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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam tighten up rules for games with season pass DLC: "you have to commit to completing that content on time"⁩ ⁨⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve doing the regulation our governments should be doing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 uses machine learning AI, and how much of your data it might need⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How much of your bandwidth it might need, not your data. Misleading headline is misleading

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey lol very valid! I’ve been waiting for this for 10 years!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  SECOND?! ALREADY?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I feel so safe now. Like Sony wrapped me up in their arms and swaddled me. Thank you papa sony

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deck to LG TV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is weird, so you’ve tried the exact same setup with a different TV and it worked?

  I wonder if it’s the resolution, or maybe HDR settings? What is different about the other TV if it works there? 1080p only? I’m just spitballing trying to get gears moving

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't get expansions, reports say, as BioWare move to the next Mass Effect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservatives have their panties in a twist because they have the gall to have lgbtq characters, apparently forgetting that we had Krem in inquisition and that we’ve had several gay and lesbian characters already. I’m having fun personally, I will say everyone’s just a bit too cheerful for my taste, but that’s my only gripe so far

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am just love watching these companies seeing the downfall of it. Google did short term profits instead of quality for search and now people are looking for competitors and profits are dropping. People don’t watch new Netflix shows because they know they’ll be cancelled. So many more. It’s delicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft really doesn’t understand how well teams can work together. They notoriously hire contractors to avoid needing to pay benefits, rotating them out every 18 months. For them to create team dynamic ideas like “forming storming norming performing”, they really don’t follow any of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost like they wanted it that way, to get you to think about it. (Sarcasm to the author, not to you).

  It’s like they felt guilty about it and decided to write a whole article about how they made them feel bad - and rather than taking the point that you’re supposed to feel bad doing it, and thinking on that they thought “Hey games should make me feel things like this”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But teaching people to favour the consistency of imaginary worlds may also teach them to vilify disagreement and the entire practice of interpretation. At its nastiest, this mentality both facilitates and camouflages bigotry.

  I mean… it’s a game. The RP in RPG is role playing. Isn’t part of the fun playing someone or something you’re not? I play the other gender in games because I’m not that gender. In Mass Effect I love playing renegade - punching reporters in the face even though I’m not like that in real life. This is the same stupid argument I’ve heard all the time. “Grand Theft Auto encourages violence”. No. It’s fun because we get to play this character who is so unlike ourselves.

  In Halo I played a bioengineered soldier who was ripped away from his family to put down violent uprisings. Does that mean I think that’s okay in real life? Or was I playing a game that set that as a premise?

  Do we apply the same scrutiny to movies? To theater? Just because we empathize or maybe even we admit that there is a part of us who want to speed through downtown Los Santos just for fun doesn’t mean that’s who we actually are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[DF] Bazzite - 'SteamOS' For Windows PC Handhelds - Is It A Game-Changer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it on my HTPC. It’s pretty nice, but there are definitely some bugs and quirks. It’s basically the handheld steam version, but with some better support. Agree that “Game-Changer” is clickbait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, even then, think of how much QA would go into something like this. They probably have 6-8 months of features that were built on this kernel. Upgrading the kernel before would mean needing to redo everything - all of the QA, UAT, months of prep work. Companies who hold up these big releases for us aren’t like us just clicking perform upgrade, it’s a massive process that needs signoffs and confirmations. That’s why I say they probably just drew a line in the sand and said “We can’t risk destabilizing it just to perform an upgrade” - or for all we know they did do the upgrade, realized it broke something critical, and decided against it.

  We all know if they rolled out a broken release everyone would be on every forum with pitchforks calling Valve the devil. They weren’t just being idiots by not upgrading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point you have to draw the line in the sand and say this is what we’re updating to for this release, we’ll update again for the next one. I compare it to Star citizen, who kept updating to the latest and greatest and never delivered a product. I don’t care that you upgraded to the latest engine update, finish the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix's "Team Blue" of Halo, Overwatch and God Of War vets close without a single game to their name⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stocking. I’m the world if short term profits Netflix didn’t want to stick it out for several years of game development

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re coming up on a year from launch now. For me the game is fine, but it’s lacking a lot of stuff to make it a CS1 replacement, and them having to go back and fix performance issues means they’re putting off actual feature development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo's future as an Unreal Engine game looks both handsome and boring, going by these "Project Foundry" videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So same as Halo Infinite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA IV footage generated with AI shows the power of AI for future PC game remasters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s what they did with san andreas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt Red Still Seeking To Win Players Back After Cyberpunk 2077 Disastrous Launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What? They already did with phantom liberty. What is this garbage article, just gotta mention it to bring in clicks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Director Claims "Non-Decent Humans" Are Wishing For Company's Demise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How he’s trying to say that we’re just trying to hurt his poor innocent workers. No way, we’ve all been very clear - fuck Ubisoft. Fuck their executives, their board, their directors, everyone who has pushed for these bland, useless “games” that are missing any story elements, adverse to any risk taking, and have no soul.

  I staunchly defend the low devs, artists, writers, and everyone who are just trying to get by. I feel for every dev who pitched an idea who had it cast aside by some weasel exec who thought that it would be too risky to add to the game. I feel for the hundreds laid off by the greedy execs because they need more profit.

  Fuck their company. I feel for the people working, but the executives caused everything that’s happening. Not us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you prefer for audio? Earphones, headphones, speakers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Speakers at home. Nothing compared to dynamic range there.

  Over the ear headphones on planes. More comfortable for longer wears, good sound quality, and they block out the crying baby if you get active noise cancelling

  Ear buds for short rides on the bus/train. Pop em in and go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games reduce their cut for Unreal Engine games for same-day Epic Store launches⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called vertical integration, Lemon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “The game received an unusual number of user reviews with a clear negative bias (including a large percentage of “zero” reviews), despite seeing acceptable review scores from reputable review sites,” Wedbush analysts Michael Pachter, Alicia Reese and Kade Bar wrote in a note last week. “This is a case of a rare incel victory that led to Ubisoft having to take down its numbers,” they added.

  Oh kindly fuck the hell off. Whenever people have legitimate criticisms of something like this they always downplay it as trolls, or review bombing. NO. It’s a boring game, that’s it. Ubisoft tries to make games for “everybody” and so they take zero risks, and because of that their games are boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed to 2025 as Ubisoft try to recover from "softer than expected" Star Wars Outlaws launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This will enable the biggest entry in the franchise to fully deliver on its ambition, notably by fulfilling the promise of our dual protagonist adventure, with Naoe and Yasuke bringing two very different gameplay styles.

  How many times do they have to be told? Huge open worlds are great! IF they have stuff to do in them. Odyssey had a great huge open world that was incredibly detailed - then they filled it with a mediocre story and a million fetch quests.

  Cyberpunk, as an alternative, had an extremely in depth story and each side quest felt like you were making a choice or that thought went into each one. Even the gigs were detailed and had thought put into them. Yeah they started to blend together, but I never felt like I was just running over, picking something up, then finding the next thing to go pick up, and repeating for 6 hours per area with 36 areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SAG-AFTRA calls for a strike against League of Legends⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  League of Legends: “That wasn’t us, that was just our contractor who worked on our game”

  That’s a common cop-out in the tech industry. Too freaking bad, you wanted cheap labor, you’re on the hook for cheap labor. (And I say that as a contractor. I know they paid me just because they didn’t want to hire someone and pay them benefits). Time for them to pay the price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Publishers are trying to exclude “review bombing” because they think it’s just social manipulation, while just casually ignoring that there are actual problems with the game. Review bombing used to be something else, but now be wary of it because it’s usually them just trying to discredit actual concerns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not review bombing when there’s a legitimate problem!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite some surprisingly chill Flight Simulator 2024 system requirements, the 'Ideal Spec' demands more RAM than storage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not justifying the cost at all, it’s ludicrous, but I do want to call out that you can land at any airport around the world. The 10 are hand made airports, where everything else was autogenerated from satellite imagery.

  So in 2020 I bought SeaTac and Portland, two airports I frequent because I liked the detail. I wouldn’t go but something like Houston. In game I fly there fairly infrequently and it’s not worth the money.

  I can see why they would charge a bit for them like dlcs. There are a lot of airports, and each one takes many hours for them to add in the detail they do. The exact price I’m not sure I agree with though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube TV on steamdeck with more than 720p⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube TV though acts in the same way, I don’t believe they allow anything > 720

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube TV on steamdeck with more than 720p⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the conversation.

  Not to be snarky, but welcome to the true frustrations against corporations. They view linux users (like you now) as pirating monsters, and in their eyes giving us even 1080 means that they’re giving their content over to pirates. Which is ironic because I think that sort of behavior encourages pirating.

  So it’s nothing you did, nothing is broken, it’s functioning as Netflix wants it to. It’ll be the same with all of the other providers.