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Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve
By JordanPlayz158, 24 September 2023 at 6:48 am UTC
Quoting: RealChrisThe Problem.. They Are Buying The Politicians Off To Look The Other Way For Years, Still Are, Its All Corrupted We Have Laws For Monopolies But.. What Good Are Laws When Your So Big You Can Buy Agencies Off.
Yeah it is unfortunate that with enough money, you essentially become unstoppable.
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve
By Kuduzkehpan, 24 September 2023 at 6:21 am UTC
biggest thread is capitalism itself and this is what actualy capitalism that anything MS done and doing.
so yes to capitalism yes to chaos in any kind in any aspect of life. and also this is what makes linux and community much more important to me. Linux is a kind of Stalingrad. Yet we are slowly moving to Berlin Reichtag();
and beyond all these valve is a company and belong someone who have total rights about it.
but i dont see any meaning of selling valve to monopoly even tho Gaben was part of MS and he decided to choose his own path for humankind on perspective of freedom. Amin to that. No worries.
Robot Gentleman dev of 60 Seconds! blasts Unity, switches to Godot and increases funding
By 14, 24 September 2023 at 3:15 am UTC
I like seeing this momentum for Godot. Can't say I hate Unity because I've never released a game, and I learned a lot from their free training, but I'm always going to lean toward OSS and of course FOSS.
Squad-tactics heist RPG 'Cyber Knights: Flashpoint' launches October 17th
By 14, 24 September 2023 at 3:08 am UTC
That has been on my wish list for a while already. I'm interested because I (mostly) like XCOM combat but am not a fan of the base management aspects.
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve
By Mountain Man, 24 September 2023 at 3:07 am UTC Likes: 1
I'm sure the board of directors is keen to buy any successful technology company and add it to Microsoft's portfolio. Heck, they would probably even be willing to buy Sony at the right price.
Lies of P is running great on Steam Deck and desktop Linux
By InhaleOblivion, 24 September 2023 at 1:42 am UTC
This kinda reminds me of "The Surge 1 and 2", but with more roguelike mechanics. Kinda wish Deck13 made a Surge 3 but instead they made Atlas Fallen which was poorly received.
Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.0.8 out now
By DMJC, 24 September 2023 at 1:19 am UTC
They should take fheroes2, drop the code into a second repository and strip out all the Heroes 2 features to make an open source version of Heroes of Might and Magic 1. The engines are very similar, it's just Heroes 1 is a less refined version of Heroes 2.
Unity nuked their Terms of Service on GitHub as 'views were so low'
By WMan22, 24 September 2023 at 1:19 am UTC
The reason this sounds so bad is because I believe this excuse is the honest truth when they say it.

After all, if so few people are reading it, who's gonna notice when you delete it to fuck people over, right? I mean that's how I'd think if I was an evil CEO like John Riccitiello.

so really, no matter which way you slice this post, whether you approach it from the angle of "A LEGAL DOCUMENT ISN'T A YOUTUBE VIDEO YOU HAVE TO PROMOTE IN THE ALGORITHM TO JUSTIFY IT'S EXISTENCE YOU ABSOLUTE CRETINS" or "So you deleted something important because you thought there weren't enough people to raise hell about it", it's a bad excuse.
Microsoft leak shows Fallout 3 and Oblivion Remasters, DOOM Year Zero and more
By slaapliedje, 24 September 2023 at 12:53 am UTC
What they should do is just a remaster of 1-4 of Elder Scrolls. Then again, Morrowind and Daggerfall are already practically done for them... unless they actually put them in the newer Starfield version of the engine...
Valve overhauled Steam Deck 'As Mouse' Gyro option in new Beta
By Mennenth, 24 September 2023 at 12:21 am UTC
I do want to point out again that arguments over "which 'hardware oriented local' axis should be considered 'player oriented local yaw'" are kind of moot, given the Tilt Angle setting allows you to change that on a whim.

The problem, and why a couple of game/controller input related communities have been discussing this for nearly a week, is that we all hold and move our controllers differently. Even if you are just sitting in a chair, you can be holding it flat in your lap, upright so the usb port is facing the ceiling, or any angle in between. That's already 3 different ways of holding it, and the motions required to move the controller for "player oriented local yaw" will be different in each. This isn't accounting for people who may be laying in bed on their back so their controller is completely upside down, not to mention on their side so the controller is also at a weird roll angle. Yaw to you is different than yaw to me, which makes communicating on this topic... difficult, to say the least (hence the communities have been going at it for a week straight as we try to figure out this new gyro mode... ah nerds).

There are tons of ways to hold the controller... and kind of by the nature of default settings, only one of them can be default. The safest bet is to make as few assumptions as possible as to how the player is holding their controller, and then provide options so when the player moves their controller steam input understands their intent.

Because of that, Valve has made only 1 assumption; a player holding the Deck (or similar handhelds) is likely to be holding it upright. So in the "player oriented local" model, the Deck is treated as being upright and all axis are determined from there. Valve has made zero assumptions about external controllers, defaulting to the "hardware oriented local" model. If confused, reference the image I linked earlier.

So to sum up; your "normal" may be someone else's "inverted" and vice versa. Just set the slider to how you hold/move your controller, and that's that.
Steam Deck a 'stable target for a couple years' so no Steam Deck 2 for a while
By elmapul, 23 September 2023 at 11:51 pm UTC
couple can mean 2, or mean a few, a lot...
i hope they wait at least 5 years, but the competition surely is making some pressure with their marketing, the fact that people dont know how good the UX is until they experience it help nothing.
Quoting: BotonoskiPerhaps if projects like Box86 improve, they can make a Deck lite running off ARM. Something smaller, passively cooled, super battery life, focused on being a handheld Steam Link but fully capable of playing PC games from at least the 2010s.
That's under the assumption ARM is more power efficient than modern x86_64 processors, not sure if that's actually true anymore I haven't really looked into the subject much and AMD really seems to be absolutely killing it in the erea of power efficiency
I anticipate the Deck will become at least 5 years old before they really start considering a full on Deck 2 in any case.

its still more efficient, otherwise apple wouldnt make m1, but the issue is emulatiog another arch while being more efficient at the same time? doubt it.
GOG celebrate 15 years with a sale and giveaway
By Grogan, 23 September 2023 at 10:25 pm UTC Likes: 1
I grabbed Beyond: Two Souls for $11 CDN. The first screenshot I clicked showed Willem Dafoe, and I recognized him instantly.

So, sold :-)

(It also looks like a nice story game)
Unity nuked their Terms of Service on GitHub as 'views were so low'
By pb, 23 September 2023 at 9:23 pm UTC
Quoting: elmapulbreaking news guys!
as part of the deal with Uk in order to be able to purchase activision blizzard, microsoft agreed that ubisoft should have streaming rights to call of duty, and be able to sub licence it to any cloud provider.
and guess what ubisoft requested? proton support!
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/16pdpm1/ubisoft_may_also_request_that_microsoft_perform/
as for ubisoft having rights to distribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kaOOFvcS_Y

Ubisoft games worked amazingly well on Stadia and I am pretty sure they licensed Stadia software for their own use, likely they will offer it as a part of Ubi+ subscription, so if they get the streaming rights to CoD, I am not surprised they want to ensure it works well on Linux machines.
MonoGame plan to create a non-profit foundation to support development
By whizse, 23 September 2023 at 8:53 pm UTC
Quoting: tuubiMono is short for mononucleosis, which has no connection to herpes.
I mean, it is caused by the Epstein–Barr virus which technically is human gammaherpesvirus 4. But it sure doesn't carry the stigma of genital herpes, and I have never heard of anyone catching glandular fever being described as having herpes...

Anyhow, these confusions surrounding names tend to be quite localized. Around here I think MonoGame would probably be construed as something involving sound for games (mono as a single channel audio) or possibly a game engine made explicitly for single player games (mono as synonym to single)?

Native Spanish speakers would probably not be as confused as Mono in this case refers to word for monkey. The Mono project was started by a company named Ximian (simian is another word for the higher primates) which later became Xamarin (a Tamarin is a species of monkey).
Unity nuked their Terms of Service on GitHub as 'views were so low'
By Smoke39, 23 September 2023 at 8:53 pm UTC Likes: 3
It really hurts my feelings when people badmouth my bad behavior.
Unity announced big changes following the hated Runtime Fee
By Smoke39, 23 September 2023 at 8:42 pm UTC
BallisticNG devs aren't buyin' it. They're staying on an older version to avoid the new TOS, even sacrificing the planned Switch port to do so, and looking into other engines for future projects.
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve
By WorMzy, 23 September 2023 at 8:37 pm UTC
But what does it matter if you can just press 'play'? :trollface:
Unity nuked their Terms of Service on GitHub as 'views were so low'
By TheSHEEEP, 23 September 2023 at 8:35 pm UTC Likes: 3
I feel that lately, I've seen a lot of cases of PR teams clearly needing PR teams.
MonoGame plan to create a non-profit foundation to support development
By tuubi, 23 September 2023 at 7:47 pm UTC
Quoting: Geamandura
Quoting: ElectricPrismI'll beat the dead horse a little too -- stigmatized names like Gimp are going to sound offputting to donors. This isn't hard.

I personally donated to Gimp a large sum of money and have been using it happily for 20 years. You have to be woke out of your mind to invent this kind of first world problem that now Gimp software has an offensive name that will start bothering people.

It's not "woke" people who get offended by words that might mean something sexually out-of-the-norm. But I agree that most people or organizations won't mind the acronym. I certainly don't.
Valve overhauled Steam Deck 'As Mouse' Gyro option in new Beta
By tuubi, 23 September 2023 at 7:36 pm UTC
Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: tuubiMaybe I don't quite grasp what you mean, but I don't see how I could hold any of my modern gamepads in an upright position, as in the bumpers / shoulder buttons facing the ceiling, unless I pull the controller right up to my chin. I hold them on my lap, thumbsticks pointing up.

They aren't pointing up so much as pointing towards you. Modern controller grips fit into the palm so that the controller is oriented in a way that means that they're facing you wherever they are in a circle centred on your head/shoulders, which means they're generally going to be oriented at around 45° to the ground. You're looking at the face of the controller, not the bottom of the controller.

No, the thumbsticks definitely point almost directly upwards when I'm sitting in my comfy chair and playing a game. I'm not looking at the face of the controller. If I try to turn the controller up the way you think it should be held, I can't use the triggers with my middle fingers comfortably when my hands are resting on my lap. Please don't just assume you know better than I do how I hold my gamepads.
Unity nuked their Terms of Service on GitHub as 'views were so low'
By ridge, 23 September 2023 at 7:10 pm UTC
Their social media damage control tone is so nauseating. At the same time as they're using this totally infantilising speak, they have the balls to say "we are soo disappointed and upset by this 😭😭😭 we're victims too here"
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve
By poiuz, 23 September 2023 at 7:06 pm UTC
Quoting: NeptNutzNintendo knows they have already been beaten in the hardware race (<-- Steam Deck).
How is the Steam Deck beating the Nintendo Switch?
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve
By ridge, 23 September 2023 at 7:06 pm UTC Likes: 1
One can say whatever they like about Nintendo and Valve both, Microsoft gobbling up either (or worse, both) would be cataclysmic. Things are already starting to become monopolised, we'll all benefit from them doing their own thing.
Microsoft's buyout of Activision gets closer with the UK CMA consulting further
By poiuz, 23 September 2023 at 6:58 pm UTC
Quoting: Theodis…
QuoteWine is often used as a recursive acronym, standing for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”. Sometimes it is also known to be used for “Windows Emulator”. In a way, both meanings are correct, only seen from different perspectives. The first meaning says that Wine is not a virtual machine, it does not emulate a CPU, and you are not supposed to install Windows nor any Windows device drivers on top of it; rather, Wine is an implementation of the Windows API, and can be used as a library to port Windows applications to Unix. The second meaning, obviously, is that to Windows binaries (.exe files), Wine does look like Windows, and emulates its behaviour and quirks rather closely.
Unity nuked their Terms of Service on GitHub as 'views were so low'
By elmapul, 23 September 2023 at 6:47 pm UTC Likes: 1
breaking news guys!
as part of the deal with Uk in order to be able to purchase activision blizzard, microsoft agreed that ubisoft should have streaming rights to call of duty, and be able to sub licence it to any cloud provider.
and guess what ubisoft requested? proton support!
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/16pdpm1/ubisoft_may_also_request_that_microsoft_perform/
as for ubisoft having rights to distribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kaOOFvcS_Y
MonoGame plan to create a non-profit foundation to support development
By Geamandura, 23 September 2023 at 6:42 pm UTC
Quoting: ElectricPrismI'll beat the dead horse a little too -- stigmatized names like Gimp are going to sound offputting to donors. This isn't hard.

I personally donated to Gimp a large sum of money and have been using it happily for 20 years. You have to be woke out of your mind to invent this kind of first world problem that now Gimp software has an offensive name that will start bothering people.
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve
By Geamandura, 23 September 2023 at 6:36 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: williamjcmWell, since the leak happened, I'm sure competition watchdogs will keep a very close eye on Microsoft for the years to come.

As far as I know the watchdog is only meant to keep Microsoft from doing something illegal; there is no morality watchdog to prevent them from being a piece of shthit cnut fckuing company.
Unity nuked their Terms of Service on GitHub as 'views were so low'
By Purple Library Guy, 23 September 2023 at 6:03 pm UTC Likes: 2
Wow. It's kind of impressive when someone makes an excuse so bad they would have been clearly, definitively better off just ignoring the issue and saying nothing.

Actually gives me new respect for myself as a kid--often, when my parents were on my case about something I'd done that was kind of bad, and they'd be asking me why and stuff, I'd just stonewall and say nothing. And I'm realizing now that you know, trying to make excuses really would have been worse--my instincts weren't so bad.
Unity nuked their Terms of Service on GitHub as 'views were so low'
By TheSHEEEP, 23 September 2023 at 5:47 pm UTC
An odd way of communicating, that's for sure.
Valve overhauled Steam Deck 'As Mouse' Gyro option in new Beta
By CatKiller, 23 September 2023 at 5:42 pm UTC
Quoting: tuubiBut forwards in a 3D game is "into" the screen, along the z-axis, not towards the top of the screen. And on the Deck that would mean towards the bottom or back of the device. It would be different if the screen flipped up like one of those laptop-shaped GPD devices. Or the Nintendo thingies with the flip screen. (Handhelds and consoles in general aren't my cup of tea.)

We agree, and apparently so now does Valve: the orientation of a device with a screen - which defines the other axes - has into the screen as forwards (the front of the plane in the image above).

Quoting: tuubiMaybe I don't quite grasp what you mean, but I don't see how I could hold any of my modern gamepads in an upright position, as in the bumpers / shoulder buttons facing the ceiling, unless I pull the controller right up to my chin. I hold them on my lap, thumbsticks pointing up.

They aren't pointing up so much as pointing towards you. Modern controller grips fit into the palm so that the controller is oriented in a way that means that they're facing you wherever they are in a circle centred on your head/shoulders, which means they're generally going to be oriented at around 45° to the ground. You're looking at the face of the controller, not the bottom of the controller. So there's no reason to define the axes of a controller without a screen any differently to the one correct way of defining the axes of a controller with a screen: the forward direction is into the controller's face. That's what I mean by "more upright than flat." The N64 controller was different, in that the shape of the grips did orient the controller away from the user so that it was mostly parallel to the ground.
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