It's still a one sided, retroactive change in a long-time business relationship and everyone involved lost. Developers may still struggle to pay these fees, gamers will loose access to games because there is incentive to drop out of this and Unity...

Well, there's hope the Godot ecosystem might profit.

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Quoting: devlandIf Wayland were a pie it would be filling up the house with a delicious aroma right now.
It still needs some more time in the owen but it's smelling good. :D

At least if you are not on Nvidia. My last wayland test on my old 980TI on 3 screens was not just rough, more like a fever dream gone crazy wrong.

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Quoting: CalinouThere's also the Phantom Edition [External Link], but it doesn't have native Linux support and source code isn't available. It apparently runs great in WINE though.

All these games replicating the PS1 era wipeouts are sadly not for me.
Somehow, wipeout hd/fury for PS3 has become my wipeout of choice. Is any of the available clones close to that gameplay feel?

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I wish to win since I wanted a city builder that works great on the deck since I preordered my deck.

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Have fond memories of Settlers 2, too. Wouldn't buy them unless I heared they played very well on deck. Can't see myself playing them at my desk ever again.

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Looks like I'll have to check it out. Also had the 109 issue and generally big issues with Pico4/ALVR, which was the reason for my first Windows installation since many many years. I'm still blown away by how amazing HL:A looks on my dated PC with a 980TI and can't wait for the Deckard :D

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe hype would be quite a bit smaller if they weren't calling it "artificial intelligence", which it really isn't.

That's right, now it's essentially a bunch of machine learning algorithms that they are calling "AI". They also call the behaviour of NPC's in video games "AI" (and that's a stretch of wordsmithing that has always made me laugh)

The AI paradox: Once it's solved, it's not AI any more. That always happens when people start to get used to computers doing things developed by AI research.

And about those thinking the *AI* lacks understanding and control: That's what the human providing the input and whatever is inside the model are providing - as a team, iteratively.
There are certainly people who master these tools in an artistic way. Postprocessing can also be a creative and artistic task - just like making a perfect photo of a mountain that was photographed a million times before.
How much creativity must go into a work to make it art? In my local art museum, there are pictures that are one-colored, two-colored or unpainted and slit with a knife. Beuys took a table, turned it around and put a piece of butter on top and now that's protected from overambitious cleaning personal for half a century while people discuss if that is art.
Also, real artists are drawing harry potters and yodas all the time and it depends on the work and opinion if this is derivative or not.
So, the problem is art-complete. If you want to decide weather ml-generated art is legit art, you could decide weather any work is art and there is no general solution to that problem.
That's why the debate is completely political and moral. I kind of like the everything generated is public domain idea, but if you ask me, that's not quite enough. If you ask me, the models should be force-published as public domain, too, unless every input has been licensed from the original creator, to ensure everyone can profit from this breakthrough humanity has worked on for decades.

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Quoting: EikeWow, this is hefty! :shock:

Linux 1.44% -0.03%
OSX 1.79% -0.60%

So it's 2.39 => 1.79 in a single month, and this cannot be due to China, or Linux would have seen a similar drop!

Well, the 2% increase of simplified chinese certainly had an impact, but look at the change of used Languages for Linux:

English 80.13% -4.35%
Simplified Chinese 3.84% +1.66%
German 3.32% +0.41%
Russian 2.93% +0.51%
French 1.71% +0.21%
Spanish - Spain 1.36% +0.21%
Spanish - Latin America 1.20% -0.02%
Portuguese-Brazil 0.94% -0.01%

I'm currently to lazy to do the maths, but this month is kind of odd. My impression is we would have seen a very similar dip to OSX if it wasn't for the Steam Deck.

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As I'm regularly at places with horrible internet, this might be very interesting. I'd probably use something like this like a very fast repository. Moving a game from this to internal SSD should be damn quick and after that process, I'd just remove it, so who cares about the fan?

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Lueur and the Dim Settlers crashed for me, otherwise quite nice and certainly different.

SteamWorld Build would have potential to be a really great RTS for Handhelds like the Deck - if they put some effort into it, like making it controller-friendly. Not sure if I like the layered approach.

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