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Quoting: Tethys84Uhm... this is really old news now. Like from earlier last year. I could swear I even saw this reported about on here before.

Enhanced SC v1.4a was literally only released yesterday, as noted in the article.

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Finally! The clown award needed to be gone a long time ago. People totally abuse that to bully others with whom they disagree. You would see them piling onto reviews that were disliked in order to discredit them. I've had people do that to me on the Steam forums when I tried to argue against the incel, right-wing extremists who are attacking games for existing because they don't cater to them exclusively, and I was bombarded with the clown award. I can't help but wonder what took Valve so long. Now, they just need to eliminate the forums altogether because they are just one big cesspit.

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Quoting: scaineI've seen some enthusiasm for GenAI in the general public, but (and maybe I'm in a bubble of my own making now), most people I speak to simply ridicule it, or more often, actively revile it.

There are some people that are quite enthusiastic. In 2024 I met an older man at the end of a guided tour at the zoo and he said that every time he was learning a new tune for whatever instrument that he played he questioned ChatGPT about the specifics of said tune. In hindsight I'd like to know the accuracy of the “information” provided by these queries.

I'm convinced that the real applications of AI that provide a benefit to society are limited to the natural sciences – especially biology – and environmental research where automatic classification is a huge boost in efficiency like trying to determine which Lemurs are scattered in the remaining disconnected forests on Madagascar to prioritize reforestation or to track behavioural changes in animal populations caused by changes in the environment.

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I think you've missed what the Daily Show showed with the “circle” animation – the (incredibly dangerous) artificial inflation of the financial system.

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Edit: I forgot to mention that the Cygames post reminds me of Sir Humphrey from Yes Minister.

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Quoting: scaineI've seen some enthusiasm for GenAI in the general public, but (and maybe I'm in a bubble of my own making now), most people I speak to simply ridicule it, or more often, actively revile it.

The vast majority of people do not care.

That's not my experience. Working in an enterprise of nearly 2000 staff, there are plenty of opinions and cooler-chat about GenAI and as I say, most people revile it. Maybe you meant the general public... but again, I see mostly negativity on various social media platforms.

Surveys tend to agree. https://civiqs.com/results/ai_impact

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Uhm... this is really old news now. Like from earlier last year. I could swear I even saw this reported about on here before.

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They are "Proud". Yeah, okay. The new owners only bought it last year. They have had little to no involvement with it as it's been in development for years. This is almost certainly about saving money. It’s quite despicable. What they are really saying is, "We don't want to spend more money on this; Vortex is fine the way it is, so deal with it. I really hope this blows up in their faces. It doesn't matter ultimately. It's only a matter of time before they ruin the site and Nexus mods dies. Probably will begin with massive censorship.

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Quoting: spoon-curveIt would be lovely if someone took the opportunity to launch an alternative to Nexus Mods.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPSome mods are only available from there.

Requiring an account to simply download the mods manually is a big nope from me. Any justifications are silly, it is antithetical to the idea of modding being made easily available, and other mod sites don't have the same restrictions.

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Quoting: scaineI've seen some enthusiasm for GenAI in the general public, but (and maybe I'm in a bubble of my own making now), most people I speak to simply ridicule it, or more often, actively revile it.

The vast majority of people do not care.

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Quoting: hardpenguinInstructions unclear, Tuvix sent as a peace offering to the Borg.

Even the Borg thought Janeway straight up murdering Tuvix was unconscionable.

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I always find the disconnect between enterprise/management and the general public on GenAI absolutely amazing. There's such enthusiasm for GenAI in the enterprise (at least at the owner or senior management level) based on quotes like "38% efficiency gain", which, it turns out, enterprise translate to "wow, we can get rid of 38% of our staff".

I've seen some enthusiasm for GenAI in the general public, but (and maybe I'm in a bubble of my own making now), most people I speak to simply ridicule it, or more often, actively revile it.

(for being based on plagiarism, for its impact on the environment, for job losses, for talking kids/adults into hurting/killing themselves, for kick-starting a new nuclear age, for bumping the price of gaming tech through the roof, for impacting sites by scraping them constantly, for being obnoxiously rammed into people's faces over and over again while being demonstrably worse than simpler or even existing alternatives... take your pick and let me know if I've missed anything)

Fair to say I'll never buy from Cygames now. Here's their creator page on Steam if you want to "ignore publisher".

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43153491

And of course they posted on Twitter. Looking at some of their content, maybe that's the best place for them.

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In my experience, Heroic is so effortless and versatile that I don't think I'd use Galaxy even if it had native Linux support.

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Short-sighted middle-management decision based on a complete lack of vision. Also, fear: a cop out on true improvement over time. Nexus Mods' future is bleak. Can you imagine working in an environment governed by such cowardice? Oof.

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New owner. Six months in, cuts innovative projects in favor of lagging main product. Announcement ineffectively disguises bean-counter fiat.

Beginning of the end for Nexus.

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Wow, what an awful decision.

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GOG, don't look. DO.

Zoom Platform is the store to support for DRM free needs. They really embrace Linux.

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I think I've heard this song before. Several times in fact, and it didn't go well any of those times. 🤔

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Quoting: TheLinuxPlebI wonder what the exclusive fullscreen in the changelogs mean?

Yeah, not sure. There is no such concept in winewayland.

Some old games needs exclusive fullscreen or they become unstable and can crash.
This Wine feature probably makes the application believe it's using exclusive fullscreen?

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I've thoroughly tested this patch by writing a Lutris script where I use it with the GOG version of Splinter Cell. It's very stable and brings the game closer to the best console edition (Xbox).

The full controller compatibility is a huge plus, and the patch is also compatible with editions of Splinter Cell that use languages ​​other than English.

Ubisoft should compensate this developer for their work, which should have been done during the game's port from consoles to PC.

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AI usage? Oh...cya then 👋🏼

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@TheSHEEEP the problem with the Clown emote was that people (clowns, dare I say) deliberately wrote idiotic posts with the intention of receiving clown reactions and/or Steam points. So with the lack of clown reaction, you may start seeing fewer idiotic posts.

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Quoting: TheLinuxPlebI wonder what the exclusive fullscreen in the changelogs mean?

Yeah, not sure. There is no such concept in winewayland.

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Sam could use a Medical Kit while dead

Sam Fisher's a badass!😆

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What is the purpose of the AI Studio, even? Is this announced anywhere?

(after clicking some links)

hmm they have 4 job listings:

* AI Specialist (image generation)
* Reinforcement Learning Engineer (Game Automatic Play Balance Optimization)
* Language Model Engineer
* Potential Diffusion Model Engineer
Cygames Al Studio Inc.

My interpretation is that they are trying to create in house machine learning and generative AI tools like how large studios have their in house engines. Trying to be optimistic, they may attempt to solve ethical issues caused by usage of 3rd party art in training of publicly available (off the shelf) models by developing and using their own models. Time will tell.

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Quoting: emphyI would vastly prefer for gog to spend the resources on officially supporting existing open source efforts such as heroic, minigalaxy, and lutris.

I would prefer that, too. We all learned not to have Galaxy available and relied on other solutions instead. Lutris in my case. I have no desire for another game library management tool. I got Steam and Lutris, and that's enough for me.

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Not that it needs saying again, but it kind of does.

We want Passion over Profits.

To know someone, somewhere actually cared about the 'product' they were shipping and not just sales figures. Ai has no soul, and it's an insult to the people spending their hard earned cash on something that they want to collectively share with the Artists who put their heart and soul into it.

If Ai has a soul then it's a stolen one.

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Long overdue. I'd go as far as to say: too little, too late.

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Gen AI isn't used in our products (meaning currently). We're only making an AI studio, which would then lead to gen AI being used in our products :(

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I hope Umamusume series won't be enshittified too soon.

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On the GOG YT channel he's talking how Steam ain't all that great (<cough> Galaxy <cough>) and how it's time to start... nibbling at the competition, primarily Steam. He's not wrong, but if Linux support is supposed to drive said nibbling I envision another failure. Valve is the funding/driving force behind mainstream Linux gaming, GOG can - at best - reach remora status to Valve's shark... ness here. Not that I'd mind solid, actual competition.

That aside... for starters, Galaxy needs a rework. Even with that rework, I don't see how it can touch Steam with these oldies that are hacked together to somewhat function on a modern OS. It's a lot of work to not really get that much closer to the Steam (imperfect, sure) ecosystem in that regard. And that's the spine of GOG's business. Indies, then? They've already tried that.

On a more personal note, the guy strikes me as a poser with a mid-life crisis... and with the ability to secure not insignificant funding, and some contacts in CDPR.

According to an insider from back in the day he wasn't playing that many games during CDP's later publishing times already, then he had a fairly publicised mental breakdown in the CDPR days (which was a tough time, yeah) complete with soul searching in The Ancient Orient etc. Now he's securing (apparently) external funding for some new retro toys and he's wearing retro t-shirts to convince people he is totes of the hood, dawg, yo.

I dunno. It's a fundamentally niche business, so let's see what's next in terms of "competing" with Steam.

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Shame, really.
Large amounts of clown awards were a good way to quickly notice idiotic postings without having to read them entirely.

The idea of "purely showing appreciation" sounds like coddling and participation trophy nonsense to me.
Only positive thoughts allowed, no critique please.
Not really my style.

I had no idea that points got transferred that way, though.
Then again, I assign no value to these points whatsoever as they are so plenty I don't think anyone could even spend them all.

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