Just say Denuvno

There were quite a lot of people trying it out at Pax here. Hopefully it sells well so we get future hardware in a more timely manner 🤞

Non DRM Steam games also cannot be taken away from you once downloaded. To be fair GoG installers are a lot more accessible though.

I can’t carry it for you, Mr Frodo…but I can sit on you

Has anyone told them they can probably use AI to search for opportunities for lawsuits?

I hope they finally launch it officially, it’s been such a long time. I’m mostly hopeful that if they do launch the Steam Deck then they might also launch future hardware as well without such a big delay.

It’s a good point but the inverse is also true. Throughout history those in power have needed those below them to work. In cases where those doing the work are mistreated to a bad degree there is always the threat of withdrawing labour but if robots are doing everything, that threat becomes meaningless.

I personally think we would eventually end up in a much better place than we are now if we had full automation of all labour but I agree with the other commenter that it would likely be a painful process. Those who own the robots would have all the power at least initially. If they want to stop those below them from using robots? There are many solutions to that but ultimately if the rich have all the robots then they will effectively also have a monopoly of force too, assuming robots are significantly more combat capable than humans.

Like I said, personally I feel reasonably optimistic that it won’t come to that and we’ll end up in a good place, I just don’t want to downplay the risks too much.

Finished watching the rest of The Orville. I really enjoyed it!

They tried to replace him one time and the fans lost their shit, leading to a reversal. I remember the outrage, apparently he wasn’t even contacted for the role in Hitman Absolution and had no idea he wouldn’t be voicing it until the trailer came out for it with a different voice actor.

Fans tweeted at him asking why he wouldn’t be doing the voice this time around and he was just like “I have no idea guys, nobody has spoken to me about it at all.”

Oh man, I was going to wishlist it and wait but now I’ll have to buy it on launch week.

EDIT: Sabre Interactive understands that the Emperor’s light shields the faithful, making dark machine rites like Denuvo unnecessary. Such heretical rites only agitate the machine spirits, causing discordant whispers that play into the hands of the enemies of Man. The Omnissiah smiles upon this decision.

Were there some problems with sales of the previous Civ games or something that necessitate this?

I used to prioritise buying on other storefronts like GoG, but now I just wait for the game to come out on Steam. It’s simply too convenient. The fact that Steam may one day not be so good is not a particularly compelling reason for me, you could apply the same argument to every other storefront equally.

I’m going to use the service that puts money and effort into supporting Linux and provides the most convenience to me.

Surely it has nothing to do with Starcraft

/s

Oh yeah that would be a different story. All good!

TIL criticising a government’s actions is racist, actually

Get out of here, Russia

Fired up Cosmoteer again recently. It’s pretty fun to design your ship and slowly improve it over time. It’s been years since I played so I’m very much looking forward to sinking some more hours in and seeing what I can come up with. My ships are usually pretty ugly but hey, I still have fun with it.

I saw a bit of footage from a creator I follow and it looked alright to me. Could be the theme and setting doing a lot of heavy lifting to be fair though.

Won’t be a launch day purchase from me but I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on it.

Sounds like precision fermentation is probably a better solution, but we should be exploring all avenues for sure.