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- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 days ago:
I'd rather pay for neither.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 days ago:
These people must have genuinely been dropped on their heads multiple times. How do they think anything got done before the "AI" boom? Its mind boggling ahahahha
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 days ago:
Respectfully, fuck right off.
Indie games compete all the time, they make millions. Games are an artform. Any developers using AI are in it for a quick buck and people dont want to reward that versus traditional hardwork.
Indies have been wildly successful for decades before AI has even existed, so dont suddenly pretend its a crutch they need now. And you are down right disrespecting any legitimate artists by defending AI use. It's disgusting.
It's the AAA devs that are going to use AI to pump out more garbage, not the honest indie developers.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 4 days ago:
They've always wanted all of the money without any of the effort.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 4 days ago:
Good. Fuck "AI". They should have to disclose exactly what it was used for and that should be displayed right at the top of the games store page, along with any extra transactions in the game, extra accounts or launchers needed.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 4 days ago:
Fuck right off Tim. You cunt.
And you wonder why nobody wants to use your shitty storefront.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 6 days ago:
Steam Deck proved that Linux can now be a success in the hands of the general public. This is basically a more powerful one you plug into your TV.
While it is a custom PC, like the Deck, its also a curated experience, like the Deck.
The evidence is already there, I would understand you if this was their first product back, but it isnt.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 1 week ago:
The first time it was largely due to lack of game support and confusion as they were 3rd party devices.
This time pretty much every game will run through Proton, Linux for desktop has matured a lot, SteamOS is much better and Valve are selling it 1st party. It will sell a lot, even if it is priced as a PC... I mean at the end of the day it is a PC, a custom SFF one, which are usually very expensive. This will good value for what it is, you just can't compare it to a console.
- Comment on Kerbal Space Program spiritual successor Kitten Space Agency releases pre-alpha for free 2 weeks ago:
Stationeers has been early access since 2017, instead of finishing it, they made another game and now have two more games in development. This new game will suffer the same fate, guy has all these ideas and promises but never executes on them.
He saw the KSP situation and is trying to capitalise on it, instead of finishing things people already paid for.
- Comment on Kerbal Space Program spiritual successor Kitten Space Agency releases pre-alpha for free 2 weeks ago:
Dean Hall. All you need to know that its going to be abandonware.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation" 2 weeks ago:
You had to discover the world yourself in Subnautica, they pointed you to an island one time, the rest was reading PDAs. You were a silent protagonist, so it was easier to immerse yourself in the world.
Below Zero was so disappointing in every regard except more base building options. (I cant remember if they added them to the original or not in an update). Why did they make the protagonist speak??? Ugh.
You go down on the planet to find out what happened to your sister and you get pretty much railroaded (waypoint here, waypoint there) into leaving without ever even acknowledging your sister again, unless you remember and go looking. All the enemies in BZ had the same "munch munch munch" making them all so uninteresting. The world was small and empty, it literally had no depth. The entire land portion was such a dumb addition and the worm was just incredibly annoying rather than something daunting to deal with.
Subnautica is one of them games you wished you could play blind again. Below Zero though...
It's one of them too often occurring cases where developers don't know what made their original game good.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation" 2 weeks ago:
Add it to ever growing list of reasons to not buy Subnautica 2
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it is just going to be filled with shortened down tiktok slop rather than anything it would have been in the past.
- Comment on The Steam Controller 2 Got A New Icon And It Further Confirms The Layout 4 weeks ago:
There's literally analog sticks right there?
- Comment on Valve casually gut Counter-Strike's billion dollar skins market with a "small update" 5 weeks ago:
I think it'll settle after a while, covert items will come back down in price. Really good change from Valve. Though removing MTX entirely would be preferable.
- 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 1 month ago:
As much as Twitch needs gutting, Kick is much worse.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
The inevitable, it was always going to rise, it was loss-leader to get market share.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
They used to constantly offer $1 offers, I'd take that for a month and try a game I was interested in. I got value there, but I'd never pay more than that and certainly not on a recurring basis.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
Legally sure, but what people mean is you have a copy and there's no DRM check-in to execute it and play it. Steam offers DRM-free titles too, it's entirely up to developer discretion.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
Didnt do Playstation any good, their online service was still just as shit, they just pocketed the money. I think consoles reached their peak anyway, PC is much more accessible and a more appealing option now, the market is shifting.
- Comment on EA are about to be bought for $50 billion by Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firms, claims report 2 months ago:
Not that I was buying any of EA's products for the longest time, but now I definitely won't even consider it for a second.
- Comment on Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback 4 months ago:
Go back to how it was in 2010.
- Comment on Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app 1 year ago:
Then here's hoping they don't make the same mistakes with the Nexus app!
- Comment on Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app 1 year ago:
It seems alright, until you use almost any other mod manager, then you wonder why Vortex is so clunky. It works fine for simple modding, but once you want to adjust load orders its annoying af. The UI is pretty atrocious in places and it takes more clicks than it should to do things. Admittedly I havent used it for a few years, so it might have been updated a lot.
- Comment on Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app 1 year ago:
First time I am hearing of this, I hope it's a lot better than shitty Vortex!
- Comment on NVIDIA driver 555.58 released as stable bringing Wayland Explicit Sync 1 year ago:
Which is quite common, kinda crazy it took this long to (maybe) properly support. I might have to try linux again if it's solid now.
- Comment on Valve Working on Video Clip Recording and Sharing in Steam Client 1 year ago:
This would be a really cool addition to Steamworks, strange it wasn't made earlier, but late is better than never.
- Comment on New AMD CPU leak looks like a perfect fit for Steam Deck 2 1 year ago:
Yeah you are not wrong, but why have a more expensive chip just to throttle it, better to keep the cost of the deck down so more people can afford it.
- Comment on New AMD CPU leak looks like a perfect fit for Steam Deck 2 1 year ago:
It depends on efficiency, it's all good and well having more performance, but if the battery life is only 2 hours it's useless.
- Comment on Steam Deck vs that Asus thingy 1 year ago:
I dont think the Ally is better in any regard, raw performance doesn't really matter when playing on such small screens anyway.