Bureaucracy is how society learns, remembers, and improves.
We need to systematize and create lasting institutional knowledge, or we'll just continuously make the same mistakes on every project and process. Part of that is learning to make and improve standards and processes. Learning how to learn better.

Actually, it's funny. "Learning how to learn" is one of those concepts the "superintelligence" doomsday guys are really scared of...

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I'll accept "no more news yet, we hope to have some soon" as an update on the Steam Frame! It feels a lot better than actually hearing nothing.
I guess "your call is very important to us" exists for a reason.

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I feel like platforms like Roblox have outlived their usefulness in a lot of ways with how game development and publishing keeps getting more accessible. The people who would've made a Roblox or flash game 10+ years ago can make something better in Godot (or Unity, etc.) and publish on Steam or Itch, and that's why there are so many neat small indie games.

Maybe s&box will find a useful niche, assuming it can overcome its current roles of making me hallucinate broken text formatting and reminding me where the ampersand key is. That's gotta be bad for word-of-mouth.

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Quoting: mattaraxiaIf you're them, having something like Blender, that collects no licenses, crush something like Unity, that does, is great.

Because then the money shops were spending on Unity . . . goes to agents instead. See they weirdly want all royalty free development platforms too, just . . . maybe not for good reasons . . .

They may also just be burning cash at an absurd rate and want their logo out there, it's just marketing. They think it will create goodwill with people who will become customers.

Unity isn't a 3D modeling application, it's a game engine. That would be if they were funding Godot.

I don't know much about the commercial/licensed 3D modeling programs though, so I can't say I'd make a better comparison.

Anthropic supporting open projects when their whole thing is "AI can't be open because then crazy idiot hackers will end the world with magic computers" is hypocritical. If you look up "Anthropic open source" on DuckDuckGo, they have a program to let open source developers use their AI...the AI itself in that case is all gratis, no libre. They want to be in control.

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Anthropic's brand is the "nice" AI company. They're arguably crazier than others in some ways with the emphasis on AI doomsday talk, and they still have the TESCREAL ideological connections, but it's still unusual for any large corporation in 2026 to care about their reputation at all, so they do succeed at being "better" compared to companies that will reliably do the wrongest thing available to them.

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I don't mind it, but I also don't use Ubuntu. Honestly, the thing that put me off most in all of this was the mention of Snaps, since I've followed the seemingly popular opinion that they're Flatpaks with a vendor-locked store, etc. I am more averse to Snaps than open source, open weight, carefully-used AI.

The best way to get most people to use less AI is to make them understand it. There are strong reasons that the bigtech AI firms target low AI literacy and try to get everyone hooked.

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While I'd like it to be less, I don't think it's necessarily overpriced. I'm under the impression it's relatively well-built and repairable, it has IR beacons for VR tracking, it has the newer TMR thumbsticks, the touchpads from the Steam Deck that are supposed to be quite good...

I'd blame the broader economy, currency strength, component prices, expected sales volume loss by all the people who've been laid off not buying new gaming hardware, etc.

It's not like I'd want Valve to have made it "cheaper" in some way, that'd be worse.

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Quoting: kuhpunktPrice leaked via an early review: $99

Damn. I was hoping for closer to 70.

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Hopefully the damage done by age verification laws can be limited (ideally, they would not be made at all, but I'm not expecting much in the way of regulatory competence right now).

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Ah, I remember Star Conflict, played that a really long time ago. I liked it well enough, but didn't stick with it.

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