Well, I agree with you, the only way to not do anything unethical is to do nothing. So my point is that it’s not really useful to deal in absolutes, it’s impossible to take a stance on everything. You don’t like AI and avoid it, that’s a respectable position. Someone else is vegan and calls you an asshole for causing the suffering of animals instead (if for the sake of the argument I assume you aren’t vegan). That doesn’t help anyone. Set your own moral compass and follow your own principles, but I don’t think it’s useful to hound other people, because there will always be reasons to do so.

And why is that a problem?

Google searches also usually generate mostly useless results, which is impossible to combat. Thankfully the person doing the search knows what they are looking for, can try different solutions, and learn from multiple results to get to a working solution.

Why do you consider AI different? Nobody is expecting it always give correct solutions, just like nobody is expecting Googling something to always give the correct solution.

I’m not saying AI is useful, but I’m saying that a tool being fallible doesn’t make it useless. So I’m wondering why do you consider AI different? If Googling is fine even though you need to checks multiple results before finding something useful, why is searching with AI held to a higher standard? Genuine question. Because I agree with your critique of AI, I just don’t agree the critique means no one should ever use it. There are much less reliable tools than AI, that are still useful at times.

I get your argument, you consider AI bad and require the use of it to be disclosed so that you can avoid it - reasonable take.

My question is, do you avoid projects that use GitHub for hosting? Because that’s supporting Microsoft, which is helping ICE kill people. So the ethical thing to do is to boycott GitHub and projects that use it.

Do you require open source projects to disclose that they use any US-made hardware or software in their development? Because taxes from the sale of them fund missiles that kill children in Iran.

What is the list of things in your mind, that a maintainer has to disclose in order for you to not consider him an asshole for not disclosing it? Surely not just AI use?

Most people won’t care for the simple reason that most people don’t use Discord for porn and will never need to access a NSFW server. They will never need to verify.

I’m in the UK where the Discord age verification is already live for several months. I was never even prompted to verify.

I started using Discord because I was joining communities that were on Discord, and at some point I no longer wanted to use two similar chat apps, so it was simpler to only use Discord.

Discord did have one big advantage over Slack though, in that you can switch between servers within 1 browser tab easily. Slack servers are completely separated and if you are on 4, you realistically need to keep 4 Slack browser tabs open.

That’s the thing, for me Discord replaced Slack. I never used the voice chat feature of Discord. I had family, friend group, interest group Slack servers to chat, all was eventually moved to Discord.

Meanwhile I still use Mumble for voice chat, Discord never replaced Mumble for me, it was a replacement for chat groups, which I previously used Slack for.

Is music not considered art? I would have thought no AI art already covers it

I’m on over 40 Discord servers. And yes I had one for my own group which I moved to Matrix. That still means I’m in over 40 Discord servers. Plus I also run Matrix.

As someone who doesn’t use the voice chat feature of Discord, I am always confused when people suggest things like Mumble as an alternative.

Yeah, it doesn’t look like they are lying to me, the official Bazzite version is official as in, it’s made by GPD for their own device, it’s an OS you get from the manufacturer of the device.

They didn’t claim the Bazzite team is involved in any way.

No, on popular distros they are preinstalled, or only require you to check a checkbox in system settings.

Due to the nature of git, all developers already have a complete backup of the project and the entire history without a separate remote.

More backups are always good of course.

Except the difficulty in migrating from GitHub is not moving the source code, that’s the trivial part.

It’s moving the discussions, issues, releases, free CI on GitHub Actions, free hosting on GitHub Pages, stars, visibility, existing community around the project on GitHub, losing contributors. These are the problems, not configuring git for another remote.

That’s not what they said at all

No, that’s not why Google Glass failed. It would have failed even with a perfect display.

No. The Quest runs Android.

I have an Index, no, it’s far from “obviously compatible”. Yes you can get it working, but with many tradeoffs, performance issues, crashes, many VR games not working anyway even if the headset does, missing features outside the core functionality. And getting even to that state of not so easy unless you are on the correct distro with correct display manager.

I wish you could do VR on Linux with an experience at least somewhat close to Windows. But that’s just not the case, so I need a Windows 10 VM to play VR.

It’s called “Regis Missile Launcher” and is in the last tier.

There are lasguns, and the same missile launcher the NPC has is also craftable.

You can craft that same missile launcher, it’s not even a unique weapon, but a normal tech tree unlock. You can also use a lasgun against vehicles (which you need to find a schematic for or gain from a mission).

If you read the article, he died because his Starlink connection disconnected - which also cut the stream.

Which doesn’t excuse his lack of skill throughout the stream before that.

You are driven by hate. Rowling is not going to get any more “enabled” than she already is with her bottomless pit of money. If you are truly an ally, suggest better media to support, rather than being combative and alienating everyone in the proces.

Again, she is not the creator and has nothing to do with the game other than the creators purchased the rights to the setting.

I am aware the motives behind it are profit driven. But that doesn’t make the message less valuable. People seeing themselves represented is helpful to them, and it normalizes them for other people.

Rowling having slightly more money makes no difference to her spewing her views, she is set for life anyway. Yes I’d like to avoid giving her money, but a much stronger signal I’d like to send is that a game with trans characters sells well.

It would be ridiculous to pretend so. Giving money to trans-supportive games absolutely does though.

Seeing how the game prominently features trans characters and that Rowling wasn’t involved in making it, it probably doesn’t bother many people.

I want to support media that show and empathize with trans people, and Hogwarts is one of them. But yes, even though she was not involved, she surely is receiving some royalties due to the setting.

Nobody is talking about piracy.

To play games they own on other systems? To make official rereleases of old games, which now happens pretty often?

I mean, I can believe they can do it, but it will probably be totally missing on launch, then utterly broken, and after 2 years of patches will finally work correctly.

Well yeah, these PC exclusives run perfectly on Linux PC’s, and PC’s with different form factors.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good

Many great games wouldn’t be released without the current system giving them a chance. Shovelware is a problem, but I think it’s a fairer alternative.

Or just playing games with higher graphics settings that the Steam Deck wouldn’t be able to run.

“The outline of a potential story” being out is different from an actual game being out though.

OP wrote he is playing both. I agree if you want to play the story once, Black Mesa is better, but if OP wants to play both, then nothing wrong with that.

I’m not saying ignore it, it’s a valid reason to not like the game, like any other subjective reason.

I’m saying calling the game “Pokemon with guns” is dismissive of what the game is. It’s like calling Minecraft “Rust with animal husbandry”, which completely misses what the game is about.

People say “Pokemon with guns” as if that was some kind of core gameplay. You can play through the game without ever using them. It’s a small feature, that absolutely is there, but reducing the game to that is missing the forest for the trees.

It’s an open world crafting base building game to enjoy with co-op, that has catchable creatures like Pokemon. There is no Pokemon game that fits this niche. The guns are not important to what the game is.

Apparently I was the only one to read the title that way, but I thought your brothers died (late) in their 40s.

Why is it insane? Is it surprising that people make joke offers? Joke offers exist on any online auction site.