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Yeah, I'm not sure why they're using... 0.74 still? Probably some agreement they made at some point that they never bothered to reconsider? Not sure about the licensing on all the forks.

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Why can't they create an AI spin and call it FedorAI?

Because puns make some people unreasonably angry, and they probably get enough death threats as is.

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I'm running into this frustration on a near-daily basis as a game dev!

What I've personally settled on is to just use more specific descriptors, which is honestly a good thing since it's less ambiguous anyway. Mostly this means referring to "NPC behavior" since that's the most common use case. Internally, "AI" is actually far from a standard term in most game dev contexts, with terms like state machines, nav systems etc. being used instead since they are a lot more specific about what is actually being talked about.

Of course plenty of games aren't really focused around "NPCs" as a concept in that way, for instance strategy games - but there too it's pretty easy to just describe what's being talked about ("This RTS has really advanced computer opponents") so really, I think almost all of this comes down to just inserting a little specificity to things

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IMO, GOG's preservation efforts are kinda lacking. Having games be playable is fine, but having them play *well* is another, and GOG hasn't done much on that front.

Most DOS games still use an old DOSBox version from more than a decade ago instead of DOSBox Staging, GOG doesn't ship things like community fixes that are pretty much *essential* to getting rid of major issues, they completely ignore the Steam Deck and Linux gaming in general (for some time, it was impossible to run their release of the Resident Evil trilogy on Linux, and while it's possible now, it's most likely thanks to the efforts of Wine/Proton contributors), etc...

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Why can't they create an AI spin and call it FedorAI?

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Ok, I didn't expect this to happen.

As this was the one thing that made me boycott the game so far, I wonder if what's left of Civ VII is worth buying, considering I already got Civ VI. Is there anything that's both new and exciting in VII?

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There was a point in time when I considered Fedora to be a great middle-ground distro between rolling releases and the slower stable releases, but after the ai update, I'll never consider it for anything ever again.

Don't worry, even with all the AI stuff, Fedora will still be more mature than CachyOS with its Zenity-based GUI tools. :-)

And Fedora Workstation (Silverblue) is 90% stock upstream GNOME (that does not allow AI based contributions) anyway. (Not sure about the KDE variant though, but I suppose it will be similar.)

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I'll update my computer when I get home later. I just can't be bothered shopping around and potentially changing distros at this point, but because of the AI thing I'd rather not use them for future installs. It's a shame too because Fedora's actually a really good distro.

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...but after the ai update, I'll never consider it for anything ever again.

Given the amount of backlash they're seeing over it, I imagine they'll have changed tact by the time Fedora 44 comes out.

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Doing all of that jazz for a checkmark badge instead of making the multiplayer work. Man I hate some companies.

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There was a point in time when I considered Fedora to be a great middle-ground distro between rolling releases and the slower stable releases, but after the ai update, I'll never consider it for anything ever again.

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Plasma has been a massive upgrade in user-experience for me personally. I was pretty firmly into less aggressive window managers (Xfce, WindowMaker) and always felt like GNOME/KDE were heavy and unnecessary. Plasma feels light and responsive...it might be anecdotal/personal but I've been enjoying it.

THAT BEING SAID

Fedora Linux Project agrees to allow AI assisted contributions with a new policy

So you know...

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Sorry Liam, but I'm at the point now when I want to puke whenever I read the word 'AI' this stupid bubble can't burst quickly enough

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Is it better than playing them in DosBox?

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Yeah, AI has been poisoned. In this case, it's just funny that it's such a negative term now that the title had to specify that it's "intelligent" artificial intelligence!

As for calling it something else, maybe just putting "enemy" or "game" in front of the term is enough. Or skip AI entirely and use "behaviours", or something? It's a bit long-winded, isn't it!?

We'll just to steal the term back somehow. Wait for the genAI bubble to burst, perhaps.

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Well, it's game AI, but I get it - generative AI has basically added poison to the term now. But what else should we call it? And should we have to rename things every time something comes along?

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There's also some intelligent AI they say that can "see, hear, feel, and smell you, and react intelligently to those senses.

Can we call it something else than AI please?

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I would assume the Playstation overlay calls some Windows API that's not implemented in Wine/Proton, and that's why it's not working yet?

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I absolutely loved Two Point Museum when I played it at launch (or near launch) ... UNTIL ... the burglars/thieves/bandits (whatever they are called) completely ruined the entire thing for me and I rage uninstalled it. I do know there was a lot of community outcry about that mechanic, so I should give it another go and see if they've patched things up. Maybe I'll wait until this dlc drops and try that as well.

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This looks very good, like 7 Days to Die with improved graphics. I doubt the world is anywhere near as destructible as 7D2D, but the world looks pretty convincing - much less "ruined" than in 7D2D. It doesn't look like the building is too over-the-top either. Hopefully there's no maze-running required to survive late-game hordes!

Definitely will be checking this out!

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Oooh, I like the look of this Right up my street!

Edit: There is a demo and from the store page - "In the demo, you're limited to a small region of the world, and your maximum level for skills is 50 instead of 100. There are no other restrictions on the demo. The demo gets regular feature updates and bug fixes alongside the main game."

No excuse not to give it a go

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It's not like the overlay gets used in many games but it's very confusing why it's an issue in the first place. I doubt they actively block Linux with it.
Does it use a niche Windows feature or something? If it ever gets supported, I would love to know what the issue was.

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Let's see how it's executed before we call this a win.

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Good decision.

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Funny that it’s supposedly deactivated again, but still works on that version for me (lcd deck). So far every time they „disabled“ it, it continued to work with my Xbox Series controller on BT

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The flip-flopping is a little funny

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I kind of weirdly wish more games would do this. I love the focus of a single player game, and if the online elements are entirely separate... good?

Not all games, I guess. Some of them weave the multiplayer quite seamlessly. But still...

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Thank you, I just setup the Steam Deck using this guide and now my kid and I can play together on my own server! <3

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That's exactly what I said. And if GOG are having cashflow problems that's entirely the choice of their parent company, which, I'll say again, is the largest video game company in Europe.

Ubisoft has at least 10 time the employees CD Projekt has.

And just because share holders value them highly doesn't mean they can wish money out of thin air. It produces opportunities & they invest it into their games (6 at various stages, at least 3 are more actively pursued). It has shown that this is also the best opportunity for GOG.

They don't need your charity.

You're right. Instead, they could produce scummy free to play title & prey on kiddies to sell them nothing (stuff that used to be available free in old games). That's obviously a more honest income.

GOG actually wanted to provide a subscription service with the preservation program. But it seems that was rejected by their customers.

So, let's go back to wishing. I'm sure then everything will be well.

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