What's crazy is the replies in the updates... Like, they are trying to spin it that they weren't making a joke, they are 100% serious about not wanting to offend the clankers because "AGI Is right around the corner".

Don't. Just don't. Ever.

You can get really good performance in a VM if you can pass-through a GPU, which is a lot of tom-foolery or a second dedicated GPU since you can't have it passed through and working for your host OS at the same time. BUT, most anti-cheat is going to either block the game from running in a VM or just ban you outright for trying to "bypass" the anti-cheat.

All of this is even dumber when you realize EAC (which Epic makes) has Linux compatibility that other games use, but Epic specifically chooses to not allow in their games. I really think it is because they know it would only help the Steam Deck and Tim Sweeney really hates Valve.

Doubt the graphics is going to keep up in WinBoat enough to be playable, but even if it has improved that much in 3 months, it still isn't going to make the anti-cheat work in a VM.

Unfortunately, the best experience I've found (without installing windows on bare metal) for something like this is one of those game streaming services like geforce now or xbox game pass. You point your browser somewhere and play it with a bit of input lag. But both of those companies suck a whole lot, so I stopped using them (and I heard game pass is going to limit you to some absurd low number of hours per month, even on the top tier of game pass).

"that setup doesn't work - I know because it's exactly what I do"...??

Since it is not clear in the post, I wanted to point out that it is a third party “curator event” using steam.

Its sort of akin to there being an AI slop festival at your local community event center; that doesn’t mean the city is promoting it, someone has just signed up (maybe paying?) to use that space.

The "curator" in question has a meager 22 followers. This post has likely driven more traffic to their "sale" than Valve has.

I think you are confused with Tim Sweeney. Valve has been pushing for transparency around AI use in game production. Epic has been the store really pushing to hide it (so much that Tim got mad at Valve for not hiding it).

They only sort of are. It is a third party "event" using steam. Its sort of akin to there being an AI slop festival at your local community event center; that doesn't mean the city is promoting it, someone is just paying to use that space.

It is not actually a Steam promotion, like this did not come from Valve. It is some weird shit the AI bros are doing that uses steam as a platform.

The ones paying attention aren't.

I think Omacom is just the small fish "player" wanna-be's trying to do what the big guys are doing with AI. Playing 3 card monte with a few million dollars running the same few bucks around in circles so many times a quarter they all get to make numbers go big on balance sheet in the hopes of getting new real money from idiot "investors" before the FTC (or other regulatory body) wakes up and remembers they are supposed to regulate something occasionally and catches on.

I love LibreOffice.

My only complaint using it every day at work is [a complaint against microsoft] how much my company uses microsoft products (but won't shell out for office licenses for 90% of staff) and microsoft purposefully makes their shit not display or read Libre files correctly to try to keep their grubby monopoly claws dug into everyone.

My IT staff is too stupid to send announcements out to a BCC list and causes reply-all waves about once a month so I am not holding out hope that we make any progress as a company towards smart computing.