This is a genuinely good (and challenging) puzzle game, and so is the bigger and fancier "A Monster's Expedition" from the same dev. Easily worth a few °C. :wink:

Been in a few bundles though, I think.

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Most of the AI models I am aware of used scrapers to collect openly accessible texts/images etc. If that's even illegal under current law is a different question.

Legality aside, in my opinion this is only ethical if openly accessible means public domain or otherwise permissively licenced work.

In any case, I'll just do my best to avoid using this tech until these important questions are addressed to my satisfaction. And if any future laws or regulations make it harder to make money off of LLM tech or off products created using them, I can live with that. My employer won't be happy, but I can live with that too. :wink:

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So many people missing the whole point here. Or commenting based on the title, more likely.

The technology isn't being targeted here. This is specifically about current generative "AI" products being trained on material without original artists' permission, because that's pretty much the only way to source a large enough set of high quality source material. That's what artists, writers and other copyright owners object to. And I tend to agree with them. Ends do not justify the means.

If someone searches on Google and the summary given by Gemini is correct, and they use it, they'll have used GenAI...

Then how about not including that AI-generated summary in your game?

Again, all it might prevent you from doing is using this badge to promote your game. I'd say "you don't get to have your cake and eat it too", but this is barely a cake. There's no need to be dramatic.

This is just something a bunch of indie devs proud of their work have come up with to promote the fact that they don't take shortcuts at the potential cost of using someone else's IP without permission.

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Would this void the use of this badge?

If you use generative AI, you don't get to display this badge. Seems clear enough to me. This is specifically about the use of generative AI, not quality or anything else. I don't see why you'd go looking for loopholes.

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Nice. This is one I knew about but never played. Happy to add it on my wishlist.

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Mint XFCE. I have this weird bug where the network icon in the panel just sort of disappears and won't come back.

When this happens, try hitting alt+f2 for the appfinder and type in `nm-applet`. Sounds like the network manager applet (tray icon) process is crashing for some reason, and that should bring it back.

I haven't seen this problem on Mint Xfce machines I administer, for what that's worth. Is this a fresh install or did you upgrade from an older Mint?

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Can you confirm for me that I am right about needing to install UMU-Launcher?

I have got umu-launcher installed apparently, but it shouldn't be required. Do you have "ge-proton" in the Wine version list? I think that's actually what you need to select, instead of UMU-Latest. Sorry for the confusion. The whole UMU situation seems to be a bit of a mess still, at least when it comes to these launcher GUIs.

Anyway, if I select ge-proton as the Wine version and start a game, the log shows UMU doing its thing (downloaded the latest Steam Runtime Sniper) before launching the game using umu-run, so I assume it's working correctly. And it still works correctly when I remove the umu-launcher and python3-umu-launcher packages from my system.

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What about setting up the Lutris and Heroic launchers to use UMU-Launcher?

I don't think there's any setup involved in Lutris beyond selecting "UMU-Latest" as your Wine version.

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I’ve always seen C and Linux as being intertwined

First of all, I'd be very surprised if C is a popular language in game development these days, or even in the last couple of decades. And while the Linux kernel is (mostly) written in C, the language isn't tied to Linux in any meaningful way.

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I enjoy driving games, and I love games that let me explore at my own pace. I'll use the lack of native Linux support as an excuse to continue my "no new games until the backlog shrinks" campaign, but they're not making it easy.

This one is going right into my wishlist.

Ditto.

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