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Embracer Group to acquire Eidos, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix Montréal
2 May 2022 at 1:58 pm UTC Likes: 16

Quoting: dpanterI'm a bit concerned what the endgame is for Embracer Group.
Extinguisher Group

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe hit 100,000 sales in 24 hours
2 May 2022 at 11:52 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: WorMzyCan't wait to unlock Super Go Outside. :wink:
Don't start the game for 111 years.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe hit 100,000 sales in 24 hours
2 May 2022 at 11:30 am UTC

Quoting: scaineI thought I'd give the new content a quick try yesterday and ended up spending a surprising 5 hours! It's such a cool game, and the new content is very well done. Really enjoying it.
I played the original over five years ago (achievement: Go outside, yes! :D ). Will I stumble over lots of content that forgot enough to not be able to avoid it, but not enough to be amused again?

SteamOS 3.2 Beta brings a new Steam Deck Fan Curve, experimental Refresh Rate Switching
28 Apr 2022 at 9:28 am UTC Likes: 2

Reading fan curve, I wondered how they implemented something like this!?!



Honestly, I was thinking about a Steam Deck fan/supporter forum or the like.

Twitter agrees to Elon Musk buyout, a reminder we're on Mastodon
26 Apr 2022 at 3:06 pm UTC

Quoting: llortonI count on both of you to spend time on Twitter to educate people and fight misinformation. Otherwise it will keep spreading.
I do that on Facebook from time to time, but it's really exhausting.

Twitter agrees to Elon Musk buyout, a reminder we're on Mastodon
26 Apr 2022 at 2:45 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Mountain Man
Quoting: llortonIf it's really Free speech™, I am looking forward to all the racial slurs, misinformation, and other nice things to be the main discourse on Twitter.
Frankly, if people are too stupid to be able discern the good from the bad in what they read, then they shouldn't even be on the internet in the first place.
Many are not. So, what to do, keep them out of the net?

Quoting: Mountain ManThis idea that we need media companies to "protect" us is a large part of the problem.
We need facts against FUD.

Twitter agrees to Elon Musk buyout, a reminder we're on Mastodon
26 Apr 2022 at 12:35 pm UTC Likes: 4

(I didn't read all postings, just chiming in.)

Quoting: WMan22I just simply personally believe that when it comes to software projects that are unrelated to politics, politics should be quarantined as far away from it as possible unless the project is specifically and explicitly made to cover a political topic, since trouble brews in politics' wake that can damage or outright kill an otherwise perfectly functional thing that didn't need to die or become a source of stress due to unrelated IRL stuff.
This sounds good, but I deem it impossible. Inside Debian, there's been discussions if the Taiwanese flag should be part of the some country choosing dialogue. You can have trans or non-binary persons anywhere, and then people who like to use personal pronouns that those spoken to deem wrong. Have a weather forecast with coloured countries, what colour to give Crimea. The list goes on. There's no big space without politics.

See what's eating up drive space on the Steam Deck with Filelight
25 Apr 2022 at 8:12 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: slaapliedjeThis is the one type of tool that EVERY OS should have build in. I don't know if macOS has one, but Gnome does, KDE does, Windows does not and I have to download the port of kdir (I think that is what it's called). I haven't used Filelight yet, but it seems very much like the Gnome version.
WinDirStat [External Link], the Windows port of KDirStat [External Link].

I'm still using the respective view of Konqueror, though:


Steam Deck was the Steam top seller for the week ending April 17
20 Apr 2022 at 8:43 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: elmapulanother thing to consider is that, if their margin for profit is too small, they might become unable to have an competitive hardware in the future, but that is an stretch.
It's very fortunate for us that they are a non-stock company (with enough money), so they can choose to continue on stuff with low or no margin if they want to.

Erik Wolpaw to Valve on Portal 3 — 'we should just do it'
19 Apr 2022 at 1:57 pm UTC

Quoting: KristianI never understood the people that are under the impression that Valve has stopped developing games. Valve employees artists, level designers, game designers and the like. What do they imagine these people do if not work on games?
Dunno.

But if you look at the list of their games [External Link], there's large gaps.

Dota 2 in 2013, fine. Never heard of Counter-Strike Online 2, Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies, Left 4 Dead: Survivors (an expansion, I guess?) or The Lab (water testing for VR it seems). Than there's infamous Artifact in 2018. Of course, Dota e.g. needs work during its life. But I'm not overwhelmed, to be honest. What do you imagine these people were working on?