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KKnD was my favourite RTS back then. Followed by Dark Reign. I loved the KKnD 2 demo as well, but it crashed a lot on my computer so I didn't play it to death like the first one.

Anyway, this should be awesome. I've never had these working properly on proton. Always a tiny window that's about 1/24 size of my screen and I can't seem to change it.

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Stardew. I'm one of those numbers.

Also Arkham City. My daughter just started watching the Bruce Timm animated series and I thought she'd like watching me play it. She said no, she wants to try playing games herself, oh well she's learning and having fun.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: sarmadFor example, it should be able to detect that you are aiming precisely at a target behind a wall, or other similar things that are impossible without cheating.

That is a good example why classic algorithms are better than LLMs which are basically algorithmic lossy archive files. It is something like MP3 for all kind of data where the timestamp is the input (prompt, randomization number and so on). The important part is "lossy", because it loses information on the training process. This causes fail predictions as not being able to do correct maths. I just asked CGPT on duck.ai "What is the math result of 13/73²?" and the result was "13 / 5329 ≈ 0.002438 (rounded to 6 significant figures).", while the real numbers are 0.00243948... this was not even a rounding failure.

If we take this approach to your gaming situation, there are precise position parameters and time frames. The server can calculate precise if such an action could be possible - easy triangulating math. Why would you want to predict if it was possible or not if you just can calculate it? And AI probably does not even go the math route, because another one is "easier" (which does not mean more correct).

AI in games is good for things like animation prediction, can save resources while being much more natural than classic systems. But there is no benefit in using it for anti-cheat (except it may costs less at development, but it can damage the companies reputation in return).

Yes, you should not depend on AI for doing math at all, but math alone cannot easily determine cheating; you need math + patterns. In other words, you need math to convert the data into a form that can then be consumed by AI. For example, assume you are aiming at someone and moving sideways at the same time, then you go behind an obstacle and you continue aiming at the same spot which remains precise then you continue moving until you are away from the obstacle and you shoot immediately and get a perfect shot. This is not cheating because you had an initial line of site that you used to aim, but doing math alone will determine that you are cheating because you are aiming behind a wall. On the other hand, if the subject moves while you are behind the wall and you successfully follow its movement while still being behind the wall then that's likely cheating. I say likely because this can very well be just a coincidence or it could be experience like knowing the direction of the subject and predicting it's movement. But if this happens all the time with high precision then the person is more likely cheating. So, the proper solution is to use math to convert the data into high level data, then feed that to AI for a smart cheat detection.

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I wonder how much of that is backlash and how much is being conscious of an issue. A few years back I would not have had those doubts.

At this point, "money is money", and Blender could certainly use the boost in that regard. But it's very easy to slip towards justifications like "see? We might be destroying everything, but the money is used in a good cause!". Time will tell.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: hardpenguinWhat kind of silly moron cheats in Rocket League of all games???

Look at the screenshots in the article. That right one is highly suspicious! 😄

Honestly, for a studio now owned by Epic, it still has a pretty decent implementation. Still able to turn it off and do your own thing outside of the official servers is something that most devs would never do. Especially if they rely on skins for monetization.

So not all the Studios that got bought up by Epic had half their workers sacked.

Nice to know.

Sorry, still feeling a bit bitter about some of the Epic purchases.

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Just got back in to Last Epoch with Season 4.
Bought Company of Heroes 3 in the Steam Christmas sale, so that one have been fun. Had over 2000 hours in CoH2, I guess time will tell if the CoH3 will keep me going as long.
And of course World of Warships.

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Sonic Racing Crossworlds is still my go-to Steam Deck game. I prefer portable games that are a bit on the easy side and more arcadey so I don't have to focus too hard on them while traveling, but I also like that the game isn't braindead easy like Mario Kart, so it still feels fulfilling to play.

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Quoting: Talon1024Good! Glad to see they're prioritizing their users, their reputation, and human creativity over money, and I believe that is of the utmost importance for a major Free/Open Source project like Blender.

If this turns out for the better, Mozilla ought to learn a lesson or two from this.

Sorry to be negative, but with statements like blender now made I always add "for now..." AI is not going away and will become better and slowly more common, 5 years from now there will be no backlash at all, sadly.

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DiRT Rally 2.0. Every time I think I'm starting to get the hang of it I end up bumping the side at Waimarama Point and spinning out or turning in too much for a sharp turn in Argentina and coming to a complete stop or flying straight into a tree in Finland. I once tried for 8 hours straight to get a good time on a Finnish stage, and it wasn't even one of the long ones.

It's a bit like Dark Souls but fun (just kidding, of course, there's a reason I have all achievements on Dark Souls 2 _and_ Scholar of the First Sin).

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I recently finished the banjo kazooie recomp on deck, others I've been playing are

Forza Horizon 4
Outrun 2006 coast to coast (with community patches/fixes)
Seaman using flycast and the steamdecks built in mic
Vampire Survivors

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Quoting: AllyTheProtogenit's dirty money gained through horrific means.

Yeah, people really shouldn't take money from organized crime, labor camp operations, sweat shops, or child exploitation.

Oh... wait...

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Nice to see that Graveyard Keeper managed to climb to the tops after the short "free to keep" discount on their announcement for the upcoming sequel

Love Vampire Crawlers, those cross-the-bridge & push-it-forward levels are devious.

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Shapez 2 for the past week since it got its 1.0 release. Before that I was playing Modulus. And in between an occasional run with Slay the Spire 2. On Steam Deck I played precisely nothing!

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That's so sad. Recurring donations are much better than one-off grants, so I'm sad Blender got bullied into a worse donation.

"Adding policies" almost never makes things better, and short of a policy on how they want contributors to disclose the usage of AI in coding, I'm not sure where it would possibly be relevant. It's open source, so they can't prevent a bot controlling the mouse/running commands to edit a model in Blender anyway!

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Quoting: dpanterbut did they really need quite a lot of backlash to realize the bulging diaper wasn't full of candy? 🤔

My guess is that in the beginning, they just thought "Money's money" and didn't really think about the fact that it's dirty money gained through horrific means. Seeing so many people point out how every AI company including Anthropic is completely antithetical to their goals probably made them realise they should change which direction they went with Anthropic.

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Quoting: Nezchanand Krafton's declaration they're now an "AI First" company a few months ago does not fill me with confidence.

Mind you, that might imply that them being pulled from the credits is a good thing.

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Anyway, these seem like good ideas. I do think going longer between releases on a distro that's already pretty conservative does create a need for some key updates in between.

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I don't envy open source projects. They need to be constantly searching for revenue but they also need to be highly guarded against corporate interests trying to steer them. That was something the Arch team noted when they got funding from Valve. It was for things they were going to be doing anyway, the money just helped them do it faster.

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The generative AI cancer taints everything it touches. Glad the Blender Foundation wised up... but did they really need quite a lot of backlash to realize the bulging diaper wasn't full of candy? 🤔

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Quoting: dpanterC'mon Clem, throw Mintbuntu in a ditch and go full LMDE already. It's long overdue.

At this point, with the direction that Canonical is going with Ubuntu, it might be a lot less work for the dev team if they focused on Debian instead.

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Good! Glad to see they're prioritizing their users, their reputation, and human creativity over money, and I believe that is of the utmost importance for a major Free/Open Source project like Blender.

If this turns out for the better, Mozilla ought to learn a lesson or two from this.

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Over to you in the comments - what have you been playing the most recently?

I've mostly been playing Bloons TD6 on the Deck recently. Being able to do co-op on that with the little one when we had car trouble on a long journey was an absolute sanity saver.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: benstor214

Quoting: melkemindI'm always impressed with how fast they work. They put out an initial workaround with Proton Hotfix on the same day it stopped working, and now they already have it in Experimental.

Makes you wonder how easy it would be for the devs to test the update before pushing it. 🤔

Sadly, they didn't try for Linux at all, even for Steam Deck verification. Meanwhile, they released a native MacOS version. The studio execs clearly have a bias since it can't be about Macs having a bigger player base in 2026.

Probably more of a "this is the way it has always been" mindset. They're not looking at the change in statistics. They know Windows and MacOS ... and consoles. It's what they're comfortable with. Linux is a big confusing world of distros and versions, by comparison. Why change their time-tested processes?

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: LoudTechieYou're making the same mistake I made.

Where I make a mistake? The context was clearly not about NPC behavior, but about the marketing term "AI", which I usually avoid.

The context was AI based anti-cheat.
AI based anti-cheat is also older than the prolifiration of LLM's and the implicit connection between machine learning and AI.
Minecraft anti-cheat is the most known example of AI based anti-cheat and precisely as algorithmic and deterministic as you're proposing.
It just emulates human like analysis by looking at cheating incentives and realistic human behavior.

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At the point where your hardware is so new that Linux Mint can't support it, you're better off with a distro that ships newer packages, such as Bazzite.

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As much as the original Subnautica was one of my favourite games of all time, I'm gonna sit this one out and see what the reviews say. There's been too many troubling signs to trust this will even live up to Below Zero, let alone the original, and Krafton's declaration they're now an "AI First" company a few months ago does not fill me with confidence.

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Thanks! Unfortunately still too old (the changes I need were added in 257.10).

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C'mon Clem, throw Mintbuntu in a ditch and go full LMDE already. It's long overdue.

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Oh, wow!

I loved this game growing up - definitely my favorite of the C&C-likes. Just the weirdness of it all is so charming.

Definitely putting that on my wishlist to keep an eye on it.

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I remember this sitting on the shelf when I worked at Electronics Boutique 👴

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