Why? There are plenty of proper games that benefit from early access, and plenty of people that enjoy early access.

The greenlight system wasn’t any better, all it did was gatekeep indie developers while still being easy to manipulate.

I thought this was about the official live-action movie in the works.

This project earned $24k? That’s incredibly stupid. Who the hell would try funding this when Nintendo have made it VERY clear they will take down anything with their IP attached.

“It was a possibility that the team was always braced for” my ass. They knew it would get taken down but wanted to get the money first.

I pray this will be good, but I’m still skeptical on the idea of a multiplayer roguelike with the same assets of the original game. It might just be a cashgrab.

I haven’t delved into it much but the big change this time is that as eras change, so do leaders. So you can change from one leader to another mid-game for different bonuses and strats.

Also the “born too late to explore” also implies that people totally would’ve been free explorers back then.

Chances are you were going to be stuck in a village for your entire life tending to a farm, or die at age 17 with an arrow in your face in the middle of an army.

Especially in a game like Civ. it’s hard to know how people feel about it until a week or so later. I remember when Civ 6 was said to be the best game in the series on release, but after spending some time with it, it was lacking. Reviews like these are more of a first impressions.

100% disagree with the guy saying it’s not necessary. AW2 is a direct sequel of the first game, if you don’t at least watch a summary online you wont understand most of the story.

Yes, however the risk mentioned in the article is that it might get de-listed too.

Isn’t this just going to be taken down as soon as the publisher sends a DMCA?

Same here. If you build up layers of oil and stuff on the basket it’s never coming out. It’s not a big deal IMHO.

TL;DR is that Lemmy was originally created to make a Reddit alternative where communists could talk freely after they got tired of Reddit. Both .ML and Lemmygrad were created by the founders and were the most popular instances by far until we moved here.

Despite terrible moderation and really questionable activity, the devs never called ML the official instance and encouraged that people spread out to other instances. It’s still known as the tankie instance today.

It needs a hacked PS4

I understand it well. It’s still relevant to mention that you can run the distilled models on consumer hardware if you really care about privacy. 8GB+ VRAM isn’t crazy, especially if you have a ton of unified memory on macbooks or some Windows laptops releasing this year that have 64+GB unified memory. There are also websites re-hosting various versions of Deepseek like Huggingface hosting the 32B model which is good enough for most people.

Instead, the article is written like there is literally no way to use Deepseek privately, which is literally wrong.

DeepSeek is open source, meaning you can modify code(new window) on your own app to create an independent — and more secure — version. This has led some to hope that a more privacy-friendly version of DeepSeek could be developed. However, using DeepSeek in its current form — as it exists today, hosted in China — comes with serious risks for anyone concerned about their most sensitive, private information.

Any model trained or operated on DeepSeek’s servers is still subject to Chinese data laws, meaning that the Chinese government can demand access at any time.

What??? Whoever wrote this sounds like he has 0 understanding of how it works. There is no “more privacy-friendly version” that could be developed, the models are already out and you can run the entire model 100% locally. That’s as privacy-friendly as it gets.

“Any model trained or operated on DeepSeek’s servers are still subject to Chinese data laws”

Operated, yes. Trained, no. The model is MIT licensed, China has nothing on you when you run it yourself. I expect better from a company whose whole business is on privacy.

It’s been out on playstation for a while, but it just now released on PC.

Note: even though the game will be playable locally, they’re still going to de-list it, so grab it before then.

Additionally, when Season 5 finishes, the game will no longer be available to download via the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Steam, or Epic Games Store.​

This isn’t true. R1 trades blows with O1 which is the best model that OpenAI released so far - all the hype on O3 is just vaporware until we have an actual product. Most of the buzz isn’t because China made a comparable model with less, it’s because they released the weights for free.

Why would you pay $200/month to OpenAI when you can use R1 for free? Better yet, companies can now self-host it for better security and way cheaper costs. The hype is warranted.

I’ve had issues as well with installing games. The worst thing about Game Pass is that the games are installed deep in your file system that you can’t access normally. You have to fight with the file manager and mess with ownerships just to copy your save file…

Great, now when will they restore the games for the rest of the world? They’ve been removed on Steam since forcing PS accounts.