How does this work for servers. Or IOT devices. Or multi-account devices. Or offline devices. Or or or...

Yet another brain dead government proposal from people without a single clue how tech works.

"Think of the children" is simply a dog whistle for "give up your privacy".

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Quoting: RubyRose136Not specifically related to this article, but this may be a concern for you: Luanti is now being coded with AI [External Link] and its ContentDB allows AI-generated content [External Link] as well.

As much as I despise genAI, this kind of commit is how it should be used - security checking existing, well-written code for best practise

And tools like this existed for years before the 2022 genAI "boom", it was simply that the masses couldn't afford them, because they were Enterprise-level CI/CD DevOps tools.

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Good to hear all the options they've added for base preservation. But then, none of these band-aids would be required if there was no degradation in the first place.

I get why degradation was useful in this case - it's a shared server, and you build a geographically quite large base over the landscape, so if you're not ever coming back to play the game, it's a pain for the people who are. Hell, on the server I was on, there was one base that was so large, it cut off two fairly vital routes to/from the third area (I forget its name), forcing you to do a run over the worm-sands to get in. They knew what they were doing with that too - total dick move, and a perfect reminder of why I generally can't stand playing any kind of game with the wider internet (get offa ma lawn!).

But in self-hosted instances, they'd better offer the option to simply remove degradation, because it's pointless in a self-hosted instance.

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I despise cloud gaming, but I can see that I'm doing my hating from a position of privilege - I have a reasonably beefy PC to play demanding games on. How many people have bought demanding games to play on Luna because they don't have that privilege? And now they're out of pocket and out of luck.

I suppose they'll have to consider Geforce Now? At least while that's still around.

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This is great news and I might convince my online posse to actually play this now. The base degradation was incredibly frustrating, and if we can turn that off on self-hosted instances, then that's a huge win.

And finally acknowledging that PvE players have literally zero interest in PvP - another huge win.

Albion Online has the same problem. To be fair, a lot of MMO-style games try to blend these two genres in the hope of reaching a wider audience, without understanding that all it does is frustrate and turn away the PvE players.

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Amazed to say that I only own one game from this bundle! I recommend it too - Planet of Lana. If you loved Planet Alpha, Inside, or Limbo, then this is probably the best of all those types of games, and the sequel just landed recently too!

I think I'll pick this bundle up for Artisan TD, which looks excellent, and Until Then, because despite not loving Visual Novels, the reviews are incredible.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI guess the patent office isn't allowed to just say "No, this is stupid!"

They kind of are? Besides prior art, they can also reject it for being "obvious".

They can also, you know, not grant the patent. Because it's obvious. But they don't do they. They hand them out like sweeties, and then monsters like Nintendo or Apple are born.

Here's Apple's patent for a rectangle with rounded corners. Seriously.

https://patents.google.com/patent/USD670286 [External Link]

Or as Apple describe it:

The ornamental design for a portable display device, as shown and described.

Incredibly frustrating.

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The anti-DRM stance here resonates with me, since I have strong views on Denuvo. But I think we can take it too far as well. I do buy games that have had Denuvo removed, for example.

The view that you wouldn't buy Doom Eternal because you wanted the DLC - that's fine. But the view that you're now disappointed in GOG for releasing the game, but without DLC... that feels like an odd position. GOG are giving you an option to buy a game you didn't have the option of playing. No, it's not ALL the game, but it's still a game.

Perhaps the DLC was simply out of their hands - a literal deal breaker, and this compromise at least gives anti-DRM folk the option to play at last.

What does really get my goat though is that as a Linux-only gamer, I literally can't access this DLC, since I can't run Galaxy. I may as well just buy it on Steam.

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Agree with Dpanter's comment, but that said, you can pay as little as £9 and still get all six games, so if you have a cohort of in-real-life pals that you can use to play these titles, it's still a steal. But if you're expecting lobbies to fill your team out as you play... buyer beware.

Also, there are probably better co-op games generally - Dpanter's favourite is Deep Rock Galactic (hmmm, or is it Dying Light??) while my tastes are more geared towards traditional roguelites: Deadzone Rogue, Abyssus, Gunfire Reborn, and Jump Space, for example.

Or there's Orcs Must Die: Deathtrap, Remnant 2, Returnal, or Warhammer 40K: Darktide. Or if you fancy some top-down action RPGs, there Ravenswatch, Shape of Dreams, Emberknights, or of course Path of Exile 1/2.

Can't believe it's nearly three years since I wrote this - I need to do an update!
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/festive-co-op-games/

Or, you know, there's always Helldivers 2.

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production quality code

Time will tell.

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