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- Comment on Linux and open source getting age checking exemptions could be problematic 6 days ago:
Braindead take.
- Comment on Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems 1 week ago:
Don’t let these clowns off the hook for rushing to put this into systemd and major distros.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
- Comment on Star Citizen crowdfunding reaches $1 billion, gaining the last $100 million in six months 1 week ago:
I thought they needed all of that funding to develop their next-gen engine? Don’t tell me they’ve been spending it on hookers and blow?
- Comment on What is the aim of all the AI investment? 2 weeks ago:
The enclosure of the commons. All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
- Comment on Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp 2 weeks ago:
Well my boss told me to work hard. 🍆
- Comment on Valve make adjustments to Steam tags, and they settled the Vampire Survivor-like argument with Bullet Heaven 2 weeks ago:
Bullet hell is where enormous amounts of bullets are fired at the player by relatively few enemies, requiring lots of memorisation and twitch reaction skill to avoid the fast and complex patterns that fill the screen. It is intentionally extremely challenging. eg. https://youtu.be/aosBBHSZE-A?si=-Wn-aMPPbFXtcKNr&t=802
Bullet heaven is where enormous amounts of enemies swarm a player who has ridiculous firepower to take out dozens of enemies at the same time, requiring little more than circle strafing and holding the fire button. It is intentionally casual, and the gameplay is about the RPG/roguelike upgrading aspect much more than the actual game mechanics. eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8TiJY3lXmQ
If you want a critical take of the difference between the two, and the direction of the games market from a shmup-fan’s perspective, I found this review by The Electric Underground really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSS_3iTIgA4 (it obviously predates this Steam label change, so there is some hand-wringing about what is being classified as bullet-hell).
- Comment on Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs 2 weeks ago:
Sandbox escape via prompt injection in 3… 2… 1…
- Comment on Ecco the Dolphin: Complete revealed, a mixture of remaster and brand new game spanning every Ecco game from 8 to 16-bit era 5 weeks ago:
They had better not put any kind of tutorial at the beginning. It’s not the true Ecco experience unless you have no idea what you’re doing.
- Comment on Sort out the Devil's mail in the spooky looking The Mailroom 1 month ago:
- Comment on The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close 1 month ago:
They can power it with that fusion reactor that we’ll surely have by then. 🦄
- Comment on Starcrafty strategy game Stormgate is about to lose its multiplayer modes, due to an AI company buying up Frost Giant's server provider 1 month ago:
This is what happens when you rely on a sole cloud provider for critical infrastructure. If you’re going to outsource infrastructure you have to at the very least diversify among multiple providers.
- Comment on Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption 1 month ago:
more hype and no practical results
- Comment on [TheGamer] AI Investor Is Surprised The Games Industry Hates Generative Tools 2 months ago:
This article is trash.
Baier-Lentz went as far as to say that developers are “demonizing” a “marvelous new technology,” speculating that a big reason people dislike AI is because they’re worried about their jobs,
They quote this “investor” and then just run with his theory that the distaste is about replacing peoples jobs without even challenging it. Maybe developers are eschewing AI because it’s garbotrash dogshit? I guess we will never know because the “journalist” who wrote this article didn’t bother to engage their brain for even a second before tapping their fat little fingers on their keyboard.
- Comment on HORSES wins the 2026 Nuovo Award despite the bans from Steam and Epic Games 2 months ago:
HORSES has proven to be a highly controversial title with both Epic Games and Steam banning its release. However GOG, Humble Store and itch.io have all decided to keep it.
“HORSES is a 3-hour first-person horror adventure set over fourteen days on a rural farm, where you work as a summer hand under a cryptic farmer and follow “a few rules” that unravel into increasingly surreal, unsettling tasks. As the sun sets and the facade of tranquility crumbles, you decide whether to keep to the safe path or venture into the farm’s hidden depths. The game blends interactive scenes with live-action intermissions, monochrome visuals, and silent-cinema title cards, with unique gameplay events each day. It’s a game about the burden of familial trauma and puritan values, the dynamics of totalitarian power, and the ethics of personal responsibility.”
I watched the trailer and this shit is fucked up. Not surprised it was banned, but on reflection I’m not sure what my line in the sand would be to determine what counts as obscene, so I’m also not surprised that stores were split on the decision.
- Comment on Discord is about to require age verification for everyone 3 months ago:
- Comment on "This has been heartbreaking" - laid-off Ashes Of Creation devs won't get final paychecks and compensation, says former comms head 3 months ago:
Uh that’s illegal.
- Comment on Yes, Paradox are aware that a “barrage of DLCs” can scare away new players, for all their bundles and discounts 3 months ago:
I bought the Stellaris “Starter Pack” when it was on sale for 9 EUR. It comes with 4 of the DLCs (out of 32 total).
I had great fun playing that game for over 200 hours, and didn’t once feel like I was missing out by not buying more of the DLC.
It’s a great game even if you just play the base game.
- Comment on The simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4.1 is out now 4 months ago:
- Comment on Macron says France to fast-track social media ban for kids under 15 4 months ago:
France actually has a national digital ID scheme that provides single sign-on for government services, so let’s see if they integrate with the existing technology or just leave sites to fill in the blanks with dodgy third-party age-verification like every other country that has tried this.
- Comment on Larian will no longer use GenAI for Divinity concept art, and any genAI used for other games will be "trained on data we own" 4 months ago:
CEO needs to step down.
- Comment on DeepSeek $1.6B GPU Gamble: The End of Sovereign AI 4 months ago:
This article is absolute nonsense. It conflates training with inference. The premise of the opening paragraph is contradicted throughout the rest of the article. It was written by someone who has no idea what they’re talking about.
Blatant slop.
- Comment on Deepfakes Leveled up in 2025—Here’s What’s Coming Next 5 months ago:
An article like this without copious examples is just worthless. They link a news report that has a few cherry-picked clips and an interview with a professor that contains no examples.
Show, don’t tell.
- Comment on Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail.com address 5 months ago:
Why not just sign up a new account and forward it to your main account like a normal person?
- Comment on EVE Online players destroyed 1,142,260,784,813,930 ISK worth of ships in 2025, which according to my caveman-level maths amounts to over $6 million lost to the void 5 months ago:
Is this game a casino?
- Comment on China's new nation-spanning network eclipses 100 Gbps transferring 72 terabytes across 1,000km — experimental research network designed to connect thousands of virtualized networks across the country 5 months ago:
In that trial, researchers moved 72 terabytes of data to Hubei province in about 1.6 hours across a route of roughly 1,000 kilometers. Based on the published figures, that roughly works out to a throughput close to 100 Gbps
That’s exactly 100Gbps, not “roughly … close to.” The fact that the figures work out exactly like this is probably because one of those original figures was already calculated from an estimate of the link speed but the author of this article didn’t realise it.
It’s hardly news-worthy though, since the current data transfer speed record is held by Japan who achieved 1.02 Pbps over 1800km in April this year. That’s 10,000 times faster.
- Comment on Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use, asserting "a lot has become lost in translation" 5 months ago:
“a lot has become lost in translation”
This is just a different way of saying “our recent statement caused confusion.” Do you think we are confused, Larian?
It’s not about how you use gen-AI, it’s about the fact that you even think it’s appropriate to use it at all in a creative industry.
- Comment on Larian want to release Divinity in "three to four years", and they're making limited use of generative AI 5 months ago:
“Concept Artist” is a job description and replacing them with gen-AI is not okay.
- Comment on The Tor Project is Making a Switch to Rust, Ditches C 5 months ago:
Misleading headline. The Rust implementation is still in development and not fully featured, nor is it recommended for mission critical use. And that says nothing about the Tor Browser itself which will probably be C++ based for a long time yet.
“Ditches C” is clickbait editorializing.
- Comment on The Game Awards reportedly charges over $1 million for a three-minute trailer, while just a minute can run up nearly half of that 5 months ago:
Which of the games they’ve shown trailers for in the past have been fronts for criminal enterprises then?
- Comment on Big Tech joins the race to build the world’s heaviest airplane 5 months ago:
Great article, and in case anyone doesn’t read it to the end, the last paragraph is the most important IMO:
For tech workers who currently don’t have a pee bottle or a suicide net at their job-site, it’s long past time to get over this founder-in-waiting bullshit and get organized. Recognize that you’re a worker, and that workers’ only real source of power isn’t ephemeral scarcity, it’s durable solidarity: