No place for piss bottles

Enemy Territory is still around in the form of ET: Legacy. Not sure how active it is but maybe you could find some willing players on here.

What? I thought this was a maritime comm.

Curve - Forgotten Sanity

Actually a lot of Curve’s catalog probably fits the bill one way or another, but this is the first one that comes to mind.

Even taking the alleged benefits at face value, and assuming anyone wants it, this still doesn’t make sense. They already promised all their GPUs to AI datacentres. Exactly where are people supposed to get hold of the 5090s required to make this work?

It’ll end up more like console piracy, where you need a specialised build or custom firmware to do it.

I notice you don’t bother to address any of my other points, and boldly declare the time for talking to be over. I suspect that’s because you can’t.

As long as you don’t have to use it, its fine to charge money.

Look at the state of gatcha games. Yeah, sure, you technically -can- access all the content without paying, but in practice it’s not going to happen in a human lifetime. It isn’t that much of a stretch to picture games that are “technically” humanly possible, but so difficult that most people will resort to the AI. Remember the oldschool quarter-eaters in arcades? Same business model but with more steps. I also wouldn’t put it past MS to offer “incentives” in the game store for titles with AI integration. Also see the comment upthread about enshittification.

And if you really don’t understand the difference between a paid subscription service and a family member, I feel sorry for you.

Yeah this is where it’s going. Putting that AI exec in charge of Xbox really paying off for MicroSlop.

Cheats (and big brothers, to an extent, I guess) are free.

So they’ll sell you the games, then rent you an AI model to play the games for you.

I can just not play games on my own, for free.

Assuming it even works in a practical sense, the only way that’ll ever catch on is if they open the standard to third party manufacturers.

La Rage by Keny Arkana

I mean, no shit. I thought that was obvious from the … everything about it.

I’m not in a tech field now, but I used to be. I jumped ship when everything started moving to ‘cloud based’ because I don’t trust anything I can’t kick when it breaks.

Debian is … fine. It’s the Toyota Corolla of distros. It’s reliable, it’ll likely do what you need it to do. It’s not fun or exciting or packed with the latest tech, it just does its job with minimum fuss.

It’s not even really a game engine. More like a 60 second interactive hallucination.

I don’t know why but I find this viscerally unpleasant.

How many times is this now that they’ve nuked users’ PCs with an update?

Yes. And it’s misleading.