Quoting: Liam DaweI see their use of generative AI as vastly more ethical than most other uses. They hired and paid people for the voices used.

If voice actors are (knowingly) paid to train a text-to-speech generator, rather than say a specific set of lines, is that really so bad? If it happened prior to all this nonsensical "AI" hype, would anyone bat an eye?

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Quoting: discocatI'm very curious as to if that will make it into mesa 26 when that releases.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-UE5-Lumen-Merged [External Link]

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Quoting: Linux_RocksIf advergames are gonna exist at all, better that they be non-toxic like those vs bullshit like America's Army.

You refer to the one funded by the US Army, that once upon a time was paying icculus to port it?
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NDk0 [External Link]

Or something else? Just confused, since that wasn't a Flash game, but I suppose the comparison was for "advergames".

As for Dungeon Rampage - doesn't look like my cup of tea, but I love the background story!

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Quoting: ShabbyXI have this idea of making a game about fighting computer viruses

Sounds like XBill to me!

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Quoting: SeegrasYeahyeah, it also says you need Microsoft Windows to play this; nobody needs Microsoft Windows to play games anymore in 2026. 😆

Windows is the minimum; Linux with Proton is the upgrade. 😄

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Quoting: LoudTechieApple finally started nearly caring for gaming(Game porting toolkit). Also Valve has been sponsoring Apple gaming, since around the same moment they started sponsoring Linux gaming(MoltenVK), modifying open source is just easier.

Good points, I had forgotten about GPTK and MoltenVK. Both lackluster compared to what we get on Linux, but certainly positive steps. Seems like MoltenVK is on the way to being deprecated in favor of KosmicKrisp that is part of Mesa.

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Quoting: CatKillerIn case you'd like a graph

Thanks for making that, it illustrates two perhaps surprising points:

1) Steam Deck usage has stayed relatively flat - or more accurately, has scaled at the same rate as total Steam usage.

2) macOS usage declined for years, but in recent times it has scaled at nearly the same rate as desktop Linux. I wonder what factors are involved with that; I don't think Valve has done anything major on that front, and to my knowledge Apple hasn't done anything to improve things for gaming (they are actively hostile to it in some ways).

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Quoting: M@GOidthey fired a couple developers from the Linux team last year.

I'm not sure if "fired" is the right word, but they have definitely been bleeding talent:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-News-2025 [External Link]

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I guess following the actual curator for Denuvo Watch is done from here:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26095454/ [External Link]

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Westwood was one my favorite victims of EA. 😭

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