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- Comment on dBrand Companion Cube cancelled: 1 week ago:
Well, the sport you are talking about is seeing how much you can steal and get away with. So…
- Comment on The dbrand Portal themed Steam Machine case has vanished 1 week ago:
Lame.
Someone like dbrand should be well versed in IP rights. Making deals should be a core competency.
This should make anyone question their quality and legitimacy.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney blasts Steam for putting AI tags on games — says move is ‘irresponsible of Valve’ 2 weeks ago:
If people don’t care about AI, then it won’t be a big deal, Tim.
- Comment on "It's too dangerous for us to speculate": Valve don't know if Steam Machine prices will drop in the future, after admitting that "some people are going to priced out" 2 weeks ago:
I trust the prices will go down if they can. On all of their hardware.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 weeks ago:
Is there another option that’s cheaper for someone who wants this form factor and to not fuck around building a PC and wants to move away from consoles?
It’s not like it’s expensive in a vacuum. Gaming is just expensive these days.
I think you are forgetting what the goal is here.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 weeks ago:
Yup, the times are a changing.
- Comment on The Steam Frame Will Have An Enthusiast Kit With A Hot-Swappable Battery 3 weeks ago:
Eh, rumors are the battery life will be low in the device. So, this addresses that.
- Comment on Questions about the steam frame 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I need to use similar for those.
- Comment on Questions about the steam frame 4 weeks ago:
A short, like 2 or three foot, USB extension cable might help you out if you do run into USB 3 interference issues.
- Comment on Broadcom gets early start on WiFi 8 with next-gen wireless routing kit 1 month ago:
Maybe it’ll have all the promised WiFi 7 features.
- Comment on Australian Teens Impacted By The Social Media Ban Are Getting Less News 1 month ago:
Israel is committing genocide, but I don’t think this ban was for that reason.
Also, I’m a dumbass and spelt genocide wrong, and I just noticed that iOS seemed to refuse to offer suggestions for correcting it no matter how I tweaked it. That’s weird. Maybe I’m overthinking it.
- Comment on Australian Teens Impacted By The Social Media Ban Are Getting Less News 1 month ago:
My friends who post “news” with links to Twitter always seem to post an aggregator account that just posts a screenshot and a blurb, never any links to further details or sources or reporting. I sometimes press them to share a better link.
- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 1 month ago:
It’s a shame it’s only 8GB of vram. But that was already constrained before the memory apocalypse.
- Comment on Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp 1 month ago:
“NSFW” is a terrible label and people should stop using it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It was just a meme bro.
- Comment on AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent 2 months ago:
Yeah, it has to do with scale. That’s the difference. The scale is just bonkers.
- Comment on "Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original 2 months ago:
Oh, now you guys don’t like copying information?!
- Comment on "Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original 2 months ago:
Arrr! sail the seven seas!
-Lemmy
- Comment on Play classic WoW offline on the deck with NPC players 2 months ago:
That doesn’t sound too fun, other people were the point for me.
- Comment on Kevin O'Leary says opponents of his Utah data center are 'professional protesters' — and some are powered by AI 2 months ago:
“I call anything I dislike AI.” Is becoming an obnoxious trope. It a wide range of contexts.
- Comment on Please Rockstar and Take-Two, push GTA 6's price up to $80 for the good of "the entire industry", Bank of America beg 2 months ago:
It’s not even clear if GTAO will be included at launch. It wasn’t for GTAV. But GTAO also wasn’t the most profitable game in the history of all games yet either. So… GTAO2 might be there at launch.
- Comment on Anyone manage to order a controller? 2 months ago:
It’s 2026 and we still don’t have the technology to support server demand surges like this in a way that is appealing to implement.
When I first saw such things happen over 20 years ago, I figured it was always incompetence. Now I know it’s just reality.
- Comment on Steam Controller early review leak claims $99 launch price 2 months ago:
I find that trackpad icky. I hate how PlayStation users have been forced to mash the mushy button that it is for the past 10 years.
It’s never lived up to the potential.
- Comment on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours 2 months ago:
That’s a classic one. I’m surprised it’s still happening.
- Comment on If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release 2 months ago:
Well, “free mods” does not describe the Rockstar owned and run FiveM to me. But fair enough, I guess.
- Comment on If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release 2 months ago:
Of course. But this article is about the cash cow that is GTAO. GTAO is the most profitable game in the history of gaming. It’s so substantial that it makes sense to consider it a separate thing for discussion.
Story mode, where “free mods” are totally cool, is not making ongoing revenue from people who purchased GTAV. And conflating the two with a comment about mods is off target.
- Comment on If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release 2 months ago:
This is GTAO. So calling the disruptive hacks and cheating “free mods” is strange. Hacking and cheating in multiplayer games sucks.
- Comment on Steam Controller shows signs of life, as leaker suggests that Valve has received its "first large quantity" shipments 2 months ago:
I have a bunch of nice controllers that all work on my gaming PC and Macs, etc.
But I’ll probally buy one of these too. I feel like it’s compulsory in a weird nagging way.
- Comment on New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running 2 months ago:
Harnessing terahertz frequencies is relatively new.
- Comment on Wisconsin governor says ‘no’ to age checks for porn 2 months ago:
The tavern league is at it again…
Oh wait.