artyom
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- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 1 day ago:
Right but that’s not what it says. It says “the pursuit of fancy graphics doesn’t make sense anymore”.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 2 days ago:
It was not presented as personal preference. It was presented as “the pursuit of fancy graphics just doesn’t make sense anymore”.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 2 days ago:
Don’t agree at all. If you’re limited on resources, you can certainly make an excellent game without intense graphics. But sophisticated graphics also can make a game. I often find myself in these types of games just wondering around and taking in the view and appreciating the artwork in it.
Of course a good game will also be efficient and not require a fucking $2k GPU to run properly. And with hardware prices going through the fucking roof it’s also good to ensure that your game will run at all on low end hardware.
- Comment on GOG and CD Projekt founder Michał Kiciński acquires 100% ownership of GOG 2 days ago:
Most likely nothing will change.
- Comment on VR is an absolute game changer for racing games 4 days ago:
I mean it’s no less powerful than the Meta Quest.
- Comment on VR is an absolute game changer for racing games 5 days ago:
I’ve got a steam deck and I understand it will probably be similar in power
Not even close. Steam Frame has basically a phone processor in it. It’s a “streaming-first” device.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 6 days ago:
Never in my life. I want to read the reviews, at a minimum. Too many games with some booshit on launch day, if not at least several months after. I am incredibly psyched for the new Control game but it’ll be at least a few months before I pick it up.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 6 days ago:
I mean “eventually” yes but for the foreseeable future Trump could continue dumping your and my money into it indefinitely in the name of “national security”.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 6 days ago:
for a few months
I’d love to see what kind of gaming PC you’re going to build with $30.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 6 days ago:
Dude I’m lucky if I get 3 free hours a week! And I’m not even a Dad! What’re you guys doing with your lives!?
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 6 days ago:
Yeah I mean it makes a whole lot of sense if you have the connection to support it, in my opinion.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 6 days ago:
That’s. 3.33 hours/day. That’s a whole lot of playtime…
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 1 week ago:
You mean Epic?
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 1 week ago:
See my response to the last person who posted this.
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 1 week ago:
I’m sure it is. The alternative is that the site doesn’t exist at all.
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 1 week ago:
Also true.
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 1 week ago:
I get it, but most of these sites are trying to protect from malicious AI bots that are scraping the web and DDoS’ing them to death.
- Comment on The Legion Go 2 might ditch Windows for SteamOS - and cost less 1 week ago:
Less than $1800? Hurray, I guess?
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses a GOTY award over use of gen AI 1 week ago:
Silksong is an excellent game but it’s absolutely not in the same league. COE33 is a much more sophisticated game with deeper story and advanced artwork.
Not to mention it was 1/3 the price so they could sell many more copies, which would be reflected in server load. COE33 was also more of a slow burn, not really that hyped. None of that makes Silksong a better game.
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 3 weeks ago:
I think a lot of people left out the fact that these companies have been accepting public funds for R&D and expansion, and now they’re no longer using those funds to sell consumer products, but rather dumping them into the insatiable maw that is AI.
- Comment on SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded [the reworked Splitgate 2 relaunch] 3 weeks ago:
Linux?
- Comment on Balcony Solar is coming to the USA, sort of 4 weeks ago:
Nah, 1200w is much more than that.
If you live in LA that’s like 2MWh/year.
- Comment on Balcony Solar is coming to the USA, sort of 4 weeks ago:
If you’re like me, wondering what “balcony solar” is, it’s basically just solar panels that plug directly into your wall outlet.
- Comment on The artist whose designs were used in Bungie’s Marathon without permission says the dispute ‘has been resolved to my satisfaction’ [VGC] 4 weeks ago:
How many times has this happened now?
- Comment on What browser(s) should I use? 4 weeks ago:
Brave and/or Zen
- Comment on India is ordering Apple and Android phone makers to preinstall a state-owned app 4 weeks ago:
These countries would probably just ban that as well.
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 4 weeks ago:
You can also play the PC version on Android with GameNative.
- Comment on Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical? 4 weeks ago:
How about get her Steam Deck and then don’t worry about emulation? Just let her use it the way Gaben intended.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 5 weeks ago:
…and?
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 5 weeks ago:
The short version is that an enormous, multibillion dollar industry has been built around Valve’s item marketplace, and in particular around CS:GO skins. If that sounds completely insane and stupid, I’m with you, but it exists. Valve takes their typical cut off of all of these trades, and thus derives massive profits from it.
Here’s the long version: https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/videos/watch/a8e6d20c-3003-4b14-b9c4-cb6a25b238e7?isPeertubeContent=1