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- Comment on 5 days ago:
What “better right for consumers” are you advocating for? The false claim that Steam bars anyone on their platform from selling cheaper is easily proven false by looking at any of the numerous websites that track prices of games from various storefronts and is the key point used by Epic’s legal team to try to garner support to break up steam in order to gain market share themselves and make the industry markedly worse.
Your post is thinly veiled “Valve bad, give money to Epic instead”, whether you realize it or not. So what is your plan to make the industry actually better?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
True, which is why it is so easy to tell which one you are doing. :)
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 6 days ago:
There is open source software to run a stream deck, OBS is native (as you mentioned), and my Scarlett audio interface Just Works™. I’m not some big streamer or anything, but I dabble and nothing I could do on Windows is missing in Linux. Even my wacom tablet just works by plugging it in.
When I made the switch, I spent the money on a new ssd and literally pulled the windows one out and had it stashed away something like an “in case of emergency, break glass” type of thing. I realized recently I hadn’t touched that in 4 years and decided to format it and install Cachy to try that out on my laptop; everyone just won’t shup up about how good it is so I figured I should give it a chance.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
You’re just simping for a different billionaire out here regurgitating Tim Sweeney’s talking points verbatim…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I never said it was too big or too important to be broken up. I’m saying I don’t see how to split it up that actually solves the problem. I don’t think people are scared of Valve the Game Devs, maybe the hardware section but there were tons of other options on the market almost as soon as the Steam Deck took off. It’s the store that people take issue with, so how do you separate to make the store not a problem? Regionally? Have Steam NA, Steam EU, Steam Asia, etc. etc.? I suppose that is possible, but I’m unsure if I see how that actually solves the problem (even assuming you can get around people just buying from a different region’s Steam).
As for nationalizing it… I just don’t have any faith in the US government to not turn it to absolute shit on day one. Unfortunately, at this stage, I trust Valve and it’s Billionaire CEO more than I do the government. I hate to just resign myself to trying to make the most of the dystopia we’ve been given but… :(
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Their policy is not that you aren’t allowed to sell your game cheaper on another platform, their policy is that you can’t sell Steam keys on other platforms cheaper than you are selling the game on Steam. Basically, you can’t use Steam’s infrastructure when undercutting “Steam customers”. Games that are on Steam go on sale on other platforms when they are not on sale on Steam all the time currently.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean, it definitely isn’t going to happen in the US anytime soon… We haven’t had any teeth behind our anti-trust laws in decades. In my lifetime we have basically seen Bell Telephone get rebuilt under AT&T.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What’s your point?
Are you saying that Microsoft being split up made no sense? If so, what would you suggest instead?
Or are you saying since they “almost” did it to MS, then they could do it to Steam? If so, where do you make the split that effects any change? You could split Valve the game dev company from the Steam platform, but I don’t think that makes Steam any less monolithic in their space - they don’t get their market share from the games Valve has made.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’d be completely in agreement of what you are saying if it wasn’t for the fact that there are so many people acting like Steam is the worst platform in existence every time they get brought up. People are awfully quick to suck Tim Sweeney off for only charging 12% and fill up the comments with whatever the opposite of “fangirling” is.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Here’s what I don’t understand… Say we all agree they are a monopoly, what do you do about it?
It doesn’t seem feasible to break them up into smaller companies, how would that even work? What are the dividing lines between what portion of the company goes where? Does that even solve anything?
Force them to charge less money? Okay, now they charge the same as Epic (or even less). Basically every other store is now being undercut by the biggest player on the scene. There is now even less reason to use a storefront that isn’t Steam. It doesn’t feel like that solves the problem either.
It seems like all the courts have tried to do so far is charge them money for existing, not get them to change what they do, which seems a lot less like the government trying to stop the big bad monopoly and more like the government wanting to get their cut. What does “stopping the monopoly” even mean? Are we happier and better off as consumers if Valve is forced to shut down Steam entirely? Is that the goal?
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
They are pointing out that the instructions are “Answer all questions.”
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 2 weeks ago:
DLSS Michael is just Mr. Beast in a moustache.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit, please write that.
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 2 weeks ago:
Even if it could work that way, I don’t think it matters… They used a system with TWO 5090s in it, one to run the game normally, and the ENTIRE OTHER 5090 to run the dlss5 AI rendering bullshit over the top of it.
- Comment on How to install Windows on your Steam Deck 2 weeks ago:
“I hate that we invented the Orphan Crushing Machine, but I also dislike people who constantly hate on the Orphan Crushing Machine even when it isn’t actively Crushing Orphans.”
- Comment on Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced 3 weeks ago:
I, for one, am loving the “DLSS 5 Off/On” memes.
- Comment on What is your take on organ donation? 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s irrational, but there is a tiny voice in the back of my head going “what if the ancient Egyptians were right, and you’ll need your liver or eyes or whatever in the afterlife?” even though currently right now living and breathing I couldn’t tell you what my liver does for me other than I need it to stay living.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 3 weeks ago:
Jesus christ… A second top of the line GPU just to run the AI slop filter is one hell of a deluded announcement. I kinda feel bad now about all that hate Blizzard got for announcing a diablo mobile game.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 3 weeks ago:
Wait, is that real? I thought the entire point of previous versions of DLSS was to get “better” performance out of “less” hardware? I had suspicions that running every frame through an AI image generator wasn’t going to be an improvement to performance, but that’s even worse than I was expecting.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
Why do you assume it is only happening in public? Since it is hidden cameras, in glasses, they can be recording anywhere (and even if the user hasn’t asked them to record explicitly, they are probably sending data back to their servers anyway - we know they have been doing that with microphones for literal decades already).
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 3 weeks ago:
Yea… This was the basis for my first existential crisis in my life… All through small town public school I was basically the smartest kid in the room (sometimes smartest person - we had some really bad teachers). Thought I was god’s gift of intelligence to humanity. Went out of town to a really good engineering school and holy shit I was immediately humbled. I was clawing my way to try to reach “average” and couldn’t quite reach.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
I was honestly asking, I constantly see artists and writers wishing AI didn’t exist because all it makes is garbage… But I also regularly see developers lashing out at AI hate, fighting tooth and nail to keep it and get more of it. That’s a really strange dichotomy to see “in the wild”.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
AI is actively destroying the environment and harming people. Data centers have been caught using methane burner generators (which are banned for use by the EPA) which significantly increase health risk to residents that live nearby (cancer and asthma rates already significantly increased). Then you have the ridiculous effects it is having on computer hardware markets, energy and water infrastructure and prices.
Then after all of that, the AI themselves are hallucinating somewhere in the neighborhood of 25% of the time, and multiple studies have found that people that use them regularly are losing their own skills.
I can’t figure out why people would choose to use them. I can’t figure out why programming is the one place where people that might have otherwise been considered experts in the field are excited to use them. Writers, artists, lawyers, doctors, basically every other professional field that AI companies have suggested these would be good for, they get trashed by experts in the fields for making garbage. I have a hard time believing the only thing AI can do well is write code when it sucks so badly at everything else it does. Does development suck this much? Do developers have so little idea what they are doing that this seems like a good idea?
- Comment on nothing to see here 4 weeks ago:
I feel like I am walking into a trap, but that is not a “mango”…?
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 4 weeks ago:
That’s good to hear.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 5 weeks ago:
Ah, good point, it didn’t require source code release so much as self-hostability in some form.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 5 weeks ago:
I’m convinced it is some sort of insurance fraud a la The Producers. They found a way to make more money by flopping HARD than getting middling success, and flopping hard is a LOT LESS work. If their choice is A) spend a lot of money and time making a really good game that will capture the attention of the entire market; or B) spend a bit of money and time making something that looks convincingly like a real attempt at making a good game to some corpo-fuckwits at an insurance company and then nuke it hours after release… Well. Yea, they’ll do the second one.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 5 weeks ago:
That’s literally what the “stop killing games” movement was/is pushing for, at least in Europe. Really hope it goes somewhere, but it’s kind of stopped making noise lately (at least that I’m hearing), what with the US speed-running fascism more and more every single week.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 5 weeks ago:
released […] on January 26, 2026. The studio has announced that the game will be shutting down on March 12, 2026.
What the fuck is happening in “triple-a” game dev world?
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 5 weeks ago:
I think you mean the Thanagarian Snare-beast.
Superman hides behind a rock