Loop Hero is discounted enough now that I’d have my money’s worth even if I never installed it, considering how much time I spent on the demo on Itch when it was still in development.

I picked that up and a non-Linux native game at 50%, a nice little point & click that should be a good late-night distraction during summer vacation.

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Quoting: KimyrielleWe will never be able to 100% eliminate hallucination, because that's not how the math works, but reducing it enough is sufficient. Humans hallucinate, too. The AI only needs to be as good as them, not perfect.

I'll do you one better: if my field is any indication, the AI doesn't need to be as good as humans, just faster. Then companies can pay a fraction of the humans a fraction of their former salary to review and "adjust as needed" and deliver more output in a fraction of the time. That's a lot of money at stake for the people not actually producing anything.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI believe that AI can help, people who can't write a code can use it, people who can't produce art can use it... But of course big companies will use it to reduce the employees numbers. Those developers should have a plan B, create a indie studio and start working on prototypes.

Better yet, make an AI consultancy startup ;)

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QuoteIf in a game scenario you bargain, AI can remember this the next time.

Holy shit, they just invented persistent game states! Now I understand why everyone is hype about AI. Sign me up!

As usual, the goal is not to replace people. It's just a side effect of efficiency.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: tuubi- Canada (excluding Quebec).

Every. Damn. Time.

What makes Quebec special? For me it sounds like saying Germany, but excluding Bavaria.

Stricter laws surrounding gambling and lotteries. The gist of it is that giveaways past a certain value need to be registered and approved, and many companies prefer not to bother and just exclude Quebec. It’s similar to how you sometimes see exclusions for both Quebec and California in some terms of use, because their laws don’t allow some of the typical bullshit clauses companies like to use (and are allowed to in the rest of the respective countries).

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Quoting: tuubi- Canada (excluding Quebec).

Every. Damn. Time.

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You might want to check your list, Liam, as neither Fera nor Enotria have a Linux demo as far as I can tell.

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Quoting: Dmitri SeletskiWaiting for Dead fire patch... I still have not completed it yet.

Wasn’t there one early this year?

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Gosh darn this is pretty. Very fun to discover the ways things clip and combine together. Seems like brilliant tech under the hood. Definitely leaves one wanting more variety in items and buildings in the demo, but this is one to keep an eye on for sure. Would be awesome if it's successful enough that they start making expansions with different types of environments and architectural styles!

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: Nic264

Quoteit does drop Banana Steam Items every so often and everyone then dumps them onto the Steam Marketplace hoping to make some extra cash, which you can then use to buy Steam games

So basically all the downsides of the modern usage of NFTs (speculation, dubious valuation, Ponzi scheme) without any of the upsides (decentralization, no vendor lock-in, potentially lower transaction fees).

That's where my mind went as well. Great way to waste electricity if people are leaving their computer on specifically to farm those items.

I'd say it has an upside that the NFTs don't, though, and it's fundamental: The game is free.

Same is true for nfts.
The methods to generate them are free to use(blender, real crypto wallets).
The objects(nft/Item) aren't.

But in this case, the people who create the nft-like things are not charging you for them. You get the game for free, you get the item drops for free. Then, yes, apparently you can become a profiteer because some suckers are willing to buy them for some reason. But the actual game-and-image creators are not scamming you, the game user and recipient of item drops.

You can buy some of them directly from the developer, actually, e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/2923300/detail/57/
Oddly enough, people are buying and selling this particular one at higher prices on the Marketplace, so it seems about as sensible as NFTs to me.

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