"Utterly stupid hat"

Ok man, you don't have to like a certain someone to appreciate the "meme-format".

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It's bad in terms of payment-processors having a say for curation may be a slippery slope (albeit, an unlikely one; they like money lol)

It's good in terms of trash being tossed out.

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Good, now someone can start work on modding-in "fixes" for their few horrible design decisions.

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To be fair, in virtually all instances, those "AI tools" are entirely disable-able, and there are also a decent number of competitors in the search-engine space as-is.

Although, to be fair in the other way, IIRC, DuckDuckGo, for example, does primarily use Bing, although not strictly so.

We'll see if the EU-funded project actually provides anything useful, or if they're just posturing; because if it's main purpose is just in being a "European alternative", then that doesn't really inspire confidence (in me at least).

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Won't touch this game until they or modders add a gamemode where you stick to a single Civ (and have it be balanced accordingly).

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Using ubershaders when `VK_KHR_pipeline_library` exists feels like a mistake, imo.

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Too late imo, game's long been dead.

Seems like it very recently got a big-bump because of the crazy discount, but I think they should've made it F2P like a year ago.

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"The glibc * update has been causing problems for *"

Many such cases.

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Now if Discord streaming would also stop lagging out my games on my Nvidia setup... Well, maybe I'll find a hacky way to do so this time around.

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Well, while I don't believe they'd back-pedal w/o at least *some* data to support it, I do believe that this is their "low-effort" way of reducing some "attack-vectors".

However, in the end, they seem to be unable to signficantly reduce cheating anyways, so it's kind of moot.

The correct solution ofc is to properly develop anti-cheat and more secure code, but that requires effort, so just blaming/blocking Linux is their low-effort solution w/o really being a solution (thus harming Linux users w/o much benefit to Windows users).

Oh, and also, large-scale cheating almost always implies cheat-devs making a lot of money (which keeps them competitive in the "cat-and-mouse" game), so divesting some of their resources to investigating and suing the devs would be a better use of said resources.

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