Every time I try to install Ubuntu, the installer crashes and fails. This is the reason I don't recommend it to anyone.

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Brotato is on Epic Games for free this week, by the way.

Fez is cheap, and so is Steins;Gate and Hades.

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Quoting: CatKillerTaking existing games and mixing them up with other mechanics has been a tried-and-true method of game development since the beginning of game development.

But are we sure this doesn't violate 30 patents owned by the publisher of Horizon Zero Dawn?

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Quoting: PyrateI don't mind if all it takes to prove I'm "safe" is just checking if my kernel comes straight from Fedora unmodified, doesn't sound like an issue st all for me.

I imagine SteamOS or PlaytronOS would be the only distributions with kernels game companies/anticheat vendors would be willing to accept. Is it possible to reproducibly build kernels? If so, maybe other distributions could package and build the same kernels for their users without a need to install another Linux distribution just to play a subset of EAC games that have allowed Linux kernels.

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There are only three ways to beat the Anti-Cheat problem:

1. Force the game developers to weaken their anti-cheat for your system (not going to happen with the current number of players)
2. Start cryptographically verifying kernels and bribe a bunch of game companies into supporting those particular kernels. This also does not seem likely to work long-term.
3. Cloud gaming...

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Quoting: Hoppertron

Quoting: PhlebiacLooks like their last game was also free (and positively reviewed, although not very noticed):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1492610/Moonshot__The_Great_Espionage/ [External Link]

Am I missing a hidden business model here? The new game looks rather polished for a hobby project...

I think it's a nice, decent way to generate revenue. It reminds me of the old shareware days. Hopefully it pays off for them (assuming the game is good).

But how are they making money? :huh:

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Enabled in the default build, I suppose. From memory, you needed to build Wine yourself with Wayland driver support. So this is a good first step.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo rather than a brand new nascent technology, I think it's actually quite a mature technology, and it's already taken a key ingredient, model size, about as far as it can be taken. I think it may have already plateaued.

Based on the past two years, this seems likely to be true. I haven't seen many large enhancements in ChatGPT in the past two years, but I have seen a lot of expansion into other fields. I haven't seen any noticeable change in machine translation since the rise of ChatGPT, likely because LLMs were already being used for machine translation for a long time.

But you can get some really good results with ChatGPT if you prompt it properly. I've seen good writing come out of ChatGPT, but I certainly can't get it to do that. So while this technology branch may not get much better, people will get better at using it. And maybe that will make a big difference. But I have heard people say, "ChatGPT is getting dumber." I don't know whether that's because the shine has worn off, or the ourobouros is already close to eating itself.

I was very impressed when Photoshop was able to remove text from an image and paint over it with a consistent-looking background using its AI generation tool because I did not have the original files. The Google Pixel Magic Eraser tool is similarly impressive if it works as advertised.

So, it seems to be quite good at editing images. As for fabricating art entirely...I have yet to be impressed.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm sure stuff that produces better output is possible, and indeed I'm pretty sure true AI is possible (although it won't be all-powerful like some of the rich weirdos imagine). But that will be a different technology, not just iterations on current large language model concepts.

I completely agree.

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Quoting: GuestI still doubt this hype of "anti AI" is tied to those deep roots.

Artists feel threatened by AI-generated art, so they loudly and publicly disapprove of it.

A lot of people sympathize with artists who express those opinions.

If you want a good incident that shows where Anti-AI sentiments are coming from, look no further than the Adobe incident this year. Adobe's policy change to scrape and use their users' data for training their AI if you use their apps was taken very poorly by every creative, to the point Adobe needed to issue a non-apology.

It's really the same thing as the Luddites. They felt threatened by new technology that could replace them to do the work more cheaply, and the end result was lower quality, but a lot of customers didn't care that much, so the more cheaply-produced and higher margin product won. Employees (usually children) that used the new machines were also in a lot more danger too, but that doesn't really relate.

The ultimate insult is that these AI generators use real artist's work as training data so they can eventually be used to replace the artists that "inspired" it.

I think AI generated art will continue to get better, and it will be easier to get better, more consistent art assets with less hallucinations over the years. And fewer artists will be hired—especially the lower-skilled ones—because an AI can do it more cheaply and never needs a day off. The highest-skilled artists will probably remain around for a long time, even just for the sake of the craft, but good luck to anyone new trying to get into the field.

It's just sad, thinking about it. Will we all end up too fat and happy to care in the future like in WALL-E? If there's no point learning how to express yourself through writing and art because AI can do it faster and better, what does that leave us to do? Oil the machines and watch AI-generated TV shows all day?

I think AI has its place, but I don't want to see so much of it in my games and stories. I read stories and play games to connect with a writer and artist who're trying to tell me something. It just feels cheaper and inauthentic. In the future, when I'm no longer able to tell the difference, the idea will feel cheap and inauthentic. I feel that connection when I'm playing SuperGiant games. I just don't feel it with an asset flip or AI-generated art in games. I think the worst experience I ever had was reading some fanfiction and realizing part way through that it must have been AI-generated, because no person would write like this, for as long as this. In fanfiction.

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Sounds like the plot of Houseki no Kuni...

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