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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I‘d like to think that Asus and Lenovo would build „console-beating“ Steam Machines, but they‘ve also tried building more powerful Steam Deck alternatives and those were meh at best and terrible at worst.

  Steam Machines are probably easier to design, as they‘re just PCs. But seeing how much thought and care Valve puts into their hardware designs and how little of both Lenovo and Asus have put into theirs in the past, I‘m not going to expect great products from them.

  I’d be very happy to be wrong, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive split with Cities: Skylines going to a new developer⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My gut feeling really isn‘t good on that. The very slow pace of improvement Cities Skylines 2 had, and the multitude of issues it still has, seem like strong indicators for deeper technical issues to me. Fixing those will be a lot harder for a development studio, if it doesn‘t even have the original developers onboard.

  It‘s really sad to see, because Skylines 2 could be a lot of fun if it wasn‘t for the glitches, the bugs and the performance issues. I‘m unfortunately not optimistic that changing the developer will improve things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve added an invisible wall to this sewer pipe in Half-Life 2 in their anniversary update - but it only annoyed speedrunners⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really the case, though. Blocking that pipe off doesn’t fix any bug, it’s just a design choice to tell inventive players that they must solve the puzzle before continuing. Removing that and allowing players to progress without having solved the puzzle in its intended way is just a different design choice. Both are equally valid, in my opinion.

  There actually have been quite a lot of bugfixes in the 20th anniversary update, which have an impact on current speedrunning tactics, as can be seen here within the section 20th Anniversary update of Half-Life 2). In the end, it’s pretty meaningless anyway, as most speedrunning of Half-Life 2 is done with a pretty ancient version of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GPD is making a dual-screen OLED laptop that flips and folds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Has their quality improved over the last few years? I remember buying a GPDWin 2 which constantly turned off due to overheating issues, couldn‘t be charged while using it and had one speaker wired incorrectly so its phase was inverted. It‘s been a few years since then, but GPD has really left a sour taste in my mouth.