Quoting: PhlebiacThe third game released 4 months after the second one, in 2007? That can't be right. Zoom says the second game released Jun 4, 2006, while GOG says it released April 26, 2005. I'm inclined to believe the GOG date.

According to mobygames:
https://www.mobygames.com/group/1035/empire-earth-series/ [External Link]
2001-11: Empire Earth
2005-04: Empire Earth II
2007-11: Empire Earth III

GOG seems to be correct, and Zoom might be referring to the release of the gold or platinum edition

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I don't know anything about the PS5, but found these posts outlining firmware options:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5_Jailbreak/comments/1t3uooq/current_state_of_ps5_jailbreaking_in_early_mai/ [External Link]
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps5-exploit-guide.613891/ [External Link]

Running Linux requires a hypervisor jailbreak that was patched in firmware 6.50, deployed in january 2023.
So you need a phat PS5 that hasn't been updated in a while. Users apparently are forced to update to play some newer games, and can't go back and downgrade.

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Offline doesn't seem so bad, as far as avoiding experimenting on live human beings.

I imagine they will work on cloning the world state, having a replayable archive, and simulating the protagonists.

I'm not sure how to make it useful: if you simulate one faction, or even just one player, you'll diverge from the recording, so you'll have to simulate some interactions and third parties as well. At which point, you could contain the modified events at the cost of simulation accuracy, or end up having to simulate everything, with the rest of the historical record becoming not so useful.

There might also be a promotional angle if they can manage something like the famous emerging stories EVE is famous for; but that would require simulating social relationships that are outside the game in many cases.

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Is this something the Flatpak could take advantage of?

I don't think I'll move away from Flatpak because it deals with litter inside the home dir (forcing everything under a ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam prefix; some games otherwise write saves and config files in random places), and Steam presumably won't try to prevent that when existing saves have to remain visible.

If it at least makes Steam easier to contain (with the embedded chromium properly sandboxed), it's good for security.

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Quoting: ArehandoroSmells of Palantir.

Some of that personal data is indeed being sent (currently experimentally) to Persona, a company in the Peter Thiel orbit, via his founders fund (they are on the board and a lead investor).

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/ [External Link]
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/persona-188f/financial_details [External Link]

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Quoting: PyreticI am beginning to worry about how many charity bundles there have been lately.

A message from the GoFundMe CEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIsXEkR5OVs [External Link]

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This is bad. The way Project 2025 is going, and the way much of big tech is complicit, there will at some point be a follow-up decree to treat LGBTQ topics as adult-only, requiring a major target of right-wing hate to doxx themselves when they are first in line for a revival of the nazis' pink triangle badges, driving them underground, and making the community fragmented and unavailable to most.

Book bans targetting school libraries in red states like Florida are already disappearing mentions of LGBTQ people and the history of race and slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_States_(2021%E2%80%93present) [External Link]

We pretty much need decentralised alternatives and going back to socialising offline.

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In further GPD shenanigans, they misrepresented videos from streamers playing on Steam Deck by splicing their handhelds into the streamer's footage, naturally without permission: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/gpd-are-getting-quite-desperate-against-the-steam-deck/

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GPD does have form claiming association with prominent third parties that never actually worked with them. It can't be naive on their part.

Previously, they claimed Valve was working with them on official SteamOS support for the GPD 4, which was also inaccurate: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/gpd-win-4-handheld-plans-to-support-valves-steamos-in-2025/

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