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  • GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026

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  • Yep, and even for me while I prefer to download the game directly usually, when I need to bother with manually getting it to work, I much prefer steam and its proton integration. It's nice that most games at least just work by running them in a random proton prefix with protontricks, but shipping them with an install script that just gives you a shortcut and installs any dependencies would be huge (actually a step up from steam). And then if galaxy runs on linux it could use that same process.

  • [Mr Lovenstein] Volume

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  • Old movies feel much worse for me, voices barely audible but sfx blow my ears out. But I also have sound from headphones, maybe that just works better with the newer mixes.

  • A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad

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  • It depends on the project, I think. If you require hundreds of pieces to make the concept work (and such concepts have floated in my mind) even hiring an amateur would get pretty expensive. If it's just small scope art (and for most games it will be) I agree, it can be relatively cheap. Though I'm still privileged in being able to afford that, some people couldn't even really spare 200€ for a project that, statistically, is unlikely to make even half of that back.

  • If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?

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  • Great way to make sure your kid gets bullied and socially excluded, resulting in lifelong trauma. Not to mention that they will then start using the internet with the media literacy of an average 70 year old and fall for everything they should've learned with parental guidance at a young age.

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • These days you can do that on fucking arch (from the point of "have a usable DE with internet access" onwards ofc, which is the point most distros get you out of the box). Install steam, check the setting to show windows games with proton, and it just works. At most need GEProton sometimes but I doubt that's different on SteamOS.

    No doubt SteamOS is the most optimized for that experience but there really isn't a lot of friction for gaming on steam in general these days.

  • A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad

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  • I would never judge anyone for using AI to fill in the parts they need to realize their project vision that they otherwise simpy couldn't (without putting in a lot more effort into a thing they probably don't really enjoy), but doing this is still a statement and pretty cool to do.

    Not that I'll ever be motivated enough to actually finish a project, but I've thought about the art aspect of making a game, and eventually figured if I'd need to commission more than I can afford, I'd be morally fine with genAI if the game is either free or I use a large portion of profits (if there are any lol) to hire artists to gradually replace the art.

    Though I also refuse to give a single cent to all the companies profiting off this so any image gen I'll ever do will be local on my pc (or for free on some service, I guess).

  • New empires, same old methods

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  • Earlier, it was also frequently more about "people that don't believe in the same god(s) as me" or "people that don't speak the same language as me". It's always been just the first reason to justify why the invaded are "lesser".

  • Arch btw...

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  • You... heavily overestimate a grandma with 0 technical skills.

    It can be installed in 20 minutes with a youtube video by a person with 0 technical knowledge that is comfortable using a computer and doesn't get scared seeing a terminal.

  • Grok deepfaked Renée Nicole Good's body into a bikini

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  • In general, why is software anywhere allowed to generate images of real people? If it's not clearly identifiable as fake, it should be illegal imo (same goes for photoshop).

    Like I'd probably care much less if someone deepfaked a nude of me than if they deepfaked me at a pro-afd demo. Both aren't ok.

  • A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom

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  • I wonder if this might not be exactly the correct approach to teach them, though. When there's actually someone to tell them "sorry that AI answer is bullshit", so they can learn how to use it as a ressource rather than an answer provider. Adults fail at it, but they also don't have a teacher (and kids aren't stupid, just inexperienced).

  • ‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin

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  • More like going to the 1936 olympics. Not that I disagree with the conclusion at all...

  • Neutral news

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  • The comic is more what happened with brexit as well. 2 options, so we should have one person from each side represent them in discussions, right? Except this misrepresented the balance of expert opinions which was very heavily skewed towards remain, instead implying it's about even.

    It's a hard topic to solve, but much like compromise doesn't mean "just take the middle of the most extreme opinions", fair news coverage doesn't mean "present every extreme viewpoint as equally valid when the actual sentiment is clearly biased to one side". In this case maybe limit it to "the israeli government denied it being a genocide" once or sth.

  • the year of the linux desktop

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  • Is there anything at all surprising about teenagers using what might be their only computer outside of their phone to access porn?

  • the year of the linux desktop

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  • I think it's relative change and not percentage points, from quick mental math that seems to add up. Very weird choice, maybe trying to inflate the perceived increase in linux users. So it would be a change of a bit more than +1 percentage point for linux.

  • Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck

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  • Dynamic difficulty is the game adjusting the difficulty based on how well you're doing, e.g. in the mentioned l4d (or maybe it was only l4d2 idk) if you have more health and healing, it will spawn more/harder enemies, and vice versa.

    It's sometimes also used in other ways, e.g. boss fights get easier after failing them a bunch, which I really don't like because I want to decide myself whether I want to make the game easier. Though roguelite progression systems like in hades in effect do a similar thing, but the player is actually aware of it (though this is why I don't really like roguelites).

    Mainly I think whether this is a fine feature or shit will just depend on the ability to choose if you want the AI to beat the boss for you or not.

  • Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck

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  • Cheat codes and difficulty settings have existed for forever. Dynamic difficulty is common, and used to great success in beloved games like left 4 dead. Just a different option to get past the part you're stuck in is really nothing bad.

  • "I don't want Politics in my Gaming!"

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  • The statement was "every form of entertainment". Tbh tho yea i didnt really notice it being rpgmemes so it wasnt super relevant, that statement was surely not just meant for ttrpgs tho.

    I fully agree you can't have a ttrpg without political assumptions

  • "I don't want Politics in my Gaming!"

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  • Yeah generally when talking about a thing you draw a circle around the thing, that's how that works. My glass from ikea isn't making any political statement or assumption in its design as a finished product (unless you consider presumed size requirement for a beverage container to be political, though inherently nothing about it even states its purpose, so even that is doubtful) the process behind its design, manufacturing, and sale very much is political as fuck though.

  • "I don't want Politics in my Gaming!"

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  • There is still no political assumption in the game itself. Of course the moment you consider the means of acquiring it, everything touches on politics, even going to the forest and throwing a random stick, because forests existing is politics, them being accessible is politics, and you being allowed (or not) to throw a random stick is politics. That doesn't make the concept of "throw stick at target for fun" political.