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- Comment on BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m 16 hours ago:
This should be criminal, somehow.
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 1 day ago:
You raktajino drinking nerf herder!
^no politics, no block?
I bet you are a cardassian spy!
^dangerous blocking territory? - Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 1 day ago:
60% of anticheat implementations need to be fixed. 682 total titles. https://areweanticheatyet.com/
You just need to convince developers of a handful of titles, like fortnite, apex, valorant, BF2042, bf6, rust, R6 siege, league of legends, call of duty 2025… should be easy right?
It’ll never happen. The ones who are fanatical about it like the rust guy believe carte blanche that linux support will only make cheating worse and not positively improve the community. He doesn’t care about linux sales, the windows ones throw so much dosh at him that there’s no “market force” incentivizing him otherwise.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 2 days ago:
When Linux market share hits 20% it would be a monumental achievement, and developers would probably still avoid it.
Don’t get me wrong, I moved to Linux this year. I want to see it gain traction in the gaming space.
It’s just not likely to happen any time soon. Loads of very basic use cases are a fucking shitshow because of a lot of reasons.
Just getting sunshine setup with a virtual display is a nightmare on Wayland without scripts to enable/disable displays and without being in front of the computer you want to remote to, because the simple logic of “if this display =off, then other display =on” is not a thing.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 2 days ago:
Still not going to convince some stubborn hold outs like the rust guy. Nothing will ever convince them.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
I wasn’t one of those people who thought the switch 2 would fail though. I knew it would be a huge commercial success. Just like how every single zelda game that ever comes out will be a huge commercial success, same for pokemon, metroid, mario, and other titles with enormous multigenerational fanbases. They could release the worst game of all time and still get 9 figure revenues out of it from branding alone and reviewers would still slap a 8/10 or 9/10 on the game. At least nintendo generally isn’t another EA/sportsball/call of duty style yearly release churn like so many devs though. I’ll give them that.
Pokemon still sucks compared to Palworld or any number of other pokeclones that are less commercially successful due to lack of brand recognition. The last metroid game that isn’t a remaster was less than ten hours long, which also sucks.
The switch 2 is also the first console release in many years to not have extreme scarcity. It’s been less than a year and I can pickup at msrp a switch 2 today at the closest B&M stores to my house. I’m right by a major city and we’re usually the last ones to have stock available due to population density. It took years to be able to buy a ps5 at retail without getting very lucky. Not surprised that nintendo has made so many sales.
Will say though I have completely stopped using the switch 1 ever since I picked up a deck in 2023. Monthly active users for Steam have doubled since Jan 2020. https://steamdb.info/app/753/charts/#6y - there are more pc gamers than ever, and we’re seeing consoles start to fade away it feels like, like the arcade cabinets before them. I don’t think steam will replace nintendo in any way, but I do think there is way more potential for growth on the PC side than the nintendo side.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
I’m saying Zelda Breath of the Wild and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. I figured it was implied. Those are both goty tier flagship titles for the old switch.
I’m asking if you think donkey kong bananza lives up to those or surpasses those. DKB is a 18 hour game according to how long to beat. Everything else in the running costs less and/or has way more play hours.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
Ah cool, so it’s better than say either of the Zelda games? since multiple releases this year seem to be on that tier.
I know it has high reviews but I am always doubtful it’s more of a hype review especially when people are desperate to justify their $500 hardware+game bundle purchase on top of their $70 20-hour game
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
I kind of figure death stranding too. It at least has sounded like it deserves to be up there even though it basically just fits in to the “ps5 exclusive” slot.
Blue Prince sounds like it’s the Myst of this generation too, but that kind of game just doesn’t draw appeal in modern times. Everything i’ve heard about it points to it being a game that way more people should probably try, but they just haven’t. Puzzle games rarely get mass appeal.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
For me, I found it to be a beautiful work of art and a heartbreaking story about family.
It’s not a mass appeal title that absolutely everyone will love though. The game is not particularly easy and it takes time to develop the story.
Every time you get to the end of an act in Expedition 33 there is so much emotion. If you aren’t following the story, don’t get emotionally attached to the games you play and the stories of the characters, and aren’t patient enough to enjoy it then obviously it won’t be for you. That’s ok. It’s all art. They all mean different things to each one of us.
I’m confident we’ll get another hades, another silksong, another death stranding. I’m sure they’re all the very best representation of their iterative releases and worthy of the highest of praises too. I don’t even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.
I don’t know if i’ll ever be as impressed by another title as I did by expedition 33. Baldur’s Gate 3 amazed me in other ways a couple years ago and it’s a huge feat. Before that for me it was Elden Ring, amazing for other reasons.
I haven’t started kingdom come deliverance 2 yet, and I never played the first one, so I don’t want to say too much. All of the impressions i’ve heard sound like it is very deserving though. My assumption is that this and Exp33 have been the two GOTY contenders, but we’ll see.
- Comment on Bill Clinton be like 1 week ago:
We should have known it wasn’t his first time.
- Comment on Steam Machine is huge for indie development 1 week ago:
They’re marketing where it matters, to people who use their platform.
They sent out all the demo units for reviewers to hit the wider gaming audience on PC.
This stuff is never gonna convert console users who don’t already have steam accounts.
- Comment on A place for conservatives 1 week ago:
I’ve been marathoning the old twilight zone episodes and it’s amazing how much today’s reality feels like we’re living in one of those episodes.
Makes me wonder what Rod Serling would say today.
- Comment on A place for conservatives 1 week ago:
American “conservatives” are anything but conservative.
They’re hyper liberal. They’re ripping up precedent left and right to institute how the think things “should be” as if it’s 250 years ago. The billionaires want slavery. They want to eradicate all minorities and anybody who isn’t white. They don’t have the support to do all of this all at once, so they’re starting with the people who will never support them first. Take away the support of the opposition and more and more unpopular actions can be taken to push things towards an oligarch controlled white christian nationalist organization.
They’re spending money like crazy but only in ways that support them politically. They’re trying to drive out anything that is remotely left ideologically until the middle is the left, and then they’re next.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 1 week ago:
This is zombocom
- Comment on Steam Machine is huge for indie development 1 week ago:
I wish this was a likely outcome but realistically steam hardware is too small a userbase. They are most likely to get performance profiles for their hardware due to the standardization and free steam marketing of compatibility, but windows users are still a supermajority.
- Comment on Yo dawg, heard you like fedoras 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if it would be easier to go the other way. Run an 11 and build 10 in it. Build 12 and put the 11 containing 10 in it… etc etc
Now I want to undertake this entirely pointless task. Maybe next week when things are dead.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
There’s no display, no battery, no controller included, no OS fees.. I think it could be cheaper than $800.
Because it’s all custom hardware we don’t really have a great basis for comparison. I’m going to guess that the cheapest variant will be something like $650. Doubt more than $700 though.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
This absolutely must be a skin for the fucking thing. If they want to be baller they can include a handle that sticks on too.
- Comment on Yo dawg, heard you like fedoras 2 weeks ago:
Don’t stop, keep going.
Fedora 40 https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/40/Workstation/x86_64/iso/
Fedora 39 https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/39/Workstation/x86_64/iso/
Fedora 38… https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/38/Workstation/x86_64/iso/
It’s fedora all the way down man. If you’re gonna keep going back the archive goes back to fedora 10. Where will it break?
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
The worst part are all the games that have anticheat that totally works fine on linux, but they simply don’t allow it to function in their game. At least there’s a list https://areweanticheatyet.com/
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
It can’t really replace mouse and keyboard though. Not unless developers start designing games to work that way, and these touchpads are exclusive to an ultraminority of the hardware market share. The deck gives you that virtual keyboard which kinda works with the touchpads but it’s not ideal.
There’s no shortage of amazing games that are fully compatible with controllers though, thankfully.
Btw have you tried a trackball? i’ve been using a thumb based one like a logitech M575 for the better part of 30 years, ever since I saw one at CompUSA. Professionally 100% of my time is spent with one, and I used to have top tier KDR in counter strike 1.X back in the day (though I use normal mice for gaming usually nowadays.)
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s also some overall ignorance about how linux works with drivers too. They assume they’re going to have a steam deck-like experience that is easy and just works, but they don’t realize the valve chosen hardware’s drivers are built into the OS by valve.
Everybody wants an OS that “just works” - it’s the least interesting part of computing for users. It’s simply the thing that lets you actually do what you want to do with comptuers. Be it a HTPC, a console-like experience or something else. Drivers ruin all of it though especially when you’re bringing your own hardware.
I don’t see any likelihood that we’re gonna leave the existing driver-hell for a more streamlined experience either. It’s definitely gotten better over the years but for all of microsoft’s attempts at getting it to “just work” on their own OS, it constantly breaks. They released AMD drivers earlier this year with weird fucking versions that fucked people with AMD GPUs, requiring some manual intervention of DDU + Reinstalling a proper driver version. I’ve seen the same thing over and over again in userland for Intel graphics, intel audio and wifi and other popular and unpopular brands too. It’s one of the biggest reasons I swapped to linux, because there’s no fucking windows update lol.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
Because normies can’t get Fortnite running easily on linux (afaik anyway), or other popular competitive titles like battlefield 6 or call of duty 2025 to run at all.
Most of the normies probably already have a console with some licenses that will carry over. PC gamers have a desktop system (often in addition to a console.) It’s just not the same.
Consoles just work. You don’t need to understand much. The deck has definitely not been a painless process but obviously it’s pretty good, especially if you stick to green checkmark titles. Having to research what games will work, how well they work, and how to make them work if not by default is too much for a lot of people.
I’m glad it’s coming though. More people running linux means better support overall from hardware vendors and software developers. Gaming on linux is in a great place today but it feels more like how gaming was 20 years ago where you sometimes have to look something up to get something working, and installing an OS is simply too much for a lot of people.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
GPU performance, unknown OS compatibility issues, performance profiles for normies.
I love NUC like devices and I already run linux, but i’m confident the steamos implementation will just work on their hardware because they’re building it for it.
If you’re on an AMD GPU and not at least dual booting linux you’re missing out imo. Only a handful of competitive online games need windows for anticheat/drm.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
Why do you want SteamOS and not just linux?
I swapped over to pop a couple months back and things just work. Gaming stuff outside of steam works too.
There’s other immutable distros for people afraid of messing up their system but in the modern world of flatpaks, lutris prefixes and wine/proton I have found I really don’t need to mess with my system too much. I find it hard to justify the immutability because of that.
I doubt SteamOS will ever support most hardware versions. Nvidia by itself is still not where they need to be on the linux side, and that’s the majority of gamers’ hardware today (and why all steam hardware is AMD gpu based.) Then there’s all the weird audio and network gear that has very limited support because a system integrator chose some oddball model or brand that nobody else uses.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
~$25 for an 8bitdo ultimate 2c! The price is just too good. I know it doesn’t have TMR or the extra buttons, but it just works and feels really good to me compared to the xbox elite controller that got the shoulder button issue within 3 months for me.
The trackpads are unnecessary imo. Games made for controller aren’t going to expect the deck touchpads, they’re gonna expect xbox and playstation controllers without it. The touchpads just fit a very specific niche of people who want to play with the steam deck on a TV in games that are not fully controller supported and don’t have a keyboard and mouse paired for that use case. Always better to have options I suppose.
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, someone is critical of GN! must be LTT!
That guy is dumb but very obviously a sellout lol.
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
He blew the doors off of something we already knew was happening.
The sea of coreless and ram-less consumer GPUs is all over the second hand market in the US. We all knew those chips ended up in china. We all knew nvidia was seeking profits at any cost and chinese money is the white whale of many an MBA’s focus (before getting chased out by the party for not being chinese or owned by chinese anyway..)
It would be way more interesting to know if now after china said no more nvidia if the flow of chips is ongoing, but they probably won’t ever cover that.
You also won’t see too much critical of Google on their channel despite it being one of the biggest threats to privacy and safety, for obvious reasons. Can’t hurt the hand that feeds I guess.
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
While I don’t doubt there are considerable skeletons in all these parties closets, I do doubt the GN guy.
GN chases down every possible ounce of rage bait and controversy without fail. A lot of the time it fizzles out or doesn’t stand up to any kind of real scrutiny. My fear is that they are more interested in ad revenue generating clicks than honest unbiased journalism.
We do need a network of publicly funded journalism organizations, but being reliant on google’s tit and under the jurisdiction of US law is probably not the way to do it.