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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I kept thinking it was weird this game wasn't in my Steam library, as I was sure I bought it. Turns out that was back when I was young and naive and still had faith in GOG. I think it's time to repurchase it on Steam and get actual customer support.
(for reference, the Steam Linux depot was updated along with the Windows and Mac depots; the GOG Linux version has indeed been ignored for about 7 years)

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Quoting: syylk

Quoting: Nic264What's dumb about translations and OCR?

Blind hatred for anything labeled with “AI” is as pointless as hatred for anything that uses linked lists.

...Until you are the one shopping for a pair of DIMMs.

Well, as Nic264 and grigi mentioned, we've had ML features for a long time and they don't affect RAM prices. Our cameras being able to roughly detect where a face is and auto-focus on that region, is the same tech as the on-device features Firefox now has, and has been for about a decade.
I agree, the real issue is that (apart from the chat "feature" - which I will never understand the purpose of) everything is now labeled "AI", despite being different from the "AI" crap that's wrecking both the environment and the economy right now.
That it's not related to actual "Artificial Intelligence" also makes it a terrible buzzword to use in general.

What we should be rallying against, is the rise of "AI" data centres, the sudden artificial scarcity and caste system of hardware, off-site handling of data, and training on stolen data.

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My 5950X is still running fine for now, so no, won't be upgrading. If it decides to fry a core, like my previous 5950X did (right after the warranty expired), than maybe, but hopefully that won't be for a while.

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I couldn't get past the first 6 minutes of that video, but I'll give credit where credit is due: I've never felt more in-tune with a protagonist in a video game; it was like I was right there. Bond was bored out of his mind, and so was I!

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