Quoting: Dorrit

Quoting: HendrinMckaySupported by Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

I'd like governments and NGOs (a.k.a. governments in disguise) and whatever official institution out there would keep their filthy corrupted money out of gaming. And software in general. And everything.
But then, that's what corrupted money is there for

"The government's money is always corrupt when someone else gets them, but not when I get them."

Societies have always (and should continue to) fund culture and arts. It also massively funds research that makes our lives better but perhaps doesn't always pay well or has a one time cost as opposed to a way to impose a recurring cost.

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Quoting: Dorrit

Quoting: CloversheenGermany saw fit to support the development as well

Where did you get that?

As HendrinMckay mentioned it is on the steam page, but it is also in the trailer linked in the article if you check in the bottom right towards the end.

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An interesting idea, I hope they can reach their vision!

I like that you can't change the war. It is still terrible, being a soldier still sucks, but saving just one life or at least making that one life a little bit more bearable is a task worth doing.

Also the somewhat cartoony art style actually works for me here, the war becomes a backdrop not the focus.

Germany saw fit to support the development as well so that's cool!

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: CybolicI'm for the idea, but the language of "content [...] created with the help of AI tools" might cause issues.

A popular method of using (what's commonly called) AI is for sketching out ideas and getting rapid feedback on them. If for example, a writer puts in a page worth of text and asks the AI to give its feedback on, say, the themes or tone of the text

Really? People trust the feedback of those things? On stuff like themes? That's, um, the word that keeps coming to my head is "pathetic".

Out of curiosity, what would you consider a non-pathetic way to get feedback?

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Quoting: mattaraxiaThese things need to be embraced. They are the best Linux Desktop security improvements we've had in . . . well maybe ever.

I think we can agree they like to believe they are. But that mentality not seldom comes from devs that don't really get the full picture. (I'm looking at you FreeGnomeHat ). They have gotten so hooked on their own kool-aid that they tend to loose sight of if what they are doing is actually doing something.

As Kithop mentioned above, Wayland and xdg-desktop-portal really comes to mind, do note that pretty much all flatpaks you install have permission=all set for hardware devices. There is a system to filter permissions for hardware for sure, but no-one actually do because that breaks things. This has been the case going back years. You can have a lookie in Flatseal for instance to see the state of affairs, it can be a bit depressing...

And as Kithop also alluded to, this whole thing reminds me of UAC. Good in theory. In practice? Everyone clicked "Accept" so the thingie they want to run can do the thing. And suddenly you might as well not have it. Which is why they massively toned it down after its initial release back in Windows XP.

Now I do agree with you that it is a step in the right direction for certain things. I'm much happier running Steam through Flatpak than through native because then I don't have to deal with lib32 packages and all that. I know how to do it, and I know the pros and cons of doing it from my distro. But the Flatpak experience is pretty darn good for that particular use-case.

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Quoting: BrokattJust to illustrate how much of a disaster in leadership this is. Unity went from 4000 employees in 2020 to 7700 in 2022. That's almost doubling in size in two years.

That does sound though like the growth might have been unreasonable in the first place.

And do note that in the statement they don't talk about "long-term sustainability". It's "long-term profitable growth"...

*imagine a face being palmed pretty hard* *also a desk might be involved*

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Anzaif you get past the few baffling AAA wins

Not "baffling;" trolling.

They're Boaty McBoatface.

Aye.

I know some people think they are being hilarious or that they are "sticking it to the man" by troll voting like this.

But all they are really doing is throwing a massive insult to all the devs that do their best to release good games.

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Quoting: Brokatt

Quoting: blindcoderAbsolutely, Starfield has pretty much zero innovation. It's a decent game, but innovation is not part of it, at all.

This is probably why Starfield won. https://www.gamesradar.com/starfields-new-game-plus-narrative-is-bethesda-rpg-innovation-at-its-finest/

Ah yes, the innovative power of "New Game+"! Such trendsetters, such visionaries.

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God Jul to ya all! May your stockings be full of cookies and joy.

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Reminds me of good old Hexen or Heretic in the best possible way. I'm def gonna keep an eye on this one!

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