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- Comment on Reported lead of Obsidian's new Fallout game wants you to feel a "sense of agony" when playing an RPG, rather than being an all-powerful god-splatterer 1 week ago:
Spoiler tag please.
- Comment on Valve aren't putting any exclusives on the Steam Machine because they see "the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'" 2 weeks ago:
Half Life: Linux
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 2 weeks ago:
I think it has a lot of potential outside of those two things, but the problem as with all modern technology is that the companies making it always do so in the most abusive, hostile way possible so everyone rejects it immediately as another Big Tech trap.
Think about how useful AR could have been for all manner of different tasks and professions, and what we have instead is pervert-glasses with built in surveillance, connected to the giant propaganda machine in the sky.
Apple’s “Apple Vision Pro” vision was actually a reasonable assortment of reasonable ideas when you watch their announcement marketing, and then what we got was an overpriced, underdeveloped toy as we’ve come to expect from them.
VR/AR is going to be a casualty of this era of tech, an era which will be remembered as taking the forward-looking, human focussed applied-science field that we love it for and turning it into a tool of extractive capitalism, an enormous vehicle for investment fraud, and an enabler of fascist authoritarianism.
Hopefully one day we will recover. In the mean-time, I still have hopes for the Steam Frame which is what it should be: a dumb, unopinionated peripheral.
- Comment on "I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team 3 weeks ago:
Back in the 90s I sent a fan email to John Romero, and he was gracious enough to send me a reply. I don’t think I still have an archive of my emails from that long ago, but it left me with an impression of him as being a good guy. I wouldn’t be too hard on him about “being relevant”. As one of the founding members of id software, it’s not surprising that news outlets will pick up on his comments, whether you think he deserves it or not.
- Comment on The AI warning for Steam browser plugin adds Steam search filtering 5 weeks ago:
I had to read that headline three times. Some quotation marks would help:
The “AI warning for Steam” browser plugin adds Steam search filtering.
- Comment on Ladybird Browser Stops Accepting Public Pull Requests 1 month ago:
cf.
I can’t wait for TempleOS to get a public launch, I’ll use it in alpha out of general principle
- Comment on IBM and Red Hat commit $5bn to secure open-source software 1 month ago:
Lightwell will use AI tools and over 20,000 engineers
If the AI was useful for anything, why pair it with 20,000 engineers? It’s interesting how every “application” of AI involves teams of human experts just doing their thing while the AI “helps”.
- Comment on Linux and open source getting age checking exemptions could be problematic 2 months ago:
Braindead take.
- Comment on Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
- Comment on The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
more hype and no practical results
- Comment on [TheGamer] AI Investor Is Surprised The Games Industry Hates Generative Tools 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 months ago:
- Comment on Macron says France to fast-track social media ban for kids under 15 5 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" 6 months ago:
CEO needs to step down.
- Comment on DeepSeek $1.6B GPU Gamble: The End of Sovereign AI 6 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 7 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 7 months ago:
Why not just sign up a new account and forward it to your main account like a normal person?