This is the best move to maintain quality on the platform. I gave up on mobile gaming probably about 5 years ago, because the full-screen 15 second ads were killing any enjoyment I could glean from the games themselves.

This is a superb move from Valve.

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There's a huge, enormous, gulf-like difference between "using AI tools to increase our employees productivity" and "using AI tools to replace creative individuals".

The first is inevitable. Railing against AI at this point is useless, because AI is already entrenched in so many products (thanks hype-machine!) that there's no getting away from it. That ship has sailed. No putting it back in the box. Investment, shareholder pressure and a general public who are happy to take shortcuts on their writing skills have "enabled" it. It's here. We need to deal with it.

The second is within our control as consumers. If GTA6 (or any other game) launches and they've used a single line of AI bullshit to replace a voice artist (because they're on strike... because... AI [External Link]) then it's up to us to yeet that shite right into the sea, where it belongs. Along with AI "art".

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I'll need to tear myself away from Diceomancer, which has my full attention at the moment... but goddam, I love a good deck-builder!

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What I take away from this is that EA game had a meaningful number of players using Linux. Indeed, much more than "meaningful" when you consider that many, such as me, didn't use cheats.

What's not known is whether those players went back to Windows when they blocked Linux. I doubt it, because the whole video reeks of desperation. In just 12 months, this game has dropped from a daily average player base of 450K to just 130K.

Still healthy, I guess. But dying. I guess the player base is also starting to resent all the £75 skins and £10 colour reskins. Finally.

EA are gonna EA tho. They won't change.

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Sounds interesting, but the trailer is absolute trash. Look at all those beautiful environments... that flash past at 3 environments per second. 1 min 23 secs of chaotic zooming, fading and overload.

I'll try the Steam page later. Maybe there's some actual gameplay there!

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I finally jumped on the Wayland train a few months ago. Apart from many windows not remembering their position between launches, it's been pretty nice. Great to unlock 120Hz on my 4K monitor - X11 would only give me the 60Hz option, so that alone is worth the jump.

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Was quite excited for this, to revisit some nostalgia with the likes of Crash, Zap, or Computer & Video Games. However, while they're indexed, they're not actually scanned. There's a lot that is, but nothing I actually recognise from when I was growing up. Maybe they'll be added over time.

Edit: just noticed this in their FAQ: "Our archive portal only includes items that have been processed and have a digital copy available to the public". But that's not my experience. If you go to the Crash [External Link] section, they clearly state that they all but one issue. But there's no links to any copy. And if you go directly to the Digital Archive [External Link] and search there, there's no hits for Crash when searched in "Title".

Eh, it's early access. I'm sure they'll work it all out.

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Tried this the other day and it was an absolute breeze to use. After all the pain I went through to get minor Skyrim mods working on Mod Manager 2, this is an incredible step forward. I can't wait for them to add Skyrim support though, so I can start my... fourth?... play through.

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This is really cool... but it looks pretty complex to build. Some of the "check you have this" in the build guide are things I don't even know how to check. I guess I'll have to wait until it's packaged. No doubt it'll hit AUR for Arch-based distros pretty quickly, but I might be waiting a while over here on Sid.

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Fixed an issue where dropdown menus would sometimes fail to appear.

I don't know about "drop-down" menus exactly, but I've had various occurrences where, after a long session, the top menus won't produce anything when clicked - such as when I want to do Steam/Exit. Luckily, I can still exit cleanly from the systray icon, but I wonder if this is the same bug.

If so, very welcome!

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