Culture can stay the same, for all I care. The important thing is keeping the bots out.

I went with Bazzite because I had assumed you couldn’t do this with Cachy, but I’m also a complete noob with Linux outside of my steam deck, so it might be for the best anyway.

I’m interested in Cachy because the discover store seems to be better than the Bazaar, and I wonder if using Arch would make getting my PSVR2 working on my PC any easier than it was on Bazzite. The mutability is a little scary, though.

I already had a situation with Bazzite where the motherboard stopped detecting my NVMe, and I couldn’t find a way around just reinstalling Bazzite from scratch again and redownloading my games. I had plugged in a really old hard drive to see if I could format it to work with Steam before booting into the system and the system assumed it had to boot into the hard drive, and then after that it just booted into the bios and had no clue where the proper hard drive was. I still wonder if there was an easier fix I didn’t know about.

Pick any game in the Final Fantasy series. For me it was the overworld in FF6 and the battle songs from VII and VIII. I Also really vibed with the Uncharted games, which used an orchestra of interesting folk instruments to create a really cool musical soundscape for adventure.

Never. You just need to learn the social weight of the words you use in the context your in. I’ve heard 10 year olds shouting the F word in class and their teacher never batted an eye because they didn’t speak English there. Caught me off guard, but nobody “gets” that it’s bad. It’s just a funny sound people say a lot in foreign films to them. Someday they’ll embarrass themselves in an English speaking country and figure it out.

Impressive bitmapping on that feline.

I honestly wonder how much AI Nintendo used for the Ocarina remake. It’s the most AI-looking game I’ve seen yet, and Nintendo has a record for cheaping out whenever they see a clear benefit and think they’ll get away with it.

We’ll be the ones eating the pets.

I’m less opposed to AI assisted development if it just a fan or two building free, open source ports that makes older stuff more playable. Now if it’s a full-priced corporate remaster, then I start to take issue with AI reliance.

With steam input, you don’t even need the gamepad. I think your responder was attempting to contribute to your point.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the anti-AI crowd has every right to be as rabid as they wish. AI proliferation has been an immense boon to a few who work in some hardware and software fields, while causing an immeasurable amount of collateral damage elsewhere. The cost-to-benefit is extremely disproportionate depending on who you are, where you live, what you do, etc.

Regardless, this is a free market. If people don’t want to buy games with AI in them, it does not make them “rabid”.

If you choose to utilize AI to help you construct your product, expect people to have feelings about it and budget for it. That’s it. It’s a small ask against the millions of other people who have been forced to completely reassess how things are done in their respective fields in order to account for rapid AI disruption and interference.

Still seems like a cop-out.

If they had intended to do it manually in the first place, I don’t see why they couldn’t just use AI to help generate a number of rough outlines to help conceptualize a solid template that satisfied their needs before investing their time into it.

There was enough slop out there in the gaming world before AI stole center stage. And yet there are so many games getting released every day that it’s genuinely difficult for new developers to get noticed. Tried+true studios are hitting diminishing returns. Gamers have a cornucopia of options old and new, and can afford to say no in this market much more easily than in most other markets.