Quoting: EhvisImagine being an honest game artist and seeing your creation ruined like that. I guess there is one positive thing. You can now filter out developers that don't care about art simply by their dlss5 support!

I think that would not really apply to a lot of situations. These kinds of decisions are often made by people OTHER than the artists; best case by a coder/team lead, worst case by the moneyman

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No sir, looking at that shot it is NOT difficult to argue... The character looks like an AI generated character, not a video game character.

That makes the discussion quite easy in fact:

Like ai generated art? enable it.
Dislike ai generated art? do not enable it.

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It always surprises me seeing so many people talking about how stable manjaro is, then I remember it's arch based.
No offense to anyone, and nor am I hear to tell you what distro to use or not use, but I'm fairly certain how stable your manjaro install has been has nothing to do with manjaro.

In fact I'd wager if you could compile reliable data of people having major breakages with updates Manjaro would be a leader in arch based distros.
Now frankly there are some things that have become common grounds where you'll expect breakage: AUR packages, KDE, and Nvidia hardware.

As someone that hits all three of those, I assure you Manjaro is neither stable nor reliable (I haven't used it in quite some time, so perhaps it has improved!); and the issues I had on manjaro have not been present in ANY other arch based distro I've used.

For me though, many of the reasons people have abandoned Manjaro over the years aren't the reason I'll never (unless some sort of massive organization change happens) use it on ANY machine. That special rule of mine comes from the messy world of the Pine64-Manjaro relationship. It's hard telling what exactly was going on outside of blog posts from various people, and from that info I just can't in good conscience click the download button for Manjaro anymore.

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IMO the trends are showing that competitive shooters is a bubble. Not only are many of them struggling to get the sales they want lately, but given what's going on with Arc Raiders it's clear there's a narrative shift (and consequently why so many games "journalists" are talking negatively about it).

I'm not saying competitive/online shooters will go away, but that the level of competition, and the amount of it, people want isn't actually what everyone thinks. A lot of this is being driven by streaming; whether that be fortnite (which in it's own regard will sustain itself), DayZ, rust, or Tarkov, so much of this is propelled by streamers.
Ironically I think the streaming world also is causing a drive for cheats/hacks, since there's a large enough percentage of each game's community that play that game for 8+ hours a day which forces you to be way better in order to just have fun at the end of a long day at work.

Couple all that with the move to external cheating solutions and Kernel A/C is going to collapse sooner or later.

Time will tell, and Arc Raiders will be one of the best indicators on where things will be going, but I can't imagine that invasive A/C actually has a future.

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This comment section is hilarious. Anyone acting like this move is what seals the deal for them for buying games from this company...
Really? THIS is the final straw? As if EA wasn't already one of the worst companies? As if it wasn't already endlessly apparent that they're greedy af and don't give a rat's bottom about any of their customers or employees?

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Quoting: tuubiI simply have a hard time trusting a phone any better than I trust the browser on my Linux desktop.

Given how things have gone (with both google and apple) I have a hard time trusting a company who takes OSS and then layers closed sourced software on top of it with my mobile phone. I also don't use web browsers with closed sourced software in the mix for the same reason.

I've looked into sailfishos several times, and while it looks promising in many ways, I just am done with buying into software/services from companies that promote their product as open source when in reality most (if not all) of their own actual code is closed source. Not only do they become harder to trust, but their work really SHOULD be given back to the OSS community to help further linux mobile software development given how much they themselves rely on OSS.

When they're ready to go open source then I'll consider buying their product(s)

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI will say this:

The antitrust lawsuits against Apple and Google can only help in limiting the duopoly on mobile and making the experience better for both Android and iOS users. Especially iOS users.

Agreed here. Apple and Google are both pretty horrible on all the things they do to control their respective platform/monopoly.
The duopoly is clearly secured when you try to find any sort of alternative; linux on mobile (outside of android) is basically a joke at best at this point, and realistically the best de-googled option of android is grapheneos which is only developed for google's devices.
And android is the "open" platform of the two.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI legit think that there are entities that are just mad that Valve is not a public traded company and can't be easily corrupted or remotely influenced/controlled.

We learned this week from Sweet Baby Inc being kicked off Steam for extortion and subsequent GlowFeds going after Valve for it that there are powers who are angry and want to dictate what games you get to play. I wouldn't mid a article or two sourcing these events in a factual fashion.

Absolutely agree with this. IMO the single biggest issue with the "AAA" gaming industry is that they are all publicly traded companies which has drastically shifted everything about the companies. From getting too involved in playing politics to the way they do business and how they treat their employees, these old giants of the gaming industry are nothing like the companies they used to be. May they all die a deserved death.

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I'm not going to sit here and say I full heartedly support valve, since steam is DRM after all and quite frankly the client has been pretty crap on linux the past year or so, but if Sweeny thinks he's got the support of gamers or indie-devs he's pretty delusional.

He can complain about the 30% cut all he wants, but despite all his efforts the epic game store has been a flop and a half. Maybe if he wasn't a prick and didn't have the horrible hot-take stances he tends to and didn't make idiotic decisions like pulling their own (older) games off their own store then people would like him more. At the end of the day people are willing to put up with the drm of steam because of all the features and services valve offers in return, and on the dev side people are willing to put up with the 30% cut because of the large customer base valve offers in return; EGS doesn't offer enough value to make spending money on it worthwhile.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI asked in the Discord channels directly what "Tropic Haze LLC" was. The response I received was, "It's not anything suspicious, but I'm not going to comment about it right now." Now I'm thinking it was setup purely to take the fall for when Nintendo sued them. And I'm still curious...

I'm surprised Nintendo was pursuing a settlement at all. I thought they would have wanted this to go to trial.

This is the best outcome re: legality of emulation. No court judgments were made.

That's more or less the idea of an LLC; the laws around LLC's work in a way where (generally speaking) if something happens to the company none of the employees (regardless or their position) are legally responsible (unless it's a case of what a specific person has done and they are specifically called out in the suite).

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