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Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions
18 Feb 2026 at 3:33 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Cley_Faye
Quoting: dpanterBan AI-generated everything. Is it optimal? No, but practical and likely the only reasonable option if Godot wants to remain open to new contributors. These AI slop "contributions" aren't contributing to anything positive.
I'm tempted to agree, but this is both impractical and would throw the small percentage of valid cases.

A better approach would to be require all PR to be hand-reviewed *before* submission, and vetted by a human. It's equally impractical, but if we look at the cURL project as an example, it is possible for competent devs to use LLM and similar as tools to raise appropriate issues, fixes, and formulate them properly. Key element is, a human used a tool vs. a tool used a human.
A small percentage of false positives is better than the several times of increased effort spent on reviewing.

Often the best rule is not so much "is it LLM-generated" but rather "does it look LLM-generated", because if you reviewed and cleaned-up your partially-LLM-generated submission well, it shouldn't at all be "obvious" that it was LLM-generated.

Splitgate 2 is "going back to beta" with the original shutting down as 1047 Games have layoffs
22 Jul 2025 at 10:04 pm UTC Likes: 4

"Utterly stupid hat"

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

Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed
16 Jul 2025 at 2:41 pm UTC

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.

Steam Workshop support comes to Civilization VII in June with a new update out now
28 May 2025 at 2:51 pm UTC Likes: 3

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

Search engines are getting worse, so OpenWebSearch funded by the European Union want to fix it
19 May 2025 at 2:32 pm UTC Likes: 5

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).

Civilization VII update 1.1.1 adds quick move, lots of UI improvements, a new start position and lots of fixes
25 Mar 2025 at 3:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

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).

Godot Engine 4.4 is out now with Jolt Physics, Ubershaders, Interactive in-game editing
4 Mar 2025 at 4:50 pm UTC

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

The tactical FPS 'Due Process' anti-cheat now supports Linux - plus it has a huge discount
24 Feb 2025 at 3:13 pm UTC

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.

The glibc 2.41 update has been causing problems for Linux gaming
13 Feb 2025 at 3:51 pm UTC Likes: 4

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

Many such cases.

Looks like Discord finally fixed Linux screen and audio sharing with Wayland
2 Dec 2024 at 7:12 pm UTC

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.