Game looks fantastic! :woot:

The original Platypus soundtrack is back with even more officially licensed remixes of classic 1980s game tunes from our friends at C64audio.

I was gonna say, that sounds an awful lot like C64 remixes I've heard on Slayradio over the years. Anyone remember which game tune that was?

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All this being said, I personally believe (or at least hope!) that the bubble will indeed burst - or maybe more accurately that the use for these technologies will plateau to a less speculative level which at least leaves some breathing room

It will for sure. The AI bubble (like a lot of bubbles) seems to mainly be targeted towards attracting investor money to pay of the previous round of investors.

As far as I know, there is no way to make these big generic LLMs and actually be profitable, they are just way too expensive to produce and run. (and the potential law cases)

AI will stay, as it should, but it will be focused towards actual useful stuff in specific areas. Like finding interesting patterns in the night sky, folding proteins, automated translation etc. And the big boys, who are not profitable, will run to the next bubble to continue their pyramid scheme.

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We see this all the time; "but my business idea would not work without <unethical-tool-of-the-day>, it would not be economically feasible!"

Can't make your game idea without a well trained AI and can't afford to source an ethical one? Maybe don't make that game then, make another one that you can afford to make.

Having the right to compete in a market does not mean having a right to finanical success in that market.

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@middle_pickup and we are happy to receive you. Welcome, welcome! :smile:

I would say 9/10 devs and projects understand that users don't always know what is an upstream (original developer) and downstream (packager) issue and don't blame you. Unfortunately there are a few projects which are very popular among a certain demographic (for instance us gamers) where the dev is technologically skilled but otherwise less than ideal. Duckstation dev is but one example. We have had others over the years as well.

Keep reporting those bugs and issues, even if the dev ends up pointing you in a different direction every bug report helps someone out there know that they aren't alone in their problem! :grin:

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I suppose in the UK, we have smaller banks offering credit cards, like Revolut, or Monzo. But they're small fish. At least you can definitely use Monzo on Steam.

Yeah, here in Sweden the issue is such that you only ever have the option between Visa or MasterCard, and really only Visa is universal enough to be able to presume it will work without checking. We are also mostly a cash-free society at this point (thank the stars) so you really don't have an option to go without Visa. :unsure:

But good job de-paypaling! I will be working on doing that over the coming months.

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@dpanther what is the difference with siduction compared to just running sid?

If only Debian stable came with optional backports of the Plasma desktop, then I would marry it and love it forever. :wub:

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@Cyril you are absolutely right, I completely overlooked that part of your post, my bad. DrMcCoy did indeed answer my question. Thank you McCoy!

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And a thing to keep in mind, both sides in an argument can be at fault at the same time for different reasons.

It is wrong for people to vehemently demand support from the developer for the AUR package (or any other downstream package) causing issues.

But his handling of this and the licensing last year, as well as the whole Swanstation-debacle, it's not exactly mature behaviour.

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So this is step one. Next step will be removing Linux support entirely, because I'm sick of the headaches and hacks for an operating system that only compromises 2% of the userbase, and I don't even use myself.

Since people seem to be spreading misinformation (yay), let's make some things clear:

Linux support is not being removed from DuckStation, I have no immediate plans to do that.,

Not sure how he got to play the "spreading misinformation (yay)"-card, when he was the one releasing the statement...

Speaking of, with regards to his fuming about "not allowing packaging", any license masters out there? From my reading of the license:

a. License grant.

1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License,
the Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free,
non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to
exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:

a. reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or
in part, for NonCommercial purposes only; and

b. produce and reproduce, but not Share, Adapted Material
for NonCommercial purposes only.

This should explicitly allow what an AUR package is, right? It isn't a derived work, it's just a non-commercial recipie for getting the material. Am I missing something?

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I believe they mean sales of games containing (themes of) rape, incest and child sexual abuse (i.e. "rape, incest and child sexual abuse game[s]" treated as one unit with several modifiers before the noun; "game sales" isn’t separate from the rest), but they certainly took some syntactic shortcuts saying it.

Oh absolutely, that's how they will defend it. But they took that shortcut deliberately to modify the emotional weight of the sentence. By hiding the "game sales" at the end there behind the emotionally heavy words it effectively ends up hidden in plain sight and the sentence takes on a whole different meaning, while giving plausible deniability to the writer.

It is unfortunately a common rhetorical tactic you see in politics all the time.

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