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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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GE-Proton10-23 Released

HOTFIX:

import upstream fix for Killer Instinct crashing after match end
added fix for Heroes of Newerth Reborn not running after Juvio client closes
added protonfix for Ghosts n' Goblins Resurrection skill videos not playing
rebased patches to work with -Werror build option to match upstream proton's build options.

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Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhh ....

nfts are 100% dead.

crypto is super weird. Despite its "worth" which is hilarious to even type, it never really went anywhere or did anything. You still can't use it do DO anything, and it's functionally and socially a complete failure. After all, the "blockchain" is still just the same exact thing as any database ever thunk up. So people invest in the thought of it. Weird.

So now AI. yay.

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NFTs died. Crypto's still griftin' away pretty hard. Especially in the US--buying up politicians and deregulations like anything.

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I played the first one, but wasn't very good at fighting back against the gates, so I'd end up overrun eventually.

Tried the demo for Eighties and it was pretty amusing, although I lost there too.

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If you haven’t played any of the Kindom series yet I challenge you to play Kindom: Two Crowns for 30 minutes without getting addicted. Definitely pulls you in more than it should. :)

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@eggrole

I think the anti-AI crowd is in for a rude awakening. While I often hear people saying they don't want AI, at the end of the day if the game (or whatever) is good enough, the consumer will buy it.

How many people don't have a phone because of some exploitation used to mine or manufacture it? Almost none. And this is rationally WAY worse than some AI slop. People like to virtue signal they care, but if the product is good enough, the consumer will buy it.

AI will be the same. If (and I think this is a when even though I am no fanboy) AI gets "good enough" people will slowly stop complaining and buy the fruit. Will there be the odd holdout? Sure. But, and I can't hammer this enough, if the product is good enough, the consumer will buy it.

I hate how AI is being shoehorned into everything these days as much as anyone, but I'm also sure there is a way to make products people actually want with AI.

You might be right. But at the same time, you might rest your case solely on 'conscious consumerism' push back - which I would agree, is less likely to have much of an impact on the market. Yet if you consider social push back as a whole, you would find more cases of markets adapting to public perception - and thus would change the probabilities of your predictions of fruitfulness of being a part of the 'anti-AI crowd'.

I'm not sure how in touch I am with the markets (and I really lack examples here too), but I'd guess NFT and crypto still aren't popular and the 'anti-NFT' and 'anti-crypto crowd' won out? What about the anti-Internet-Explorer crowd dethroning it? If the product is bad enough, people will drop it?

All this said, I think there's no putting this genie back in the bottle (as with most technologies). Fingers crossed for getting the good ending.

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@doragasu

Nice! Unfortunately I seldom use the store from the browser, most of the time I use the desktop or phone apps.

For myself - I tried the Augmented Steam browser extension and after going through the options page for it, I can no longer go back. I will jump through any hoops necessary to browse Steam from a browser because the QoL is sooo sweet. Also I get the Tux Linux icon back!

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@Kimyrielle

I am starting to develop a serious contempt for devs not releasing the server files when they shut down a game. There is really zero reason not to. You're commercially done with that game, so no harm done.

I think one legitimate barrier is that once you did the absolute bare minimum to launch the product, it would be extra work (and thus extra cost) to adapt it to user-run servers. You would need some extra boilerplate for previously hard-coded things, new UX/UI for connecting directly to IP-s, localization, testing etc. Even then - there is risk of worse PR (loss of market value / future sales) if things are done in a botched way than if nothing is even attempted (the industry standard). So from the perspective of the upper management with dollar signs for eyes (who actually call the shots 😢) - they really do see all risk, no gain.

The token conscious consumerism action would be to demand publishers/devs demonstrate a working off-boarding/end-of-life scheme at launch and/or a legally binding promise to do so when shutting down the first-party servers. (Haha, one must dream of steps towards utopia 😂). There may then even be some much-touted capitalist innovation in making such end-of-life setups more convenient and featureful.

Personally, I've come around to giving up my faith in 'conscious living' / 'individual action' and believe only social/collective action can get anything done (as scary as that sounds as a person interested in Linux AND gaming 💀). Conscious consumerism is just another trap to keep us complacent, quiet and complicit 😔. Expecting me to always use a bicycle, avoid hot showers or sort my trash is more of the same bullshit - at least as long as some of us are legally still permitted to take a plane daily for luxury reasons or pollute more for profit margins. Collective action sounds more scary until you realize that the entry level options are:

• voting


• following people (social media or in-person) who align with your views for potential points of action


• kindly talking with (and listening to) people whom you know about the politics that matter to you


• showing up to a protest you think you probably align with

Plentiful extra points for finding tolerable voices (and heads to converse with) that are outside your own bubble (conflicting perspectives) 🤩.

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