SpaceCowboy

@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping "this summer", Valve now rolling out verification systems⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just thinking about the people I know who purchased a PS5 Pro and I’m not sure they’re going to be the ones tinkering with proton settings on a Linux desktop.

  I’d think if you get the steam machine you won’t be tinkering with the proton settings. Valve will do that and since you’re running on the same hardware they’ve tested there shouldn’t be any issues.

  I did build a PC a couple of years ago, but I found myself wishing someone would just put out a decently priced PC that has hardware that’s tested with Linux. If the steam machine had have been a thing then, I would’ve gone that route. Also there’s a lot of people that aren’t happy with Windows and would like to try Linux but are worried it will be a major headache to switch (which it can be in many cases). With MS basically forcing many people to buy a new PC since Windows 11 doesn’t work on a lot of PCs currently running 10, some people might want to give the steam machine a shot… and they do have the option of paying the MS tax later and installing windows on it if they it’s not to their liking.

  Hard to say how it will go, but there are reasons to get this thing. We’ll have to see how many people actually want to get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping "this summer", Valve now rolling out verification systems⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people may not want to spend time on cobbling together a Linux machine. There’s some research involved in figuring out which hardware works best, and maybe fiddling around with configuring a system. There is value in know that all of the hardware in your system will get priority support from the OS maintainer and game developers. Some glitchiness in a game on a steam machine will get fixed before some glitchiness on someone’s custom rig.

  And many of us don’t buy a new PC every year. What benefit is it to me if a new AAA game has higher resolution options that aren’t available on my 2+ year old PC unless I spend a thousand dollars to buy video card or whatever?

  No idea if this will be a success or not, but there is a lot of upside to having a standardized platform (there’s a reason consoles are so popular) and little downsides for anyone that’s not spending more money on hardware than on the actual games. Sure the PC Master Race types won’t want this, but I think that’s a very small group of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I gotta make connections work with pretty much any retailer you can name. And yeah when the biggies say jump you gotta say how high.

  That being said, Costco isn’t so bad. But then I don’t deal with the contract stuff. Amazon does indeed suck. Costco is a bit old school but I’d rather that than dealing with Amazon’s shitty AWS APIs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Foundation’: Tim Southam To Replace David S. Goyer As Season 3 Director⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t like The Dark Knight?

  I suspect there may have been changes made by the studio for BvS. There was a whole subplot with congress that makes no sense unless there’s a version of the story where congress orders Superman to go after Batman. Something similar to the Dark Knight returns but with a congress controlled by Lex Luthor influencing Supes instead of the President.

  As it was, we have a plotline about congress that goes nowhere. I smell a studio exec saying “this plotline is boring, make it about his mother, hey look both Superman and Batman’s mothers are named Martha, we should use that!”

  Or maybe Goyer just sucks, who knows? Well I guess the people that worked on these movies and know who’s responsible for the boneheaded decisions.