The endgame of people putting AI everywhere actual creation could have occurred will always be, to me, "why would I give you money when I can just generate it myself". Even for this; people were already wary of GoG, and although I really really want to support their initiative to archive old games and keep them available, I can't really put money in a structure that's likely to support infamous tech. Promises of "doing the right thing" be damned.

If someone felt they needed an image to describe their sale, they should have put some effort into it. Just look at how Steam handled this. People are still attached to a random sales mascot character way after it ended. If you can't be bothered to make something, as other pointed out, a collage of game art or a plain text message will do the job just fine. And won't attract the ire of people that are seriously getting tired of this shit.

If the goal is to pander to people that absolutely *crave* AI slop content, then, sorry to burst GoG's bubble, but these people don't care where it's from or what it is. That's not a great goal to run after.

As I see it, it's either "harmless" but normalizing such abuse of the tech, or downright disrespectful to people that wanted to support GoG.

Bad move.

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It's not my thing, but I wonder the horror of a 64 players all-worlds online Banjo & Kazooie hide and seek mode.

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Is that a new info box at the bottom of posts? Nice.

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I was under the impression we already had a PC port of Super Mario 64.

Anyway, good news.

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I'd really like for a good game from the guy (and the rest of the pretty good team in my eyes). If there's no last minute surprise bullshit shoved in, why not.

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I'm curious about the non-existent CPU thing, but aside from that, at least these make some sense.

I also wonder how much of these "new specs" is here because of an honest mistake, and how much is here because of the backlash. It's hard to trust anything these days.

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It was unlikely, but I kinda hoped there would be some hardware release date announcements too :D

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Kernel level anti-cheat? Well, that's a way to push me away. Knee-jerk reaction aside, of course.

Although according to protondb this does run. I'm curious on how these works with proton/wine. Or maybe the store page is outdated.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Cley_FayeWhen a friend came to me about PopOS telling me "now I can switch between the integrated GPU or the Nvidia one in one click!" I put my ubuntu laptop in his face, clicked on "nvidia-prime" in the menu, where I had that exact same feature.

tbh your attitude seemed a little condescending towards your enthusiastic friend. If they found a solution to a problem on linux no matter how inelegant it was then that's a good thing, because they are more likely to stay on linux.

That said i wonder in the past just how many excited newcomers got bummed out by the well known "smart ass know it all" linux user and went back to windows or migrated to Mac?

(or console if they were interested in linux gaming).

Thankfully a lot of that elitism has died down now.

That friend was already a linux user. He wasn't "dipping his toes" in linux through popOS as its first adventure, so I doubt I've driven him off.

Please don't think that internet memes and caricatures are that common. If anything, I'm happy to help. Showing someone that software and features aren't distribution specific does not sound like a bad thing to me, and if it was someone just trying to move away from windows/macos, my first reaction would not have been "YOU DID IT WRONG IDIOT". In fact, I would never say that. The point was comparing distributions, and the futility of specific distros that embed the *same* software with different settings.

But I guess rationale discussion between people is a thing of the past, and if I said something not utterly positive about their choice, I'm obviously mocking them and trying to push them down the pit of idiots that obviously exist, right?

Thankfully, neither he nor I reacted this way.

I stand by my point that *changing your whole OS* for a glittering title bar or a two-step process becoming a one-step process is not that interesting given the alternatives. If you think that's some elitist behavior, then so be it.

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Quoting: ChloeWolfieGirlSo weird to see backlash over features like this, I don't use these kinds of tools, but this is a feature that'd at least make me interested.

There's many reasons for the backlash. While some people just jump on the "AI bad" side of the discourse, there is also the issue of the validity of the summary (an extremely weak point of LLM-based reviews that most people gloss over), and the issue of putting a very large summary in front of the actual reviews. Some people enjoy writing these and try to make these interesting; there is less enjoyment for them if they try to write something insightful just to feed a machine that will output bullet points.

I know *I* will not bother too much with game reviews on Steam from now on for that reason.

The new default settings to have this collapsed mostly avoid this issue, and people that still wants it regardless can open it once (the extension remembers the last state). It can make a good difference, because some people just assumed that this was a new integral part of the review system and stopped there without questions.

Quoting: ChloeWolfieGirlHowever Amazon also has an AI thing that summarizes reviews, and I find it really useful.

How do you know if the review summary matches the reviews? That's the issue with AI summaries. They can be good if you're familiar with the topic at hand (a summary at the end of a meeting you've taken part in). They are terrible if you're not (like the non-proofread summary of a meeting the reader have not taken part in).

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