May I ask, does anyone around here play this game?

I've tried to get into Techage a couple of times, but the dearth of quality-of-life mods (could use a good waila, for example) still means I gravitate back to Minecraft 1.12 + GregTech Skybound.

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I wonder why AAA companies stopped having demos like most indies.

Well, you could always buy a copy, play it for a bit, and get a refund. That being said, I expect the reason is something like 'demos don't provide enough of a boost in sales to be worth the cost'.

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The Crew, hm? Now why does that name sound so familiar...?

Valve's compatibility notice mentions how it always need an internet connection.

Oh, [https://www.stopkillinggames.com/](right).

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It's funny, I bounced back and forth a lot between Pillars of Eternity (PoE) and Pathfinder Kingmaker (PK) until PK got turn-based and it became my go-to. With PoE getting turn-based combat as well, combined with the fact I've been hankering for some RPG goodness lately, I think I may spend some time with it in the near future (although I've been wanting to do a solo run and spirits are kinda painful).

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TheGamer recently covered [External Link] GOG's preservation efforts. In my opinion that's far more valuable than having a GNU/Linux client. Seriously, GOL doesn't have a client and yet people here are able to open a browser to comment on the article; they should be able to open a browser and download their games from GOG. In fact GOG is better than Steam at this considering you can't download your games off the Steam website.

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Fedora can allow or disallow whatever they want. Personally I'd sooner make a list of which models are OK to use (open code, open weights, ethically sourced training material) and which models aren't, but I suppose that's a rather tall task. I'd take a contribution assisted by StarCoder2 or Granite over a ChatGPT-assisted one any day of the week.

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What I would like to see is a way to find games I don't know about from a bit longer ago. I'm sure that there were a bunch of games released in, say, 2014 which I would like and which I don't know about. It would be interesting to have a way to browse games like that.

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What i don't understand is where the lawyers at ?

I believe the problem is that buying a piece of media and feeding it into an algorithm to create a model isn't considered copyright infringement because the result is a piece of software rather than a copy of the original piece of media. Yes, if you ask a picture generating model to generate a picture of an archeologist with a hat who uses a bullwhip it generates an image which is easily infringing on a well-known intellectual property, but then it's still not the model which is infringing. Now, machine generation of media is a tool, so creating an infringing text or tune or image isn't a problem per se. If I put a bunch of cans of paint on a shelf and then knock the shelf down and the paint splatters form an image of a familiar Italian plumber with a red hat I haven't done anything wrong. Distributing the result, however, will likely get me into hot water (if the rights holder decides to bother itself with me).

Typing this comment got me thinking, though, this kinda reminds me of software libraries. Machine generating models are basically turning various forms of media into something like software libraries from which pieces can be reused to make something new (in as far as anything can be new when, of course, all original ideas have long been had and we're just rehashing the same stuff over and over again). Back in the day software didn't have licenses and you could freely reuse things from programs made by others but those days came to an end. Maybe we'll see media start getting licensed to not allow machine generation model creation.

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Looking forward to seeing it land on Arch. Though I'm still looking forward to seeing that initiative (Per-screen virtual desktops [External Link] ) to improve the multi monitor experience get results.

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Despite doing martial arts I'd say rally is the most exciting sport. Really looking forward to this.

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