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- Comment on Iron Galaxy lays off 66 developers in 'last resort' lifesaving effort 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure, I only checked which projects Iron Galaxy is working on and noticed they are doing Last of Us again.
- Comment on Iron Galaxy lays off 66 developers in 'last resort' lifesaving effort 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure this is going to end great for the Last of Us 2 PC port. The port of the first game was already a disaster and they had all their people.
- Comment on Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised they did this. Would have assumed most people don’t care and we were getting a PC PSN launcher very soon.
- Comment on [Lunacid] All features of Vampire characters 3 weeks ago:
I still remember the coffin spell from that game fondly. I built so many staircases to get to places earlier.
Also, death genuinely scared me the first time he appeared.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Gameplay Sizzle | Coming May 15, 2025 4 weeks ago:
Looks pretty good but I’m going to wait for the soundtrack and for the price to come down to normal PC prices.
No Mick Gordon is still seriously disappointing.
Also, I hope they configured their Steam page wrong. The advanced access phase on Steam is 7 months long.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 month ago:
Yes, I’m on CoreELEC with an Odroid N2+ but I only play content without DRM. If you’re streaming DRM protected content you will have an easier time using Android.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 1 month ago:
Feeling pretty good about not getting a Boox e-ink tablet now.
- Comment on What did everyone grab during the Steam Winter Sale? 1 month ago:
Now I‘ll just wait for Monster Hunter Wilds which is easily my most anticipated game at the moment and probably the first triple-A game I‘ll be getting on launch since Elden Ring.
Same here.
FYI, Monster Hunter Wilds is available on Green Man Gaming and Fanatical for -18%, taking its price down to a normal triple A price of 57€.
- Comment on Pathologic 3 - Free prelude is coming soon! - Steam News 1 month ago:
I read that Pathologic 2 is a sequel and a remaster at the same time somehow and you should still play both? Would you recommend starting with 1 or 2 for a newcomer?
- Comment on Pathologic 3 - Free prelude is coming soon! - Steam News 1 month ago:
Bought part 1 and 2 recently. Didn’t have a chance to play it yet but heard good things about it.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 2 months ago:
The solution Valve is seemingly hoping for is that, by disclosing kernel-level anti-cheat on the store page, such a solution becomes poison in the marketplace and developers choose a different one.
Honestly, I wish they were more aggressive with it. Make the warning banners about kernel-level anti-cheat bright red and put it right above the purchase button like the “needs VR headset” warning.
- Comment on No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4 2 months ago:
I’m 95% there, I just need Docker Swarm to support IPv6 without breaking as soon as it is enabled.
- Comment on Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale? 2 months ago:
Doesn’t that impact your view of the screen?
Depends on the sensitivity you configure, usually you only tilt a few degress. I do prefer it on a Dualsense controller though with no display attached to the controller.
Do you use it in hectic situations - like doom etc? Or is it better for sniping and stuff where you have time to aim?
Usually for instances where I have time to aim. I have seen quite a few people who are really good with the trackpad though. I’m more of a mouse or gyro control guy though.
- Comment on Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale? 2 months ago:
I guess trackpad aim is just using the pads instead of the joystick?
You can combine as well. I usually use the stick on the left hand and the trackpad on the right one. You can also go back and forth while playing.
does that require tilting the device?
Yep, you can set it to activate only if your finger is resting on the right joystick. Very useful for precise movement, just bring the camera in an approximate direction with the stick and do the rest with the gyro control.
For the more popular games there’s usually a few community profiles you can download and try before messing with Steam Input yourself.
- Comment on Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale? 2 months ago:
It’s a bit frustrating how crap I am at gaming, particularly with shooters.
Since you have a Steam Deck, did you experiment with gyro and trackpad aim? I suck at controller aiming as well but that makes it so much easier.
- Comment on Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale? 2 months ago:
FYI, it’s 35€ on green man gaming right now.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 2 months ago:
1000 hours in Alan Wake is impressive. I assume you played part 2?
- Comment on PlayStation Uses Safety Concerns To Defend Steam PSN Account Requirements 3 months ago:
We will find out in the next hack.
- Comment on Stable Diffusion 3.5 — Stability AI 3 months ago:
I like how their first image is a woman laying in the grass after their SD3 fiasco.
Did anyone try it? How does it compare to Flux?
- Comment on Until Dawn Remake Is Being Criticized For Looking "Way Worse" Than The Original 4 months ago:
I played a few hours on PC yesterday and if somebody is saying it looks worse than the PS4 version I’m questioning their sanity.
On the other hand, raytracing, HDR and frame generation are all completely broken and it is a disgrace to charge 70 bucks for a remake of a 9 year old game and not even do basic QA on their PC port. You also need a PSN account to play your singleplayer game.
- Comment on Nightmare House: Reimagined - Announcement Trailer 4 months ago:
In Sound Mind (same developer) is fantastic by the way.
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 5 months ago:
I would argue that even restricting sales to your own store is anti-competitive tying. You’re avoiding competing on the merits of a store using exclusive licensing of a creative work.
A creative work which you made yourself, which you can sell wherever you want.
Should you sell it everywhere so as many people can play it as possible? Sure. Do you have to? No.
Again, not a fan of the tactic, but they are trying to break an entrenched monopoly with a ton of network effects which is near impossible.
Let’s reverse the roles for a second: EGS is the big player and Steam is just getting started. EGS suddenly starts paying all publishers to only publish on their platform. Does that sound like competition to you? You don’t break a monopoly by using tools used by monopolies.
Their launcher is perfectly fine.
Fine? Yes. It does the bare minimum of being able to buy a game and start it. Does it do everything I expect a modern game launcher to do after existing for almost 6 years? Nope.
But they are. They’re not losing that much money, even with a tiny portion of market share. Valve having far more market share means they should be able to do it for an even smaller percentage than what epic is using, especially since Valve has 21 years of infrastructure to lean on.
They are “not losing much money” while providing a fraction of the services Steam does. They say 30% is too much, we can do it in 12% and yet they severely lack in social features, have no modding support, no VR support, no in-home streaming, no Remote Play Together, no Big Picture, no Family Sharing, a barely functioning Steamworks alternative, no Steam Deck support, no Linux support and absolutely zero open source contributions. That’s just the obvious stuff I can think of right now, every single menu you open in Steam you find a barebones menu in the EGS.
They don’t even need 21 years of infrastructure for most of these, they just need to fund development of it. Which they seem to be unwilling to do so.
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 5 months ago:
I’m not saying you should, I’m saying it doesn’t make them villains or a bad company.
But it does, paying third parties to not publish on your competitors platform is the oldest anti-competitive behaviour in the book.
It would have been completely fine if they started out with actually funding development of new games and only releasing them on their store.
I would have even given them some slack for their bad launcher since they were new to this.
Instead we are here, almost 6 years later. Their launcher is still trash, their exclusive deals were a complete money sink, EGS is still not profitable, they burned all bridges to Valve and are not one step closer to their claim that 30% is too much and they can do it with
8%12%. - Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 5 months ago:
They should have spent those millions to fund development of a store that can actually compete with the competition and studios that produce games, which they then can sell on their own platform.
Instead they snatched up every new release on the way to Steam while still not being able to provide the basic necessities of a modern PC store front.
So why should I bother purchasing something from them? They have nothing to offer and actively make it harder for me to play games through their store with their anti-Steam Deck stance.
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 5 months ago:
Great to see that Epic didn’t snatch that one up.
I love Remedy and their games but their publisher choice is always atrocious.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 5 months ago:
I still remember how confused I was when story DLC was announced for a game which I considered to be complete story wise.
Turns out the story was not complete.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 5 months ago:
It’s a hard game to get into. Played for 2 hours on my first run and didn’t know where to go.
After 2 weeks or so I tried again because everyone was recommending it to me. Now it’s one of my favorites, even though it took another 2 hours before I had any idea what I was doing.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your movie setup? Large OLED TV, beamer? Which kind of sound system do you use? 6 months ago:
I have a Sony VPL-XW5000ES projecting onto a 133" screen in my living room.
For audio I have a Denon AVR-X2400H in a 5.1.2 configuration. My front speakers are Klipsch, the center is a ELAC UC52, the subwoofer is a SVS PB-1000 and the rear and height speakers are by B&W.
My setup evolved over many years but I pretty much have no complaints about it now. Everything looks and sounds perfect.
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 6 months ago:
There’s the famous DNS haiku: i.imgur.com/eAwdKEC.png
- Comment on No Rest for the Wicked - The Crucible Update Trailer 6 months ago:
I bought the game on release purely to support the studio and I would definitely recommend waiting.
It’s an excellent game being made but you can really tell that they didn’t quite know where to go with this game. They pulled together mechanics from various genres that don’t fit together that well.
The waiting mechanics are a non-issue since you are usually playing “the real game” while side stuff is happening in your town.
Graphics, art and music are all fantastic, as expected from a game by Moon studios, but performance is an issue. Greatly improved since launch but still not where it should be.
They are listening to feedback though and I’m sure they can get everything in proper order in a year or so.
