Quoting: KimyrielleThat "feature" was a dealbreaker for me, so I am glad to see it made optional. Not sure if I buy the game, still. I always suspected that said feature was invented only to have an excuse for making Civ VII in the first place. Without it, is it really that much different from VI?

According to Sid Meier, every Civ game is "one-third old, one-third improved, and one-third new", so if that was the "new" part, then probably not much.

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From my experience, the best time to play a Civ game is when they finish it and release the next one. So I'm waiting for Civ8 to drop and then maybe I'll buy Civ7 Complete, hopefully well polished.

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Now there's a conundrum: keep releasing the same game every few years with a bumped number or switch to releasing an endless stream of DLCs instead?

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I only planned on getting Steam Frame, but this feature of the controller got me intrigued: "Infrared LEDs make Steam Controller trackable by Steam Frame’s cameras when you’re immersed in VR. Perfect for playing all of your non-VR games on a giant virtual screen." - I hope to see a hands-on test of that and maybe I'll grab it as well (when it's back in stock).

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Can't stop us now!

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Quoting: rcritThe first game took me forever to get through because I couldn't handle long gaming sessions: it was too intense. The very remembrance of hiding in a locker while it lurked outside gives me goosebumps.

You mean like this? 😇

!hiding in the locker [External Link]

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Anthropic have been talking up their new Claude Mythos, which is apparently so powerful and dangerous at finding security vulnerabilities in various software that they've currently chosen to keep it private so only a few select companies and organisations have access to it in Project Glasswing.

in other news:

Anthropic confirms breach of Claude Mythos model and has launched an investigation into the unauthorized access, per bloomberg. Attackers used contractor login credentials of a compromised third party vendor and guessed internal URLs to access multiple unreleased models.

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Quoting: RTherenI've sent it to a friend of mine who's a huge AitD fan.... he wasn't happy with the quality of this AI slop, at all.

Huh, is that what it is? You mean code, or graphics, or both? I don't care about the gfx (would prefer to keep the classic one), but some UX improvements sound welcome.

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Cool, hopefully it's added to Luxtorpeda soon. :-)

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Quoting: LoudTechie- also applies to IOT and servers.

This is the funniest part. Whose age should I set on the fridge? Mine, or the yogurt's? 😆

Anyway it's nothing particularly new. When I set up gmail accounts for my kids, I just added 10 years or whatever, so they don't get blocked from accessing stuff and I don't get pestered with requests for permission or whatever. If I installed such age-requiring OS today, I would do the same.

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