It’s almost like you’ve never played a video game before.

We’ve been calling enemy logic “AI” since at least the late 1980s. It again has nothing to do with ML, and no we do not need to all change for you because you decided to allow yourself to overreact.

Alyx is, I believe, considered a spin-off

Only if it’s upside down, above the knee, and not if they put a finger through it without breaking eye contact

And when they decide to shut it down, there’s no reason that the most recently downloaded map can’t just be played as-is.

If it’s a free-to-play game though I have less of a problem with this. But I still have a problem with it.

Yep. Well, yeah that and the CIA interference.

But seriously? Same thing happens under capitalism too. It’s not so much the economic structure as it is the desire for total control. Why do we so fetishize molding the world to our will when given the opportunity.

Sick little monkeys we are.

Linux doesn’t work on TV

proceeds to name 3 distros that not only work but do gaming

My brother in Christ…

It’s already wishlistable on Steam. I think it’s going to get a Switch 2 release but they already confirmed GamePass didn’t they?

I doubt Nintendo would make them an offer that’d get them to turn down being on GamePass at release. It’s not that big of a game, despite those of us who know being really excited.

After six years, if the community needs to provide feedback to get the game to good condition then Silksong will be considered a failure

That being said I think it’s going to be just fine. I don’t think it’s going to revolutionize metroidvanias though, and that is unfortunately going to upset a subset of people.

That is absolutely not the reason ANYONE recommends it, unless you are a complete noob and entirely unfamiliar with computer security at all, and are just pulling assumptions out of your ass. Don’t fucking do that, don’t post with confidence when you’re just making shit up because you think you know better. Because you don’t.

If there is a vulnerability in SSH (and it’s happened before), attackers could use that to get into root directly, quickly, and easily. It’s an instant own.

If root login is disabled, it’s way less likely that whatever bug it is ALSO allows them to bypass root login being disabled. Now they have to yeah, find a user account, compromise that, try to key log or session hijack or whatever they set up, be successful, and elevate to root. That’s WAY more work, way more time to detect, to install patches.

If the effort is higher, then this kind of attack isn’t going to be used to own small fry servers; it’s only be worth it for bigger targets, even if they’re more well protected.

If you leave root enabled, you’re already burnt. You’re already a bot in the DDoS network.

And why? You couldn’t be bothered to type one extra command in your terminal? One extra word at the start of each command?

Sorry bitch, eat your fucking vegetables

This is terrible advice.

“Just turn off your firewall bro, please bro, everyone just paranoid please bro enable remote root login bro 😢”

Then you can’t gain root privileges on your server. Are you really arguing for less security because it’s inconvenient?

This is end-user behavior and it’s honestly embarrassing. You should realize your security posture is much more important than “I left my phone on the other room”

Ok, hear me out:

Balatro…but it’s checkers

Why should it matter? No, seriously, why should we give up that right? If they want to disable online features like multiplayer or leaderboards then so be it - that’s understandable. Mods drive sales and interest in the very games they’re trying to sell.

And people do mod FOSS games, wdym

BitWarden now supports passkeys and has a free 2FA app.

No excuses not to be as secure as possible anymore.

The whole of the “www.pitchshifter.com” album is great. I honestly haven’t listened to much else of their stuff myself

Pitchshifter

Don’t do dual boot. Windows will purposefully fuck up your MBR so Linux disappears every update and it’s a bitch to fix.

Run that shit in a VM. It’s 2025 you will get good performance.

Actually it works in a whole bunch of Konami games, and of course some modern games have thrown it in as an homage.

Doesn’t Apple already call their zeroconf networking “Bonjour”? Is a single extra “r” going to keep their lawyers away?

As others have said, don’t build it on BitTorrent. You don’t need BT to do P2P, although you certainly can learn from it.