That Win95 interface is killing me. Otherwise, looks really interesting!

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£45... but they look epic... but they're plastic... but ROCK AND STONE... but it's kickstarter...

Argh! I'm torn!

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It's a series of games I never got into, sadly. They have such a loyal fanbase, must be doing something right. I think it was MGS5 that I tried to play, but spent like 40 minutes watching cutscenes in a plane on the way to the first mission. I just remember thinking that I'd have been better off watching a movie instead.

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I gave Everwarder a shot after you covered it last week, Liam. Very slick, but more than a few problems and I've already stopped playing.

This looks excellent. The difficulty scaling comment above has me slightly antsy, but I think I'll give it a shot anyway. I haven't played a good TD forever. The hunger is real!

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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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