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Does it? It looks completely generic to me, replace the characters and the alien species and you could have any other franchise in there.

The trailer goes like: boringly obvious convo > spy movie flash cuts > obvious convo > obvious reveal > Liara! > boring fight scene where MC has no challenge (oh look, they used one ability!). There's nothing that could indicate this being a good successor to the trilogy, enough to warrant a 5. At least with Andromeda it was clearly a spin off. I don't see how this trailer gives any indication aside from Liara that this matters at all for the Mass Effect mainline story and universe.

Fans are just desperate, and on denial. Mass Effect is a trilogy, it ended with ME3. There are no further stories to tell on the main timeline.

I watched it again on my pc just to see if I had missed anything. The only thing is that they were apparently calling it Mass Effect Universe, not ME5, so it seems this was also supposed to be a spin off. It could've been fun, but I doubt it would've been more than just an okay game.

Although I do think the picture is grin, I was looking through some of those slop games and it was very clear that they were getting no interactions and no players. Discussions were completely empty, no store reviews, and not a single sign of engagement, even for games that would have attracted quite a lot of people, like a farming/deck build game that I saw, that had a cute artstyle, but that zero obvious interests from the community.

What I have been doing is that I always scroll all the way down to the bottom of a store page to check their AI disclaimer, if they have any gen-ai shit, I am immediately out. I believe a lot of the community has been doing the same. So it's not entirely fair to say Steam has been doing nothing to address the situation, they have, you just need to check if there is any AI disclaimer yourself.

The only other thing I wish they would do, is to have an AI filter that can be turned on and hide all games with AI generation in their disclaimer, and maybe even allow you to distinguish between gen AI on coding and gen AI on art and things like that.

But I also don't want Steam to block AI games. To me, it is the consumer's choice if they want to play AI games or not, just having it be clearly shown what is AI or not, for me, it's enough.

Edit: my didaction fucked up at the end

DA:O and the Mass Effect trilogy are quite good games, both story and gameplay-wise.

I'm only afraid that Gamers will actually fucking buy it, and Microsoft (and others) will learn that gamers will keep buying consolee for almost 2k dollars, and then future consoles will never go down in price. Just like it happened with graphics cards, when Nvidia learned that gamers would buy 2x Titan class gpus (which were not supposed to be a gaming card), and then discovered they could sell a 90 class for 1500+ dollars (and going up with each generation) and the fuckers would still gladly buy it, and that they would also still buy cards with prices inflated at 200~300% values during the crypto boom.

I think the worst problem with GIMP is not that it isn't a powerful enough tool, but that they make it a point of the project to make it as distinct as possible from photoshop, so a lot of pros don't really want to even bother learning how to use it. I have tried using it a few times in place of my pirated copy of Photoshop (whenever it stops working), and everytime I try, it baffles me how making something that is obvious and intuitive in photoshop needs 5x more work to do it in GIMP.

They're not insane, just not cowards. The french truly does have some backbone. There's not a single civil rights victory that was not achieved through violence, as that's the only thing the Elites actually understand and fear.

I don't know why you got downvoted, as you're completely correct. Here in Brazil we have two candidates: Flávio "I'll sell the country to the USA" Bolsonaro, and Lula "our country is ours". And it's easy to see which one is getting support from the USA. Just this week it was proved that Meta was negatively impacting the social media reach of posts about Lula, while their Meta AI was outright refusing to make content about Lula.

Tried for like 15 minutes, it's painfully slow (click once to cock and then once to shoot, repeat until six-shooter is empty, reload bullets one by one). But what really bothered me is how much they stop the game to handhold you, the tutorial forces you to go through a lot of: "stop and parry this attack!" "stop and shoot this guy in the head!". The game literally stops you from doing anything else. I couldn't be bothered to go further if that's what they think a tutorial should be like in 2026.

For me it works fine with several different controllers, just have to have a kbm as a backup because if an application takes full control of the controller (like steam does), the desktop doesn't automatically recovers control if you go back to it.

Nothing else is changing. No account required, no ads, no tracking, no strings attached. Your data remains fully in your control, stored locally in plain text Markdown files. All features are available to you for free without limits.

Shit! I'm soon to go Linux and now there's one more thing for me ro figure out then. I have some stuff (not a lot, but some important stuff) on OneNote, lucky me that I made the switch to Obsidian a couple of years ago.

The alternative to Ryujinx... Is Ryujinx itself. And soon something else. It has been forked, archived and mirrored. Someone will pick up the project, even if just out of spite against Nintendo.

TL;DR: AOOSTAR's GODY mini PC offers a Ryzen 9 7940HX and RX 7600 XT GPU for $849, undercutting Valve's Steam Machine price, but it lacks RAM and storage, requiring users to add DDR5 memory and an SSD amid high DRAM prices. It runs Windows 11 and is larger than the Steam Machine.

Also no storage. So it's probably around the same price-to-benefit ratio of a steam machine: lacks the smaller footprint, tighter integration (including steam controller dock built in), no CEC (if you care about that); gains better upgradability, better gpu and cpu. Probably noisier as well, considering the higher tdp.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that 16 cores is pointless upgrade for pure gaming.

Instead of buying this, I'd just build a pc myself. This is the thing these steam machine killers are not getting: the gabe cube is not made for people who can build a pc on their own, it's made for the ones who want to have a pc-console that just works, no faffing about, no tinkering, no opening up and figuring out if the ram is seated properly or not. It's for those that want plug, sit and play.

They can dick about as much as they want, piracy will make sure to preserve the things they want gone. The reason they don't want older games to be preserved is that new generations, whilst playing them, may come to realize that you don't need gacha mechanics, stupid fomo, micro transactions, 6 different currencies, 3 different shop menus, 2 battlepasses and so forth to have a good game.

Baller move from the devs. I wish we lived in a world where the source code of older games were all released and freely available for non-commercial uses.

Watch their announcement video on youtube, it screams VC funding scam. The whole announcement is basically just the CEO sitting on a couch and making outrageous claims, while all the supporting data and graphs carry the disclaimer "pre-silicon simulated benchmarks". They say they're going to have a live demo this month and in the following months, but they don't even have real silicon, while also claiming they're going to be shipping cards by Q4 2026.

Piracy is our friend. If Steam ever goes to shit, gamers would go back to piracy.

There was actually a case in Brazil recently where a girl left her male friend alone during a hike, and the guy got lost and stayed 5 days surviving alone in the jungle near the mountain until he was eventually found alive. Almost no news outlet mentions that he was abandoned, but there is a video from the girl who was supposed to be with him saying that she left him behind and out of her sight. No news outlet blamed the woman like they would if the gender roles had been reversed.