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- Comment on Microsoft unveils massive 2026 expansions for Age of Empires and Mythology series 2 days ago:
As long as it’s not cancelled. I’ve been wronged by Microsoft
marketinghype teams before. I’ll get hyped on release day. - Comment on SteamOS tested on dedicated GPUs: No, it’s not always faster than Windows 5 days ago:
Anecdotally I’ve found it to be on par personally, granted haven’t played borderlands on it. Hopefully valve cues in in that specifically and finds out what they’re doing that slows it down.
Personally I’ve found it to be faster on Linux, but that’s anecdotal
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 1 week ago:
I’m glad more people are hearing how it’s this group of standards assholes who are causing it.
- Comment on LTT Guesses price, 699USD, eats whole cake if hes 60USD off 1 week ago:
I’ll send it back to you then, do you have any non-LTT sources that show that it was fake allegations?
- Comment on LTT Guesses price, 699USD, eats whole cake if hes 60USD off 1 week ago:
Gamers Nexus did a full hour long deep dive into him, very illuminating
- Comment on LTT Guesses price, 699USD, eats whole cake if hes 60USD off 1 week ago:
He’s been accused of, admitted to, and proven that he is paid off and goes more for entertainment/engagement than actual reviews of products. There are thousands of tech reviewers on YouTube doing honest work, I’ll always downvote the openly dishonest ones
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 2 weeks ago:
Right? If he doesn’t like it he can just go make his own store with all the AI he wants…
- Comment on The Steam Deck LCD is 20% off, and I'm still not buying one because it's crap for RTS 2 weeks ago:
Hey look! I found something that clearly it wasn’t designed for but I’m going to make a while rage bait article about it anyway!
- Comment on The Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake will release in March 2026, according to the latest whispers 2 weeks ago:
Most of the game was honestly boring, nostalgia takes over and we remember the sweet coastal raids and our ship, but does anyone remember the story? I think it’ll be the same here. Everyone buys, gets bored 4 hours in, and puts it down
- Comment on Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point 3 weeks ago:
Fine it’s not technically a fork. It just consumes code from SteamOS and puts it onto Fedora. Happy? That wasn’t really the point of my comment, my comment was encouraging the person to try it.
- Comment on Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point 3 weeks ago:
I use Bazzite on my TV, fork of SteamOS, and it’s been a gamechanger. It’s so easy to just have all of my games on the TV, so I think the machine will be a great investment.
- Comment on Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point 3 weeks ago:
This is very close I think to critics and movies. Critics will always be hyper critical of movies because, well, it’s your job. You go in and watch movies all day - you’re going to pick up on small details that most average watchers won’t notice and you will be hyper critical of that.
Similar here, if your job is to play games and review hardware I’m guessing the writer of this thinks more people than not have huge gaming setups, when in reality Valve is right, most have a modest setup. They know they’re not competing with ultra highend, those people are already in the bag. They’re going after the casual people who maybe haven’t updated their PC in 6 years and just want to play some newer games, getting them into the ecosystem. In short, it’s hard to be a critic of a system that wasn’t designed for you in mind. Hell it’s not designed for me either.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
No, all it would do is fracture the existing community, with some leaving for the new and some staying here unaware. Until there is an official migration tool in Lemmy itself this is the only way to retain the community that was built
- Comment on Satisfactory gets optimizations, and improved Steam Deck support in patch 1.1.1.7 4 weeks ago:
Nice, I’ll have to check it out on my deck! Just had th x button issue myself
- Comment on BioWare are "focused exclusively" on the next Mass Effect, says exec producer, along with a Krogan teaser 4 weeks ago:
Who the last 5 people working there after the layoffs?
- Comment on A Japanese association that reps publishers like Square Enix has called on OpenAI to stop training Sora on Japanese media 5 weeks ago:
Oh well they called for it. So it’ll stop.
- Comment on Recommend Battery Packs? 1 month ago:
Well, out of all of the reasons to do a recall, that’s a pretty good reason…
- Comment on Recommend Battery Packs? 1 month ago:
Thanks for the recommendation!
- Comment on Recommend Battery Packs? 1 month ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Recommend Battery Packs? 1 month ago:
Which one do you have/prefer?
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- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved announced for release in 2026 1 month ago:
Someone mentioned this idea, and it makes sense tbh. They have a team who hasn’t done unreal engine together, what better way to teach the entire team unreal than to redo an older game completely in it. The teaching time is now profitable and they have a base engine ready for the next halo, already customized for it.
- Comment on Game Pass Ultimate subs don't get DLC discounts any more, Microsoft confess, amid reports about Call of Duty sales cannibalisation 2 months ago:
No no no you don’t understand. Somehow gamers should not only pay subscriptions, but also pay for the games. That’s real capitalism.
- Comment on Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it 2 months ago:
What are you talking about? I have an nvidia card I game on all the time. The only thing that hasn’t been supported for me is Gamescope, which is not required. It’s definitely a nice to have if you’re building a SteamOS type build where you want to boot into steam, but I’ve used it on PopOS perfectly fine.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 months ago:
So I’m not denying that it wasn’t a good value prop to you, but you individually one has to look back and decide did they play enough games and did they really get the value out of it then, and they will never want to play any of those games again
So you got a good value prop out of it. Congrats. To others I don’t think it was. I don’t think as many people were as strategic with it as you were.
- Comment on Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it 2 months ago:
Remember friends, don’t just say “Switch to Linux”. Don’t be the neckbeard they all expect us to be, with a superior attitude. Offer to help them, word it like “I’ve been using an alternative to Windows that I’ve really liked, it’s like the Steam Deck, and it’s easy to try if you’d like me to show you sometime”. Give them an opening, let them come to you. Each of these moments is how we slowly claw market share away.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 months ago:
For a year’s subscription was 180 at its best, which is 3 60 dollar games per year you could have bought instead, and still have them now to play. Instead that money is gone.
So I’m not denying that it wasn’t a good value prop to you, but you individually one has to look back and decide did they play enough games and did they really get the value out of it then, and they will never want to play any of those games again
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 months ago:
I tried telling so many people that and their answer was always either so what, or no it wont. Well, here we are. If you own a thing the price doesn’t go up
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 months ago:
Definitely not alone. For the music I’ve rediscovered record stores. They’re great ways to fill in the gaps of your music library while also discovering new music. I buy CDs and take them home now, happy to keep them on my shelf.
- Comment on [Eurogamer] Skate Early Access review 2 months ago:
Remember they’re using anti cheat that blocks linux