Quoting: ShadowXeldronprobably lead to more age verification rubbish

Not really. Just include a blacklist and report-system in your game and you are fine, otherwise game 18+. What I worry more about: does it apply to all online games, even those which you only play with friends via internet-connection? It would be stupid to make a 7+ game 18+, just for a chat that is meant to communicate with known friends. But I am not entirely sure if such games are included.

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I am using Lutris since I switched to Linux - not as launcher, but as installer (especially for GOG). For few weeks I got an update message I luckily ignored (hat no reason, because I did not install anything new) and now I will remove Lutris.

Let's say it is okay to use an unethical tool to catch up with work and let's say it is really no slop, because every single line is verified by that person to work as intended, but the worst of all is the reaction here and so I don't accept this project any longer, even if AI will be removed.

Anyway, I don't want to use any kind of unethical AI code, if slop or not does not matter. If the model is trained 100% open source (respecting licenses, all training sources public) and the usage is 100% transparent while we have enough green energy to waste some on huge LLMs, we can talk again about it. I'm not against LLMs in general, but it has to meet the minimum requirements for ethical usage and in additional has to be handled in a trustworthy way.

Right now we are years away and so I am looking for another "game-installer". Is there anything beside Heroic to look at? Would love to have something in Qt-style (as KDE applications).

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That are super bad news. I don't want to deal again with "has this game KLAC? Nobody speaks about, hmm let's test it. Oh noo, worst crash I ever had since WinXP times, thanks hidden KLAC, all my production work in background crashed, too". This happened 2025 on my Windows machine, before I finally fully migrated to Linux. And now this **** comes again ...

Really, just let games die that are shipped with KLAC - the publisher will remove it by themselves if nobody plays games with KLAC any longer. And since KLAC does not work fine on Windows and even worse on Linux (which becomes a major gaming platform over the next years) next step is AI webcam Anticheat or what? Discord already wants to play with AI webcam (age verification), AI slop companies as EA games will follow sooner or later.

There are enough multiplayer games (including competitive) without such anticheat. They deserve to be played.

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