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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t fall for AI scams cloning cops’ voices, police warn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lol what’s the benefit of AI exactly? I’m not going to know if some random caller sounds like a real cop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Steam Deck plugin on Steam will bring GOG and Epic Games compatibility⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GOG is fine and probably won’t interfere, but a paid plug-in for Epic who very well might just arbitrarily break shit because they can seems like a bad idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is testing verified checkmarks in search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every individual false positive does several orders of magnitude more negative than positives of “not verified” fake links.

  It would be much less damaging to red flag questionable links (and remove clearly fake links as often as possible to avoid fatigue).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have massively better quality, stability, and latency with the RemotePlay app over the internet from PS5 than I do with Steam in home streaming actually in my house. It’s still not good enough for high precision games, but Steam isn’t close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the OP did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be a handheld console that would play their console library. They’d beat the Steam Deck’s sales volume as fast as they could manufacture them. Also, the Steam deck doesn’t do the triggers, which is a meaningful loss in plenty of PS5 games.

  My actual point, though, was that the build quality for the price is really good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love my Steam deck, and bounce between how heavily I use it vs the switch* or PS5 depending on the games I’m into at the moment. But misrepresenting its utility as a modern living room PC doesn’t help anyone and is just going to leave people disappointed.

  The PS5 is probably my smallest library (and mostly PS4 games, a lot of which were before I had a PC), but it’s definitely plenty capable and I don’t regret the purchase at all. (The controller is also the coolest non graphics addition to gaming I’ve experienced in a long time).

  *The switch desperately needs a 3rd party replacement for the controllers, though, because the joycons are bad brand new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t buy a portal. I probably would have bought a “PS4 in portal form factor” for twice the price, but streaming isn’t worth it.

  But I have a friend who did, and have had my hands on it, and it is a genuinely really high quality implementation of the mediocre concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PS remote play is fantastic (for what remote play is. Streaming still sucks.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m playing modern games on a TV? PS5 easy. But still the pro over the deck.

  I love my deck. As the handheld it’s intended to be. It’s not powerful enough for an acceptable experience running a AAA 3D game on a TV screen. You can ignore the resolution and artifacts and just generally low visual quality and poor frame rate on a small screen, because playing the games portably at all is a huge step up. You can’t ignore any part of it on a TV. It’s fine for indie games, older games, 2D stuff, etc.

  But it doesn’t have the performance for a good living room experience if you’re looking to play modern AAA games. (Ignoring all their bullshit rootkits on PC that block a lot of multiplayer games out completely, which are the games you have to pay for on PS. You just can’t play most of them on Linux at all.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m optimistic about the idea that game developers will stop being allowed to install fucking malware.

  I don’t trust Microsoft at all, but you shouldn’t be able to consent to that bullshit in an EULA no one has ever read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Disney+ financials may shed light on recent price hike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Running their own service is way more profitable; which is why they own multiple with different ones of their brands.

  They’re not negotiating deals at arms length. They’re choosing their pricing for the sole purpose of fitting whatever narrative they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Disney+ financials may shed light on recent price hike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They make whatever number per subscriber they want to claim they do. They can license their shows at whatever price they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney blocks ESPN, ABC, and other channels for millions of DirecTV subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DirecTV says it’s being prevented from offering more flexible packages that can more closely cater to consumer interest, and that Disney is “herding consumers away” from network TV by shifting content to Disney-owned streaming services like Hulu and Disney Plus. Disney is also accused of including a last-minute demand to waive all claims that its behavior is anti-competitive, according to DirecTV. “The Walt Disney Co. is once again refusing any accountability to consumers, distribution partners, and now the American judicial system,” Rob Thun, chief content officer at DirecTV, said in a statement. “Disney is in the business of creating alternate realities, but this is the real world where we believe you earn your way and must answer for your own actions. They want to continue to chase maximum profits and dominant control at the expense of consumers – making it harder for them to select the shows and sports they want at a reasonable price

  Not that I like DirecTV either, but if Disney actually added language to punish them for noticing their obvious monopolistic behavior…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now identifies reviews that come from Steam Deck players⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think OS is fine.

  Making specs public is a privacy issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet movie production company has apparently sent DMCA takedowns to Garry's Mod⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTuber Alexey “DaFuq!?Boom!” Gerasimov, who currently has 43 million subscribers, makes no secret of these inspirations, often crediting Garry’s Mod community assets in the video descriptions. Gerasimov also appeared on the S&box Discord after the DMCA began to circulate in the hope of getting in touch with Newman. “I did NOT strike Garry’s Mod and I’m trying to understand what else is written in the letter!”, he wrote.

  Even dumber lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game] No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any real time gate keeps me from playing the way I want to, by definition. I will not buy or play a game which has any version of a real time gate unless it’s a separate game mode I have no interest in.

  Hitman elusive targets? Whatever. They don’t touch anything real. They’re “not part” of the actual game. But the second it interacts with the game I have zero interest. I don’t care if the key is free and there are no microtransactions. The core premise of controlling when, in real time, I’m allowed to interact with content is not OK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game] No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really care how “important” it is.

  There’s no format of it I’m willing to consider tolerating. It’s inherently toxic design for anything but a specific type of MMO with a persistent world and economy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game] No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was super interested in this game from the stuff I saw of it.

  Then I saw in reviews that there were a bunch of real time gated things. I don’t know the specific mechanics, but any version of that at all is unacceptable to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft looking to restrict kernel level access after CrowdStrike incident might help us with our current Anti-Cheat dilemma⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if we play make believe that they make any difference at all (they don’t), it would still be unforgivable to install malware on someone’s computer to prevent cheating in a computer game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True actual sailing games are underrated and a criminally underexplored genre of video game simulation... which is why Pancake Sailor is the next free game you should try!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe he’s just enthusiastic about a game that does something he’s into?