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Palworld: Feybreak major update launches December 23
16 December 2024 at 7:13 pm UTC Likes: 4

QuoteThe new mysterious island is the largest and harshest in Palworld's history. The island is about six times the size of Sakurajima, which was added in the last major update!
2027 Palworld update: "Yep, another new island added! This one is larger than the surface area of Earth."

4X RPG 'Heart of the Machine' from Arcen Games (AI War) releases January 2025
3 December 2024 at 8:28 pm UTC

It's on my wishlist from hearing about it before, as the idea sounds interesting. I'll give the demo a try and we'll see how it goes.

itch.io store now requires AI generated content disclosures for assets
23 November 2024 at 8:54 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: EikeHere you go: AI needs a childhood. And "parents". It needs to be told, maybe over years, what it is doing right and what it is doing wrong. This is done in parts already, but only by cheap click workers. Nobody wants to pay "real" AI parents.
Now I'm just imagining an angsty teenage AI yelling petulantly "You're not my real parents!" 🤣

Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White and Steam Deck Australia have launched
19 November 2024 at 8:04 pm UTC

Quoting: EikeNothing, ever, is cooler than black.
Personally, I think mine with the white skin I added and the black highlights from the buttons/sticks/bits-between-the-skin-showing-through is cooler than any mono-color scheme.

New Steam Beta has more Game Recording improvements and a Linux fix
13 November 2024 at 3:59 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: pbEach recording has its own directory with a lot of files in it, most of them .m4s.
mpv/vlc are capable of playing the first few seconds when pointed to session.mpd file (which doesn't work either in the case I described) but afaik the whole recording can only be played via Steam client (it can be exported, in whole or in part, to .mp4 from there). At least I haven't found another way to open these files. :-/
It's beyond my limited knowledge then, I'm afraid. I recorded a few seconds of video and I see the same general thing, but I don't know what scheme they're using to turn those raw files into an output video. Sorry.

Palworld dev details the patents Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are suing for
12 November 2024 at 8:02 pm UTC

Quoting: LoudTechieI don't expect Nintendo to behave much differently if they do or don't believe in Karma.
There's a hidden assumption underpinning this discussion, which is that "everyone, including Nintendo, see what they're doing as bad". "No one at Nintendo believes in karma" is externally indistinguishable from "Everyone at Nintendo firmly believes in karma (to the point where it strongly affects all their actions) AND they see what they're doing as morally good".

Quoting: Purple Library GuyTo me religion operating as literary source material does not imply practicing or believing in the religion.
A good example is the term "mana," which comes directly from indigenous Polynesian religions where it means a person's latent personal spiritual power. There are native practitioners today who sincerely believe in it, but I rather doubt that the innumerable games with "mana potions" and such imply all their developers are followers – most of them probably don't even know where it comes from. (Much like having an "avatar" doesn't imply a belief in Hinduism.)

New Steam Beta has more Game Recording improvements and a Linux fix
12 November 2024 at 7:13 pm UTC

Quoting: pbThe files are there but I have no idea how to open and manage them, they don't seem to be in a proper media format. Any suggestions?
I haven't tried Game Recording with Steam yet, so does it show you/can you find the location of the files on your system and try playing them with, say, VLC?

Valve announced the Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White
12 November 2024 at 7:09 pm UTC

QuoteLast year, we released a smoky translucent limited edition Steam Deck OLED as an experiment to find out if there was interest in alternative colorways (there was!).
Quelle suprise!

Steam gets new tools for game devs to offer players version switching in-game
8 November 2024 at 8:05 pm UTC Likes: 2

Ooh, that's a good idea. I don't know if it will drive more games to keep version around, but it'll certainly be useful for games that already do that.