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sirico, do games w Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

OH no they don’t want my money? Now’s not the time, I won’t bother then

metaStatic,
@metaStatic@kbin.earth avatar

right? I already have the ones I give a shit about ... On my shelf where they can't de-list them.

bouh, do games w Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”

Sometimes I wonder if these people understand that no player ever wanted exclusivities on a game store. Instead of providing a decent service, they’re litteraly trying to kidnap customers with a choice between waiting for months for this big release or taking it on a subpar platform.

Baphomet_The_Blasphemer,

This is my current dilemma with the new Star Wars outlaws game. Epic has exclusivity on release (or can buy direct on ubisoft), but I have 29 other Star Wars games all on Steam. Do I really want one odd game on a different platform, or do I just accept that I won’t be playing it at release and wait the months for it to come to Steam?

CeeBee_Eh,

Epic has exclusivity on release

Wait, really? It’s officially off my list now. Screw those guys.

flandish, do games w Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”

does anyone truly believe there exists a chat that is NOT recorded?

ObviouslyNotBanana,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

In this context? No. But what’s more interesting is precisely what is recorded.

network_switch,

The first time some coworkers told me the personal things they discussed with other work friends over the internal chat service, I was in shock over the stupidity. Also internal shit talk to other people in the company. Shocked

athairmor,

I once shit talked to coworkers about another coworker/supervisor. Except, by accident, I sent it to the coworker/supervisor.

Good times.

nimmo,
@nimmo@social.nimmog.uk avatar

In a previous role our QA team went from 5 to 2 due to this sort of thing happening. one person chose to offer his resignation rather than get sacked, another returned whilst looking for other work (which he found fairly easily as he was really good) and the 3rd guy is still there in post. Interestingly though the guy they were bitching about was fairly universally disliked and this made life even harder for him which I thought was somewhat unfair on him as it wasn't him who was at fault in this instance, he was just an arse.

flandish,

a very real possibility to be worried about!

HeyJoe,

When i was younger and only a few years into my career, I and a coworker talked crap about our 2 bosses for a while over Google chat. It’s what we were asked to use back them internally, but it wasn’t even our work accounts. We only talked because they were being absolutely awful. Well, joke was on us when they got suspicious and searched our computers and found the chats were locally saved… Oops! They gave us another chance shockingly but did chew us out. I’m still at this place, but none of those people exist here anymore and that was super long ago.

UnfortunateShort,

Um, yeah, like, every single OSS one using E2EE

RightHandOfIkaros,

Roger Wilco, lol.

LostXOR,

The only chat not recorded is the one that happens in person with no electronic devices nearby.

justsquigglez,
@justsquigglez@lemm.ee avatar

Hell, I feel like that’s even up for debate

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

I joked to my wife “hey I got a joke I got to tell you about the government away from microphones” and my phone’s flashlight turned on across the room. My nsa agent is working overtime.

inverted_deflector, do gaming w Valve releases full Team Fortress 2 game code to encourage new, free versions

Will be very neat to see the community reaction to this. To this day dooms open source engine is prolific. I imagine this will be amazing for fan and indie games

ryokimball,

… I use TTS at a pretty fast rate, and instead of “…will be amazing for fan and indie games,” I heard, “…will be amazing for profanity games.”

unexposedhazard,

Are you visually impaired if you dont mind me asking? Or using TTS for some other reason? Wondering how accessible lemmy is for blind folks and what apps you would be using.

ryokimball,

I’m not visually impaired, I just let the phone read blocks of text to me while I keep scrolling / looking at other things. I am using the Eternity app and Android’s built in “select to speak” TTS feature.

twix,

Damn this guy is ADHD’ing on a whole new level.

inverted_deflector,

I mean, it’s not wrong. I expect quite a lot of lewd and rude content as well.

bl4kers,
@bl4kers@beehaw.org avatar

I don’t think this includes the engine

ChairmanMeow,
@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev avatar

Hasn’t the Source SDK been out there for much longer?

over_clox, do games w 11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5

Hey, if it ain’t broke…

slurpinderpin,

Is the new CFB game going to be released on PS4? I still have mine, but I’ve switched to PC gaming the last couple of years. But NCAA 25 isn’t going to be released on PC right away, and I heard GTA6 was going to be the same. Those games are probably what get me to finally upgrade to the PS5

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

My buddy is a big CFB guy and was complaining he’d have to buy a new gen console to play it

slurpinderpin,

Granted I think the cheaper Xbox will also be able to play it, but with tuned down graphics. Fuck it though, I’m not poor so I’ll just get a PS5

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah if you already have a pc to play games on then I think PS5 makes more sense

Carighan, do games w $500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

I mean it’s fancy, but als pointless since that’s the price point of a Steam Deck, a strictly superior device.

SlothMama,

It doesn’t have an actual cartridge slot, so it’s not strictly superior

jol,

There are cartridge readers you can connect to your PC if you really want to.

Thann,
@Thann@lemmy.ml avatar

Unless you try and put it in your pocket

Tikiporch,

I can fit my steam deck in my pocket, but only some pants. Nike makes a techfit line that can fit a tablet in your pocket.

acosmichippo,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

fits in my jncos perfectly.

SidewaysHighways,

No probs to grind some rails on my blades and keep playing the Vidya on the move with my jncos and etnies

jol,

Get bigger pockets.

naticus,

Let me just dust off my JNCOs from '98. I knew they’d be back!

bork,

I have a steam deck, and have used a friend’s analogue pocket. They aren’t even the same category of device, and the analogue is literally the best emulation experience I’ve ever used. The screen, by itself, is a better emulation experience for GBC games than the steam decks default experience.

It is not a superior device by every metric.

shinratdr,
@shinratdr@lemmy.ca avatar

Yep, ask anyone who owns both. Nobody is playing a Gameboy game on a Steam Deck when they have an Analogue Pocket. Experience is much better, it just feels right on it.

That being said, if that’s not an important thing to you then a Steam Deck will play Gameboy games with near perfect accuracy and no issues, as well as do a million other things. So it’s indisputably a better value.

I would never pitch an Analogue Pocket at someone because if its the kind of thing you want, you already know about it and probably have one.

anivia,

and the analogue is literally the best emulation experience I’ve ever used

The Analogue Pocket doesn’t use emulation. That is literally the entire point of that device, and the reason they can charge 10 times as much as you would pay for an Anbernic device with the same form factor

wccrawford, do gaming w Game dev says contract barring “subjective negative reviews” was a mistake

Yeah, it was a mistake… After they got called on it.

It was absolutely in there on purpose.

Dasus,
@Dasus@lemmy.world avatar

"We’re sorry… ^(that ^we ^got ^caught) … "

CosmicCleric, (edited )
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

It was absolutely in there on purpose.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was actually a stealthy industry norm.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en

MentalEdge, (edited ) do gaming w New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

“The potential here is absurd,” wrote app developer Nick Dobos in reaction to the news. “Why write complex rules for software by hand when the AI can just think every pixel for you?”

“Can it run Doom?”

“Sure, do you have a spare datacenter or two full of GPUs, and perhaps a nuclear powerplant for a PSU?”

What the fuck are these people smoking. Apparently it can manage 20 fps on one “TPU” but to get there it was trained on shitload of footage of Doom. So just play Doom?!

The researchers speculate that with the technique, new video games might be created “via textual descriptions or examples images” rather than programming, and people may be able to convert a set of still images into a new playable level or character for an existing game based solely on examples rather than relying on coding skill.

It keeps coming back to this, the assumption that these models, if you just feed them enough stuff will somehow become able to “create” something completely new, as if they don’t fall apart the second you ask for something that wasn’t somewhere in the training data. Not to mention that this type of “gaming engine” will never be as efficient as an actual one.

Gaywallet,
@Gaywallet@beehaw.org avatar

big weird flex but okay vibes except actually not okay

frogman,
@frogman@beehaw.org avatar

left me stunlocked with this one icl

Even_Adder,

I mean, you’ve never seen a purple elephant with a tennis racket. None of that exists in the data set since elephants are neither purple nor tennis players. Exposure to all the individual elements allows for generation of concepts outside the existing data, even though they don’t exit in reality or in the data set.

MentalEdge, (edited )
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Ok.

Try to get an image generator to create an image of a tennis racket, with all racket-like objects or relevant sport data removed from the training data.

Explain the concept to it with words alone, accurately enough to get something that looks exactly like the real thing. Maybe you can give it pictures, but one won’t really be enough, you’ll basically have to give it that chunk of training data you removed.

That’s the problem you’ll run into the second you want to realize a new game genre.

Even_Adder,

There are more forms of guidance than just raw words. Just off the top of my head, there’s inpainting, outpainting, controlnets, prompt editing, and embeddings. The researchers who pulled this off definitely didn’t do it with text prompts.

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Obviously.

But at what point does that guidance just become the dataset you removed from the training data?

To get it to run Doom, they used Doom.

To realize a new genre, you’ll “just” have to make that game the old fashion way, first.

Even_Adder,

But at what point does that guidance just become the dataset you removed from the training data?

The whole point is that it didn’t know the concepts beforehand, and no it doesn’t become the dataset. Observations made of the training data are added to the model’s weights after training, the dataset is never relevant again as the model’s weights are locked in.

To get it to run Doom, they used Doom.

To realize a new genre, you’ll “just” have to make that game the old fashion way, first.

Or you could train a more general model. These things happen in steps, research is a process.

MentalEdge, (edited )
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

You are completely missing what I’m saying.

I know the input doesn’t alter the model, that’s not what I mean.

And “general” models are only “general” in the sense that they are massively bloated and still crap at dealing with shit that they weren’t trained on.

And no, “comprehending” new concepts by palette swapping something and smashing two existing things together isn’t the kind of creativity I’m saying these systems are incapable of.

Even_Adder,

What kind of creativity are you talking about then? I’ve also never heard of a bloated model. Which models are bloated?

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Bloated, as in large and heavy. More expensive, more power hungry, less efficient.

I already brought it up. They can’t deal with something completely new.

When you discuss what you want with a human artist or programmer or whatever, there is a back and forth process where both parties explain and ask until comprehension is achieved, and this improves the result. The creativity on display is the kind that can unfold and realize a complex idea based on simple explanations even when it is completely novel.

It doesn’t matter if the programmer has played games with regenerating health before, one can comprehend and implement the concept based on just a couple sentences.

Now how would you do the same with a “general” model that didn’t have any games that work like that in the training data?

My point is that “general” models aren’t a thing. Not really. We can make models that are really, really big, but they remain very bad at filling in gaps in reality that weren’t in the training data. They don’t start magically putting two and two together and comprehending all the rest.

Even_Adder,

Do you have any examples of how they fail? There are plenty of ways to explain new concepts to models.

arxiv.org/abs/2404.19427arxiv.org/abs/2406.11643arxiv.org/abs/2403.12962arxiv.org/abs/2404.06425arxiv.org/abs/2403.18922arxiv.org/abs/2406.01300

MentalEdge, (edited )
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

In a couple sentences? In a way that doesn’t approach, equal or exceed the effort of training the model with that data to begin with?

You insist these models can do new things out of nothing, and you keep saying “all you have to do, is give them something”.

Even_Adder,

You keep moving the goal posts and putting words in my mouth. I never said you can do new things out of nothing. Nothing I mentioned is approaching, equaling, or exceeding the effort of training a model.

You haven’t answered a single one of my questions, and you are not arguing in good faith. We’re done here. I can’t say it’s been a pleasure.

MentalEdge, (edited )
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

My argument was and is that neural models don’t produce anything truly new. That they can’t handle things outside what is outlined by the data they were trained on.

Are you not claiming otherwise?

You say it’s possible to guide models into doing new things, and I can see how that’s the case, especially if the model is a very big one, meaning it is more likely that it has relevant structures to apply to the task.

But I’m also pretty damn sure they have insurmountable limits. You can’t “guide” and LLM into doing image generation, except by having it interact with an image generation model.

BadlyDrawnRhino,
@BadlyDrawnRhino@aussie.zone avatar

To be fair, half of the AAA gaming industry is all about trying to clone the latest successful game with a new coat of paint. Maybe using AI to make these clones will mean that the talented people behind the scenes are free to explore other ideas instead.

Of course in reality, it just means that the largest publishers will lay off a whole lot of people and keep churning out these uninspired games in the name of corporate profits, but it’s nice to dream sometimes.

Telorand,

Apparently it can manage 20 fps on one “TPU” but to get there it was trained on shitload of footage of Doom. So just play Doom?!

Shhhh! Are you nuts? People are going to start realizing this is another tech bubble, like Blockchain…

/s

villainy, do games w Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines

You’re telling me I can now comfortably play Satisfactory from my couch? This is going to have a profoundly negative effect on my health

funkajunk,
@funkajunk@lemm.ee avatar

Physical health or mental health?

Thassodar,

Yes

And009,

Life expectancy with FICSIT is projected to free fall.

MidsizedSedan,

This game made me late for work the first week I played it.

Dimok, do gaming w The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games

It’s exactly what I would expect from EA. They haven’t got a cent from me in years.

theangriestbird,

As long as FC and Ultimate Team keep being reliable money factories, you can expect them to continue half-assing everything else.

Nilz,

Everything else? That’s implying FC and Ultimate Team aren’t being half-assed.

B0rax,

I expected there would be more „pay to win“ now.

PieMePlenty, do games w Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

The PS5’s price is higher than it was 4.5 years ago at launch, a device with identical function. While we should be seeing a lite version at 30% the price, we see a pro version at 50% more. Crazy.

Squizzy,

Lite @ 30%? I dont remember that happening?

EncryptKeeper,

It’s never happened. No idea what that fella is smoking

zipzoopaboop,

Read that again

Squizzy,

“While we should be seeing a lite version at 30% the price”…? What am I missing?

Soleos,

They mean 30% less

PS4 MSRP @399 PS4 Slim MSRP @299

XBOX One @499 XBOX One S @299

saltesc, do games w $250 Analogue 3D will play all your N64 cartridges in 4K early next year

I hear the Nintendo war drums…

RedditWanderer, (edited )

That’s why these things are always “so close” to being done. You hear the milestone is near, and then it disappears. I have a theory Nintendo waits for as long as they can so people invest a lot, then they send the papers. In a way it discourages people from even starting imo.

Edit: why is this being downvoted. Nintendo slowrolling developers is just like, my opinion man. It’s not controversial

fluxion,

They’re selling their Gameboy one at least :

store.analogue.co/products/analogue-pocket-white

4am,

I own several Analogue products. They’re solid AF.

RedditWanderer,

I was just saying I find Nintendo are slowrolling devs by waiting till the last minute to sue them. I guess it’s to make sure it’s a slam dunk

SomethingBurger,

They can’t do anything about this. Analogue already made similar products for the NES, SNES and Game Boy.

Prunebutt,

Has Nintendo sued Analogue before? I assume that Analogue makes sure they’ve got their legal bases covered.

PunchingWood,
suburban_hillbilly,

Yeah, just because they haven’t, doesn’t mean they can’t.

Prunebutt,

I doen’t think they have an angle, though. Reverse engineering is legal.

suburban_hillbilly,

If there is any type of authentication between the cartridge and console that gets bypassed, that would technically be a violation of the circumvention portion DMCA. They have used this exact tactic before and that kind of authentication has been used as long ago as the og NES.

Dasnap,
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

I believe the FPGA modules are written with 100% unique, non-Nintendo code. Maybe the only issue could be the cartilage connector? I’ve had an Analogue Pocket for a while and that project hasn’t been taken down.

dual_sport_dork,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

The cartridge connector is not proprietary. It’s just a commodity off the shelf card edge socket.

Dasnap,
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

Fab, they’re probably fine then.

trustnoone,

Apparently Ryujinx the switch emulator has been removed even though it used unique code and the speculation is the owner got paid off to delete it. Makes me wonder if they get you either one way or another

ocassionallyaduck,

The speculation is wrong.

If your hobby is making Paper Maché Owls, and one day Hobby Lobby calls you and threatens to sue you in criminal court for millions, or you can silently stop your hobby?

Unless you have millions to burn, you give up your hobby, because it’s not worth ruining your life over.

JusticeForPorygon,
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t say this often, because big companies usually get what they want, but I think analogue is safe.

It would be the same as all of those cheap SNES/NES/Genesis 3inones you used to see everywhere, Analogue just provides something more “premium”

ch00f,

The console doesn’t officially support ROMs. It must run games off the original hardware carts.

However, there’s a fairly simple hack to get ROMs to play on the SD card slot of the Analogue Pocket that many suspect was unofficially developed by Analogue themselves.

osprior,

OpenFPGA on the Analogue Pocket is official.

ch00f,

Yes, but you still need to install the cores developed by the community in order to play ROMs.

The necessary core for ROMs was released barely a day after OpenFPGA support was, but it wasn’t released by Analogue.

JusticeForPorygon, do gaming w Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

Common Valve W

Dudewitbow,

its not exactly for the positive reason you think. theyre trying to prevent the class action lawsuit going around the (UK?) right now and realized when a certain amount of people take the arbitration, it gets fairly costly, so they reverted on that clause.

regardless fuck arbitration, its like paying off judges but even more transparent about it.

its basically doing the right thing for the wrong reason (reverting arbitration cause not for thr consumer, but for their wallets)

umami_wasbi,

Still, the effects benefits the consumer, so I would consider this a good thing.

Also, I wonder if we can do the same to other companies and let them revert course.

Stovetop,

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  • can,

    A company that makes some good decisions over a long term stands out in a sea of corps endlessly chasing next quarter

    lowleveldata,

    Value Users W

    spankmonkey,
    @spankmonkey@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s a win-win situation!

    LostXOR,

    One word: Linux.

    Valve's contributions have singlehandedly revolutionized the Linux gaming scene. They're the only reason I can play most of the games I own. I don't worship them, exactly, but I do think very highly of them.

    sep,

    This for sure. Making games easily accessible on linux have lead to a lot of people not having to deal with windows anymore.
    It is the same effect as a kidnapping victim beeing grateful when someone comes to release them fom the torture rack. It is not strange that valve gets a lot of goodwill from their actions.
    Would i sish more people did as steam does? Ofcourse! But none do, so we are grateful for steam. I think they saved pc gaming. And not only for linux.

    squid, (edited )

    Before proton we used wine. And wine will continue development with or without steam.

    If anything the open source community did more and gave steam a firm platform to build on.

    Edit: And to add an observation steams push for Linux is a reaction to Microsoft becoming a contender in the PC games market place. Its not for our benefit anymore than for valves.

    verdigris,

    I’m pretty wary of corporate propaganda, but from the article this sounds like a pretty clear case of some greedy people taking advantage of Valve offering to cover all arbitration costs. Yes, they’re doing this to cover their ass, but it’s not a malicious move and I don’t see how it could be interpreted as anti-consumer.

    dRLY,
    @dRLY@lemmy.ml avatar

    I mostly like Valve, and agree that going too far with Stan-ing over a company is dumb. However I think the majority of people that tend to greatly support Valve comes down to both pushing tech and games forward into better consumer directions, and that they are currently not joining in on the mass enshittification as other companies (but of course all big companies can and will do some level of that given enough time).

    With regards to pushing tech, they have done more (in at least the last 10 years) to force Linux to be seen as worth supporting. Their efforts to actually add to projects that were already around has been game changing. And that they kept actually putting time, money, and resources into it even after their initial efforts with Steam Machines and the original SteamOS didn’t gain traction on a mainstream level. The Steam Deck keeps outshining the other options even while being technically less powerful specs and they are putting work in to make sure things like drivers are released to help people that choose to install Windows.

    But all the positive stuff will only keep happening so long as people don’t start feeling locked out or cheated. I forget a lot of the time how bad many users hated them back when the original versions of Steam were released. Many of the issues people had and were concerned about were valid and could have tanked Valve if they didn’t do everything they could to address them. If they start pulling shit like EA or really any of the console companies have done. Then it will be their time to see massive losses and get all the hate that is deserved.

    cmdr_nova,
    @cmdr_nova@mkultra.monster avatar

    @dRLY @Stovetop In a world of constantly enshitifying tech, the only question I have for Valve is: Why so many MOBAs

    petrol_sniff_king,

    I would if it had any lasting power. I mean, can’t they just push out another eula update 6 months from now when this change is no longer useful to them?

    Fuck arbitration, of course, I’m just not expecting this to really mean anything.

    ekZepp, do games w Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...😑
    @ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar

    “Okay, okay… Let’s admit that our old idea of pi**ing all over your heads may have gone a little too far…

    So, here’s the deal. We will pi** a bit on your left shoulder …BUT! But, but, but… It will be UPWIND!! SEE!? Upwind!!

    So basically, you’ll be missed most of the times! Basically like never get hit at all!” 👍

    DreamySweet,
    @DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    Don’t worry, 90% of our users won’t have to pay anything at all! Just ignore that like 50% are people who downloaded Unity to mess around for a bit and never made anything other than a “hello world” or similar.

    Pika,
    @Pika@sh.itjust.works avatar

    way more than 50% lol

    DreamySweet,
    @DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    I was going to say 89% but there’s a lot of asset flips on Steam.

    thrakkerzog,

    I’ve pooped in your soup and removed the poop when you got angry. You’re still gonna eat the soup, right?

    Sirus, do games w Switch 2 preorders [in the US] delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty

    Good, for all those zoomers that voted for trump, eat a dirty asshole you fucks.

    Lost_My_Mind,

    As opposed to millenials, gen X and boomers who voted for trump? Why do they get a free pass?

    Sirus,

    A majority of them aren’t playing switch. Not saying none of them are but the highest majority of switch players in those groups are zoomers.

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