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- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 5 days ago:
The was absolutely a queue.
Source: I was in it.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 5 days ago:
People got errors during the check out,
And? With the queue, people were able to continue submitting orders as things calmed down. There will always be a rush to be first. The queue handles it better by not outright denying those who didn’t make it in right away. This also reduces the FOMO that funds scalpers’ abuse of the system.
As for account age, it doesn’t really matter when it is set at - any limitation reduces the number of bots able to spam real users out of a purchase. Admittedly, that only really helps if there’s also a limit on number of units bought, which I don’t think was implemented this time, either, for whatever reason.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 6 days ago:
They did a hardware launch perfectly for the Deck - Account of minimum age needed, and a queue to buy as devices became available. Why the hell did they go with the old, shit version that only serves scalpers that use bots to scoop up every item?
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
This is they guy you’re making excuses for: lemmy.ca/…/2814c61f-f3a2-43f6-a9d4-f07ab171b2ce.p…
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 weeks ago:
All these concern trolling articles about Valve’s “monopoly”. We never get this shit about Youtube, Windows, local ISPs and other utilities, etc. Super subtle, guys.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 weeks ago:
If Gaben leaves or dies, Valve is probably fucked.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
I’d love for this asswipe to just shut up forever, but maybe if he keeps piping up more people will understand how terrible he is.
- Comment on Breaking Baddie 4 weeks ago:
Is he fucking Pablo Escobar? Or is he fucking Pablo Escobar?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sloppers have patreons? What a joke.
- Comment on Anon has a bad dream 1 month ago:
Or the third line.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
can we talk about how pursuit predation is terrifying?
They made a fantastic movie about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 month ago:
I can fault them for choosing to push the button and for just accepting that the result is “pretty” without rebuke. For defending the end result against those of us criticizing it. The companies may be responsible for the pushed adoption of this ridiculousness, but people are the ones happily going along with it and actively defending it.
- Comment on Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced 1 month ago:
People that issue death threats for shit like this are absolute trash excuses of humans. That said, DF is trying to double-dip here, sychopantically hyping a product unreservedly and then acting like they still have the credibility to act like objective critics. What a joke.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 month ago:
That’s unfortunately a lot of people going by the amount of “fixed” (ie slopppified) art and photos I see going around online.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 month ago:
That said, theres been so much focus on how it looks. IMO, its completely overblown, especially when all of this needs to be manually configued on a game-by-game basis. Devs can tweak the settings to their own preferences, and make things more or less extreme.
It’s wild that every defense of this garbage is “Just have devs spend even more time finetuning for this.” Yes, let’s double (or more) the workload of workers that are already overworked and crunched beyond reason, all for a “feature” that looks like garbage in it’s showcase demo and is so resource intensive that very few users will be able to utilize it, if they even want to.
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 1 month ago:
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
a consumer GPU
That’s a stretch for a demo that’s using two GPUs working in tandem that each cost roughly a month’s salary of a US worker ($3k).
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
Good point. I was too distracted by the shadows/reflections on the ground appearing and disappearing for no discernible reason to notice much else in that shot.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
plugging themselves into the matrix, dick first.
That made me laugh. New to me, but that has to have been done already, right? I mean, the “jack off” joke is right there.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
I hope so. They’re going to be responsible for maintaining the art while we weather through this shit storm. Hopefully it all falls apart soon.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
You joke, but this is actually something people are trying to do.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
Was able to brace myself enough to skim through the video. Anyone that watches those clips and thinks that looks better has no place working on anything related to visual tech. Not only is the interpolation obvious and distracting, every scene, no matter the time of day, location, or anything else, has the exact same shitty lighting that washes out every shadow and color painstakingly added to the scene by actual professionals. Pro-tip: A white-balanced image is the starting point, not the end-goal. Making every game look exactly the same is fucking terrible, you hacks.
I can only hope this shit only finds its way into the AAAA dross that’s not worth playing already.
- Comment on The Ridiculousness of Film Compilations 1 month ago:
Is someone forcing you to watch all of these movies? If so, you should probably call the police instead of whinging online.
- Comment on big facts 2 months ago:
They also seem to believe wi-fi “powers everything”? What a loon.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Gameplay Reveal 2 months ago:
Here’s hoping this game gets out the door before he can do too much damage.
- Comment on Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth" 2 months ago:
Fucking dammit. One of the few big-ish studios out there worth following.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 3 months ago:
Itch is exclusively indie devs, afaik, but since Steam started their Greenlight initiative, the number of games released per year has rocketed up. 2012, the year Greenlight started, only 441 games were released on steam. Two years later in 2014, almost 1500 games were released. 2017 released 5600. 2021 released 10,200. And last year had over 21k. How much of that do we think is really DRM’d, AAA published software?
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 3 months ago:
In terms of straight numbers, isn’t Steam’s large “advantage” there it’s offering of independent, mostly unregulated games from small time devs? Are those really using drm? Even if there are, I don’t really think most users are choosing Steam over GOG for access to “Asset Flip #57354”.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 3 months ago:
unessisaryunecessaryJust a little correction.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 3 months ago:
Just to be clear, distributing on Steam adds nothing functional to a game’s playability on the Steam Deck (afaik). A game from GOG can be played in a Deck just as well as one from Steam, albeit with slightly more effort.
That said, I know customers will flow toward the path of least resistance, so even a little more effort will push them towards a different source.
