Ah, DRM. When paying customers get a (much) worse experience compared to the pirates because publishers treat those customers like criminals.

Capcom won't see a penny of my money.

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Quoting: SlayerTheChikken

Quoting: GerarderloperAMD/Intel RT performance being quite far behind NVIDIA, and probably still behind.

At least when looking at very heavy RT based games like many running UE5, or CP77.
I think the only reason AMD/Intel look ok in these games atm is because NVIDIA has that COLOSSAL 40-50% performance hit in MANY DX12 RT games. (probably still 3mnths until we see fixes be fully integrated)

Yes, the $1000 more hardware is 1000$ worth better at raytracing, ofcourse.

It's not quite that clear-cut, but it's not far off! It's awkward, because the top end AMD card, the RX9070, doesn't really have a direct equivalent Nvidia card - it's somewhere between a 5070ti and a 5080 (probably nearer the lower end), at least at 4K. I can pick up a RX9070 from scan.co.uk here in the UK for around £650 (which still, to me, feels like a crazy amount of money!). The 5070ti is around the £850. But the next jump up, the 5080 is about £1200, which is... unimaginable (to me).

And then there's the £2750 you'll spend on a 5090. I mean, I wouldn't, but that's scan's price for anyone with money (and electricity) to burn!

But the point is moot for me anyway, on two levels:
a) I'll never buy an Nvidia card again, unless they fully open-source their drivers and get them merged into the kernel.
b) Ray-tracing is utterly underwhelming in every video I've seen using it.

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"I find the moral indignation over what others do with their own hard earned money to be performative."

This is about indignation specifically targeted at how people (individuals or companies) spend their legitimately earned funds on choices that are legal, consensual, and don't directly victimize anyone.

Why would anyone be morally indignant about legal, consensual, no-victim spending??

It's entirely obvious to everyone but you that your statement implied otherwise. It's bizarre that you can't see that.

Time to move on here, I think.

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Hey, I'm old, and this looks great! Why all the negativity?? 😆

It does look very Monster Hunter, but that's a good thing in my book - not only can I only play the first one (the rest are encumbered by Denuvo), but the MH games are so slow-going and grindy. This is an opportunity to have that experience at a slightly better pace. Fingers crossed.

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This looks excellent. Brilliant idea. Feels like it has hints of Backpack Hero, too, slotting new cards/abilities into your toolkit for experimentation.

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Quoting: GustyGhost

Quoting: scaineDuckduckgo did a survey [External Link] asking their userbase if they wanted AI features. They closed the poll after a week or so, 175K votes counted, and 90% said no, they don't want AI.

Yes, it's very skewed - DDG's userbase is privacy-focused. But "tiny but super vocal butt-hurt minority" is a shitty and antagonistic way to describes people's perfectly valid dislike of this planet-burning technology.

Asking in good faith: If non-local AI features were able to operate in an ecologically viable way, would you then not dislike AI? Are there other aspects about ML/AI that keep you from engaging with it?

I've already answered the bulk of this here, so no point repeating it: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-tweak-steam-ai-disclosure-form-for-developers-to-clarify-its-for-content-consumed-by-players/?comment_id=288587.

To answer you more specifically, a few of those issues I outlined could definitely be addressed, yes. Will they? Probably not. I suspect the ship has sailed on most of them, such as plagiarism / non-attribution. We'll see.

Quoting: NociferAI is selling like hotcakes, so Mozilla have decided that they need to provide these cool new trendy AI features out of the box

I don't actually think that's the case. Which is why they're adding adverts to ChatGPT, for instance, and also see Satya Nadella's plea that more people need to use it. Perhaps it's selling better in the Enterprise/Corporate world, and maybe that will fuel the AI growth that Nadella is desperate for - but you should be going into any AI tool with eyes wide open here - this technology is front-loaded. It is NOT paying for itself, and so it will either become heavily subsided by adverts, or sustained by a significant monthly subscription.

And the advertising element gives me serious concerns. It's bad enough that I'm profiled by Google via email, calendar appointments or searches... imagine what insight ChatGPT would get if it had all my "private" conversations with a chatbot over years of use. Does ChatGPT have an incognito mode? Yes, it does. Do you trust it? I don't.

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Quoting: _wojteksadly tiny but super vocal butt-hurt minority

Duckduckgo did a survey [External Link] asking their userbase if they wanted AI features. They closed the poll after a week or so, 175K votes counted, and 90% said no, they don't want AI.

Yes, it's very skewed - DDG's userbase is privacy-focused. But "tiny but super vocal butt-hurt minority" is a shitty and antagonistic way to describes people's perfectly valid dislike of this planet-burning technology.

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Honestly not sure that's enough to get me playing again. I think at this point, I'd probably only drop back in for more varied PvE content - which would mean some actual variety in the enemies you face and more story missions to carry you along. Maybe that's what the new challenges are?

But I absolutely loved the shield-flying you do, and the vehicles. And the gunplay was great, it's just a shame there was only like about 4 enemies. And the base-building was satisfying. It was such a good 120 hours...

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Ah, I think you're right. That's a bit unfortunate then. Sounds like he's bitter about the situation and would refuse to relinquish his perceived part-onwership status to spite them. That's a shame.

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Bazzite is smart to remove people like this as they become giant resource drains in the end.

I disagree. It was well written and had examples of where friction was causing issues. But as Liam notes, looking from the outside in, it's impossible to say who's in the right. Just unfortunate drama.

Interesting not at the end where Antheas claims that Bazzite can now never be attached to hardware officially. Not sure I understood the why of that.

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