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Really enjoyed the first one, defo keeping an eye on this!

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This is MS, where is the AI? It needs an AI agent and other AI stuff!!

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Quoting: Jarmerso ... exactly how is an "internet enabled device" such as a light bulb supposed to conduct age assurance. This is all so stupid it just gives me a headache to even think about.

For what it's worth, at least the California law (I haven't bothered to read all of them) specify "general computing devices" which rules out things like lightbulb OSes.

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It’s always funny to me to see companies getting excited about selling a console that’s going to be a little closer to a desktop computer. Meanwhile I’m here with my desktop computer playing more games than their console will ever support on top of doing everything else.

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What is amusing that evryone is up in arms when there is a push to have "on device OS level age verification" and not so long ago everyone was "hurr-durr no to 'web-based verification'!!! it should be on device!!!" :DD

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If you think you enjoy this game now just you wait until we add controler support 😎 (Disclaimer, I am helping with this game in an official capacity).

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Both refreshing and surprising to see some developers still doing native ports.

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This is the way! With the same engine it should be possible to generate builds for Win/Mac/Linux

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so ... exactly how is an "internet enabled device" such as a light bulb supposed to conduct age assurance. This is all so stupid it just gives me a headache to even think about.

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I mean, this is xbox we are talking about here ... It's a dumpster fire of epic proportions in almost every single aspect right now (for a long time?). Their glorious new ai overlord boss announcing something like this means absolutely nothing whatsoever. I would wager she just yesterday learned about some vague plans for this "project helix" that Phil had cooking, and today wanted to get some kind of announcement out to detract from all the negative bad press xbox and microsoft have been getting.

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did you say cyberpunk arpg? YES PLEASE WHERE DO I DEPOSIT THIS MONEY

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Quoting: DarthJarjarmaybe we could have leeway this to require service providers to stop sending ads, addictive or radicalization contents to minors.

I very much don't want that shit either. We should protect adults just the same, everyone is susceptible to manipulation, that is why ads are a thing in the first place.

On the bigger picture much of this seems to be standard populism in preparation for elections. The midterm is super infected this time around and with the Epstein saga being in the forefront it's worth having the election in mind when assessing these.

There also appears to be little to no confirmation that any of these could hold up in court. Anyone know of any successful cases as of yet?

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Quoting: DarthJarjarWe might need to be very careful implementing that feature, because the OS broadcasting that the user is a minor feel like a very poor way of protecting them.
On the other hand, if this could be implemented safely, maybe we could have leeway this to require service providers to stop sending ads, addictive or radicalization contents to minors.

Sure, because there are no bad actors among app and service providers.

Sarcasm: according to californian lawmakers, the best way to protect minors is to broadcast their age bracket, account name, and IP address to anyone that asks for it in an automated fashion, so everyone should know that minors are right over there and you should not target them in any way, because it is against the law.

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You know, I never thought of it that way. You're right, this could massively backfire.

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I guess they already did all the work for the previous games and keep making use of the work they did to get a multiplatform engine. Good to see. Was interested regardless, but native will surely hasten my purchase.

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Quoting: melkemindThey are one of the AI companies that bought up all the RAM and forced the prices up, and Nadella said they had a surplus. They could turn around and put that RAM into their Xboxen at no cost. They could also try to sabotage Proton or pull some other shady stuff.

Leave it to M$ to come up with new ways to get sued for monopolistic practices. 😤

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We might need to be very careful implementing that feature, because the OS broadcasting that the user is a minor feel like a very poor way of protecting them.
On the other hand, if this could be implemented safely, maybe we could have leeway this to require service providers to stop sending ads, addictive or radicalization contents to minors.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaThank God US laws don't apply to the rest of the world... yet!

A common thing people say - but the reality is the opposite. If you want to do any kind of business or service in the US, the laws very much do apply.

I feel that if the things Trump is doing continue into the long term future, that I wouldn't be surprised if countries start walling themselves off from others. I could totally see the EU blocking the US, and vice versa, coming down the road, and that would include the internet, which would be split into separate ones. That would also give the governments even more control over their citizens.

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Isn't it possible for companies to sue the states over these laws? I feel like it would be justified at this point.

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Quoting: JoomI've been seeing that 590 has problems all over the place, but it's been perfectly fine for me on CachyOS. Makes me wonder if it's the Ubuntu maintainers that have somehow broken it, which wouldn't surprise me.

I had Stalker 2 crashes on 590 drivers, then I rolled back to 580 and the game was rock stable again. Good for you if you didn't have any issues.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaThank God US laws don't apply to the rest of the world... yet!

A common thing people say - but the reality is the opposite. If you want to do any kind of business or service in the US, the laws very much do apply.

Unless the laws of other countries forbid doing that, and then you need to have two business models or two models of a product.

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EU laws don't apply in the US, yet every new iPhone has a USB-C port despite Apple yelling and spitting like a Visigoth against it.
Some projects/companies will do the minimum necessary to comply where they have to but far more will just apply them universally.
Interestingly the California bill at least is meant to provide information to applications, but I haven't seen any conversation from developers on what that implementation is supposed to look like.

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Quoting: Cley_Faye.Either their dev are worst than an entry level junior intern, or there's some high level incompetence all around.

On arc raiders there were terrible exploits and security holes, you could pull up the UE5 (?) developer console and use it to teleport back to the game round in which you were eliminated. Or fire the single shot weapon 10 times in 0.1 second with an animation cancel. Etc.

Also what the hell is the finals also affected? I played it often & have my discord linked, nevet played arc outside of server slam

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Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaThank God US laws don't apply to the rest of the world... yet!

A common thing people say - but the reality is the opposite. If you want to do any kind of business or service in the US, the laws very much do apply.

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Thank God US laws don't apply to the rest of the world... yet!

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: JohnologueCan't hear the NVIDIA updates over the fans of my perfectly functional GTX 1070...

But... but ... how is nvidia supposed to survive if you don't use their new vibe coded drivers?

Y'know, I usually don't defend Nvidia, but people getting pissy because they're discontinuing driver support for 10+ year old hardware is just beyond petty. Also, why would they be hiring more Linux engineers if the drivers are being vibe coded? Kinda doesn't really make much sense, but hey, you be an insufferable baby all you want.

Quoting: Penguin

Quoting: CaldathrasNot much benefit to me. My Nvidia chipset is stuck on the 580 series. Ah well, I knew it would happen eventually...

No biggie, though. Nvidia drivers are messy on Xfce (at least on my Mint system) since the 590 series, so I had to go back to earlier versions for it to work properly on my GTX 1650.

I've been seeing that 590 has problems all over the place, but it's been perfectly fine for me on CachyOS. Makes me wonder if it's the Ubuntu maintainers that have somehow broken it, which wouldn't surprise me.

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It's a bit weird. When you buy a beer we have age verification at the point of purchase, we don't have age-verification at the point of opening.

The impression I get is that they are going arse backwards about mandating parental controls.

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As someone who lived for a bit, I'm always worried when I see Microsoft doing something to appeal to people. Their history of embrace, extend, extinguish is quite the marvelous thing.

My personal stance on this is no more closed systems, no lock-ins, no local restrictions. We don't know yet, but I very much doubt this new device will check all this, or if it does, for how long.

But I'm afraid a lot of people will flock to this (assuming MS don't utterly sabotage itself in the meantime).

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In the end

Spoiler, click me

US intelligentsia come and raid your lab and squirrel away all your life's work before pushing the idea that its all quack science through the great wurlitzer.

Disclaimer I've played exactly zero hours of this game

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Liked the first one, this looks great!

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