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If I remember correctly, the PC version didn't adapt to the CPU speed and ran way too fast on my system back then.
Anybody knows if that's correct?

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Oh, this is most definitely going on my "wish" list, because there's some sick games there!

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Good stuff. I didn't even know it was psychological horror when I bought it, I just wanted to see what the fuss was about. Simple gameplay, tense feeling the whole time, and I liked the ending.

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Quoting: KandarihuI don't think that this is the right approach. As much as I want Linux to grow as a platform, this gives us an unfair advantage. The better choice will be to scrap/abolish such legislation entirely.

If Microsoft or Google were interested in stopping that, they would be lobbying against it, where is all that heavy lobby power that mega corps, specially big techs, have and love swinging around? As a matter of fact, Facebook is lobbying to pass similar bills that force app stores to have age check.

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Article updated. See the bottom note.

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Played this a lot on my Amiga 500. I'm not sure I'd still enjoy it as much as I did back then, but I'll keep an eye out for reviews.

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Wonderful! This was the first game I got for my Amiga and I loved it. The graphics and cinematic feeling were just mindblowing at the time, when you came from a C64/ZX Spectrum or other contemporary machines.

Even though the C64 version of this game was allegedly superior in gameplay, the Amiga version still started my love affair with Cinemaware. "S.D.I., King of Chicago, IT Came from the Desert, Lords of the Rising Sun, Rocket Ranger, Wings!" I bought everything from them as long as they existed.

Will buy this for certain!🥰

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There are several critiques that can be made from different angles.

* From the "I just want to get things done" perspective, using these tools might or might not make sense. All rigorous studies I have seen state the productivity increase for experienced devs is negligible when not negative, and it comes at a high cost (loss of codebase understanding, cognitive decline...). But well, there's lots of people telling it helps them a lot, that people doesn't know how to use it, that Claude 4.6 is really the thing and earlier models where shit, etc. So I will give it the benefit of the doubt even if I'm not convinced at all.
* From the code license/copyright perspective, using these tools is a legal minefield. There's already an EEUU judicial sentence saying generative AI outputs cannot be copyrighted. And on top of that, there are several studies demonstrating how all LLM "frontier models" can output entire copyrighted books almost verbatim. How can you guarantee Claude is not outputting code from other software project with a non compatible license?
* From the ethical perspective, is when using these tools is without a doubt very very wrong, I have said it several times and will repeat it again: **there is no ethical use case for generative AI**. For these tools to be somehow effective at what they do, they need to suck tons of resources (energy, chips, raw materials) and data, most of it copyrighted/licensed. The generative AI craze is causing a massive resource hoarding by a handful companies (that want you to own nothing and rent everything from them), is feeding a gargantuan bubble that is leading to an economic collapse, is accelerating climatic collapse (with so many countries backing off their environmental compromises because of the AI craze), is actively being used to kill people (yes, Anthropic tools are also used actively for this, Amodei has always said he is OK with using Claude for war, he only backed of two very specific points: completely autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, but he is completely OK with everything else, including using Claude to select targets to bomb).

You might want to get things done, risk the legal issues and don't mind the ethical aspects and then use these tools. But don't try reasoning these tools are ethical. They are not. And Lutris is a tool for GNU/Linux users. Maybe most Windows/macos users don't mind that much, but many of us in the GNU/Linux community are here because we care about ethics. So it should not be that difficult understanding you will get pushback when writing GNU/Linux applications using unethical tools and procedures.

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I could never get into the original so I hope this one will be slightly easier to get into

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While I realise the morality of models trained on stolen code is as yet, unsettled, to me that's one of the smallest issues. From a pragmatic point of view, we're all trained on stolen code when we study and gain experience as developers. For me, unethical use of AI would be the specifics of how it's used. For example, re-licensing copyleft software is genuinely easy now, and a huge threat to open source. I think vibe-coding is a fast way to an unmaintainable project that nosedives after a month or so, but as an aid to an experienced programmer who thoroughly understands everything that is being output it will be a boon, only enhancing the project. While I understand you could say 'How are we supposed to vet responsible use, how about we just say no across the board?', this developer is demonstrably proficient with this codebase already, so what's the big deal?

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If you already understand the problems on capitalism, but then use the tools of a capitalist company that will atrophy your programming skills and basically take away your means of production, then I don't know what to tell you anymore...

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPCan we get an "S for Slop" rating? 😂

We definitely need a rating like "not suitable for human consumption" ;-)

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Can we get an "S for Slop" rating? 😂

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Quoting: Cloversheen

Quoting: F.Ultraso the payouts is actually divided per how much your music was played.

How much of this is "in theory"?
Because that seems like an (in reality) impossible task outside planned organised events like a music festival.

"We spent half an hour trying to figure it out, which burned through all the money"

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Quoting: mrdeathjr​This d7vk is very impressive with d3d3 titles and others in my case:

MotoRacer 2 DX3

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StarWars Shadows of Empire DX5

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I might have mentioned it before, but I always enjoy looking at your screenshots and seeing GKrellM. Haven't used it in ages but man, that is good nostalgia. 😃

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Quoting: Linux_RocksWould running with a rifle be safer than running with scissors? 🤔

Generally people aren't shooting at you when running with scissors. 😁

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I wonder how many old Steam games this could enable to be playable and/or verified.

It would be interesting to see the stats on how many games use each version of Direct 3D. Google says around 870 games use versions v2 - v7

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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"?

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They shold release a barebones version .

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I basically bolted over to my steam library to go see if MDK 2 was finally fixed after reading this, that was one of THE games I actually felt like I gave up going to linux.

The good news is: Yes, they did fix the black texturing issues in MDK 2 HD! Yay!

The bad news is: Everything regarding cutscenes continuing is broken, like everything renders correctly (except the HUD) but the dialogue doesn't continue and menu music plays where it shouldn't. Don't know if this is an issue with the game or an issue with proton, but either way MDK 2 HD is still unplayable.

Also, MDK 2 Classic has not benefitted from the Mesa patches as far as I'm aware, as it still starts up with a black screen.

One day... One day it will work. We're at least closer.

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Still little surprised they couldn't get proper FSR4 (or FSR next-gen) happening in these boxes.

That FSR3 upscaler is going to look VERY UGLY unless they pull off some sort of miracle update to improve it allot

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Meh, results matter. But also if stolen code ends up appearing; you don't want that happening.

There is a risk when using AI coding tools where eventually it could turn into bloatware. So hopefully that isn't what will end up happening a couple years down the line.

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This game is terrible. I tried to play it.

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I never liked Lutris, Heroic worked way better for me anyways. But I never wanted to be negative about it. But now I can just say it's AI slop.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: BladePupperThe cards you get are used to play the actual game whereas the skins from say CS2 are basically only used to cash in and maybe pay for a steam game.

Agree with most of your post except this bit. MtG packs are not "necessary" to play the game. You buy the base pack and you're good to go.

That is . . . true in some sort of technical sense. But it has nothing to do with the actual experience of anyone playing Magic.

Yeah, I know. I spent hundreds of pounds building my various MtG decks back when it first launched. I just wanted to point out that technically (definitely technically) you don't need booster packs to play the game.

Now where's my Serra Angel...

https://www.cardmarket.com/en/Magic/Products/Singles/Alpha/Serra-Angel

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I use a local LLM model to help plan out stuff I'm going to code or if I run into an issue I can't solve and need help figuring out a way to implement it that I might not have considered, but I avoid agentic AI like Claude Code as I find more often than not it just ends up producing garbage as you run out of context very quickly even with the big cloud models.

I have no problem if someone wants to use it in there application, but you have to be open about it and be willing to deal with the fact some folks won't use your program and will look down on your code for obvious reasons.

Also, I find that very quickly you can get to the point where the AI has generated so much code that even an experience programmer can lose track of how the code base interacts with everything, especially in the case of something like Lutris with so many moving parts (Wine, DVK, etc).

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My concern is the AI's were probably trained on code without respect to their licenses. So tagging the code is kind of important for legal purposes in case the landscape around it changes.

I personally don't use AI to generate code, but I might sometimes use it as a fuzzy search or use it for language or visual processing functions. Reason being that what ever I gain in efficiency, I also lose in opportunities to learn and improve as a developer.

Setting that aside code architecture is extremely important in regards to long term maintenance, robustness and security. My experience is that AI is just generally terrible at that, as I had them fail to architect something extremely basic and small correctly after nearly 8 hours of prompting across a lot of the top performing ones.

They seem to only excel at smaller functions or things that are easily templateable, which makes sense when you understand that they just duplicate what they have been trained on.

There are plenty of reasons why I favor self-hosting AI's and don't fund these corporations, the ethical issues are endless. But overall I just find the developers response here reason enough to not trust the long-term health of the project going forward.

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...we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.

I see, so it's somehow Trump's fault that this developer started using AI and feels the need to obfuscate it after facing criticism.

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I've been a Patreon supporter of Lutris since 2019. That ended the minute I read his reply. I'm instead going to spend that money on some other project. One that doesn't use generative AI...

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Quoting: Linux_RocksWould running with a rifle be safer than running with scissors? 🤔

Neither is safe. Running with spoons is safe. Anyone wanna do a Egg-and-spoon race video game?

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