This isn't of interest to me, so I can't say for sure, but I can't think of many other big-name vendors that would do this. I mean, I expect they'll already have given this to skin-creator vendors like dbrand, but making the schematic public, directly? That's pretty cool.

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Quoting: scaineWild that scalping is a thing, when Valve could have restricted (initial) purchases to only accounts over, say, level 10. Or restricted buying more than one unit to only accounts over level 10. This should be a reasonably easy problem to solve.

And maybe they did, and these aren't scalper accounts re-selling, just opportunistic steam players.

I'm lucky that I don't get FOMO over this stuff. Yes, I want a controller. No, I'm not buying through anyone but Valve. The scalping industry is so predatory.

Sadly, this would not have helped. There are tons of old steam accounts listed for sale that botters and scalpers can buy and do use for stuff like this already.

Pretty sure it would have helped, and along with a cap limit of two units per account and the scalpers jobs just became much harder and profit margins much lower.

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2026 is turning into the year of the deck builders, let alone Linux desktop. I'm really, really looking forward to this one. And after that earlier Rogue Voltage article, I ended up spending another 10 hours playing that too! And then there's Slay the Spire 2. Love it.

But this one is an insta-buy. At least I don't have long to wait now.

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Wild that scalping is a thing, when Valve could have restricted (initial) purchases to only accounts over, say, level 10. Or restricted buying more than one unit to only accounts over level 10. This should be a reasonably easy problem to solve.

And maybe they did, and these aren't scalper accounts re-selling, just opportunistic steam players.

I'm lucky that I don't get FOMO over this stuff. Yes, I want a controller. No, I'm not buying through anyone but Valve. The scalping industry is so predatory.

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once again punishes legitimate players

Right on the nose. This is why I detest Denuvo. It's not about performance hits, it's just that it treats the customer like a criminal.

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Quoting: KimyrielleTheir first post was clear enough - local, optional and easy to shut off. The sad part is really where they thought their second post would stop the rage coming from the same people who already didn't read the first. It only takes "AI" somewhere in the first line to make these people go reach for the pitchforks. Objectivity and reason has left this discussion a while ago.

I don't know which post you're referring to, but the original post by Seager on Apr 27 was NOT clear in any of the ways you mention. That post doesn't say anything about only having local models - it says future integration will have a "local bias". It doesn't mention opt-in or opt-out at all, only saying that in future we'll see AI features land in Ubuntu as snaps. It doesn't talk about "easy to shut off" or even that this is optional, only that they're snaps, which might infer as much.

It's no wonder to me that this manic backtracking is required. As I said before, it's wild that Canonical think this timing, so soon after Microsoft's own desperate u-turns on Copilot, makes ANY sense.

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I last played this nearly two years ago! 8 hours I put into it in that early stage. It had some potential, but the confusing turn-order manipulations, and slightly clunky UI (like you could only drag connections from one side, I think?) made it a little underwhelming.

Looking forward to giving it another shot!

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Looks absolutely wild. Another wishlist! ANOTHER!

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I definitely see that board rooms are genuinely enthusiastic about genAI and want to see it adopted everywhere, usually for "efficiency gains" (and I'll put aside for another discussion that this almost always means, but is never explicit said, "firing staff").

So there's a massive disconnect between these higher-management decision-makers, and the people who actually use the product that the decision-makers influence. Even the slightest awareness from these board execs would have prevented the need for Seager's hurried clarifications. He genuinely must have thought - "whoa boy, people are gonna LOVE this!" and out comes the press release.

Then, suddenly, bafflement from Seager/Canoncial, and damage control.

I'd say it's embarrassing, but that makes it sound like a little "whoopsadasie, sorry about that". Instead, this is deeply disrespectful. They're making decisions about a well-loved project, but without any awareness of a) the people that use it, or b) the complete shitstorm that MS went through just a handful of months ago by doing a very, very similar thing (yeah, yeah, it's local models, blah blah).

And I know this... that they have no awareness... because otherwise these simple clarifications wouldn't have been necessary at all - they'd have been explicitly mentioned in the initial release.

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Looks fine as a kind of grown up Roblox, but...

Publish to Steam: Coming soon... take your game standalone on Steam, royalty-free.

Urgh. Like finding quality on Steam isn't hard enough. Christ.

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