id definitely like to play TF2 on the steam deck. Heck id even play CS:GO on the steam deck even though i might not 'win' the match id have a lot of fun trying to :smile:

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Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: TheRiddickCDPR GOG still upset with Linux user base I see. They NEVER did recover from those Witcher2 threats certain extremists made...

Were those threats ever verified with real evidence that everyone got to see (other than maybe a tweet) ?

AFAIK, all of these "revelations" come from "Jaycee1980" [External Link], a fired (now "ex-")employee from Virtual Programming, who was very vocal on all news outlets (here, steamcommunity, reddit, twitter etc.). Sounded plausible, so people just went along with that.

From distant memory the things said about Linux (and the community) in certain channels before that even happened wasn't exactly glowing.. quite the opposite, some people have an axe to grind against Linux for whatever reason (hello Sweeney). Plausibility isn't really the issue (now long in the past) it was the obvious get out of supporting Linux jail card that was at the time the real issue.

But it's all academic now and i don't support GOG with my money or time.

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Quoting: TheRiddickCDPR GOG still upset with Linux user base I see. They NEVER did recover from those Witcher2 threats certain extremists made...

Were those threats ever verified with real evidence that everyone got to see (other than maybe a tweet) ?

How many cases were reported to the police ?

How many charges were brought ?

How many convictions were subsequently given ?

How easy would it be to use that as an excuse to not support Linux ?

How easy would it be to make them up yourself ?

How often to people throw shade, idle empty threats online everyday ?

How many 13yr old COD kid's can use twitter and tell people whatever they want ?

How much of a melt do you have to be to group every single Linux user ( millions of people ) and decide the behavior of a few is the behavior of them all ? Hmm .. that sounds kinda like what actual extremists do right ? Should we say that because GOG is registered in Poland and there are (")extremists(") > [ Nebulous Term ] in Poland that all GOG employees & their families are extremists ?

That whole incident was just them looking for a reason to not do something that would cost them a lot of money & support. And now as we have seen with their terrible marketing department it would not be out of the ordinary to JUMP at the chance to find a reason to not support Linux gaming properly.

So yea, they never did get over it because there was nothing to get over.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, finally an excuse for men to carry around purses?

i think you will find that's called a murse.

Why does that concept exist?
My wife has gradually used purses less and less over the years, the pull of fashion and socialization losing out to the fact that backpacks are just so much better for actually, you know, carrying stuff in.
So why would guys deliberately subject themselves to them when society doesn't even expect it?

I dunno it's a bit like why do suspenders exists when tights do a better job :huh:

I suppose. I mean for me, and I know this is just personal prejudice, I think garter belts are a lot sexier than murses. But maybe lots of people disagree.

why not both.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, finally an excuse for men to carry around purses?

i think you will find that's called a murse.

Why does that concept exist?
My wife has gradually used purses less and less over the years, the pull of fashion and socialization losing out to the fact that backpacks are just so much better for actually, you know, carrying stuff in.
So why would guys deliberately subject themselves to them when society doesn't even expect it?

I dunno it's a bit like why do suspenders exists when tights do a better job :huh:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, finally an excuse for men to carry around purses?

i think you will find that's called a murse.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHe looks at Tim Sweeney saying X, and at many people saying hostile things about Tim Sweeney saying X, and considers that many of those hostile things are not well informed, and that after all Sweeney is an important man at the top of a large company. Plus, frankly, honourable people tend to just imagine certain basic levels of conduct in others. So his instincts tell him that he shouldn't react in a knee-jerk fashion like the hostile people, and that he should give some benefit of the doubt to Sweeney because come on, surely an important person in a public role wouldn't just be lying through their teeth. And so, he starts thinking about ways in which Sweeney's claims could be true, and comes up with some.

It's human nature and though some humans cannot be as easily fooled, when those who are honorable (or perhaps at worst immature / gullible) place a blind projection of trust to authority thing tend to go bad pretty quick. Many people throughout history have been taken advantage of by such people.

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Quoting: dubigrasuMy problem with Stadia is that seems to be stagnating and some later games are having (at launch at least) some performance issues. Games usually run excellent on Stadia, but a couple of these screwups can totally ruin the perception. Control for example even now runs like crap, and is a big title that people will go for. It looks like their hardware hasn't been updated in a while, and what was good HW few years ago is now already obsolete. They're not doing much also in terms of expanding the service (and its quality) to other countries. GFN somehow managed to open new centers in East-Europe, dramatically decreasing the latency. Google did not, and this is mind boggling considering who they are.

But this opens up another question when you have centralized hardware repositories what happens in another pandemic with unreliable shipping, component / mineral shortages spiraling hardware costs for those actual companies when you are still running Vega hardware and 10 million new people want to play Dying Light 2 at 4k 60fps !? And You can't even get the right workers into the data centers to swap the hardware.

Or another potential serious situation where people have limited (but just enough to buy groceries or look at email / log into steam to keep the 90 timer going ) internet access like a cyber pandemic or even power grid issue which again might limit power to just a few hours a day.. still workable and you can live with managed expectations.. but gaming is going to completely impossible in the future with any of the above.

Does anyone remember Onlive ? That was what i thought cloud gaming was going to be, even back then there was this cool wall of animated games that were captures of live action and you click on a tile and were almost immediately transported into a game .. these days with NVME's hitting 6000MBPS it's not so impressive when your own PC is loading faster than Googles data center loading your games (that you still have access to in any of the above situations)

with faster internet comes faster downloading .. its a weird race that only makes sense to most people if games keep getting bigger but even though some titles are, many of the best titles now are actually indie games that are under 20gb sometimes much less. ohh and mobile hardware is closer to delivering PC like visuals every year as far as the screen size is concerned and those games are not nearly as big as mega AAA titles.

Yea cloud streaming probably is the future at some point but im fairly glad that for now it's not.

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There's something missing about this game vs the first one, i can't quite put my finger on it. It seems somehow tamer, less horror oriented & as a result less atmospheric & more arcadey. Maybe it's the color palette or the upbeat musics. It might just be my preference for that dark, foreboding 1970's-esk retro zombie vibe the first one gave off. This feels like it has had a layer of modern corporate smudged onto it, the game play from what i have seen seems more like dead island mixed with destiny than dying light.

each to their own i guess.

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Quoting: pete910Realy? No radeon card option !

worse is that the new all AMD laptops coming out have a firmware MUX switch to change between RDNA on mobile and Dedicated on power

Also not the prettiest design of lappy. Daft price tag to boot

All hardware is expensive now. And worse still, we are potentially moving away from traditional 'MSRP' and more to a 'Bill Of Materials' market where prices of everything will fluctuate wilder than bitcoin. This could drive hardware to even more insane levels as there is no 'price reference point' and even make the move to cloud gaming become a thing even though nobody even wants it.

I'll just skip the screen res as thats just a joke today, Hell my 200 quid phone has better than that!

When you take into account PPI (no not payment protection insurance). A 31.5" 4k monitor has 140PPI and a 15.6" has 141 PPI. You could argue easily that a large screen with higher resolution has more effective work space and that is true. But on a phone i doubt lot of spreadsheets are being worked on. PPI is kind of important, if you get a high resolution screen and actually want to be able to see things you need scaling which although makes the text clearer it drops the effective space back down to 1080p (unless its 4k and then you can drop to 1440p on a large enough screen.

140PPI at laptop viewing distances is not retina standard but it's decent enough and less demanding on games. Besides with a chunky discreet GPU you can add an external monitor with higher resolution. That said, i don't want a laptop with a 16:9 display, i will only buy one with a 16:10 from now on

.. each to their own i guess.

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