Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My CV1 died a few weeks ago. I fancy the Steam Frame, but I’ll wait for release before deciding. I hate Meta, but do I hate them for several times the price of a Quest…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Frame (Steamworks Documentation)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Soooo, when’s this shit coming out?

  My old CV1 has finally snuffed it (probably the cable) so I’m finally in the market for a new one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems we lack the courage for number 2 on its own merit.

  Maybe when Greenland is invaded…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We do want to prevent free speech.

  We also have good reason to block far right US psy ops from operating in the UK.

  Both of these things can be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was expecting PS5 performance at PS5 Pro prices.

  The recent leaks will be including 21% VAT in Czech Republic too. It’s about the same as the PS5 Pro in the UK.

  It’s not a great value proposition, but depends how much you value open source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i cant wait to get a steam frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The latter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i cant wait to get a steam frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fully expecting this to be triple the price of the Quest 3S.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played Blue Prince, Split Fiction and Death Stranding 2. And one of those was just because it was on PSPlus. Everything else was several years old.

  I have Expedition 33 but haven’t got around to playing it yet, because I’m playing the Silent Hill 2 Remake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, sounds like a day one purchase for me.

  The man may have disappeared up his own arse for a decade, but he hasn’t made a bad game yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you go shopping, and you notice the item you pick up for Sunday’s dinner goes out of date on Wednesday, do you buy it anyway, or reach to the back for the newer ones that go out of date next week?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve looking into 3D support for flat games on Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a thing for a bit in the Xbox 360 era, but disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Wasn’t there some Nvidia thing that also tried to do this on PC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not got one for testing right now. But some googling does seem to indicate this is a sticking point for gaming, and why GPU makers put the latest HDMI ports on their cards and ponied up the licensing fees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With VRR?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to guess at comfortably 3 times the price of the Quest 3S.

  They might surprise us, but in this economy, I doubt it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it’s not on any TVs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or at least all the browsers agree to implement something nicer as a standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are killing it, but sadly they’re about the only ones keeping it alive, at least at an affordable price.

  I wish VR was a commodity product, like TVs. Everything compatible with everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty life-like tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck LCD 256GB model on sale until December 1st!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw the Legion Go S for £399 at Costco as well, with 4 times the space. Is there any downside to that one over the Steam Deck? I think it’s marginally better performance and a slightly bigger screen, but is the compatibility as good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Controller⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop trying to make touchpads happen. It’s not going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In fairness we’re taking that comment as face value without knowing what level of violence “restraining a stalker” entailed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STEAM FRAME - Valve Corporation Trademark Registration⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Streaming hardware? Presumably like Geforce Now, only the publishers can’t say no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming handheld prices are out of control, except for the Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The price of everything is out of control, because it turns out the people who set wages have a different idea of inflation than the people that set prices.

  This is the only gen I can think of where console prices have gone up from what they were at the start. And that’s before you get tariffs from everyone’s favourite orange dickhead.

  And PC component prices are even worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla build them into fucking cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So server side cheat prevention is out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look, new money was old money all along.

  Guess even they are cashing out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you never play Fall Guys on PC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that you do not own digital games⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The game would have gone offline eventually anyway. Most people get nothing when that inevitably happens. Some games flip to an offline only version, but that’s very rare.

  Hell, I bought single player offline games from the Play store for my phone, and they no longer seem to exist. RIP Rayman Jungle Run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds a lot like what the GPU driver providers used to do (and probably still do, despite all DX12 and Vulkan’s promises of making that unnecessary) on top of making the drivers.

  And that is basically “fixing badly written games so they perform well on the hardware”.

  As far as I can tell, Intel has been using Proton’s fixes (DXVK) a bit to get their drivers working on older games on Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If Xbox Series S would have run all my Steam games, I’d have bought one in a heartbeat.