Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: LoftyIs it that once you join a corporation you become a gas lighting narcissist or do you only get employed if you are a gas lighting narcissist.

The people at the top have been to gas lighting narcissism school. Some - like former EA CEO now Unity CEO John Riccitiello - have spent additional years honing their craft subsequently.

People that aren't at or near the top that are employed by a corporation have no special powers in that regard.

Sadly i don't think it's just a upbringing or education thing. Sure it plays a big part but Nature vs Nurture. Some people are just wired that way.

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Quoting: CybolicIt's amazing work and I'm particularly looking forward to the work on application-level suspension [External Link]. It could take the concept of Sessions/Activities to a whole new level where you could store the app-state of your entire "Work" activity when you switch to your "Playtime" activity for some gaming after work and then jump immediately back into exactly where you left off the next day.

i cant remember if it is xbox or ps5 but one of them allows for you to 'park' games to either ram or the disc to carry on where you left off and choose which one you want to play (or at least that was the original marketing hype around the new faster storage systems) If valve implement this inside SteamOS / desktop big picture i may never have to watch a crappy un-skippable "brought to you via these dozens of marketing sponsors and game engine technologies screens" intro's again, in fact once i have the game setup i might never see the menu system either after first run.

Wait a minuet i just thought of something. If this is implemented properly on Steamdeck i might not have to see the Nvidia logo ever again.. somebody pinch me, this must be a dream.

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I tried re-reading that but im a little bit confused on the "HDR Analysis shaders to work on all HDR games on SteamOS" why is an analysis tool required for a game that already has HDR and conforms to the HDR output standards, don't we just read that and display HDR ? or is this something cooler like what xbox was offering where the system can kind of create HDR maps from SDR games in a much more effective manner than the existing fake HDR shaders that just boost contrast and mess with the gamma slightly. Maybe it was just the way it was written.

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Is it that once you join a corporation you become a gas lighting narcissist or do you only get employed if you are a gas lighting narcissist.

There is a theory, that says that to become a successful manager in a very big corporation you essentially have to be a low level sociopath to succeed. I mean for society at large that's the equivalent of flushing the toilet and all the turds float to the top instead of being left with a basin of clean water.

Like others have said here i don't think calls to violence are ever appropriate.

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Is it me, or are Valve secretly reading my thoughts :unsure:

Now all i need is a desktop version of this, although perhaps with a future more powerful steam deck with the newly announced Thunderbolt 5 with 120Gbps boost mode + external GPU i might not need a desktop computer ever again :shock:

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Quoting: elmapulyeah fog can do a lot for an game

Can't do fog now. fog is bad. game engine must be stronk.

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Quoting: LoftyEven though i have some of the older Tomb raider games on PC, there's still something charming about playing the originals on PS1 just as i remember them, i guess i just like the retro aesthetic. I might pick these up on a bigger sale eventually, after all you can pretty much remaster a lot of retro games yourself now with Ai texture packs and 4k resolution.

i think its not just nostalgia, i often prefer retro graphics even for games i never played, i have a few theories for that:
first blurry textures like on n64 make more sense when we are looking at fiction, i mean if something is low poly it might as well have an blurry texture, even if it dont we can hide the flaws of an texture in the fact that we cant see the full details.
another thing to consider is the abstract aspect of it, such as when you see 3 simbols that form an triangle , despite it not being there:

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when we dont have many details our brain fill in the extra details.

not to mention i grew playing nes games among others even older i never saw an problem in playing with abstract forms.

ohh i agree. The more realistic or true to life the graphics become the less imagination i feel you need to piece it back together again. In fact, isn't part of the appeal of video game graphics that they are an abstract or sorts ? Escapism is more likely to be realized from something that makes your mind share the visual workload than it just being presented to you with no effort. For instance, a dream is not a perfect representation of reality but it allows for you to explore sometimes difficult concepts or move into a different space which is different from the everyday 'reality'.

Im not against hyper real graphics, they have a place.

speaking of your blurry N64 textures it reminded me of how older technology was used to assist the graphics such as the 3-point filtering the N64 used in order to make stairs look on some games, so if you emulate with bi-linear filtering it stops the stairs looking like stairs.

other things about older graphics is that there was a kind of comfy cartoony appeal that a modern day game will fail to emulate due to it having incredible sharp textures as a comparison. Or perhaps the use of fog for draw distance that is not needed anymore that actually created an unintentional certain atmosphere to a game, like on Turok for instance.

anyways im rambling now. Basically modern games miss a lot of things that older games did through hardware limitation and so this leaves true retro games having a unique appeal that makes them worth playing today.

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Quoting: jams3223

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LoftyIve seen a lot of new Windows handhelds recently with better specs, but they always fail in certain ways that the steam deck does not.

worse value
worse ergonomics
worse audio
worse controls
worse software
worse drivers
worse configuration
worse updates
worse battery life
worse Windows

Competition is good, but so far i haven't seen a decent enough handheld that can compete. Not even the ROG ALLY is close even though it does beat the steam deck on screen, performance the rest is not as good.

So id say ignore the Youtube click bait about that latest super duper windows 10" Ryzen Z1 handheld that cost $1000 and just get a steam deck.

Funny how effective it is when you plan a whole device as a whole device, with what it's going to be used for in mind.
(and when you dump Windows)

Yea, you can tell most of the competitors are rushing to market get a slice of the Steam deck pie using 'on paper' better specs to lure people in. Trying for paid reviews, maybe chucking wads (not doom wads) at big channels to pull people into a temporary FOMO hype. But giving no future promise of support, in fact probably most likely dumping the product within 6 months onto the next version with some flaws removed but more different ones added.

If you see a gormless open mouthed Soy face holding the latest Chinese handheld at an awkward angle backed by ludicrously over saturated colors on their thumbnail saying "THIS blows the steam deck away and it TOTALLY Surprised Me WOW! 😲️ " .. avoid that content.

edit* added worse support to my original list

People who act like Spongebob's cat

Spongebob has a cat ?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LoftyIve seen a lot of new Windows handhelds recently with better specs, but they always fail in certain ways that the steam deck does not.

worse value
worse ergonomics
worse audio
worse controls
worse software
worse drivers
worse configuration
worse updates
worse battery life
worse Windows

Competition is good, but so far i haven't seen a decent enough handheld that can compete. Not even the ROG ALLY is close even though it does beat the steam deck on screen, performance the rest is not as good.

So id say ignore the Youtube click bait about that latest super duper windows 10" Ryzen Z1 handheld that cost $1000 and just get a steam deck.

Funny how effective it is when you plan a whole device as a whole device, with what it's going to be used for in mind.
(and when you dump Windows)

Yea, you can tell most of the competitors are rushing to market get a slice of the Steam deck pie using 'on paper' better specs to lure people in. Trying for paid reviews, maybe chucking wads (not doom wads) at big channels to pull people into a temporary FOMO hype. But giving no future promise of support, in fact probably most likely dumping the product within 6 months onto the next version with some flaws removed but more different ones added.

If you see a gormless open mouthed Soy face holding the latest Chinese handheld at an awkward angle backed by ludicrously over saturated colors on their thumbnail saying "THIS blows the steam deck away and it TOTALLY Surprised Me WOW! 😲️ " .. avoid that content.

edit* added worse support to my original list

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Ive seen a lot of new Windows handhelds recently with better specs, but they always fail in certain ways that the steam deck does not.

worse support
worse value
worse ergonomics
worse audio
worse controls
worse software
worse drivers
worse configuration
worse updates
worse battery life
worse Windows

Competition is good, but so far i haven't seen a decent enough handheld that can compete. Not even the ROG ALLY is close even though it does beat the steam deck on screen, performance the rest is not as good.

So id say ignore the Youtube click bait about that latest super duper windows 10" Ryzen Z1 handheld that cost $1000 and just get a steam deck.

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