You’re building a strawman as thats not what I said. Consumers fundamentally don’t understand the process, period.

I make casual games and most of the time you are looking for inspiration by copying stuff - this is a fundamental part of the creative process. But americans are brainwashed by copyright and IP law propaganda into thinking that copying and tool assistance is somehow “impure”.

The public sentiment will grow up and shift and I’m willing to take a long term bet here of real money to prove my point. I’ve been a creative since the 90s and seen this same story a dozen times at least.

That’s really just scratching the surface of what AI is doing these day in creative workflows. All game tests will eventually be replace with AI and tests often drive new feature development. Refactoring of not only code but assets is also done by AI these days.

Reality is that this label is fundamentally unsustainable and will go away anyway. Willing to bet money on this.

I disagree, people fundamentally don’t understand creation and art process if they think it’s an artist in a white room doing everything from the blanks of their mind.

It’s just a vocal minority that’ll eventually grow up.

He’s right though it’s not a very useful label in general. The AI process is unavoidable as you can use it as a coop tool or inspiration or thousand different ways where AI is not a direct generator.

Personal anecdote: I do quite a bit of visual design these days and always start with some ai prompt to give me some inspiration as subjects I work with are highly corporate and unheard to me. The final product is made by me in Inkscape with some parts being manual traces of AI generated images but it would be dienginous to say that I didn’t use AI here and silly to say that it some “mindless slop”.

I think they think that losing steam access would just rocket piracy not only in Russia but in the entire world. Getting russian market on legal games has been a multi decade process and that would really suck for the industry.

Not saying thats right just that it be their reasoning

If you ever get to play csgo or dota2 you’re likely to change this opinion

The fix is to not use local anti cheat at all which is proven time and time again to be the wrong strategy. It’s stupid and anyone who makes local anti cheat is either stupid or cheap or both.

Really excited for this and hopefully that means steamvr on Linux will actually start working better! The current Beta build is much better but still lots of work to do.

I’m definitely getting the frame as upgrade from quest 3 which I rarely use due to it being attached to Meta. The controller is no brainer considering that old steamdeck controller is still one of the best controllers on the market. Not sure about steam machine mostly because I just built my own PC - would have totally waited for it if I knew it was coming but it looks so slick.

Very excited for Linux in 2026!

Been a while since I used windows but afaik docs are much worse on that side of things. At least on Linux you find some command or smt that could fix your issue, many windows problems are unsolvable and completely undocumented. There isn’t even a centralized log system like journalctl on windows so every error is just an alert pop up that says nothing or just complete silence.

Immutable distros just add endless headache for new users

I disagree here. Sure it makes copy/paste computing a bit harder but it also prevents newbies from working themselves into a dysfunctional operating system which happens way more often than you’d think. People open a port or set some system variable for one thing and never set it back breaking everything else. With immutable system new users are forced into sustainable, reversible and transparent solutions.

The issue is that immutable linux is still pretty new so some mutable solutions aren’t adapted in immutable ways yet but if you’re just gaming you should never be on that side of the bleeding edge anyway.

I’ve converted all my gaming to linux including vr and couldn’t be happier! Even hardware works flawlessly these days with the exception of VR at times. I’m still struggling to get No Man’s Sky to work on my quest 3 and linux VR and thats really the only thing I’m missing but it seems close to working just needs more fiddling.

Highly recommend Bazzite for people looking for a linux gaming distribution. It’s immutable which can complicate some things but it’s mostly plug and play and impossible to ruin due to immutable nature.

Thanks for the update!

How is this business? Dude literally lost a shit ton of customers.

What an incredibly dumb thing to do. They deserve all of the backlash they’re getting no matter how and why the selfie happened.

Played the first half hour of it and love it. Can’t wait for the weekend to really dig into it.

7$ is a bit steep but I’ve been looking for a new gaming source and 0$ gets you most access

Darktide is the best l4d successor out there if you haven’t played it yet!

My biggest comfort game that just keeps getting more comfy! Been holding out on VR experience for Valve’s VR device but it seems like it’ll be far off - might as well jump back in.

My recommendations:

• Aurelia is an adventure point and click where you move to a cozy fantasy town. Beautiful art and presentation and just good erotica all around with reasonable puzzle and rpg gameplay.
• Third Crisis is an ultimate gooner game. It really goes out there and if you’re into that sort of thing and it’s really well made.
• Kaiju Princess lets you hang out with a girl who’s secretly a kaiju monster

Most steam erotica games started out as poor quality visual novels or clone games with titties but the scene is really shaping up to something much more interesting!

If anything Steam showed us thay 60$ game is a stupid idea. Free markets pay what they feel like paying and thats when creators and consumers are the happiest not with price controll.

Sony, Nintendo and Xbox are not true capitalism because their consoles are not free markets so of course they don’t like capitalism when they benefit from absolute control and can fix the prices for everything in their ecosystem.

The only true capitalistic store front is steam and funnily enough it’s doing laps around all 3.

What a crazy statement. My bottle neck is time not lack of games - there are just too many incredible games there!

Legit took me 20 minutes to just get this;

• click redeem -> 5 captchas
• click login, reset password -> 5 captchas
• click reset password link -> 5 captchas
• login -> 5 captchas
• click redeem -> 5 captchas

Lmao and people say AI could ruin the web more

He’s so old. No wonder Ubisoft is so close to bankrupcy.

Instant buy

Subnautica 2 must be in a pretty dire spot for this to happen. I guess we’ll see as the story unrolls and early access comes eventually but I’ve met many successful people who stopped caring after they made it big (which is fine but then just quit) so I really wouldn’t be surprised if the publisher is right here.

Lmao as usual gamers rush in with outrage and turns out the issue is not that simple.

Gamifying altruism kinda works

Funny how all of that is straight up solved with any package manager or even git itself (with submodules) for free and yet gaming community is protecting some proprietary burning heap of garbage.

As a software engineer i always found nexus simply archaic. Hot take but the molding industry might be better off with a new mod index.

Most games that dont scale into 100+ hours. I never reach that point anyway.

I said it might have come earlier. You fundamentally don’t understand correlation vs causation and getting angry with me dude. Seriously go read a book or something this is silly.

Correlation vs causation much? Not sure what to tell you.

If the Switch didn’t exist then I don’t think we would’ve gotten the Steam Deck.

or we would have earlier and more of it? I’m not sure how are you basing your hipothesis is but to assume that handheld market with this crazy demand would just be there unfulfilled is kinda silly. Switch didn’t event some magic technology that was not available before - it just took the market.

Its unfair to call it a “console war” when one is a classic locked down console and another is a general handheld computer. This also means there are bigger societal stakes in this argument than just “which corporate flavor you like more” because one empowers people and the other does the exact opposite.

So no, “console wars” here are very much cool.

You can’t.

Though you can try role play difficulty limitations yourself. Also, that was number one complaint in the remaster survey so its very likely to receive a patch soon.

Bet that linux vs windows performance video did it in. The exec who thinks linux desktop doesn’t even exist saw this and immediately shat their pants in rage.

The developer better avoid driving any cars lol

Just going to install the game to leave a negative review because if anyone deserves a review bomb it’s this.

Apparently Torzo exists already!

Also knowing how butthurt Nintendo is rn it probably means Switch 2 is vulnerable to emulation so not that long probably.

Sure but I don’t see any evidence of Nintendo’s decline. The truth is that gamers are incredibly spineless and will continue to bootlick corporate boot unless they put “something woke in the game” at which point they’ll leave a review somewhere and still clock in 300 hours if entertained enough.