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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So like the previous sequels Lost Coast, Episode 2, Episode 3, & Alyx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian want to release Divinity in "three to four years", and they're making limited use of generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, and construction workers hit nails with hammers before they had nail guns.

  Sometimes tools make doing the same things faster. Using AI to recolor a complex image based on a starting image instead of doing it by hand is just doing the same thing faster, like a lot of other tech that is used intentionally and not just vomiting something based on a few keywords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t have been surprised if it was only 10% due to the massive backlog available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian want to release Divinity in "three to four years", and they're making limited use of generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they being replaced or are the same staff using a new tool to do their work faster?

  The increase in staff for writing and scripting suggests using a tool instead of being replaced. Like how a nail gun can be used for the same nunber of employees to do more work faster or to reduce employee headcount depending on the circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian want to release Divinity in "three to four years", and they're making limited use of generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m torn on this one because they are using it as a tool similar to digital artwork in place of hand drawn animation, not as a replacement for people.

  In less positive news, Larian are reportedly making limited internal use of generative AI for tasks such as concept art development and internal presentations.

  In fact, they are hiring more people.

  For this, they’re enlisting a lot more writers and scripters - Larian currently employ 530 people across seven locations, including their recently founded Warsaw studio.

  The less salubrious side of all this is that Larian have apparently been “pushing hard on generative AI”, in Schreier’s phrase, using generative AI tools “to explore ideas, flesh out PowerPoint presentations, develop concept art and write placeholder text”.

  This is the one approach that I think AI is fine for, quick mock ups to explore an idea and then going back and doing it from scratch for real. Well, if they are using local models which the article doesn’t mention as if they are using one of the major slop promoters that would undermine the otherwise responsible approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, the install size was ridiculous and this will also increase the likelihood of other games who took a similar bloat approach for HDDs might double check their assumptions and possibly pare down their duplication as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You've convinced me! Instead og a general gaming community where people post about games on more then one platform we should have separate communities for the Sega Saturn, Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, Nintendo, SuperNintendo, GameBoy, GameboyColor, NintendoDS...

  Or maybe the name not being perfect is ok since it was started before other stem devices existed? Pretty sure the display name can be changed even if the community address doesn't.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it makes sense to expand the community to be steam devices as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spreading converstion to many different communities only makes sense if one community is oversaturated with content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So copilot failed at the most basic thing in windows, which is the entire point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It definitely looks like the publisher is going to run it into the ground, if it ever gets released.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They want to replace service jobs with AI too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's because it is a speak and apell pretending to be a hammer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel's Wolverine at long last gets a borderline uncomfortably bloody gameplay trailer, and a PS5 release window⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice!

  Look forward to the eventual PC release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, because it doesn't understand anything and just spits out what it finds. Maybe it ranks certain sites as more reliable, but retractions, and where something at in a process isn't taken into consideration.

  My very first attempt to use it for work was to ask about the current mill levy exemption and it returned a value from a proposed bill that died in committee in the last session. It also presented that failed bill and then two documents with the correct value so it not only found the right documents that would easily answer the query but presented the wrong one as fact in the text vomit so anyone who didn't look at the documents would assume the text response was accurate.

  It cited it's sources after all!