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Awesome, now we need his girlfriend to talk to Activision about CoD7.

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Changelog are so impressive!

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It took about 3 months for Valve to rebase to Wine 10 (then another 7 months to release the stable version).

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this moral panic is getting ridiculous

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I was disappointed by the fact that the announcement for Linux/Mac support was a Twitter exclusive. I have never had a Twitter account and never will. But this faux pas in no way compares to the Epic Games CEO, Tim Sweeny's comment concerning "Politicians demanding gatekeepers selectively crush the one that's their political opponent's company is basic crony capitalism." Crony capitalism has been very good to old Timmy boy. Yet one more reason to avoid Epileptic Games.

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As a... tolerator of VOY who's also aware how unlikely it is for us to get anything close to that level of quality with how Star Trek is being mistreated and mismanaged... I'm reasonably excited for this. I'll give that demo a try.

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Downloaded the launcher last night so I was ready this morning to download the game. I initiated the download a couple minutes after the release time. I was expecting the servers to be overwhelmed, but this was not the case. The download took very little time and the game worked flawlessly. At this point in time I think Hytale Studio's approach to game development is to "way under-promise and way over-deliver."

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The comments about gaming distros are getting so old. Bazzite for example is part of the ublue project, by no means a small project or one that isn't contributing to the wider Linux community.

More importantly, these articles are read by users new to Linux, or just considering Linux. It is ridiculous to handwave away distros that take huge strides in removing roadblocks from those users, whether via their rolling nature, auto updating, immutability, Nvidia driver inclusion, etc.

There are countless posts *daily* on the linux_gaming subreddit from users with no Linux experience who install Kubuntu or Mint after reading an article like this, and then have nothing but problems because they don't know what they are doing. The attitude from Linux old-heads and their gatekeeping desire that new users "learn the ropes" is incredibly cringe.

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I'm seeing three beards in the thumbnail. Now I want one too. 😊

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My beard constantly starts due to laziness, but I either get remarks about needing to shave or it starts itching and I shave in any case 😅

Impressed that your partner prefers your (likely scratchy) facial fur 😆

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This wine version in my case

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Quoting: KoopaWhat has changed since the first reunion when the steam deck released?
Everyone now has a hipster beard!! 😂

Hipster?! I'll have you know mine started from laziness and now I'm not allowed to shave it off. The fiancée would not be happy 😆

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What has changed since the first reunion when the steam deck released?
Everyone now has a hipster beard!! 😂

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Great! I already have the supporter edition pre-ordered and looking forward to play it soon. :-) Also looking forward to see the official launcher on Flathub. ;-)

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I love technical article on Linux. I understand maybe half the words used, but I still get the feeling of the unstoppable march of progress.

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Quoting: benjamimgoisThanks for the post Liam ! GamingonLinux recognition makes a lot of difference.

Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.

I always thought the 'G' stood for Gaming. TIL :) Now that it's more of a collection or gathering of tools maybe a name change is prudent? I would probably keep the G to keep it a little recognizable.

- GCore
- GAssembly
- GCentral
- GCentre
- GMachina

Good luck and thanks for all you work :)

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That girlfriend, if she is real and was really the reason for doing this, seems to be a keeper for her strong marketing skills. Now this game has become a limited edition release everyone is talking about and can't wait to get before the end of the month, when it comes an exclusive collector's piece.

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I see what you did there.

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I really need to replay MW2 before this comes out! 😆

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Amazing game. 100 hours played now. Still enjoying it.
About the AI things.. Personally i don't care if its done in a way it doesn't annoy me. I didnt even know voices were made with that, but there hardly are any voiceactors anyway in this game. Just Few mission messages and couple of cinematics.

edit:
If their AI tools help the team of their size make a fun game of this calibre then i dont really have much to complain.
Compared to companies that trying to milk the most out of their players with sloppy AI art

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Was this girlfriend an AI girlfriend by any chance? Maybe the algorithm told her to break up with him and that made him realize AI is not your friend?

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The bit about brainwashing in universities is kind of a red flag, so it's no surprised he was gullible enough to buy the AI hype. Good that he's backing off on this at least, but I doubt I'd be interested in anything he makes going forward.

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Quoting: AL2009manWait, you aren't supposed to be covering Arc Raiders due to its GenAI usage?

Then again, [51% of Japanese developers already uses it](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/51-of-japanese-game-makers-use-generative-ai). Pandora's Box is opened I guess?

I touched on that in the article. Anyway, I cover whatever I see that fits based on my own personal choices and the industry at large. In this case, it's too big too ignore - especially so as a huge game that has the anti-cheat enabled for Linux. And personally speaking again - I see their use of generative AI as vastly more ethical than most other uses. They hired and paid people for the voices used. Not that it really adds anything to the game, bit silly really. They really didn't need AI for it.

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Wait, you aren't supposed to be covering Arc Raiders due to its GenAI usage?

Then again, [51% of Japanese developers already uses it](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/51-of-japanese-game-makers-use-generative-ai). Pandora's Box is opened I guess?

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I was extremely wrong, looks like. Good for them!

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I tried out the Flatpak. For some weird reason with the Flatpak my Mangohud wasn't working in Steam anymore and also Mangohud settings could not be saved cause it gave you a warning that read only.
Also the Proton Tweaks environment variables got removed after closing the app and opening it up again.

Went back to the repo version and Mangohud works again plus saving the configs.

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Anyway speaking of Hytale itself and not doing off-top about social media: I'm glad that they managed to secure enough funds. Now let's hope that the end product will eventually be amazing.

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Quoting: juliandelphiki

Quoting: scaineGonna nitpick here, but

Speaking on X/Twitter

...actually puts me off caring about this game. I know it's shallow, but there it is. I don't care if you're "reaching your audience" - first of all, you're not reaching me, and second of all, you're helping fund and justify the child porn platform.

I wonder what it'll take for genuine brands to realise that association with Musk's toxic hellscape rubs off on them. At least for me.

You are definitely more than welcome to your position, but I'm genuinely curious why would you black list a developer for trying to pitch their game? You can follow them on multiple social media platforms, including bluesky and 7 or so others, if that's your thing, and there are hundreds of millions of people to market to on these other platforms.

Not quite a black list, but I think less of them. Twitter's response to users creating child porn imagery in grok wasn't to fix the tech, or ban the users. No, they put the capability behind a paywall, so grok will still generate these images, but now you have to pay for it. Which actually sounds worse when you say it out loud.

Quoting: juliandelphikiPersonally, I don't do the social media thing as I believe it is the worst thing to happen to humanity across our entire history, but I don't begrudge anyone for trying to reach potential customers.

Sorry to say, but the fact you don't do social media is pretty obvious. Hypixel made this announcement on Twitter, but didn't do so on their Bluesky account, or even Insta. Hell, they didn't even post this on their own forums! That's just numbers of course - they don't even have a thousand followers on Bluesky, compared to half a million on Twitter. But if they closed Twitter, people would follow them to wherever they're active. They don't want to take that risk, clearly. And so, I judge them for that decision.

Quoting: juliandelphikiOn the other note, trying to hold a company's feet to the fire because of a horrific AI error.

It wasn't an error. It's a conscious decision by Musk to allow his AI to generate child porn.

Quoting: juliandelphikiI like to hear as much from those who disagree with me as I can and talk to people in person about it, because otherwise the echo chamber just forces you into compliance/group think with no innovation or real improvements to your ideology.

I disagree. You don't argue with fascists. Again, it's clear you don't do social media, since any engagement with fascists will result in abuse and dogpiling.

You also don't debate paedophiles. Why would you? Lock them up.

So when I say that a brand is tarnished for being on the child porn platform, I can't be any clearer. I think less of them for being there. They enable and justify the absolutely worst people on the planet... for outreach.

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Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

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Don't change the name. Goverlay is recognizable.

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