@eldaking

I am not stupid enough to think that every new technology is necessarily good and positive.

Much like I've heard the Amish approach new technologies. Each and every new idea is assessed for the impact it will have on their community/society. If the negatives outweigh the positives, they don't adopt it. I can respect that.

I am not a technophobe either. I am all for the appropriate use of technology. I will not support a tool that can be utilized to take jobs away from human beings -- be they programmers, artists, actors, farmers or whatever -- just to increase corporate profits. Unfortunately, too many execs are looking at utilizing LLM this way.

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@TheSHEEEP

Ah, yes, the "AI bad" bandwagon.
We'll see how that is going in 5-10 years

You're assuming that the resources will still exist to maintain this corporate boondoggle after that length of time.

I have no problem with indie devs using this seal.

Personally, I want nothing to do with this LLM that they are falsely spinning as AI. It is not true AI and never will be. I consider it just a costly waste of energy. But, that's my choice and definitely doesn't have to be anyone else's.

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What we're effectively talking about is IP piracy here. In the end, you are never going to get a consensus among creators on this matter. Look at situation with both music and books. Some musicians/authors were quite vehemently outspoken in their opposition to the piracy of their works. Others were okay with it -- they considered it a complement. Still others were indifferent -- they didn't care either way. In the end, the law always decides in favour of those that care -- because they are generally the ones that are most vocal about it.

It's funny -- if not ironic -- because copyright originally came about to protect the public domain's rights to access the material, not the creator's ownership of their IP (i.e., copyright means "the right to copy"). In many ways, the FOSS and copyleft movements are a direct result of the for-profit sector's corruption of copyright's original purpose.

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@Raaben

and I'm just sitting here playing through Morrowind for the 600th time.

Morrowind remains my favourite game of all time. It supplanted my addiction to Diablo 2. While I've put in lots of hours in the two TES successors, I always find myself drifting back to Morrowind. I've lost track of how many hours I've put into the game, both playing and modding.

I only switched over to OpenMW recently, as I found that it has now, IMO, surpassed the original engine (patched with MGE-XE, MWSE & MCP). Honestly, the only thing I feel it lacks is the ability to interpret MWSE script. I haven't figured out the Lua scripting yet.

An excellent source for modding and configuring OpenMW is https://modding-openmw.com/ .

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@wintermute

Thanks for this. While I was reading through the new comments on GoL today, it occurred to me that it was very likely that no one in the develop team were likely gamers, especially the decision makers. This quote confirms my observation.

Deja vu, really. I had a similar problem with my retail business. The team developing the new point-of-sale software for our chain had absolutely no retail experience and didn't even comprehend what was needed. The software was an absolute mess.

No surprise that Amazon failed in this endeavor.

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From what comments I could see below the article:

Piotr Czech:

Steam sells protection of gamers' rights, not games. Steam is unbeatable because gamers know that Gaben puts users before profits and it's not about the store, social network, library, and trophies.

Stephen Lenz:

[Steam is] built on YEARS and YEARS of trust

I think these quotes say it all as to why Amazon actually failed. Also why Epic, M$, Ubisoft, EA, etc. continue to fail as well. Ultimately, Piotr Czech's point that "they are expected to take care of their shareholders over users" just sums up their major weakness.

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@wintermute

I particularly liked this comment for someone that used to work under him and actually was a gamer:

Too bad you didn't quote the comment here as well. Unfortunately, your link is locked behind a login screen.

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@LoudTechie

Which is why Debian has Iceweasle instead of Firefox

Except this hasn't been a thing for a while. According to Wikipedia, Debian and Mozilla are supposed to have settled their issues some time back in 2017.

There was a project called GNU Iceweasel -- it's called GNU Icecat now -- but it's apparently not related to the Debian project. Still a fork of Firefox, just like the Debian project, however.

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@Kimyrielle

they removed the soul from the game, which was guiding a civilization from the bronze age all the way to the space race.

Having an interest in the history of civilizations (yes, plural), the "pick a new civilization for every new age" feature you've described is far more realistic. I know, this does not fit into the western narrative of a neat progression from point A to point B, constantly improving with each step. In actual history, however, mankind went through several, often distinct and unrelated, civilizations as the assorted technological eras developed. In fact, often a new civilization for each era. Mankind's history has not been one single civilization, after all.

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it's not yet a perfect experience on Steam Deck due to some text being too small

You know, this got me thinking about how, not that long ago, when consoles and cross-platform development were becoming more of a thing, thoughts were different on this topic. I remember when TES 4: Oblivion came out and all the PC gamers were complaining that, well suitable for a console on a tv screen, the UI and accompanying text was too large for the PC. All these mods were showing up trying to shrink the UI. I guess it's kind of ironic that, with the introduction of handheld PCs, this no longer seems to be a complaint.

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