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I'm seeing discounts and (presumably always) "free to play" games, not giveaways.

Dungeon of the Endless 100% off on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/249050/Dungeon_of_the_ENDLESS/ https://slickdeals.net/f/16815860-dungeon-of-the-endless-pc-digital-download-free-via-steam Also some of the DLC: https://store.steampowered.com/app/410940/Dungeon_of_the_ENDLESS__Death_Gamble_Update/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/407210/Dungeon_of_the_ENDLESS__Organic_Matters_Update/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/744930/Dungeon_of_the_ENDLESS__Digital_Artbook/ YMMV on making this one work: https://store.steampowered.com/app/365940/Dungeon_of_the_ENDLESS__Australium_Update/

The Whisperer 100% off on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_whisperer The giveaway ends on July 17th 2023, at 1 PM UTC.

Betrayer 100% off on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/betrayer https://slickdeals.net/f/16776803-betrayer-pc-digital-download-free-via-gog

Beholder 2 100% off on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/beholder_2 The giveaway ends on July 3rd 2023, at 1 PM UTC.

I can guarantee you that some actual artists are using AI as a tool that complements the human mind. You can feed your sketches or finished work into it (image-to-image) to generate more details, and the best AI art seen today often involves an digital artist cleaning up the AI mistakes by hand (Photoshop). But in general, the artistically unskilled/uninclined are having their human creativity amplified by AI. People have ideas, and now they can make them a reality without hiring anyone or spending 10,000 hours learning how to draw. Exercising their creativity might inspire them to learn the basics of art, to become better at using the AI. I think you will see a drop-off in low effort content that is spat out instantly by AI, whether that's images, videos, or symphonies. In a sea of AI-generated content, the best or most interesting (viral) will rise to the top, and that will tend to favor the things that had some effort put into them. You might not even realize that AI was part of the process. If you listen to a symphony or other music created partially/fully by AI and you enjoy it, what then? Is it "bad" once you know AI was involved?

I didn't recognize that as TDM at first, because the lighting is so unusual. The window asset gives it away though.

That looks very familiar. I think I've played that or a ripoff/clone.

Ancient Enemy 100% off on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/ancient_enemy The giveaway ends on June 29th 2023, at 1 PM UTC.

Hell Division 100% off on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/hell_division The giveaway ends on June 23rd 2023, at 1 PM UTC.

Eschalon: Book II 100% off on GOG https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim https://www.gog.com/en/game/eschalon_book_ii Appears to be an old-school turn-based isometric RPG. Edit: The first game in the series should always be free: https://basiliskgames.com/purchase-games/

Have slippery ice surfaces ever been used in a TDM mission? I can't remember encountering it. I only vaguely remember encountering that in some T1/T2 fan missions.

The next-gen "search engine AI" could be very similar to the "toy" ChatGPT, just with an added component that forces it to take into account manually curated facts that are related to the topic. That or maybe we need strong AI to make that particular application usable without being a hallucination free-for-all.

100% off Sigma Theory: Global Cold War on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/sigma_theory_global_cold_war https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

Frame time in milliseconds. I don't know exactly how the tool is measuring it, because it's not a naïve "1000 / FPS = X ms" which is what you want it to be close to. Bad frame timing can indicate stuttering.

I heard frame generation works better when there are already a lot of frames, covering for the input lag issue. So it will probably be one of the tricks used to hit 500-1000 FPS.

If you own Warhammer: Vermintide 2 on Steam, or got it when it was free in November 2022, you can get this DLC for free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2445960/Warhammer_Vermintide_2__Karak_Azgaraz/ https://slickdeals.net/f/16716689

Crusader Kings 2 + DLC 100% off on GOG https://slickdeals.net/f/16717709-crusader-kings-ii-pc-digital-download-free-via-gog https://www.gog.com/game/crusader_kings_ii

Bad fit for TDM, maybe not impossible for a mapper with good scripting skills to make happen. It might end up more like a list of fetch objectives before sneaking aboard some ship, rather than something meant to affect gameplay.

I always crank up gamma. Maybe I'll stop once I get a proper OLED/microLED display.

Sunblaze 100% off on GOG https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim https://www.gog.com/en/game/sunblaze

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-5-5600x3d-6-core-cpu-with-3d-v-cache-is-reportedly-coming Rumored 5600X3D coming to AM4.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/videos/the-way-to-black-heart-manor It looks like the original video might be lost or very buried, but here's some details for it. Posted September 9, 2008 6:43 duration 720x576 resolution "The Way To Black Heart Manor" TDM_BLACKHEART.avi Just kidding, it works on ModDB, the first browser I tried didn't load it. https://cdn.dbolical.com/cache/videos/mods/1/4/4000/encode720p_mp4/TDM_BLACKHEART.avi.mp4 I downloaded. >100 MB, a bloated re-encode of the ~50 MB original. Same 720x576 res.