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Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.

That might be a strength in the long-run though, because if you're relying on security through obscurity, we all know how that ends. But if you implemented an open-source anti-cheat tool that was actually robust? That would be a huge win.

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Quoting: Xpanderflatpak :sick:

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users. :grin:

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

A fix for your appimage problem is appimage-launcher [External Link].

Thanks! But another fix is to avoid AppImages, haha! :grin:

I think we have a slight problem with a packaging format that needs an external app to manage the packaging format. I suppose the same could be said of Flatpak needing flatseal, but now that Plasma has integrated that into the Plasma settings, I'm definitely a flatpak guy these days. Not for Steam... but definitely for everything else that I can't install easily with my existing package management tool!

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Call of Thunder! CodThunder! Battlethunder!

If they get this right, I suspect it will swell the War Thunder numbers significantly!! We'll end up with videos like that @GnarSasquatch guy on Arma Reforger!

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Quoting: Xpanderflatpak :sick:

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users. :grin:

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

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It's hard to be upset at the Hyprland donations, I suppose, in the face of the all the good they're additionally doling out on a monthly basis. Still wish they'd drop Gnome for KDE though (and by extension, also drop Hyprland), as this feels like the direction of travel these days.

I might just be blinkered there though. I suspect Gnome still has a huge mindshare, probably as a combined result over decades of Ubuntu and Fedora.

Edit: Just read this forum post and no, I don't think it's hard to be upset about the Hyprland and Omarchy sponsorships at all now. JFC, Framework. WTF. Stop.

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/75 [External Link]

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Quoting: BoldosSo, if I understand it correctly: People/users do not like AI stuff in games? :huh:

Incredible, eh? Who'd have thought?? /sarcasm

Specifically though, it's genAI that's so hated. ML/AI has been around for decades without burning the planet, stealing jobs, pirating books, abusing copyright, talking kids into bad situations, or kick-starting a new nuclear era during a climate crisis. I could also point out the price of Nvidia GPUs, or 32Gb of RAM, I suppose, but I feel like it's already earned its derision by this point. Screwing up gaming/computing generally is just icing!

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Selfishly, I have Netflix (albeit debating keeping it much longer after I ditched Spotify a couple of months ago), and won't ever take Paramount, so hopefully this hostile bid fails completely. Also, as others have noted, this is backed by Jared Kushner apparently - Trump's step-son, with additional backing from the middle east.

According to the FT, Paramount are on the hook for only (!) $12bn, while $24bn is secured through several middle eastern sovereign wealth funds (who are still separately diversifying from oil through initiatives like PIF's investment in EA e-gaming), and the remainder is a debt through a combined commitment from the Bank of America, Citigroup, and Apollo.

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Terse is a better word, yeah. Caustic was too much, sorry.

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Quoting: cybolicTo make myself perfectly clear, I very much welcome discussion of the content of the game and its ban, and of course think you a free to interpret the original scene in any way you wish, but I cannot stand misinformation.

That's probably not going to be possible, because as I said, the FAQ was ret-conned somewhat. I believe the devs are "doing a Wolfire" and blaming Valve, perhaps not unreasonably, for their situation. But they're not helping their case either, beyond stirring up publicity by painting Valve as the big bad.

I don't really want to argue with you either - you're quite caustic when replying, so sure of your "facts" that I have no will to argue the semantics of "art" vs "sexual" vs whatever.

Like, you're still using the FAQ as the source of truth, but I've already pointed out that it's unreliable. Speaking of...

Quoting: cybolicDo you remember where this was posted?

Nope, sorry. I remember it only vaguely - I follow the IndieDev bot on Bluesky, so I noted the story briefly and moved on.

I think we could do with moving on from this one now.

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We've got a few folk reading the developer's FAQ and commenting about why folk are talking about a scene with a child riding a "horse" in the game - the FAQ has now removed any reference to this.

However, original reports of the issue, on social media, made by the developers, claimed that they submitted an early-release version of the game, in which a live-action sequence depicted a young child (about 10-12 years old) riding a "horse" (a naked woman wearing a horse-head). The developers only uploaded this version to create a game-page, but Valve used this version to block-list the game.

While the scene could be argued to not inherently be "sexual" itself, the developer believed that this was the reason for the block and so they attempted to resubmit, after re-filming the scene with a 20-year old version of the character. Valve refused to re-review. Sadly, the social media posts have been removed now, so evidence of this is difficult to source. Also, the developers have changed their story in the FAQ, making it even more difficult to pin down the "real" story.

Hopefully that clears up some of the confusion in previous comments.

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