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AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor
26 Mar 2026 at 8:21 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: sonic2kkLiquid cooler recommended? No thanks.
May I ask why you don't like liquid coolers? My last two CPUs have both had liquid coolers, and they are straightforward to set up and work well.

Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people
25 Mar 2026 at 8:49 am UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: pb
Quoting: robvvMaybe now's the time for Epic to stop giving away free games each week?
"How to drop your market share from 1% to 0.1% in one simple step"
So they have a smaller market share than Linux, then? ;-)

Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people
24 Mar 2026 at 11:38 pm UTC Likes: 3

Maybe now's the time for Epic to stop giving away free games each week?

NVIDIA DLSS 5 has become the source of many memes as the backlash continues
19 Mar 2026 at 10:14 pm UTC

Yikes :-o I play games to get away from photo-realism!

Resident Evil 4 remake has the Enigma Protector DRM removed
3 Mar 2026 at 3:57 pm UTC Likes: 3

Good news, though - ironically - it was cracked about a month ago 😄

The "video game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down in March
28 Feb 2026 at 4:12 pm UTC Likes: 3

Rather sadly, I had never heard of this site :-(

UPDATE: I have now 'preserved' around 3Gb! Not a lot, but it's a start 😄

Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth arrives April 27, will run "great" on Steam Deck
20 Feb 2026 at 6:52 pm UTC

The 1977-82 stop-motion tv series (shown in the UK between 1983-85) scared the underwear off younger me :-) This one sounds less scary!

Unity CEO says an upcoming Beta will allow people to "prompt full casual games into existence"
18 Feb 2026 at 10:28 pm UTC

Quoting: discocatMy opinion is that I'm glad I use Godot, and Unity can go rot in hell :)

For me the fun of programming is to learn stuff, to think about how to do a thing, how to organize the code, how to solve problems. If a LLM is doing all of that for me and I just check what it generated, that's just a huge part of the fun taken from me.

That's even before considering hallucinations, errors and the ecological and economical impact.

I really can't wait for the overhype to die off and the levels of use of LLMs coming back down to actually reasonable and useful.
With regard to Godot and AI, have you seen this post [External Link] on BlueSky from Rémi Verschelde? Some quotes:

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers [...]

We find ourselves having to second guess every PR from new contributors, multiple times per day:

- The description is verbose LLM output, is the code written at least partially by a human?
- Does the "author" understand the code they're sending?
- Did they test it? Are the test results made up?
- Is this code wrong because it was written by AI, or is it an honest mistake from an inexperienced human contributor?
- What do you do when you ask a PR author if they used AI because you're suspicious, and they all reply "yes I used it to write the PR description because I'm bad with English"?
It seems to me that people using LLMs are causing trouble everywhere.

Dino Crisis 1 and 2 arrive on Steam but they need tweaks to run on Linux / SteamOS
13 Feb 2026 at 10:00 pm UTC Likes: 2

The Enigma DRM has been cracked several times recently. Hopefully it will be cracked again, and even legitimate users may be able to play the game!

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy remaster gets a big upgrade
4 Feb 2026 at 10:03 pm UTC Likes: 2

I played it several years ago on Steam. The only problem I had at the time was a mod which restored some content but didn't seem to be Linux-friendly (strange filenames). I'll have to check it out again 😀