With the amount of times I've put off a desktop gaming session because I couldn't remember how my DualSense differed from the Steam Deck controls, or because of the awkward way it handles gyro aiming (or how on earth that touchpad thing is supposed to work), the Steam Controller (2) is going right in the basket next week!
A shame they didn't keep the dual-stage triggers from the original Steam Controller, but at least it'll be a consistent experience from Deck to Desktop!

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"HINO" reminds me quite a bit of "Neverending Nightmares" - a good thing - and "KILLA" just looks lovely in general; good start!

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Quoting: dpanterWhy. 🤮

I think the idea is fine: stop giving your data to "AI" companies that keep promising magical capabilities with no real-world data to back it up, and host it yourself.
However, when "AI" is self-hosted, I think the generally negative cost-to-benefit ratio of the whole thing becomes even more apparent, and there's no social media pressure to "just use this model instead, bro, I swear it's better, pinky-promise you're missing out / falling behind / won't get to hang with the cool kids".

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I mean... yeah, this is probably how this madness should have started a couple of years ago, instead of dumping everything into 3rd party "AI" companies, it should have been on-premise and openly developed, but I also think this is too little, too late now.
This won't have a marketing hype machine behind it - which is largely what's still driving the bubble - so I don't know how far this will get.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

seek revenge against your own body after it betrayed you.

What.

You know, a bit like getting a gym membership.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eocene84They might get a c&d for having Alien in the title. But I'm defintely interested.

Alien is a word, I don't think anyone can claim it as intellectual property. There might be specific cases where it could be trademarked, but it's like with Apple--they can sue you for calling a computer an apple, but they can't sue you for calling an apple an apple. In this case, the game is calling an alien an alien. I don't think that's actionable.

Because the product looks similar enough that Disney could argue it could confuse consumers. I'm not saying I want that to happen. Just saying I wouldn't be surprised if they had to change the name.

Since the "Alien Breed" series of games has been left alone all these years - while featuring both obvious Xenomorph rip-offs and "Alien" in the name - I think they're pretty safe. I also don't think this specific alien looks much like the Xenomorph at all.
Other games that would hinder any legal action: "R-Type" (Xenomorph rip-off), "Alien Syndrome" (Xenomorph and Colonial Marines rip-offs), "Ninja Gaiden" (Xenomorph rip-off), "TMNT IV: Turtles in Time" (Xenomorph rip-off - also featured in the comics), "Alien Rampage" (Predator similarity), "Contra" (both Xenomorphs and facehuggers are "homage'd" here), and "Alien Storm" (less Giger inspiration, but the name's similar to this new game).
So, with a lack of visual similarity, a bunch of Xeno-rip-offs in games already, and with the abundances of games already on Steam with a name that starts with "Alien", I don't think they have much to worry about 😁
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

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Quoting: mrdeathjr​This wine version use more space than 11.4, 11.5 once stay compiled use 4.1gb (around 32400 files) meanwhile 11.4 use 3.5gb (around 30100 files) in my case

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Lovely choice of game! I wouldn't mind a Nightdive treatment of Clive Barker's Undying, I'm sure there's some nice archive material that could be included.

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Quoting: Mountain ManAnd it's gotten rather extreme. There was one instance where a woman who texted a friend and called the man who raped her a dog received a harsher punishment than her rapist.

Well, obviously, nobody wants that. Would you link a source to read it up?

I tried to find it as well, and the only thing that seems similar, is the German case of "Maja R.", who sent WhatsApp messages to a rapist from a widely publicised case. She did not know the rapist, the message contains insinuations of harm, and she "was sentenced to a weekend in jail after her comments because she had a previous conviction for theft and had not attending [sic] the court hearing for the case." - Source [External Link].
If that's the actual source, then:
A) Yes, those laws have been rightly criticised.
B) That's a heavily manipulated version of events, seemingly given to back up a growing sentiment I'm seeing of trying to paint the EU as some kind of censorship hellscape, which is pretty far from the truth.

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Oh no... this is really going to delay the release of AmigaOS 3.3!

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: hardpenguinIf you are not hating on AI yet, you have a good reason to start now.

I don't hate "AI" as a tech. Machine learning/neural networks have had very good applications for decades since it is very effective in certain tasks. What I hate is the LLM/GenAI fueled hype machine that is created as a smokescreen over unrealistic promises of future potential. An attempt to try to bind as many people as they can before the house of cards collapses. Luckily this hard push is causing serious quality issues, which at least turns a significant portion of the public against it even beyond those wanting a new GPU or extra RAM.

Oh, you can definitely wholesale hate "AI" as a tech, as it doesn't exist. "AI" is a buzzword that means nothing concrete. If something is selling itself on "AI", there's a good chance it's smoke and mirrors. As you touched on, the actual technologies are called Machine Learning and Large Language Models (one could argue that "GenAI" could be a term for a category, but I'd still rather call them generative models, to not confuse things with the nonsense that is "AI").

In other words:
"The program uses ML to categorize your photo gallery locally" = fine, that makes sense.
"Our advanced AI handles all your photo needs" = marketing bullshit which may or may not include sending your private data off to a hastily built data centre that's likely not following environmental safety laws or guidelines.

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