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huh interesting. I thought these old heretic / hexen games all ran on the doom engine.

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does it help if i play demo on linux or not? is developer getting stats on platform the demo was played? does anyone know?

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While I applaud the effort in bringing some innovation in gaming, I don't know if this is for me. I already had to do the walk of shame to YT, in search of solutions for some stages of Portal and The Talos Principle. I think this one may be too much for me, since they are stating the thing will be tough.

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To me GoW is what Konami's Contra should have turned into when 3D/polygonal games started to dominate gaming in the late 1990's. Instead they released a series of so-so games that never made the same impact the early ones did.

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The biggest problem for ARC Raiders still remains though - there's basically no end-game to it. Once you've unlocked all the blueprints and played a fair bit of it, there's not much that actually keeps you going. Apart from the fun factor of course

Is this really a problem though? If you could "beat" the game would you still want to play it after beating it? I'm saying this as someone with 160h on Embark's other game which is pvp and naturally doesn't have an end game, just new rewards with every season (3.5 months)

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I ran it for some time a good while back. Too many issues with compositor with only good old "compiz" really doing everything I needed it to do. But that too degraded over time until I just had to leave it. It always felt like they did not just stick to traditional desktop paradigms, but stuck with old tech as well. How is it doing with Wayland?

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First we lost physical contact with people and replaced it with virtual one, now we're losing virtual contact with people and replacing it with AI interactions. GG humanity!

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Quoting: Durandal

Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: DurandalThat said. Fuck Framework and their “big tent”.

Huh? What did I miss?

TL;DR they promoted and supported an unapologetic white supremacist... when they were called out on it they said they use a "big tent" and don't pick sides.

https://itsfoss.com/news/framework-hyprland-sponsorship/

Some, not informed about those incidents, might take your initial comment to be overly emotional or even inflammatory. I believe all emotions serve a function, at least internally. How and when to express them is... a complex skill.

That said, I too, believe in the [paradox of tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance) - that intolerance should not be tolerated. Free speech only so far as it doesn't limit the speech of others. Hate speech takes away the ability of weaker participants to have a say at all. Initially by taking away their safety, and if unchecked, actually injuring and killing the oppressed group.

And thereby Framework (according to this philosophy) is in fact promoting the domination of intolerance by not suppressing it.

I do get where people on the other side of this are coming from - suppressing any speech feels uncomfortable, intolerant, and wrong. But I wouldn't expect anyone on their own, especially engineers without an interest in the humanities, to evolve to such heights in political philosophy. In a proverbial trolley problem, most people would not pull the lever to kill (partially the free speech of) one to save fifty.

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Quoting: PhlebiacWhat's the attraction of MATE over Cinnamon or current GNOME with classic-look extensions? Serious question, not trying to start any desktop wars.

I'm using MATE on arch. The attraction for me is that the thing just works without breakages or problems. I know exactly how it behaves from years of using it and it does exactly what i need it to do without any problems.

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Quoting: wytrabbit

Quoting: tmtvlLet's hope the new maintainer will finally do what we're all waiting for and rename it to Mubuntu.

M'buntu tips hat

Muubuntu

Quoting: wytrabbit

Quoting: tmtvlLet's hope the new maintainer will finally do what we're all waiting for and rename it to Mubuntu.

M'buntu tips hat

Muubuntu

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I have a strange urge to make really weird arcade shoot em ups with that engine.
I am strangely excited for this.

Really hope we get a lot of fun game jams.

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Quoting: Durandalsupported an unapologetic white supremacist..

I would very much like to see examples of this. That's a horrible thing. From anything I've seen, nothing has directly been the offenders words.

I looked at Hyprlands website and such. It seems like a really interesting project from a user perspective at least. Thus, the more "non-gross" people working on the technology means it can be taken over by "decent" people or organizations.

I'm all for boycotts but, we need to be careful about The Townsfolk Mentality and witch burning. People very much have emotional, knee-jerk reactions and they do so to things that have been twisted and blown out of proportion. One thin-skinned person gets offended then others jump on the bandwagon.

I've seen reports of artists going to trial for accusations, then are found to be innocent. Afterwards, the townsfolk are still up in arms. The artist' life has been ruined with no solid evidence, tried in court and found not-guilty meanwhile the public still treats the person as guilty.

This is something to watch I suppose. Bare in mind that the first step from an organization could be supporting a project, the next could be forking it or writing something new with learned knowledge. Just look at System76 and GNOME ➡️ Cosmic.

Anyway, it's great to see KDE get more support. It's great to see for-profit corporations spending money on libre software.

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What's the attraction of MATE over Cinnamon or current GNOME with classic-look extensions? Serious question, not trying to start any desktop wars.

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You can also always use GhostBSD if you really like the MATE desktop. Not Linux, but FreeBSD kicks ass too.

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I used Ubuntu MATE as my main distro on my laptop in 2019 when I was still learning linux I really like the "familiar" layout and still use the layout in KDE. Wish the layout that they had could be easily be put on other ditros never could get the layouts out side of ubuntu mate. Hope they can get someone to step up.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Greenland falls to the zombie hordes overnight! There is no virus, no cure, only the relentless march of the undead. Can they consume the world?

Not if they're starting from freakin' Greenland they can't.

Perhaps (given the overall theme of the DLC) they mean “consume” literally, and Greenland is simply their initial snack. 🤔

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I like framework and also KDE, so ideal situation for me :-)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ArtenFrom my point of view, there are three stances toward AI. Two of them are unhelpful. One is reasonable.

• AI is evil and must be avoided in all cases. This is a bad stance.
• AI is just a tool, and when used responsibly it is reasonable to employ it. I don’t think generating an entire article with AI is a good idea, but using it for spell‑checking? If it can catch incorrect wording, that’s a worthwhile use.
• Throw AI at anything. This is also a bad stance.

This seems like a reasonable perspective, but there are several problems and caveats to it.

So, before the real problems, the main caveat: Large language model AI is so incredibly intensive in its use of computing power that it costs real serious money to use. So for instance, using generative AI just for spelling/grammar checking is incredibly wasteful; we had spelling/grammar checking before that wasn't "AI" and that just worked on your computer without requiring a subscription to anything. Currently a good deal of the real cost is hidden because most AI companies are providing their services at a serious loss, in hopes of, um . . . well, that gets complicated and sordid, but they are doing that. But my point is, a lot and perhaps most uses that seem like reasonable uses for LLM "AI" as a tool, are not worth the money those uses would actually cost unsubsidized, and subsidized use is unsustainable in the medium term . . . fairly short term at this point. Getting used to cheap AI being available as a tool is a mistake, because it will either become unavailable or become not cheap.

The real problems: There are a lot of implications to AI use which go beyond their momentary utility to the user. Yes, they're indirect and longer term so lots of people don't want to be bothered thinking about them. That doesn't make them not real. And those impacts are mostly negative, particularly given who owns AI and what their motivations are, and they are probably much larger to any given individual than the positive impacts of using the marginally useful tool. So viewing AI use solely through the lens of "Is it useful to me right now?" is a good way for us all to collectively screw ourselves in a few years.

The LLM runs on my computer without any problem. I do not pay any subscription for the LLM because I prefer privacy. I use the FOSS Ollama to run local models on my own hardware. All costs for using it are paid by me. The only hidden cost is training, which is, in principle, similar to development costs in other tools. Spell‑checking is also easier for languages like English, but not for Czech.

For local usage with open‑weight models the drawbacks are much fewer, because I do not send data for further training to the model creator. So, where is the problem?

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It's not bad. It's definitely got old Linux/Wine compatibility-in-progress vibes. I ran the beta alongside the Infinity client on pop_os 24.04 LTS. My microphone and controller would only work with GFN Beta; the UI was sluggish and playing felt like being stuck in treacle. It was the opposite with Infinity, which also looked a little better.

I switched to CachyOS this past week and now the microphone and controller work in both the GFN beta and Infinity apps with the caveat that the microphone is either too low in the mix or sounds messed up in the one game I've been playing as of late. It isn't the standalone USB microphone, which sounds crystal clear in Audacity and which I've tried in several USB ports. qpwgraph says it's the capture device for GFN as well. I haven't found a willing soul to subject to poor in-game VoIP audio yet to figure out if it's dependent on Nvidia VM lottery yet or something else.

Given how much support for flight sims and the like they're putting out with HOTAS and VR updates I hope they figure out how to make regular headtracking work too. Right now it doesn't work at all (at least on Linux, wouldn't know about 10/11) and especially won't if your headtracking software is a Steam purchase far as I know.

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Quoting: tmtvlLet's hope the new maintainer will finally do what we're all waiting for and rename it to Mubuntu.

M'buntu tips hat

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Let's hope the new maintainer will finally do what we're all waiting for and rename it to Mubuntu.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: DurandalThat said. Fuck Framework and their “big tent”.

Huh? What did I miss?

TL;DR they promoted and supported an unapologetic white supremacist... when they were called out on it they said they use a "big tent" and don't pick sides.

https://itsfoss.com/news/framework-hyprland-sponsorship/

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I dont know if its allowed to link other sides but:
at Gamedate.org you can find weekly UT gaming sessions: friday UT99, saturday UT2k4

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Hmm, I fail to see what you're seeing...
Except the sprites and the backgrounds not fitting too well together, I find the backgrounds I saw fine.

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Greenland falls to the zombie hordes overnight! There is no virus, no cure, only the relentless march of the undead. Can they consume the world?

Not if they're starting from freakin' Greenland they can't.

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Ubuntu Mate, "Wimpress Mate" to be precise, has been my favourite take on this DE.
True labour of love, the only distro that has tempted me to switch away from Mint.
This man is not a simple "maintainer" and cannot be replaced at least not easily.

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I hope that s&box and games built on that engine will work well under Steam Linux Runtime or Proton, but you never know... s&box itself currently has a Gold rating on [ProtonDB](https://www.protondb.com/app/590830), so that gives me hope.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: DurandalThat said. Fuck Framework and their “big tent”.

Huh? What did I miss?

There was a drama that Framework supported non-koscher projects so now everyone should hate on Framework ;)

ad rem - great move. KDE is getting better and better despite GNOME being the default on majority of distros. What makes me laugh is that Fedora recently promoted KDE variant to the main page and put lovely: "The next generation personal desktop" monicker below it 🥰

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> X/Twitter in a rather blunt post telling people to just go for the sequel.

Yeah… the other day I found out about the sequel and after quick searched turned out to be epic-only… yeah but no… epic can go ef itself

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Quoting: DurandalThat said. Fuck Framework and their “big tent”.

Huh? What did I miss?

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