not removed... paywalled it. FFS. Also see deepfakes of politians, or fraud using social engineering techniques.
6c. Societal impact - genAI "slop" now devalues everything on the internet. When you see something cool, you think "meh, it's probably just AI shite". Or it actually IS shite, in which case, genAI is on a race to the bottom, since the next generation of genAI will be taught on today's internet - mistakes will be compounded, biases reinforced.
7. Loss leading pricing - hoping to hook consumers/enterprisesthen putting prices up (see OpenAI adding adverts to ChatGPT)
8. Hallucination (multiple cases of invented bullshit, including court filings, leading to lawyers being debarred).
9. Obnoxious marketing (see MS especially).
10. Diverting investment away from targeted solution, and into a financial bubble (because #7).
11. All genAI engines are built on plagiarised work, for which the original authors/artists got no recognition, nor commission. Same with code - all code was scraped, regardless of license, and that code can be regurgitated in new, OR snippet form, by genAI, without recognition of that license.
12. Impact on website scraping from multiple companies building genAI models. Wikipedia in particular has had to actively block enormous ranges to prevent the scraping from leading them into financial run. Again, can't be bothered to find the link, but there's a Wikimedia blog talking about it.

Anyone offering the "it's just a tool" argument, is being deliberately obtuse. They're basically arguing that the ends absolutely justify the means, no matter the cost.

And the cost is high. Big tech has absolutely no morals, and this is a race to the bottom, fueled by literally hundreds of billions of investment that could have have so much difference elsewhere.

But hey, it's just a tool, right?

You forgot point 13.

The complete and total destruction of the consumer home PC market from inflated parts costs & the move towards subscription based 'ai' cloud gaming (and Ai windows cloudOS)

14. might end x86 Linux because of point 13.

ohh and probably if not regulated ..

15. Surveillance capitalism , Ai tracking stalking, minority report style dystopian society.

but it can put a funny cape on your dog !

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Quoting: scaineI discovered this game by accident just before Christmas, a couple of days into the co-op beta, and me and my three mates played it for over 50 hours over the Christmas period.

It's absolutely stunning. My Steam review goes into detail, but basically, even in early access, this game has launched itself into my (ever-changing) Top Ten Games of All Time.

I'm a sucker for fantasy RPGs, but the way they mix meaty combat, progression, and puzzles is sublime. The graphics and animations are simply five-star too. Incredible game.

I was so inspired by your post that I bought it and convinced my friend to buy it. Turns out the co-op beta has ended 😆 We just have to wait until release on 22/1 😀

Oof, haha! I mean, it's literally the first line of this article, but I can see how you overlooked it!! I wasn't aware it was a time-limited beta either, and my mate was like "the co-op is gone!" in early January! At least it's only a week away now! Still a great game single-player, but definitely lends itself to a multi-player playthrough, it's so much more fun, especially when you're building out your townhouse (whichever one you end up buying) in Sacrament!

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Man, I can't believe we're still defending genAI. As I've pointed out in many other comments, the top reasons I hear for the "negative resentment" are, in no particular order:

1. Negative impact on environment, slap bang in the middle of a climate crisis.
2. Driving job losses based on exaggerated claims of "efficiency".
3. Lowers IQ (I can't be bothered digging out the link yet again)
4. Slows down development (even in cases where developers claimed it sped them up, evidence showed otherwise)
5. Driving a nuclear age (Meta, Google and Microsoft have now all commissioned their own reactors)
6a. Societal impact - talking people into hurting others and/or themselves, sometimes leading to deaths)
6b. Societal impact - driving non-consensual nudity on Grok, including child pornography. When Musk learned of this, he paywalled the "feature". He paywalled it... not removed... paywalled it. FFS. Also see deepfakes of politians, or fraud using social engineering techniques.
6c. Societal impact - genAI "slop" now devalues everything on the internet. When you see something cool, you think "meh, it's probably just AI shite". Or it actually IS shite, in which case, genAI is on a race to the bottom, since the next generation of genAI will be taught on today's internet - mistakes will be compounded, biases reinforced.
7. Loss leading pricing - hoping to hook consumers/enterprisesthen putting prices up (see OpenAI adding adverts to ChatGPT)
8. Hallucination (multiple cases of invented bullshit, including court filings, leading to lawyers being debarred).
9. Obnoxious marketing (see MS especially).
10. Diverting investment away from targeted solution, and into a financial bubble (because #7).
11. All genAI engines are built on plagiarised work, for which the original authors/artists got no recognition, nor commission. Same with code - all code was scraped, regardless of license, and that code can be regurgitated in new, OR snippet form, by genAI, without recognition of that license.
12. Impact on website scraping from multiple companies building genAI models. Wikipedia in particular has had to actively block enormous ranges to prevent the scraping from leading them into financial run. Again, can't be bothered to find the link, but there's a Wikimedia blog talking about it.

Anyone offering the "it's just a tool" argument, is being deliberately obtuse. They're basically arguing that the ends absolutely justify the means, no matter the cost.

And the cost is high. Big tech has absolutely no morals, and this is a race to the bottom, fueled by literally hundreds of billions of investment that could have have so much difference elsewhere.

But hey, it's just a tool, right?

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Quoting: poiuzLet's translate Valve's message:

Efficiency gains through the use of these tools is not the focus of this section.

"Basically everyone is using AI."

Of course. It's a tool. Nobody stops you from taking the horse, but I'll be probably faster than you using my car.

Quoting: poiuz

Instead, it is concerned with the use of AI in creating content that ships with your game, and is consume by player. This includes content such as artwork, sound, narrative, localization, etc.

"Let's stop being transparent & declare only stuff we obviously can't deny."

But reading the article it seems to work - ignorance is bliss.

I really don't get the negative resentment from a lot of people with AI. It's a tool. It can't replace people, although many seem to think so. Right now, it simply can't. I mean, you probably could for some smaller things, but quality wise it's not the best idea.
What it does is to aid you, to let you iterate faster. Do the annoying things... *shrugs*

Related to the code, I couldn't care less if someone uses AI to aid in coding, as long as the result is proper, clean code. And as a gamer, a stable game that doesn't crash or has weird bugs. How that is achieved, I really don't care, so why tick boxes for that?

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The System Administration tool looks really cool!

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Quoting: scaineI discovered this game by accident just before Christmas, a couple of days into the co-op beta, and me and my three mates played it for over 50 hours over the Christmas period.

It's absolutely stunning. My Steam review goes into detail, but basically, even in early access, this game has launched itself into my (ever-changing) Top Ten Games of All Time.

I'm a sucker for fantasy RPGs, but the way they mix meaty combat, progression, and puzzles is sublime. The graphics and animations are simply five-star too. Incredible game.

I was so inspired by your post that I bought it and convinced my friend to buy it. Turns out the co-op beta has ended 😆 We just have to wait until release on 22/1 😀

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Molyneux is a fair bit infamous nowadays after some past events.

Even that is an understatement IMO, Molyneux is one of the least reliable and reputable "auteur" types out there. A few good games in the 90s with Bullfrog, then nothing but trash (I played Black & White on launch, what a shitshow). I'm convinced that the other people at Bullfrog were responsible for the success of their games, he's just good at bullshitting.

My favorite so far: "Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube?", a mobile "game" where you tap cubes to make them disappear. He promised a "life-changingly amazing" prize for whoever clicked on the last cube. The prize was... 1% of the revenue from Godus (so nothing) and some input on that game's design.

And THEN he goes on to claim that they never took money from people with Curiosity, something that is straight-up not true because of course there were microtransactions. Just not the macrotransactions he originally wanted - you know, pay $10000 to remove an entire layer of the cube.

It's like a multi-layered trolling attempt, except he's not trying to be funny. He's just a giant douche who's obsessed with lording over the little people for some reason.

Don't see a single word about Linux support on the Steam page either.

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47

Display I imagine is the only one that would actually be relaxed, since we're talking about all sorts of resolutions since the Steam Machine is just a mini PC with SteamOS Linux on it. Input, Seamlessness and System Support cannot be relaxed in any way or the whole system would be a bit pointless.

Why?

The Steam Machine is a desktop computer. Why does it need full controller support? Why does it require an on-screen keyboard? Why do launchers need to be navigable with a controller?

Those make sense for Steam Deck because it's a handheld console with a built-in controller, and is not expected to be used with a mouse or keyboard. But for an ordinary desktop computer, which the Steam Machine is, all those conditions can be dropped.

Putting it plainly, you can plug a PC to a TV since forever, and all PC games are playable on a typical PC setup (monitor+kbd+mouse on a desk)... but a TV usually means a couch or bed instead of a desk and kbd+mouse doesn't really work on a couch or bed.

If the Steam Machine is meant to compete with consoles, then it's essential that Valve pressures for controller support in its games catalog to improve.

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hopefully this can gr8ly improve the horrible Senua's Sacrifice traversal stutter

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Let's translate Valve's message:

Efficiency gains through the use of these tools is not the focus of this section.

"Basically everyone is using AI."

Instead, it is concerned with the use of AI in creating content that ships with your game, and is consume by player. This includes content such as artwork, sound, narrative, localization, etc.

"Let's stop being transparent & declare only stuff we obviously can't deny."

But reading the article it seems to work - ignorance is bliss.

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Wow. Proton/WINE changes for a launcher. What did they do to make a launcher that complicated?

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"This includes content such as artwork, sound, narrative, localization, etc."

It's so funny how "code" is conveniently absent in that list (or is it "etc."?) I wonder if that is because you can't enforce what you can't prove is in the product, anyway? Or because they realized that the vast majority of programmers is using at least some AI-generated content these days? Or simply because consumers don't "consume" code, because they can't see what it does? Or because vibe-coding is a legitimate efficiency tool in their view, while efficiency gains by generating AI art assets are not?

In any way, as a person whose code has very likely been used for AI training, I call hypocrisy on it. Apparently, the "poor artists" are entitled to protective measures, while coders aren't. Which reflects the vibe I am getting from the anti-AI crowd, really. One should think that people hating AI should hate all of it equally, at least.

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It's worth noting that Endeavour was first released during the period where Arch didn't have an install script (archinstall), so it made more sense back then than it does now.

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Quoting: tmtvlI love Arch, I keep bouncing between it and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (I'm on TW at the moment, but I was running Arch for most of 2024 and 2025). I don't think that these 'user-friendly' Arch distros are a good idea. Arch users are really meant to understand our systems and keep up to date with the Arch announcements so we can keep things running. I realise that sounds a bit elitist, so what I mean to say is it's easy to overlook something and break something, therefore a distro which wants to make Arch accessible for users who don't have an interest in reading all the announcements and documentation should set up a testing platform to test updates before delivering them to users and maintain patches to prevent breakage. Taking ownership of AUR packages and integrating them in the distros repositories would also help avoid issues propping up.

That said, I guess these distros are useful for Arch users who can maintain everything in the system and who don't care to manually set up their systems, although it seems to me like it creates a huge burden on the user who then has to figure out everything the distro's set up does. ...oh well, maybe I would be convinced by an Arch distro which sets up SELinux (which is what drew me back to OpenSUSE).

I respectfully disagree. I've been using Linux since '97 and know my way around the system quite well. But I have a full time job, a family, kids, etc. I've installed Arch in the past... been there, done that. I love Endeavour because it gives me the system I want (Arch+XFCE) without all the fuss. 5 minutes install, then add a few packages (vim, Steam, Gimp, sshfs, openrgb (to turn off all those annoying leds on some of my computers), openscad, cura, liquorix kernel and the most important of all, terminus-font which is the best terminal font ever) and its all set up. I bought a used laptop this week, it was all set in 15 minutes. And in the end, its barely any different than what I would have built from the ground with vanilla Arch. Maybe if I had built it from the ground I would have went astray and spent hours getting rid of systemd, but I don't want to spend those hours. And lately systemd has been less of a headache than in the past... anyway, if one day I absolutely need to get rid of systemd, I'd go with Gentoo over Arch.

Anyway, all of this to say that those easy-arch-install-distros are not necessarily targeted to beginners. Experienced users love them too.

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Quoting: GerarderloperI hope Valve shows us some OVERHEAD hit for all these, especially x86 via FEX

I want to know how badly these translation layers are going to EAT up CPU/GPU resources as they do their thing.

People have already been running x86 games on their arm phones for a few years, if you want to see how they perform simply search for winlator/gamehub gameplay on youtube, the steam frame used the snapdragon 8 gen 3 so thats what you want to look at. You can natively on device play modern AAA games like E33 with it but the performance won't be great (720p, 15~ avg fps)

Lighter games often run very well, something like monster hunter world runs at a stable 720p 30fps. The frame will likely be even more optimized.

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I love Arch, I keep bouncing between it and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (I'm on TW at the moment, but I was running Arch for most of 2024 and 2025). I don't think that these 'user-friendly' Arch distros are a good idea. Arch users are really meant to understand our systems and keep up to date with the Arch announcements so we can keep things running. I realise that sounds a bit elitist, so what I mean to say is it's easy to overlook something and break something, therefore a distro which wants to make Arch accessible for users who don't have an interest in reading all the announcements and documentation should set up a testing platform to test updates before delivering them to users and maintain patches to prevent breakage. Taking ownership of AUR packages and integrating them in the distros repositories would also help avoid issues propping up.

That said, I guess these distros are useful for Arch users who can maintain everything in the system and who don't care to manually set up their systems, although it seems to me like it creates a huge burden on the user who then has to figure out everything the distro's set up does. ...oh well, maybe I would be convinced by an Arch distro which sets up SELinux (which is what drew me back to OpenSUSE).

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Quoting: geckofish52Forgive my ignorance, but my understanding is that unlike Manjaro, which lumps Arch updates into point releases, Endeavour is basically an Arch installer. So what constitutes a new "release"?

A new splash screen.

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Yeah.... I'll believe it when I play it.

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You can use ProtonUp-Qt to add Luxtorpeda into Steam, then select it via the Compatibility tab for X-COM and it will let you pick OpenXcom Extended to run it with. Tracks playtime correctly too. Nice!

Just tested it and it took only a few seconds to set up. I was not aware this is possible, amazing!

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Is that Princess Fiona from Shrek in the first Steam screenshot? Sure looks like it...

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Personally i dont care about this game but it really sucks for people who liked/still like it.
Hopefully Community can create private server if nothing comes out of the Rust developers offer.
at least theres 1 year to collect the data for the community to come up with the solution.

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I'll probably get it if it gets cheap enough on sale and doesn't suck. lol

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Last Peter Molyneux game I played was Black & White when his studio earned the nickname "Lyin' Head" for all of his broken promises.

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Quoting: ArehandoroWill all Steam Deck Verified games run at 4K@60FPS? Cause they said all Steam Machine Verified games would...

720p upscaled. The poor 7600 AMD GPU can only do so much, it also only really has access to FSR3.
FSR4 will only give %10 better performance at a slight improvement of image quality because only the RDNA4 hardware has proper access to NPU stuff.

Honestly, its a DAMN shame they didn't get a 9600 GPU into these things, but I guess Valve just buying up OLD unsellable hardware at this point, since AI data-centers are locking the world out of the newer stuff for the foreseeable future. (unless you want to pay through your ass for it that is!)

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I hope Valve shows us some OVERHEAD hit for all these, especially x86 via FEX

I want to know how badly these translation layers are going to EAT up CPU/GPU resources as they do their thing.

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Steam Next Fest - February 2026 Edition: February 23 - March 2

Guessing this will be when they decide to talk more about their upcoming steam hardware and maybe even announce some pricing.

I don't know how Valve will satisfy people with pricing however as memory modules are rocketing into the outer orbits of the solar system!

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if they can get the game so its UI and game upscale correctly to 1080p or 2160p or other higher resolutions then I'd be happen. (not FSR upscaling, I mean proper vector upscaling)

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Give people the OFFLINE server application so they can host their OWN servers and continue playing with small groups of friends. THAT IS THE WAY!

Of cause it makes some game modes a little tricky such as raids unless someone hosts a 64 player or more server.

We are dangerously heading towards a future where creative arts and entertainment go bye bye on a daily basis from human history. We're essentially in the age of erasure! Erasing history!

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Peter has also done some remakes such as Masters of Origin I think, however it really only got a passing grade.

Peter often gets passing grades with his latest games but not many EXCELLENCE rated games. (or on steam, overwhelmingly positive rating)

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Display I imagine is the only one that would actually be relaxed, since we're talking about all sorts of resolutions since the Steam Machine is just a mini PC with SteamOS Linux on it. Input, Seamlessness and System Support cannot be relaxed in any way or the whole system would be a bit pointless.

Why?

The Steam Machine is a desktop computer. Why does it need full controller support? Why does it require an on-screen keyboard? Why do launchers need to be navigable with a controller?

Those make sense for Steam Deck because it's a handheld console with a built-in controller, and is not expected to be used with a mouse or keyboard. But for an ordinary desktop computer, which the Steam Machine is, all those conditions can be dropped.

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