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Quoting: BigJIs it buggy at all? It’s “early access”

Haven't encountered any. Some placeholder graphics in the unlocks screen is everything I was able to detect. Devs have said more content (monsters, cards, etc) will be coming, but otherwise it feels very polished already.

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I’m so glad that you’re taking a good stance on this, I really appreciate this site ^_^

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: Linux_RocksCan they not call the original systems by their actual names due to copyright bullshit? If so, that's stupid on the part of the copyright holders. It's fair use, I'd say.

What do you mean? The games I am familiar with in this package are called the same thing they were called a bazillion years ago.

I meant the console and handheld system names themselves. They're listed as "Super," "Mega," "8-bit," "Portable," and "Gear." Not SNES, Mega Drive (Genesis), NES, Game Boy, or Game Gear.

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Is it buggy at all? It’s “early access”

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Thanks for remaining a human.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksCan they not call the original systems by their actual names due to copyright bullshit? If so, that's stupid on the part of the copyright holders. It's fair use, I'd say.

What do you mean? The games I am familiar with in this package are called the same thing they were called a bazillion years ago.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Pikolo

Quoting: PhiladelphusI did notice that video backgrounds were a thing recently while video-chatting with my brother. Nice to see that finally happen.

What does doing "\@everyone" actually do? It's unclear from the patch note.

It was working the same as @everyone (mentioning everyone giving them a notification), but without warning you that you're sending a very broad notification

Thanks! I'm just still unclear what an "escaped mention" is, or at least what it's supposed to do. If "\@everyone" does the same as "@everyone" now (if I understand the fix)…what's the point of the backslash? 🤔 Or does it do something different now? What does "\@<user>" do differently from "@user"?

It's not supposed to do anything besides showing the text ;) It's a relatively common issue in programming - you want to be able to do more than just show the literal text, but sometimes you need to show the very sequence of characters that would normally do something special.

One place it comes up is in error messages and instruction manuals - if you want to tell the user how to achieve and effect, you need to show them the "magic words", but not "cast the spell". Backslash is a very common escape character. If you want to actually show a backslash in a language where it's an escape character, you escape the escape character itself - so `\\` would show up as `\` in javascript strings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character

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And to the users logged in who send in correction reports to fix my incorrect wording, and sometimes rather funky grammar - you're awesome too. You know who you are. I appreciate you a lot.

Aww, thanks! And you're welcome. 😊

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I just don't know why people think these things are reliable. I just asked ChatGPT if you can use options separately (pacman -Syu -p) and it said -p shouldn't be used with Syu because it's for querying/installing packages. It's a dry-run option.

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Quoting: Jarmer

a "download all" button for updates on the download screen

I'm pretty sure they had this feature before and then removed it because it dramatically increased the amount of traffic on their servers.

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For anyone interested, they did a talk at GodotCon on how they implemented multiplayer into their singleplayer game.

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We can **trust** in the rare occasion you mess something, you will do whatever it takes to correct it. I prefer one gazillion times all the messes you could make than a perfectly sounding pile of slop I will never **trust**, done with a tool made to exploit the people with less resources and accelerate this planet doom.

Thanks for GoL!

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For the record, I am a fan of AI. I think the tech is cool as hell, and I like seeing where it might take us.
I read the article about the dev of lutris using it, and the comments under it, and realized again that I am in a minority in the groups I normally align with. In that everyone but me seems to hate AI and think it should burn in a fire.

With that said, I really don't like that AI is basically taking over the internet. Dead internet theory is no longer a theory, 90% of the content we read, and the comments that are posted at this point are either fully written by genAI, or "corrected" by it, and that I think is a bit of an issue. I don't care if you write a bit of code with it to cut out some thing you don't want to deal with. Heck, I don't care if you write entire software stacks in it, so long as you let people know you did so they can choose to trust it or not. I do care if everything on the internet suddenly becomes homogenized slop.

Humans need to continue writing, and creating. Art should be made by humans whether that be writing, drawing, painting, music. Any of it. Some places need to remain human, and free of the slop regardless of my, or anyone elses opinion of the slops value.

So you know, TL;DR Good. I really appreciate the human touch, and I hope to hell other people take up the same viewpoint and continue to create in the face of this onslaught.

(This comment hand written by me. I think I am human.)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: minidouridiculous, but not surprising
there's no stopping the moral panic against AI it seems

What is ridiculous about humans writing texts?

It worked quite well the last millennia, and it still works.

What is ridiculous is be blindly refuse to use tools, moreover to actively campaign against tools or anyone that use them

genai was built on stealing the works of millions of actual humans and then not ever compensating any of them and then regurgitating said works in a worse way. What is ridiculous is that you advocate for the use of such a thing.

Also ... are you actively saying you WANT to read websites that are just written by idiotic genai's ...? That's what you WANT to read?

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Can they not call the original systems by their actual names due to copyright bullshit? If so, that's stupid on the part of the copyright holders. It's fair use, I'd say.

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I am among those who believe LLMs are just another tool (admittedly overhyped, misused and with concerns like environmental impact).

Even so, I have yet to find ai-generated textual content which I can stomach for more than 15 seconds. All these websites feel like a jumbled mess of words trying to drown their own egregious lack of precision in a verbal diarrhoea.

Here is to GoL on point and enjoyable content. ❤️

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generative ai was around for 3 years and delivered ZERO IMPROVEMENTS for our civilization.and a lot of negatives. the internet got worse, ai bubble made ram prices high, everyone got dumber.

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Oh boy - that's so sad. :(

While I feel sorry for the circumstances which lead to the usage of the LLM stuff I've to say that I don't want it anywhere near my hobby. So for me this is good bye Lutris. :(

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Cool, now finally release a FreeBSD version Google. lol

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Just registered my self in GOL after years of lurking around to say. Bravo!!

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People are willing to forgive, forget, and accept just about anything except an arrogant attitude.

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Quoting: Antonio StorckeThis is getting ridiculous. The author knows his software. I fully support this author. As I side note, I fully support the use of Claude. It is the ONLY AI That I am able to trust with my code. The hts-time app.

You trust a war AI? A AI that delete all your work? I don't trus any AI. AI is the reason for the Ram crysis and you know that.

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Quoting: CrasbenFrom what I can see in the OpenTTD website it does affect the one you can get directly from them. You require Transport Tycoon Deluxe data files to have graphics and sound in the game.

OpenTTD has had free graphics and music available for a very long time. Using content from TTD is entirely optional.

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From what I can see in the OpenTTD website it does affect the one you can get directly from them. You require Transport Tycoon Deluxe data files to have graphics and sound in the game.

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Thank you! I’m not that active (anymore) but I still very much enjoy reading your articles. Very happy to hear that I can just continue doing so!

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Quoting: Evanjellion

Quoting: CreepioAnother thing I wanted to quickly say is that, the Lutris dev mentioned he has depression and he's using Claude as a way to stay motivated to continue working on his project (my interpretation of things). He's doing this to try to make more progress on something that otherwise risks becoming abandonware, and right now I feel like he's being bullied for using AI. He felt bullied so he removed the claude attribution, and then he felt bullied again so he put it back. And now after reading a few comments here, I see people are canceling their Patreons over this. Bizarre. I don't know what the end-game is here. If being bullied is going to be the result of using AI, I question if applying any AI attribution in the first place is the right answer. This situation affects how I will choose to go about doing things in the near future if I plan to release any software.

It's hard to find the motivation to do anything when you're depressed, I can understand the decision to use AI to make his workflow easier. It's more so the way he responded to everything that I think is the problem.

He seems to have known that people would react negatively to AI code, and his decision to deliberately hide what's hand-made and what's AI and say "lol good just finding the code now" is just a really bad look. For one thing, as the initial article states, it makes it hard to trust what he puts out. It's also just kind of antithetical to the whole idea of open source projects when you're obfuscating code. He may have reversed his decision, but the damage is already done.

I don't agree. I haven't thoroughly looked into this but if the only thing he's obfuscating is Claude attribution then that's massively exaggerating the severity of the situation.

And yes, him being acutely aware of how others feel and think about Ai probably does play a part in his attitude and seeing how people have reacted so far, I'd say his feeling aren't entirely unwarranted.

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How do we know if this artice was written by real Liam or generative AI Liam..

just kidding ofc. Great to hear!
Been here since the beginning of the site!
the site is almost Adult age!

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Quoting: minidou

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: minidouridiculous, but not surprising
there's no stopping the moral panic against AI it seems

What is ridiculous about humans writing texts?

It worked quite well the last millennia, and it still works.

What is ridiculous is be blindly refuse to use tools, moreover to actively campaign against tools or anyone that use them

1) It's not blind.
2) These "tools" are different from other tools. Very different.

I want a human to talk to me, not a machine.

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Nicely said. Thanks to you and all the other contributors here!

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: EWGEspecially good for books, CDs, DVDs/Blu-Rays if you ask me.

No, nope, definitely not. Clearly asking you would be, in my case, a terrible idea. I'm picky. Random books, CDs, DVDs would almost all be worth zero to me. Less than zero, because they would take up bookshelf space and I'm running out already. So yeah, I wouldn't take mystery random boxes of that kind of thing if you offered them to me for free.

The same applies to me. Also applies to those random video game bundles that are put out every once and a while. I don't want digital clutter either.

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