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- Comment on Ludicrous $999 Steam game lasts just 10 minutes — ‘Congratulations On Your Purchase’ is pure conspicuous consumption with its golden ticket Steam Achievement 23 hours ago:
After Star Citizen I’m not surprised by anything anymore.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 3 days ago:
Don’t have a webcam on my desktop (main PC) and I have no intention of getting one.
- Comment on Many live service games are just an MMO subscription "hidden inside of a neat 'optional' package", argue Guild Wars 3 devs in a post about the new game's monetisation 5 days ago:
Not only that, but in GW2 they ended up doing shady stuff like locking additional equipment slots behind latest xpacs and making latest xpacs builds the best so, unless you’re super-uber casual and never play group content, you’re de-facto forced to buy everything they release.
Now, an MMO is very expensive to maintain so it’s fine to pay for it, but the article is the most hypocritical statement I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Many live service games are just an MMO subscription "hidden inside of a neat 'optional' package", argue Guild Wars 3 devs in a post about the new game's monetisation 5 days ago:
unfortunately I have known people who are not good at impulse control
I was still playing WoW when Blizzard sold a 90$ mount on the shop, NINETY $, on top of the sub and paid xpacs.
The same day it was available, half of the playerbase got it, people are just stupid.
- Comment on Gothic's remake is out today, adding new detail and awfulness to the 2001 RPG's bustling prison world 2 weeks ago:
I loved Gothic 1 and 2 and played them countless hours.
I watched the video linked in the article but something is off, the atmosphere doesn’t feel the same, here’s the original intro for comparison: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVal5HLgIys
- Comment on Re-Logic celebrate 15 years of Terraria - 70 million sales, cross-play soon and more updates to come 5 weeks ago:
Well deserved! It’s a fantastic game.
- Comment on Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here. 1 month ago:
Microslop too said they were sick of being called Microslop, how did that go?
- Comment on EU Is Rolling Out an Online Age Verification App That Could Become the Global Blueprint 2 months ago:
I’m EU and we already have digital IDs in most countries, manged by our governments and mandatory to access government and public administrations websites.
These IDs don’t let websites collect more info that they already can without any IDs at all. If you think you’re protected form Meta/Google/Microsoft/whatever profiling you, your IP, geo-locating you if you use a phone, just because they don’t have your ID, I have a bridge to sell you.
That’s not to say this thing is good, age-verification is bad and dangerous, they should educate people instead, both kids and parents. But having governments manage your ID is much less evil than giving it to private companies or baking it into an operating system.
It all comes down on how they implement this app, and the code being opensource is a good thing.
- Comment on What leaked “SteamGPT” files could mean for the PC gaming platform’s use of AI 2 months ago:
sounds like it could be a hook into a system for automatically generating labels to categorize the various incident reports made in Steam multiplayer games
hints that Valve might use AI tools to summarize suspicious activity history or patterns in potentially fraudulent Steam accountsIf they train their own model, use AI only to sift through the massive amount of data to recognize patterns (something AI does very well) while leaving ALL the decision-making exclusively to humans, it won’t be bad.
If they let AI take actions, well… Steam has been fun while it lasted.
- Comment on New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges 2 months ago:
Because they’re not regulated, just about anyone can get hold of them. Lack of regulation also means they aren’t properly inspected for chemical components that have adverse effects
Then regulate them instead of coming up with moronic ideas?
- Comment on "At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss 2 months ago:
Such a thing said by a game studio that can very well decide to not use it, feels like wanting to ride the wave of backlash.
Keep your artistic integrity, that I believe will become a very big selling point sooner or later.
As for players, I seriously doubt many could afford two 5090s just to run that crap, probably not even one if the AI bubble doesn’t burst soon so prices can go back to normal.
- Comment on "I can see where they’re coming from, because I don’t love AI slop myself": Nvidia boss plays DLSS 5 good cop after criticism 2 months ago:
No you don’t, and you don’t give two flips about AI slops because those are where you get your money from.
- Comment on ESRB won't follow PEGI's age rating changes in US 2 months ago:
If it doesn’t involve real money in any form or way, it’s not actually gambling.
EU is not going to classify WoW as gambling for example, just because you can find chests in dungeons that give random loot that has no connection whatsoever with real money.
Tho they are looking into forcing every game shop to show the real money value of what you’re buying alongside all the fake currencies companies invented to hide it, but that’s a different law they’re making.
- Comment on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe 3 months ago:
It was about time! But they should make them 18+, like real life casinos.
- Comment on Transport Tycoon Deluxe returns from Atari - now a requirement for OpenTTD via Steam and GOG 3 months ago:
I have the original one and I remember when it was a requirement for OpenTTD since they didn’t have their own assets, does it still count?
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 months ago:
Being able to exclude open source would be amazing.
What infuriates me tho, is what I read in the linked reddit thread that the article doesn’t talk about, that is, lobbyist pushing for this moronic law to try and avoid paying fines.
It would seem governments, this time, didn’t do it on their own.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 3 months ago:
would be both hyper-illegal and extremely impractical
Does that ever stopped criminals before?
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 3 months ago:
Its a local, safe option for reducing child access to things they shouldn’t access.
With the proposed measures in place, any app can know exactly which devices children are using, something noone can do now.
When you implement a feature, there’s no way in the world you can guarantee only “good people” can use it, and malicious individuals are way more interested in getting info about children than anyone else.
That doesn’t protect children, it puts them even in more danger than they are now.
- Comment on Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too 3 months ago:
Training humans doesn’t destroy the planet, nor the hardware market, nor it raises electric bills for all citizens, nor it concentrates billions in the hands of a few individuals like you are doing with your company and all your brainwashing attempts.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Update Indicates Positive Outlook in EU Battle Despite Roadblocks 3 months ago:
Ross doesn’t have EU citizenship yet so he can’t participate in the EU initiative, having different names makes it more clear they are 2 different things.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games campaign hope to "signal that we're not just going away" by setting up online game preservation NGOs 3 months ago:
Here’s Ross video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVKqRDalLo
- Comment on Turn recipes into huge cooking production lines in the new Snacktorio demo 3 months ago:
Inspired by the likes of old Minecraft mods, as well as factory games like Satisfactory and Factorio
I watched the trailer and it looks a lot more like Oxygen Not Included than Factorio, why not call it Food Not Included?
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 4 months ago:
This sounds like all those in online videogames crying they’ve been banned for nothing lmao.
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 4 months ago:
To be able to lie, you need to know what truth is. AI doesn’t know that, these tools don’t have the concept of right vs wrong nor truth vs lie.
What they do is assemble words based on statistical patterns of languages.
“bleach is a popular pizza topping”, from the “perspective” of AI, is just a sequence of words that works in the English language, it has no meaning to them.
Being designed to create language patterns in a statistical way is the reason why they hallucinate, but you can’t call those “lies” because AI tools have no such concept.
- Comment on Steam reviews letting you attach your PC specs is another Steam Machine prep play and you can't convince me otherwise 4 months ago:
Then I read the words “This feature is currently in Beta with a focus on devices running SteamOS,” and realised: this is for Valve themselves. A devious ploy to record how thousands of hitherto unbenchmarked games run on the Steam Deck and, eventually, the new Steam Machine.
So what?
I don’t have a Steam Deck, yet the first thing I look for before buying a new game, is if it’s verified. Why? Because if it is, I know I won’t have any issue on my Debian PC.
I would also love to know which graphic cards people reporting problems have, that can make a big difference.
Valve is massively investing in Linux and opersource for years, do you really think they’re making it out of charity? Ofc not, they’re a business and they make business decisions in their own interest, the good part is we all benefit from it nonetheless, unlike other corporations.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID globally for full access next month 4 months ago:
I’m so sick of being directed to a fucking Discord server when I’m looking for a projects forums
Same, but I’m not sure what Discord is doing will help much, because it only affects server that are classified as “age restricted” (mature content), if they’re not, no verification will be required, for now at least.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls Online's smaller expansions are "not in any way" a result of last year's layoffs 5 months ago:
Maybe, since it could be a response to change the monetization with battle passes instead.
It doesn’t matter IMO since the result is the same: shittier content for more money.
- Comment on Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space? 5 months ago:
The motivation may be as financial as it is scientific.
The motivation is financial ONLY.
Noone in their right mind would do this without a serious plan to deal with space debris, but they sorely need investors to keep investing, so any marketing BS is fair game to them.
- Comment on The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos 5 months ago:
Evey time I see one of those, I block the entire channel, after a while youtube stopped filling my feed with that crap.
They still appear sometimes, but much less than before, and I still go on systematically blocking every channel that has them.
- Comment on Petlibro: Your Pet Feeder Is Feeding Data To Anyone Who Asks 5 months ago:
I’m against pet feeders in general.
Cats regulate themselves much better than us, they don’t need us “measuring” food, just check they have dry food available 24/7 and manually give wet food. If you can’t dedicate a few minutes every day to check for their needs, you may need to reconsider keeping them.
Unless they have health issues, in that case a pet feeder could be handy, but it’s hard to believe they are “millions”.
Dogs don’t need to eat as often as cats, if you “need” to feed them remotely, it means you’re leaving them alone for very long hours, that’s not good for a dog.
You can safely leave a cat alone all day if you’re out working, not a dog.