They can’t, actually, because they don’t hold the rights to that content, only to GOG and the installer. Once it’s installed their distribution and license rights end.

If the game you install has its own license from the rights holder that gets revoked then you’ll be in breach of that license, if anything.

This is just the license to download the game installer, not to install it.

Once you’ve downloaded the software they can’t revoke the license for that installer file.

The way Coffee Stain explained it for satisfactory is that the exclusivity windfall gave them enough runway to finish the game.

If the system of temporary exclusivity in exchange for upfront development cash continues I think it’s an overall win for the gaming community as games get to come out at less rushed pace and with potentially less cash generation grabs in the game itself.

Somebody hit the token chain jackpot

What’s great about lawsuits like this is you really only have to prove intent and they have a record of them asking for similar imagery.

I used to work for an algorithmic advertising company.

The gist is that if you get one big spender it offsets the cost of losing a thousand or more other people because those large contracts usually last past the official sale

Isn’t fusion power not as clean as people say it is?

The Practicalities of actual fusion reactors make this seem a lot less appealing than I think I grew up hearing.

I’m happy to see china continue to pump resources into their clean energy mix, but at the same time it feels like this entire concept might end up being more of a meme than we think.

They can’t form new trade unions because everyone already has to join a registered trade union.

Yea like moving all the food on the top shelf of your fridge to the bottom and moving everything up shelf by shelf every morning or making sure you vacuum your walls properly. Standard stuff.

It seems like a very polarizing game, you either really enjoy it or not at all.

I love the division 1 and 2 but the first game had some MAJOR bullet soak issues for the first half-year of the game’s lifetime.

Massive always does good work despite Ubisoft, in my opinion.

I have a feeling a lot of these demos were just trying to game that very “new and trending” page, and this change will produce fewer demos.

There’s also a block coding plugin for Godot now too!

https://github.com/endlessm/godot-block-coding

Perfect tool to get kids into game creation.

Facebook is trying to burn the forest around OpenAI and other closed models by removing the market for “models” by themselves, by releasing their own freely to the community. A lot of money is already pivoting away towards companies trying to find products that use the AI instead of the AI itself. Unless OpenAI pivots to something more substantial than just providing multimodal prompt completion they’re gonna find themselves without a lot of runway left.

This is because all LLMs function primarily based on the token context you feed it.

The best way to use any LLM is to completely fill up it’s history with relevant context, then ask your question.

Doesn’t this just do what gets done through convolution anyway?

What’s the point of this.

Seems like the thing I’ve always considered true: you can turn a mediocre game into a masterpiece with the right application of music.

Not that I’m saying Stardew is mediocre, but good music seems to uplift a game more than any other part.

I thought it was atomic age and information age…

Or was that just empire earth…

Tango closed cause it was the one of the only studios under Zenimax that wasn’t currently making a game with “executive producer: Todd Howard” squirted all over it

There’s a weird implicit conservancy in tech circles around the dictatorial nature of corporate leadership.

It stems from this weird externalization of corporate decision making that just turns everything that happens at large companies into the machinations of the unknowable machine of capital.

“Of course they were fired, they protested in a way that disrupted the business, if the business is disrupted the machine must correct itself, and it did so by releasing the corporate anti-bodies of leadership to fire the disruptive element. Thus the machine is corrected. This is all logically sound, and thus impervious to moral inquisition.”

There’s a great podcast series around this idea: https://www.techwontsave.us/

crawls out of gnu logo-shaped hole

I use icecat and it’s pretty nice, main issue is you have to manually approve all JavaScript scripts and cross-site requests manually, so it makes visiting almost any website for the first time a pain in the ass.

Luckily most stuff is concentrated to a few sites and I use private frontends liberally so it’s not a huge pain.

Slinks back into free software hole

The steam deck’s pause-on-power-off has been very convenient for games like this