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Bye, Sony! 😁

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It'll always be "horde-survival" to me!!

I do agree with other comments that the tags are often useless. I tried to find a good RPG for the train today, I was hit with things like Borderlands 4, which might be technically "role playing", but not really what I would associate with that tag.

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What if the declining console sales are not a result of the lack of exclusives but of shrinking living spaces of young adults? What will they do next if the numbers still don't go up?

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Quoting: Cley_Fayeselling a console at a loss

Is that even still true? Have you seen what the prices have elevated to? Usually they go down over time, but not in these crazy times...

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Quoting: PhlebiacThere were some pretty big delays between the console releases and the PC releases, so I can't imagine it was hurting their sales. Maybe the negative reaction to forced PSN is what shut it down, if they were hoping to get new subscribers that way.

Numbers don't go up = shareholders unhappy = cuts.

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"Buy our consoles, OR ELSE!" strategy. I guess they did run the numbers.

There's zero chance I'll get a playstation to play their "exclusives", although I gladly paid for them on PC, so that's a pity. But I suppose when you want to make profit on the hardware you sell at a loss, you have to force people's hand. A shame, since some of their PC port were really nice.

Maybe it's the idea of selling a console at a loss using some form of coercion just so they can hope to turn a profit later on should be re-evaluated… nah, who am I kidding. People were already up defending "muh exclusives", sadly. Oh well.

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Quoting: GustyGhostImagine running a business where your value proposition is in putting up artificial barriers to access your goods/services.

Aren't most entertainment/tech businesses like this, though?

Netflix produces stuff only to be consumed on their platform. Same with Disney, Nintendo, HBO, Valve (They don't release their games on other stores), Apple...

I wish it wasn't like that, but here we are.

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There were some pretty big delays between the console releases and the PC releases, so I can't imagine it was hurting their sales. Maybe the negative reaction to forced PSN is what shut it down, if they were hoping to get new subscribers that way.

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There was an article recently, from Bloomberg talking about GTA VI and console-first release, stating that from multi-plataform game sales, around 50% came from PC, and I think these recent changes to stop releasing games on PC might come from that.

In my opinion, Sony and M$ lost this battle when they tried to have trimmed PCs as consoles. Valve saw the opportunity to blend together a console-like experience with a full-fledged OS instead, and people have responded to that. They've also seen the PC game market is fair-er(ish) that the console one, with true retro-compatibility, mod support, and better pricing.

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As long as they don't start removing them...

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Imagine running a business where your value proposition is in putting up artificial barriers to access your goods/services.

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Seems like a good list of changes to me.

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They can arrange and rearrange all they want, at the end of the day the tags are applied by the community, so I will probably continue to find them thoroughly useless.

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It's a pity, but not having big exclusives is one of the main reasons causing the XBox decline. Sony must have been taking notes and don't want the same to happen to PlayStation.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI don't quite understand some of them.
For example: Why remove "Warhammer 40k" as a tag?

I would assume because Warhammmer is not a genre, it's an IP.

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I don't quite understand some of them.
For example: Why remove "Warhammer 40k" as a tag?

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Quoting: WMan22I wish this was just a regular feature like OtherOS was on PS3, the value add this gives to consoles, especially surrounding matters of End of Life plans, is downright nuts.

Like, Sony's pulling out of single player PC gaming because they want people to buy Playstations but if they just simply made this a feature, bringing PC to Playstation instead of Playstation to PC, they'd accomplish their goal with considerable efficiency. Hell, I'd buy a Playstation again if they did this.

Being able to use steam on a console would make the console's native marketplace moot. Consoles (PS & Xbox, not Switch) are sold at a loss and recouped via online purchases, if customers could use Steam manufacturer suddenly can't make enough money. Or so i believe, considering more options using the console means more people buying it...

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Quoting: SlayerTheChikken

Quoting: mr-victory

Added XDG, Pipewire, and KWin direct screencast capture on Linux

Huh, so I can actually shut off my display when using sunshine instead of setting an invalid input on the monitor so it is off but also "connected"

There's also this [https://github.com/frostplexx/sunshine_virt_display](https://github.com/frostplexx/sunshine_virt_display)

I'll check it out though I prefer casting my actual display so I can start doing stuff remotely then continue locally. I use sunshine for streaming my DE instead of games

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Hm...out of nowhere Heroic lost/changed proton installation and switched all wine prefixes to shared empty one (on deck). All saves disappeared until I figured out what happened. Made kids unhappy until I did :(

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I gave the demo a try. I've never really gotten into these sorts of incremental games, so it was a new experience. I can sort of see the allure of number-go-up (I did end up playing it for almost two-and-a-half hours to get through everything the demo had), but also it just felt so…sterile. So curated, or on rails. The numbers go up, but it doesn't actually mean anything because everything's so balanced; whether you're making 2 or 2 billion fuel per second doesn't really have any effect, because the costs of everything scale up proportionally. There's no way to break the game, ultimately – you're just walking a path that's been laid out for you in advance.

And I feel like I'm coming off quite negatively, but that's not a bad thing necessarily. I guess maybe what I'm trying to say is that it feels like there's a very low skill ceiling – I'm doing lots of work, but it doesn't feel like I can meaningfully get better, or even do worse, at doing that work. I dunno. It's a well made game (the pixel art on the various celestial bodies orbiting around the system is delightful), just maybe I'm not really the target audience for incremental games.

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Frankly if this is fully 100% keyboard/controller/remote navigable this is like a dream come true, I use a tiny mini PC in place of a Roku device in my home so bigscreen is a feature after my own heart.

It *especially* makes sense in the context of Steam Deck docked mode.

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I wish this was just a regular feature like OtherOS was on PS3, the value add this gives to consoles, especially surrounding matters of End of Life plans, is downright nuts.

Like, Sony's pulling out of single player PC gaming because they want people to buy Playstations but if they just simply made this a feature, bringing PC to Playstation instead of Playstation to PC, they'd accomplish their goal with considerable efficiency. Hell, I'd buy a Playstation again if they did this.

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This is really wonderful to see! I love creativity.

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Quoting: PhlebiacOn the (GOG) deals page, if you select wishlist only, and there are no results, you get stuck with no way to turn that off, other than by changing the region. I assume that wasn't intentional / is a bug.

Yeah, unfortunately I just discovered that after the release. Not major but we will do a hotfix for that and other minor bugs we found.

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Not surprised that such sloppily Microsoft-sloppy games have memory bugs.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: walther von stolzingI've finally run emacs inside Minecraft ... fine; but I think what I really want to do is to run Minecraft inside emacs.

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In theory you would then be able to run emacs inside Minecraft inside emacs.

I mean, strictly speaking this is 'displaying inside' as opposed to *running inside*; so that kind of recursion wouldn't be a big deal, not so different from the infinite tunnel you get when streaming the desktop with an OBS window inside it, etc.

Not sure about an emacs native wayland compositor, but emacs is already able to launch image buffers, satellite windows, etc.; so in that flimsy sense, emacs too can display Minecraft inside it.

... but the thing is that both Minecraft and emacs can *theoretically* 'run' each other as computers ... though it wouldn't be practical in the least. emacs still has a better chance of course, especially since it can have plugins written in C; but implementing at least a 32 bit computer using redstone inside Minecraft, etc. etc., that's a tall order.

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I don't know anything about the PS5, but found these posts outlining firmware options:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5_Jailbreak/comments/1t3uooq/current_state_of_ps5_jailbreaking_in_early_mai/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps5-exploit-guide.613891/

Running Linux requires a hypervisor jailbreak that was patched in firmware 6.50, deployed in january 2023.
So you need a phat PS5 that hasn't been updated in a while. Users apparently are forced to update to play some newer games, and can't go back and downgrade.

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It's been 15 years already? I know I am nearing 50 but, damn.

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"6.00, 6.02 with M.2 support"
when that firmware versions were relased? and what is the current version number?

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Really great!
Now I just need a version that doesn't require compiling.

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