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Quoting: mercsterArch is a clownshow, I've been saying it for years.

Arch is only a clownshow if you don't know what you're doing, and you go into it unaware of its DIY ethos. When I was a beginner, I didn't know what I was doing. I made mistakes, and I broke my installation a few times - but I've learned, and I had fun learning. I don't even remember the last time I experienced any problems on my Arch box, and if I do run into any problems again, it's not gonna matter cause I'll know how to fix it. I owe a lot of my Linux sysadmin skills from the experience I gained from using Arch.

So you downloaded a dirty package from the AUR? Now you've learned, and you won't do that again, right?

TL;DR - Arch is not a clownshow.

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Quoting: Liam Squires-HandI’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.

Why would you appreciate someone who also didn't understand what was announced? It doesn't generate assets, it lets other software (LLM) communicate with the editor and place the assets from existing library into the level. Both of you are hating on feature that let's 2 softwares communicate with each other. That's like hating on RSS feed.

You are choosing to be ignorant of what all the models are trained on. You can’t even make a correct basic comparison. RSS wasn’t made and trained on the stolen works of everyone else. Enough of this argument bait it’s stupid.

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Quoting: Liam Squires-HandI’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.

Why would you appreciate someone who also didn't understand what was announced? It doesn't generate assets, it let's other software (LLM) communicate with the editor and place the assets from existing library into the level. Both of you are hating on feature that let's 2 softwares communicate with each other. That's like hating on RSS feed.

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Quoting: Liam Squires-Hand

Quoting: tarmo888Liam's AI-hate is showing.

What an odd thing to say. The article is mostly quoting Epic directly when it comes to the AI stuff. I didn't give even a single personal written thought on the AI side. You're blinded by your own bias.

Yes, but you don't understand the context you are reporting because you are blinded by the hate. Or you do understand and you are intentionally making clickbaity titles for other AI-haters. The AI thing (MCP) isn't even UE6 feature, but UE 5.8.
What it actually does is that you prompt any AI of your choosing and Unreal Editor has API for LLMs that can allow them to control the editor.

Like seriously, AI-haters are this dumb that it's not even funny, more like scary https://old.reddit.com/r/VampireSurvivors/comments/1u8c1he/a_vampire_survivors_fortnite_collab_is_on_the_way/os7ubrp/

I very much do understand the context, thanks. Not a very good way to argue a point to try and put down the other person is it. Once again, you are letting your own clearly pro-AI bias affect how you’re reading into things.

Yes, the title mentioned AI because it is a hot topic. Epic mentioned it many times and focused on it a fair bit - so the article has it noted. That’s how news works.

I’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.

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Quoting: JarmerThis is great! With so many distros now wayland only, this helps a ton for all of us.

There is also this [Pull Request](https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/11172) from the same user, what it does is the beginning to add HDR for Wine Wayland.

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Quoting: doragasuLooks like they want to make their own Roblox. But Roblox ran even on that budget tablet from 2021 you threw to the bin a year ago, and this will require one of those pricey computers with plenty RAM and even there it will stutter.

Fortnite IS their Roblox. Except whenever anything crops up that isn't atleast slightly similar to the gameplay of Fortnite's Battle Royale mode, nobody plays it. Epic wants people to see Fortnite like Roblox, but people come to Roblox for the varying games on offer, people come to Fortnite for, well, Fortnite.

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Looks like they want to make their own Roblox. But Roblox ran even on that budget tablet from 2021 you threw to the bin a year ago, and this will require one of those pricey computers with plenty RAM and even there it will stutter.

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Quoting: Liam Squires-Hand

Quoting: tarmo888Liam's AI-hate is showing.

What an odd thing to say. The article is mostly quoting Epic directly when it comes to the AI stuff. I didn't give even a single personal written thought on the AI side. You're blinded by your own bias.

Yes, but you don't understand the context you are reporting because you are blinded by the hate. Or you do understand and you are intentionally making clickbaity titles for other AI-haters. The AI thing (MCP) isn't even UE6 feature, but UE 5.8.
What it actually does is that you prompt any AI of your choosing and Unreal Editor has API for LLMs that can allow them to control the editor.

Like seriously, AI-haters are this dumb that it's not even funny, more like scary https://old.reddit.com/r/VampireSurvivors/comments/1u8c1he/a_vampire_survivors_fortnite_collab_is_on_the_way/os7ubrp/

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Verse is the brainchild of Simon Peyton Jones, of Haskell fame; Tim Sweeney collaborated with him personally at the beginning, etc.

Ignoring the 'metaverse' fantasies, the technical dimension of it is fascinating, honestly: https://youtu.be/UBgam9XUHs0

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I feel cautiously optimistic that 610 will FINALLY fix VRR being broken in wayland. (Screen flicker at edges as refresh rate changes in desktop AND games)
I've been using frame gen as a bandaid for over 6 months now since it was broken in a previous driver.

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Seriously, I thought that was the first time Liam was sort of neutral about AI when writing about it... I don't think you have read any of his other posts about AI! 😂

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Quoting: Jarmerue5 is already the worst engine on earth for performance, still to this day.

It is not. Just look at Gothic Remake, made with UE5.4, which runs performant as many customers told. Except game crashes I heard nothing bad ... and this is something the dev-team will work on beside other things.

A game is not just done by the engine team, but also the game studio and both have to care for performance. When a game studio thinks "oh nice an engine that takes away annoying work from us, so I do not need to optimize anything", than it is the fault of the game studio, not the engine. Same for studios that want to optimize, but did not learn the new optimization methods.

I don't want to defend Epic, especially nowadays when they start to enshittify their engine. I could not use UE5.7 on my Linux system, because they broke the whole GUI!! That is what we should cry about. Some slop-coded stuff that makes the engine unusable. Every action became a double-, triple- or quad-click, window drag and drop is no longer etc. People saw it on the source code change (months before 5.7 got released) and Epic did not care about. Some people on Windows are also affected btw. Furthermore their Epic Games launcher had similar issues that also include ingame "browser" used with Epics integration and even Meta Human on 5.6 Windows version where many people could not login into the metahuman stuff. These are the real issues, not the performance. Performance issues are pure misinformation and/or misconception.

But I indeed worry about UE6. They open the gates for slopification and a microtransaction hell. Hey, it will be so great to sell ugly generated skins in a skin generating game, so that it can be used in Fortnite and other games. I could make money without spending much money, nice. ... I knew Epic will destroy the engine at some point. And UE6 seems to be the start.

This sounds like it's going to be such a massive change that developers may need to do a fair bit of relearning with it, or switch to something else (like Godot perhaps).

If I need to relearn things, it is still easier to stay on UE6 than switching to Godot, which has a completely other and worse workflow. Don't get me wrong, Godot is a cool project and I also used it for a project, but it makes things more complicated. It is like switching from Adobe Photoshop to GIMP. At least on the current state.

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Quoting: tarmo888Liam's AI-hate is showing.

What an odd thing to say. The article is mostly quoting Epic directly when it comes to the AI stuff. I didn't give even a single personal written thought on the AI side. You're blinded by your own bias.

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Remember: there is no corruption if you call it lobbying.

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Did they get paid by Nvidia?
lemme guess, you want UE6 games, you gotta have 32GB video card?
On the other hand, AI generated narratives, I see how it could work.

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So UE5+UEFN+AI plugins. Basically just added a few already existing things together. Pretty much what was already said that it would be.

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Integrating a general purpose game-engine so close with a random game is a weird thing to do.

So happy for Godot. :D

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Wake me up when it can do better than a paltry 30 FPS with framegen on high end hardware.

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Liam's AI-hate is showing. Unreal 5.8 already has all the AI and procedual generation tools.

Unreal 6 is more about interoperability and deploying same game and characters on more platforms, the merging of UE and UEFN.

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As if devs needed more reason not to bother...

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So Epic is announcing that things can always get worse?
Understood.

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Didn't this release as Insector X on the Genesis back in the day?

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Quoting: devlandLook at the nordic European countries. Their social democracy works very well and it's based on compromise. They almost never have one party ruling over the others. It's always all of them working with the others to get some of the things each of them wants.

I seem to remember once a Canadian politician declaring that such multi-party governing arrangements were undemocratic. I also remember shaking my head at the stupidity of his remark. There is nothing illegal or undemocratic about it, even in Canada. The parties here are so caught up in competing with one another that compromise never even occurs to them.

But then, this is also the nation where a provincial Premier once declared that referendums were undemocratic. That Premier's ego knew no bounds.

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ue5 is already the worst engine on earth for performance, still to this day. Just wait until ue6 comes around with a bunch of garbage ai nonsense baked into it and also fortnite (? for some reason ? what ?) which I don't even understand nor do I care to spend the 5 mins to look up what the f that means.

All I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope is that this enshittification of the engine DOES push more and more devs into tools like godot, just as liam said.

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This does not spark joy. 🍌

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Wow, I did not expect that. Last time I used it (Windows version with Proton) was with "Of ash and steel" because I would have become insane otherwise.

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Not really related, but Steam Machine benchmarks are popping in many places. Could it mean that the Steam Machine launch is really close? Any truth into this?

One such example (the first I found, in fact):
https://www.techpowerup.com/350049/steam-machine-performance-benchmark-leak-signals-approaching-launch

Edit: Ok. For the sake of clarity, I just realized it's the Geekbench benchmark that's getting relayed at many places. This said, it's still a fresh benchmark.

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OMG why did you do this to me. Now I want to play some TA really badly. WHY!!!!! I lost so many nights of sleep to that game as a teen. I still have fond memories of getting the map like 85% cleared and then sending in my gigantic robot to just obliterate whatever remains. SO MUCH FUN. I normally don't get into RTS' anymore, but if this has anything like the spirit of TA I'll give it a go for sure.

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This is great! With so many distros now wayland only, this helps a ton for all of us.

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Quoting: elmapulwow i was not expecting that!
not that i have time for a gacha, its a curse i rather never experience again.

I just weaned myself off a gacha game a while ago, so I'm definitely not going back now. It's nice to see devs with anti-cheat taking time to make sure it works on Linux though.

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