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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: GuestDoesn't really need to be brought up to "current standards" whatever that means, ...

That's what I was thinking. They could do a completely new take on the game, like a fully 3d game instead of a 2.5D one, but I wouldn't class that as a remake.

Wouldn't that be exactly remake? That wouldn't be remaster, which they said it won't be.

only as much as Two Point Hospital is a remake of Theme Hospital (or even less so, depending on what they call "reimagine")

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So the mechanic in PvE is that even if you only want to play solo you HAVE to play again every X time you your progress is wiped out.

So basically what I already said.

X time is long, but I have savegames in Steam that are a a couple years old and I went back to play them, so "a week" is not the same as "never" looses progress while not playing, which is what would happen if degradation only happened while actually playing.

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Wait, what? Base degradation happens when a player is NOT playing, not DURING gameplay?!

LOL, added this game to the "nope" list.

Does it let you ask your facebook friends for extra energy bars too?

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so it's simple to move from prototype to finished product

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so it's simple to move from catchphrase to early prototype

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natural blond hair turned into dark hair with blonde dye but showing darker roots

reduced forehead so she looks more hairy than baldy

a hint of sadness/loneliness in her look turned to an obstinate stare

natural lips turned to lip gloss makeup

neck and fingers turned more muscular

everything else in the scene looks more blurry instead of sharper (i guess someone used too many bokeh photos in the training set?!)

and my all-time favourite: the rain drainage grill at her left looks like it turned into one of those rubber elevator carpets that look like a lego plate

yeah, it really captured the essence of this scene... blondie in a red leather jacket

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Quoting: CaldathrasThe trademark is not held by the open source project but by the individuals contributing to it? How strange.

AFAIK it's common practice to register a trademark in order to protect an opensource project from being misused and misrepresented... Anyone can copy the code, but you still get to decide if they can call it the same name as the original project or if they'll have to publish under a different name and logo to avoid unpleasant/undue associations (see Kodi vs piracy-automation plugins and forks... and consider this is also a legal line of defense against hackers trying to clone your project and publish it with backdoors under the same name).

To that effect, the trademark may be held by a legal person (be it a private company, org, etc), but this is more work and small projects may not bother at first, registering it personally, then transfering it to the legal person later.

Trivia: "Linux" is still held exclusively by Linus Torvalds, and Linux Foundation is just a licensee that manages sublicensing to other users of that trademark
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/the-linux-mark [External Link]

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Quoting: CaldathrasI don't understand. This is an open source project. At the risk of seeming naive, how can any one individual claim "part ownership"? Doesn't that kind of go against the whole concept of open source development?

I also fail to understand how that could prevent the current Bazzite team from working with GPD if they so choose.

IIRC the code is opensource, but "Bazzite" is a trademark and he is part-owner of that trademark.

Meaning current Bazzite devs can't authorize GPD or any other hardware manufacturer to use "Bazzite" (name and logo) to advertise it is supported, even if it is supported, unless the distro bites the bullet and rebrands, which will make it a bit harder for new users to find it for a while, require a new logo, new website domain, etc

So it's not impossible for them to work around this restriction, just a PITA.

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so, about the new version... what exactly is gonna be new about it, other than being new and incompatible with the old one?

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47

Display I imagine is the only one that would actually be relaxed, since we're talking about all sorts of resolutions since the Steam Machine is just a mini PC with SteamOS Linux on it. Input, Seamlessness and System Support cannot be relaxed in any way or the whole system would be a bit pointless.

Why?

The Steam Machine is a desktop computer. Why does it need full controller support? Why does it require an on-screen keyboard? Why do launchers need to be navigable with a controller?

Those make sense for Steam Deck because it's a handheld console with a built-in controller, and is not expected to be used with a mouse or keyboard. But for an ordinary desktop computer, which the Steam Machine is, all those conditions can be dropped.

Putting it plainly, you can plug a PC to a TV since forever, and all PC games are playable on a typical PC setup (monitor+kbd+mouse on a desk)... but a TV usually means a couch or bed instead of a desk and kbd+mouse doesn't really work on a couch or bed.

If the Steam Machine is meant to compete with consoles, then it's essential that Valve pressures for controller support in its games catalog to improve.

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1. this is looking a lot like an exponential growth not a linear growth trend that was slow before the Deck then faster after the Deck

2. the percentage of linux machines with Deck-exclusive GPUs is now smaller (iirc it reached ~50% for a while) so linux growth is now driven by actual linux distros installed on PCs, laptops, etc, not a niche console that happens to have linux in it but you might never realize it, if seen as just a console

3. the Desktop/Laptop market is pretty saturated, definitely slowed growth and maaaaybe shrunk a little but is not as likely to shrink to oblivion as to contract and stagnate... also mobile games aren't as convergent to Steam games as console games are, so the risk of people giving up on Steam in favour of Google Play Games is pretty slim and wouldn't happen quietly and overnight... heck, even if Android for Desktops appears and Google Play starts selling games that work both on Android mobiles, Android TV and Android PCs, it would need *a lot* of muscle to move every conceivable game and PC gamers into its ecossystem

4. meanwhile Valve gave gamers plenty of reasons to move from consoles to Steam (and keeps giving more)

5. eyes peeled for signs of Valve's total userbase growth, which traditionally is very high (and might have slowed a bit but still be growing)

6. Windows users with old hardware being locked out of Win11 while Win10 goes EOL would maybe push people into upgrading hardware, but those same prohibitive RAM prices might make them more prone to try linux for free on their current hardware

7. there is just way more talk about linux now, that even aloof gamers have a fair chance of hearing about linux from their non-linux-niche gaming streamers

8. there is now comparable (or better overall) polish in the linux side (including for games) so first contact might bring people in more than scare them away

9. Valve is banging the drums of shiny new VR + Console that's actually PC + Controller and at its heart the new team is all based on SteamOS

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