Quoting: Mountain ManThose Cinemaware games were amazing for the time. I'm hoping for a Rocket Ranger remake as I really enjoyed it on my Commodore 64.

Rocket Ranger was even cooler on the Amiga. And It Came From the Desert looked awesome. I didn't really enjoy the gameplay of either game, but at least they looked awesome. 😆

I did like Defender of the Crown though, played the crap out of it.

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Quoting: CaldathrasSpeaking as someone who has his journeyman ticket, I have mixed feelings about this one. Will it give a realistic portrayal of the hard work and time it takes to build a successful career as a professional cook? Will players be able to take those recipes and techniques and apply them to real life? Will those same players understand that playing a video game about cooking does not make them the equivalent of someone who has actually put in the time and work to earn the right to call themselves a chef?

Still, given the right answers, this could be a fun game...

Spoiler, click me

Even with my ticket, I have enough respect for the trade to admit that, while I have put in a lot of work and effort. I have not put in the time to truly call myself a chef.

Disclosure: While I still love cooking, I am now retired from it as a profession. It was an illuminating break from retail.

No, it's probably not going to be a realistic portrayal of anything. I don't know why you'd expect it to be after seeing that trailer.

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Quoting: GerarderloperPretty sure Hatred is PERMA banned in Australia. Adults can't be trusted to see its content!

Would adults care? Based on the marketing, it always looked to me like a game designed by teenage edgelords for teenage edgelords. 😆

(Please don't be offended if you're a fan. I found the marketing so cringeworthy when it came out that I've completely ignored the game since, so I might be wrong. I doubt it though.)

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Quoting: Slaxer

Quoting: ArehandoroEat the rich. Whether they are whining moron or a super yacht owner.

I never understood the "eat the rich" sentiment. I do think corruption, fraud, or unethical business practices need to be called out and held accountable to the law when necessary - however, I don't think that's what we're talking about here, is it?

GabeN got wealthy by:

• Working at Microsoft


• Founding Valve


• Creating Half Life 1 & 2


• Creating Steam


• Creating the Steam Deck\Steam Machine\Proton

At what point between getting a job at Microsoft and being wealthy enough to buy a yacht did he suddenly become immoral? From my point of view, he got wealthy by founding the company that created one of the best games I've ever played in my life (Half-Life 2), and by supporting the Linux gaming community by getting Valve to create Proton and open-sourcing it. Furthermore, through Valve he has also employed 100s of people and enabled them to have a living. GabeN is not my friend, but my life would definitely be just a little worse if Half-Life never existed - and I reckon yours would probably be too. If you made a cultural landmark of a game, and developed a game distribution platform/community that revolutionized the way people buy games, you'd be rich too - should I hate you then for having done so? Or should I reward you with my money in exchange for the awesome thing that you created?

You might disagree, as people tend to do when ethics and morals are in question, but if you could give away 99% of your wealth to literally feed the starving and still be extremely rich, but you choose not to, many of us think you are immoral. He'd still have more than a hundred million and his lifestyle wouldn't be affected in any way.

He's got the dragon sickness just like the rest of the ultra-rich. Well, you'd never get past "wealthy" if you didn't, I suppose, unless you inherit the hoard.

In the end, a billion dollars (or in his case, multiple billions) is just a ridiculous and frankly pointless amount of money for an individual to have, when it could—and ethically should—be used to help those less fortunate. He'd be no worse off. In fact, he'd be better off in a healthier society and a safer world that he helped create.

I don't hate him and I definitely don't want to eat him, but we'd all live in a much healthier and happier world if people like him weren't so damned greedy and individualistic.

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Quoting: Kapellini

the continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable

AI tools are great... Feel free to use them...

🤔

Might want to read the rest too:

If you actually want to add value, read the documentation, create a patch too, and add some real value on *top* of what the AI did. Don't be the drive-by "send a random report with no real understanding" kind of person. Ok?

What he's asking for would restore sanity to the security list, which would take care of the contradiction you're pointing out. Although I'm pretty sure most of these people will just prompt their AI/LLM to produce a patch and send that to the list, without understanding the problem or the code. Maybe it'll at least reduce the amount of reports to a reasonable level.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: KimyrielleIt's perfectly fine to be against AI. But these people behave like a vicious lynch mob who go after anyone who disagrees with them. I lost respect for the anti-AI crowd a while ago, when vitriol and hate took the place of logic and reason.

And who or what is being lynched so viciously by this supposed mob? A corporation's bottom line? A CEO's quarterly bonus? They've made tens of millions with the game already, they'll be fine.

Try using less emotional language if you want to accuse others of abandoning logic and reason. Until then, I find it very difficult to respect your hot take.

You know, when other people decide to use a technology you don't agree with, in most cases, you have a right to STFU and respect their choice, even if you don't like it.

Oh did you feel disrespected? I'm sure people who protest with pretty much the only tools they have at their disposal also feel disrespected when they're called a vicious lynch mob. When you pretty much call them stupid and ignorant. You might seriously want to think about the language you use if you want to be taken seriously and not seem like a total hypocrite.

And no, I've never taken part in review bombing so I'm not taking this personally. I do strongly dislike the way generative LLMs are marketed and used currently, but that's mostly based on my professional experience, and also based on my personal respect for human beings, human made art, human artists and developers, and of course the environment.

Quoting: KimyrielleYou dislike AI? Don't use it! Don't buy products using it. Write essays why you feel it's bad. Or take your protest to the corporations that make money with it. That's all fair game. What's NOT fair game is review-bombing a game that isn't even using AI, trying to destroy the livelihood of the people that made it. Because that's what review-bombing is trying to do - hitting their bottom line.

First of all, AI tech already hits people's "bottom lines" way harder than any review bomb ever could. And secondly, most people working in software are not given a choice and are pretty much forced to work with LLMs if they want to keep their jobs. In fact, this is the first time I can remember that domain experts and entire tech (and art) departments are overridden by top management on the tools they use to do their work.

Protesting against corporations is obviously only effective if it hurts their bottom lines, so that's pretty much the point. No protest is ever effective if it doesn't cause disruption and inconvenience (or loss of revenue) to the ones being protested. Remember, these are all paying customers. They've already bought the game or they couldn't leave a review on Steam. They can't protest by not buying the game because they've already done it. But of course they could go write essays for these corporations to ignore. That'll show them.

Quoting: KimyrielleThat's the entire point the poster I quoted made, and I happened (and still do) to agree with. Apparently that nuance is/was lost on you. Then I again, there is a reason why I came to the conclusion that AI-haters suck at logic. Your posting is actually just proving my point.

There was no nuance in your post. It was pure hyperbole and loaded language. You label anyone with a grievance against generative LLMs as "AI-haters" and ignore everything they say. Possibly because you've got a dog in the race? Don't answer that, it's pure speculation. I just don't understand why you feel attacked when a Chinese corporation feels consequences for their incompetent marketing.

This is a corporation that made a stupid choice and is now feeling the effects of that choice. (Not even an indie dev who simply abandoned all societal and environmental concerns, along with their artistic integrity, in the hopes of an easier way to make cash, just because they feel entitled to it.)

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I only recently bought and played through Talos 2, and actually found it slightly easier than the original. I'll need to grab the DLC at some point.

I enjoyed both games a lot. Looking forward to part three.

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Quoting: KimyrielleIt's perfectly fine to be against AI. But these people behave like a vicious lynch mob who go after anyone who disagrees with them. I lost respect for the anti-AI crowd a while ago, when vitriol and hate took the place of logic and reason.

And who or what is being lynched so viciously by this supposed mob? A corporation's bottom line? A CEO's quarterly bonus? They've made tens of millions with the game already, they'll be fine.

Try using less emotional language if you want to accuse others of abandoning logic and reason. Until then, I find it very difficult to respect your hot take.

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Quoting: elmapulwait this game was not from ubisoft?

It was, but Atari bought the rights last year.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/atari-acquires-the-rights-to-five-classic-ubisoft-titles/

EDIT: Says so right in the first sentence of this article. :D

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't think I even knew 4 nm was a thing yet.

My Zen 5 AMD CPU is built on a 4 nm process, but 3 nm is also a thing these days.

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