Then what is the fucking point of law if it only applies to those who we deem fit?

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One of the major changes with Civilization VI was that Firaxis had access to lot more player telemetry, compared to Civilisation V, rather than monitoring the feedback on Reddit and fansites like CivFanatics. Amongst other things, they discovered that most players don’t finish a single game, which is part of the reason for Civ 7’s more broken-up, modular historical progression.

So they used all that user data to change the future game to appeal to the lowest common denominator, as it were. And it resulted in the most controversial civ of recent years. And their plan for the future? Continue like this, of course - only now they’re considering formalizing this approach with an official EA label. God I hate the gaming landscape these days

Nice try economist

Privacy is not a yes/no flag, you can have different degrees of privacy across different types of activities online. I said I wouldn’t mind them monitoring my game activity if I found it was used to improve one of their services. I was speculating. Just like you speculating that they do harvest the data and that they sell it to others ( not sure where that came from ). Also since you mention a steam account, do you think they’re not harvesting your data so they can sell you things ( at the very least ) ? Why are you giving up on privacy?

Point is if you’re online your activity will be monitored. If you want privacy play offline games on an offline machine, preferably on linux. Otherwise start to think about all the tools you use and if them harvesting your data is worth what you get in return

Pretty sure they do it but I don’t mind it that much. If they’re using that data to improve DLSS or whatever then it means at least it’s helping to improve a service.

https://www.reuters.com/business/nearly-90-videogame-developers-use-ai-agents-google-study-shows-2025-08-18/

Good luck finding a dev that doesn’t want to use/ isn’t forced to use / doesn’t lie about using AI tools.

Ar this point if we’re to shun all AI tools we might just give up the hobby.

Is this Valve’s way of gauging the market? Cause it sure feels like it

Ffs, Euronews does know we have snowy winters in europe too, right?

Also no, this does not qualify as an “extreme” winter. This would’ve been a regular winter not 15 years ago. Extreme winter is one where you would be snow in april in Spain or something.

Developers remain willing but reluctant

Management: “Maybe we’re not pushing hard enough”

Elite Dangerous. Always Elite Dangerous. But seriously, it’s a great time to get into E:D

Other than that, I’ve been having great fun with Escape From Duckov

I would much rather hear Dr. McCoy’s medical opinion if you don’t mind.

If the AI bubble pops I hear the US economy is fucked.

Wanna get invaded? Cause that’s how you get invaded

I try to go GOG first, so I can keep the installation kits offline. There are however a lot of good indies on Steam, and few of these ever get ported from there. Steam workshop is also fantastic and doesn’t really have a match on other platforms, and unlike GOG they provide good linux support. Also worth noting that some of the old games on GOG are inferior to their steam counterparts ( see Commander Keen for example ). So yes, I’d say both are good, but maybe prioritise GOG first.

Never heard of this game but it looks like a near identical Starbound clone.

Six hundred thousand? Jesus, that’s like 10% of the whole population

Imagine the downfall of framework being the donations made to some obscure (tankie?) dev that a part of the community does not agree with. This toxic “holier than thou” attitude of the linux community leads to fragmentation and will be the doom of the linux phone project too, I swear. Someone will find an obscure package developed by an asshole/tankie/nazi/whatever and will rage about how the project is now immoral because the project devs support it and insist on a public boycott. Why do some people seem to be unable to separate the software from the developer? Framework or the software dev is not your friend. Is their hardware/software decent and open? Cool, then keep using it, tankie devs be damned, or at least fork it and make your own morally pure version. But this endless bickering over what devs support will lead to nothing good.

Or you could do one better and come to romania to see some of these busses (especially the 70s-80s Saviems) still in service lol.

Thanks, I needed that

The irony, I swear

Edit: To add, we’ve had a similar situation with the romanian diaspora in europe voting mostly for the anti-eu candidate during the presidentials. The mind boggles.