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I love it! What're the odds steam incorporates something like this into it's own app native? I would hope so, but there maybe some perverse incentive structure for them to not do it?

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KDE Plasma is great! I wish we still had a KDE version of Linux Mint. I understand their reason to let it die back then (focus on one toolkit [GTK] is easier), though. With how increasingly popular Linux is getting after years of Valve efforts in the gaming department + the constant worsening of Windows, at this point the Mint team would be printing money if they had a KDE flavor.

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Regarding this news; It would be nice to have the script incorporated into the Augmented Steam browser plugin.

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I take heart from the lead at Revolution Software being candid about being bullish on AI as a means to keep the price down on remastering Broken Sword, and then being equally candid on how it hadn't been cheaper, and hadn't been very good, and they weren't going to do it again having tried it. Lots of companies in lots of industries are dabbling with AI because it's being hyped at them; they won't necessarily know that AI slop isn't good unless they try it.

To be fair, he said they wouldn't use it again on rescaling the backgrounds and character sprites, but not on other things like sound/voice.

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Great find, and an incredibly simple script to boot.

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Of course this isn't going to make gamers happy. This is meant to make investors happy.

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Are you really going to reject good games just because they dared to use AI in some irrelevant corner?

Yes.

I do not want to drink wine that only has a little sewage in it.

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The problem isn't just the lack of oversight, it's the ethics of it. People losing jobs due to AI, all the AI generation being trained on the works of others without their consent. The list of issues goes on and on.

So yes, I really am going to reject various games due to it. If it's some "irrelevant corner", it's even stupider that they used AI gen. I believe I'll be just fine.

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Devs do stupid things with or without AI, the problem isn't the AI, it's the lack of oversight.

Are you really going to reject good games just because they dared to use AI in some irrelevant corner? You're in for a rough time as its use becomes the norm.

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Wait, SOCCER MODE? It is like open source Rocket League of sorts 😄

Yea, kinda...it's a lot of fun, I play it on my pinephone pro all often when i just need to kill some time...quick and easy to jump into for a few rounds :)

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Looking forward to seeing it land on Arch. Though I'm still looking forward to seeing that initiative ([Per-screen virtual desktops](https://discuss.kde.org/t/bug-fix-per-screen-virtual-desktops/16241) ) to improve the multi monitor experience get results.

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I take heart from the lead at Revolution Software being candid about being bullish on AI as a means to keep the price down on remastering Broken Sword, and then being equally candid on how it hadn't been cheaper, and hadn't been very good, and they weren't going to do it again having tried it. Lots of companies in lots of industries are dabbling with AI because it's being hyped at them; they won't necessarily know that AI slop isn't good unless they try it.

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I think KDE Plasma is still the absolute best way to get more Windows users to feel at home on Linux.

I'd say that's selling it short. I'd been using Linux & Gnome for over a decade when KDE Plasma made me feel at home on Linux after Gnome stopped feeling like that. I expect users of other DEs, and Mac OS, will also feel at home on Linux with Plasma. It can't be overstated how awesome Plasma's pervasive attitude of "of course you should use your computer exactly how you want to" is.

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I am disturbed by the number, but not surprised. I was telling our marketing department that using the same "free" AI voice that scammers use and is likely harvested without consent on our promotional videos is really a bad message.

And they were surprised with that connection.

That blew my mind, they never thought about what it is they are presenting, and their job is to.

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I am surprised by the number...

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This is extremely scary. Caution is always advised when downloading anything from the internet. Even from a well-respected open source project website.

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Wait, SOCCER MODE? It is like open source Rocket League of sorts 😄

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Even the trailer itself feels like low effort AI slop

I'll go further than that: Even the preview image of the trailer looks like low effort AI slop.

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Even the trailer itself feels like low effort AI slop (sorry to the creators 😅). The quintuple clicking sound every couple of seconds feels really dumb and annoying to me.

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It's already difficult enough for both gamers and developers with the various discovery algorithms.

i dont see that so much as an issue, its much better to have tons of discovery algorithms than only one, with one you either get discovered or not, with tons you have multiple chances of geting featured.
what kill the industry is pay to win algorithms, but marketing already did that.

Now with this shittastic ai fuckery there will be "developers" pumping out hundreds of games with zero effort and even if they make a single sale for $5 it'll be worth it to them.

not really , because some stores charge more than $5 to publish an game, otherwise it dont even enter their QA or other requirement procedures, there is a reason why itch.io have more games than steam (they have no barriers), and its the same reason why most peope seek for games on steam instead of itch most of the time.

It's not really different from the asset flips we've been plagued with

many peope have issues against games that purchase assets to make their games, but even games like mario 64 used then, the issue is bad quality games not the fact that they used asset stores, but i understand that an person will look at the game graphics and think:

"this looks pro and this doesnt" and ignore an good game without giving it an try, and when its bad think the other must be even worse.
so yeah, asset fliping is an real issue.

now, for ai, its even worse, because it was trained with tons of stolen content, and in some cases it do over fiting, meaning the content generated isnt original buch an copy of some unknow art of an unknow artist... in other words, plagiarism.

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any game made using this engine will face backslash

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C:\GAMES\FUN.EXE

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I have a couple of games that with luck would really benefit from this. Definitely interested.

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@Caldathras I wouldn't call it a VM. Even the original DOSBox supported running Windows btw, and this was mainly possible because old versions of Windows were all based on DOS, so it's not much of a stretch to emulate the extra hardware bits needed to run Windows.

I also wouldn't call it a VM in the modern sense as you can't just boot any random x86 disk image (like how you can do so in VirtualBox), nor does it make use of any type 1 hypervisor acceleration (Hyper-V in Windows, KVM on Linux).

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It states that you can install early versions of Windows in it (3.x, 95 & 98 were mentioned)

This is possible because Windows ran on top of DOS until 98/Me. It's only with Windows NT/2000 that the dependency on DOS was dropped, which is why DOS mode was also removed in that version.

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Steam and other stores will really have to step up their game on indicating AI generated content in games. I know Steam have their disclaimer, but it seems we will quickly need a way to filter this out.

It's not really different from the asset flips we've been plagued with, but this one is likely to produce a lot more slop, way faster. Filtering that out entirely seems like the only option for people that cares about it.

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i don't think i have seen a stardew valley mod with fomod, wonder how complex a mod has to be to require that

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yeah .... I REALLY am not looking forward to 2026 being the year of (like scaine said) deluge of ai slop games. It's already difficult enough for both gamers and developers with the various discovery algorithms. Now with this shittastic ai fuckery there will be "developers" pumping out hundreds of games with zero effort and even if they make a single sale for $5 it'll be worth it to them.

... sadness ...

My only hope is that when the bubble bursts and all these companies have to actually start charging real cash to use their generators, it'll be too expensive for these slop-mills to use.

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Running games and ISOs from within zip files is the biggest feature for me. I wonder if you could just drag and drop eXoDOS game zips with pure unleashed? If that worked AND it mounted the game ISO in the zip then it'd be an A+++ fork.

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Anyone else got problems redeeming last weeks games ? When redeeming the code on the gog website I am stuck in a login (while already logged in) / mfa authentication loop that completes and then goes back to login/mfa/reedem/captcha.
Tried different browsers and the problem seems to persist since last Friday.

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