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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every laptop I’ve bought has come with Windows including gaming ones. Up to really powerful computers. Like having a 4080 in it or down to just integrated. I could be doing nothing and you’ll hear the fan spin up hard on Windows.

  On hardware with just integrated graphics, Windows just sucks compared to Linux. Fan spins up but you’ll still get animation hitches as Windows background services are doing something. Switch to Linux and resource usage just matches up really well with what you know you’ve installed and set to run. Just whatever is popular: Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, Pop_OS, etc compared to consumer Windows editions.

  Plus it’s nice installing an OS and not having to go through pages of telemetry opt-outs, encouragement to buy O365, OneDrive, Copilot+, Gamepass, create online MS account, etc. Windows went from a relatively neutral marketplace, besides the bundled software, to a platform for marketing MS and other companies subscription services

  Neutral base of fairly standardized open source Linux operating systems is going to show itself overtime as preferable as these controlled platforms get monetized harder. Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android are all in varying stages of being subscription and marketing data farms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The controls I thought were really easy but I played on PC so I could swing the mouse around and I don’t need to looks at the keyboard to hit almost any key. Then I played on a console and then I understood the hate for Witcher 3 controls. I remember it feeling very heavy. Weird to control the camera and Geralt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Steam has been able to do that since launch, though I do remember the legendary loading bar that would progress then regress then progress and regress all with the same text message there so it wasn’t perfect in 2003. Roller coaster early on but by like 2007 it was pretty solid

  I’m pretty sure EA Origin was able to do that day one or within a year of release. Origin was OK from what I remember just that it took stayed stagnant and I’m guessing onboarding games to the platform being a terrible process considering how sparse releases were on there

  Steam is a mature platform. It doesn’t roll out new user facing features often. Yet somehow I think the gap has widened since 2018 vs EGS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been I think about 7 years and it’s not feature competitive for end users with 2011 Steam even though they definitely make more money than 2004-2011 Valve and by 2018 had 14 years of history to look at and feature target based off what competition offered

  The CEO was regularly on Twitter complaining about Windows but refused to help grow Linux adoption. Valve has been doing that since like 2012. He constantly talks about standing with small developers but then in the Apple court case admits they would have been quiet if Apple gave them a special revenue split deal. He complains about Steam and mobile store cuts but doesn’t complain about consoles having the same.

  Exclusive deals in lieu of providing a better experience for the end user. Talked up so much about being superior because they’re developer focused; didn’t have self publishing tools until the end of 2023 - 5 years after EGS launched. It’s been 7 years. They haven’t made PC gaming any better. They made it worse for a time when they were throwing cash at exclusives rather than store platform feature development

  Recent example of how bad they are with pushing minimal viable products. EGS mobile store was launched the beginning of this year with no library view. You just scroll up and down, side to side looking for games you own mixed among games you don’t own. Their concept of minimal viable product is insanely mediocre for how vocal the CEO is and how much money they make and their turnaround time on improving these stores is awful.

  There are numerous Android storefronts that don’t have Unreal Engine and Fortnite money keeping the companies funded and somehow Epic comes out the gate mediocre again where it’s marketing is free games but it’s mobile games so what’s available is way less headline worthy. They learned nothing from 2018 about the difference between what they consider a minimal viable product and what the market would consider a market competitive minimal viable product

  Years ago Epic put out a kanban board to display a public feature development tracker to assure people they were working on improving the store. They abandoned that quick and I’m pretty sure what few they had on that, most still haven’t been implemented

  Their support for handheld is at the level of GOG which barely markets itself and is pretty low revenue as it rarely gets any games that aren’t years old. Whether Windows or Linux, Epic for all their billions haven’t created a gamepad/TV centric interface

  The CEO is a regular blowhard virtue signalling about liberty/freedom on Twitter but can’t be bothered to try and pioneer anything for users as a storefront. Since 2018 EGS has been so stagnant while Valve has been expanding Steam as a platform, that EGS is less relevant to me today than when they were throwing out major free games every month. I have no faith in the platform to integrate WINE/Proton, put together a TV/gamepad interface, do something like Steam curators, comparable user review system, crowd sourced game tags - a lot of useless stuff makes it in those but I find them regularly useful at a glance as it’s usually pretty obvious which are probably jokes and which are probably legit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never get the mind blowness some people get about a hypothetical future Xbox branded handheld that could runs all these stores that can play PlayStation games. It’s a PC. You can play PlayStation games on Windows devices for years now. It’s not a gotcha big brain strategic masterpiece on Microsofts part. Pay Valve to play PlayStation games. Current Xbox gamers in the future pay Valve to play 3rd party games rather than Microsoft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not buying it. GTAV was the least played for me in the series besides the first 2 games. I thought it’s story was a major downgrade compared to Vice City through GTAIV. I feel like GTAV was a pullback from any bit of endearing human spirit to leaning heavily into wacky self-aware sarcasm. Not that the series wasn’t that. Just that 5 to me was an edgy non-clever series parody. It’s not that different than Far Cry. Empty commentary. Just mocking everything. Felt more affection in the 3 series and 4

  Regardless since GTAIV, we’ve had a gluttony of open world games. Even the battle royale games I think fill in a niche for social multiplayer that’s wacky and real world pop culture referential. GTAVI and it’s RP community support I think will be what sends it past or below GTAV success. High sales expectations but I’m more tepid than most

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft may as well just cancel their whole Xbox hardware business. Xbox Series is a secondary market for Microsoft games after PlayStation and any console successor they release is going to limp to the starting line. At least the XSX had hype from the Bethesda acquisition and previous Obsidian/Inxile/etc acquisitions

  Really we all need a Steam Deck 2 and a stronger Valve produced Strix Halo mini-PC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’ll happen soon. Tariffs threw a wrench in everyone’s plan but Strix Halo currently exists. Ryzen 395+ is in minipc’s now and should give a solid ~PS5 level experience that should come down in price over time as AMD releases successor generations. At least now could be cheaper with Valve putting somethings out with razor thin margins expecting to get return from software sales

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even going back to the 90s video game magazines and their reviews were ragged on as marketing material for publishers but there was still some semblance of reverence over the years for the big magazines and websites (IGN and Gamespot. Maybe 1Up). After the Kane and Lynch Gamespot review fiasco, that to me was when gamer internet discourse over game journalism tanked to ever worsening hostility towards games reporters/journalist.

  That Kane and Lynch review scandal tanked Gamespots reputation. That was probably also the era of making fun of the game awards guy as the Dorito/Mountain Dew Pope with that Spike TV video game award show

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Says bought by parent company of thegamer and gamerant. I associate those with click/rage bait

  It’s the cycle most gaming publications go through. I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website

  Become games media big and then become more and more a game guide completionist blogspam website and milking a single interview into like 30 articles. Then terminate out as an AI generated articles Google SEO advertising revenue farm putting out articles like, “Has Persona 6 been Announced Yet?” that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh ya gamesir. I have a gamesir gamepad for my phone. Really good. They’ll have trouble with tariffs pricing too though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best gamepads. It’ll be a wasteland again once again once stock runs out

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cities skylines 2 was way more ambitious than the first game but they barely scaled up the size of the studio over the years and then pushed out a half baked product. I remember they tried to play the scrappy indie studio in defense of the games state at launch as if they hadn’t released the most popular city builder of the last like 15 years and oodles of DLC since along with niche hits in the City in Motion games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of desktop applications, looks like Element and Revolt look pretty comparable these days. Mobile app Revolt looks better to me. Matrix seems way more established considering downloads of Element (there’s numerous Matrix applications) on Google Play and FlatHub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run it medium with a 7600xt at 3440x1440. Seems fine to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Mod Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why some people think Skyblivion is some threat to Bethesda Elder Scrolls games at all. Mods are always going to be more niche than fully marketed and funded maintained commercial storefront releases.

  Skyblivion is going to be limited to what the latest Skyrim release engine supports while this remaster has Unreal Engine 5 stapled on top as the graphics renderer. They added new voice acting. People are developing mod toolchains for the remaster. It’s more substantial than the vast majority of remasters we’ve seen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 price to rise in Europe, Australia and New Zealand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a PC that I mainly use for video/RAW photo processing. 7950x, 7600xt, Linux. I still game on it more than on my PS5 or Switch. Really hard to buy games on the PS5 or Switch when they’re so much cheaper on PC. Plus how much years of paying for PS+ adds up to. 7 years of PS+ Extra is a gaming PC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 price to rise in Europe, Australia and New Zealand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PS6 when that comes is going to launch at price that will make people rage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I play PC because my copy of StarCraft from like 2000 still works and I can use any computer/gaming in history that still physically works to this day on a PC. A PC is more compatible with PS4 peripherals/gamepads than a PS5. Plus not paying for the privilege to play multiplayer games that a developer is hosting in AWS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never rapidly lost so much interest in an electronic as fast as the switch 2 reveal to seeing the game prices a few hours later

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Double whammy of mistrust in media - I think worse with video games as that’s been viewed like it’s tied to the hip as a marketing arm since 90s gaming magazines.

  Other whammy I think is PC gaming. Tradiitonal video game journalist rarely get the scoop on the popular game of the week in a timely manner. The popular game of the week is almost always some random game on Steam. FFVII Rebirth is the most impressive game since at least Cyberpunk 2077 and it didn’t go viral with gamers but traditional video game publications spent months writing a lot of articles about that game

  Traditional video game isn’t proper to cover gaming which is now core to what is viral. Hyping up AAA games is mild attention compared to the latest Palworld. It even goes back to ~2010 when traditional games media had and continues to have no answer to esports. Starcraft 2 then LoL/Heroes of Newerth/DOTA2 then CSGO then DayZ then PUBG then Fortnite then etc. Traditional games media has very little cultural relevance these days. Not just these days, really the past decade

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When Ubisoft introduced always online DRM with AC2, I was out. It’s nice with the Internet how much being anti-Ubisoft has become common enough to be unsurprising

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who call the PS1 'PSX' make me want to kill kittens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever heard how super Saiyan is said in Japanese, the base language of the series?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No. They aren’t available widespread enough off the Internet, not marketed enough, too heavy. Maybe a hypothetical future Switch 2 and Switch Lite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The more people hop onto Linux the faster and better funded support for Linux development becomes. If you’re a single player gamer or play Valve multiplayer games primarily, make the jump to Linux. Get on Mint, get on Fedora, Ubuntu, etc and get off Microsoft’s shitboat. You already took off from Reddit. Wean off all these other money/data leeches

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d pay for native linux support. They should provide direct support to Heroic if they don’t want to take on the cost themselves full bore. I remember some AMA they did where the cost of Linux wasn’t worth their already thin margins and they were happy with Heroic. If they were ever going to grow, I’d believe that they would need to address the handheld market and getting their storefront more visible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for privacy-focused, open-source alternatives to corporate apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say try Linux. Ubuntu or Fedora and you’ll realize how much of your computer usage is based out a web browser and it doesn’t matter whether you have a Linux, Mac, or Windows computer

  Email you’ll be stuck with some corporate entity that won’t be 100% open source. Running an email server and your emails not being filtered is a pain. I use Proton applications for email, VPN, and Dropbox type service. They have a calendar but hard to beat google calendar

  Signal for pretty much texting. I actually have around a dozen people I primarily message through Signal so it’s viable for me

  Matrix/Element for something like discord.

  Onlyoffice, Libreoffice, or WPS Office instead of MS Office. WPS may not be open source

  Browser use Firefox or Firefox forks

  Krita, Darktable, GIMP for image editing

  KeepassXC for my desktop password manager and whatever is available on Android

  Maps you can use Organic Maps

  Video editing i use kdenlive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mavs raise ticket costs, cite 'investments' in team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The rest of the year and next are going to be a ghost town or it’ll be the cheapest away game for people to fly to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll buy it too. First time hearing of it