Quoting: whizse

Quoting: Mountain ManI have never, in over two decades of using Linux, had a problem with updating a distro from a desktop terminal.

Not a GNOME user then? :tongue:

I've almost always used KDE. I used xfce for a bit at one point, and some other super minimalist desktop environment that I've forgotten the name of (it was so minimal that I had to do things like manually edit a text file to add items to its equivalent of the Start menu), but the majority of my Linux experience has been KDE.

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Quoting: Luke_Nukemsoooo.... folks are still updating distros live via a terminal in desktop and expecting things to be smooth every time?

Y'all should at least switch to a TTY to update, that way if you stomp the desktop your update will at least finish.

This, plus the need to restart various services is why an update-reboot (such as in fedora) is good.

I have never, in over two decades of using Linux, had a problem with updating a distro from a desktop terminal.

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Another smooth and easy update. Manjaro always just works.

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It of course doesn't supply the assets needed to play the game, you need to buy a copy of Majora's Mask yourself.

Right, "buy". ((nudge nudge wink wink))

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My first encounter with in-game advertising was SWAT 4 when a patch added advertising like movie posters on walls and images for real world products on televisions and computer monitors. It didn't seem like a big deal at first, until I realized that posters wouldn't show bullet holes, and monitors designated for ads were suddenly indestructible. I installed a mod that blocked the advertising server so I no longer saw the ads, but it couldn't restore full interactivity to the game world.

The fact that it made the game slightly less enjoyable really left a bad taste in my mouth.

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Half the video is watching a download progress bar. They could have thrown a dissolve in after a few seconds, and nobody would have been confused.

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This reminds me of a scene from the movie TRON:

Dr. Walter Gibbs: "Computers are just machines; they can't think."

Alan Bradley: "Some programs will be thinking soon."

Dr. Walter Gibbs: "Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking, and the people will stop!"

You have the one fellow from Paradox saying, "For myself at least 0% of in-game assets include any sort of AI."

Perhaps not directly, but he was no doubt influenced to some degree by ideas generated by the AI either by himself, or other members of the team.

The real problem for AI, I think, is that it doesn't create, it just iterates based on something that already exists, often without identifying the source, so it can easily lead to someone inadvertently copying other people's ideas without giving them due credit or compensation.

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Controller customization has become so complex, you almost need an instruction manual at this point to figure it all out.

One of the interesting tweaks is that Valve adjusted the CSS to "reduce feature leaks", I guess they're growing a little tired of certain people scraping it constantly to see what they're working on. I wonder if they have something specific coming up they don't want spoilt? What do you think?

Half-Life 3 confirmed! \o/

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A lot of industries, not just gaming, are still correcting after the China flu bump when people were forced to stay home for months and had government assistance money burning a hole in their pockets. Businesses ramped up production to meet the suddenly skyrocketing demand, and now that the good times are over, they have to trim the fat.

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A wholly predictable outcome, and ultimately a good one. The government should never get involved with telling businesses how to sell their products. Of course there should be protections against outright deceit and fraud, but as long as a company is upfront and honest about exactly what you're buying, then the government needs to stay out of it.

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