Quoting: bubexelWe are not the target for Stadia, and it's not going to replace or fight against PC market. It's more against console war.

This.
Google literally says at their store:
"Stadia - Games, without a console or downloads"
(In German, it's "Stadia – Spiele ganz ohne Konsole" - it doesn't talk about the downloads part.)
I've seen it called a "virtual console", which seems to fit well.

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I don't think I would want to play it with time constraints...

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Quoting: Liam DaweOn our tracker, it's not often this actually happens. Out of the 220 finished projects we're listing, 31 (including this) are marked as Failed on the Linux side of it. At least 7+ of those are from the developer vanishing. Compared to the hundreds crowdfunding has given us, it's still doing good. Some of those games that came as a result of crowdfunding are awesome too.

Can I see in the tracker if it failed generally or only for Linux (and Mac, maybe)?

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI'm not super-familiar with all these games (none of them are stuff I'd be interested in), but aren't they all character-based action-oriented games? Come to think of it, for a streaming service, why don't they have any single player games that aren't action-oriented? Y'know, ones where the slightest input lag wouldn't destroy people's ability to enjoy it?

German computer magazine c't has asked people to play games on PCs without telling them they were streamed - and the people didn't even realize. Furthermore, every online game has the same communication lines to cross...

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Everyone's their own of course, but I'm surprised how many people state no interest at all in Red Dead Redemption 2.

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Quoting: ShmerlDowner news (pun intended): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/112359230/we-happy-few-welcome-to-wellington-wells-you-saucy/posts/2532809 [External Link]

:(

I was sure it wouldn't release anymore. :-/ This given, that's a cool move, though: "we will be refunding all our Mac and Linux backers. [...] you are still getting the game on your platform".

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySecond time I've seen someone talking about ciphers. What's a cipher? (well, in this context; I know the base meaning of the word)

The algorithms they're using for encryption, signing, hashing.

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Quoting: 146300? You might not just know what you're missing. I got like 20-30 FPS increase in F1 2017 when I upgraded my processor, and that made a big difference from like 40 to 70-ish framerates. My previous processor was i5 3570K.

I'm planning to upgrade my i3570K to a Ryzen 6 or 8 core soon. Just feels a bid odd, minding the lack of big productions natively available for Linux...

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Quoting: peta77The only thing that would make sense regarding hardware capacity would real-time-raytracing, like that old remote-rendering i.e. SGI did long ago, where your render CPUs/GPUs would be somewhere in the basement and bigger than your appartment. But other than that, for gamers with high-end hardware it would just be a giant step back. I understand that such things are good for tablet or smartphone gaming, but not for the desktop. I don't want to go back to dumb terminals that rely on tons of external hardware and a hyper reliable high bandwith network. I'm pretty happy with having a "supercomputer" under my desk, even if it costs a bit more.

It's not targeted at gamers with high-end hardware. In the end, it might even be unreasonable from a financial standpoint to keep buying hardware for a thousand bucks every some years instead of "renting" the computing power. (I'll probably still do it, but that doesn't mean it's reasonable.)

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I wanted to post this for quite some time, so I'm going to abuse this thread...

Early next year, Windows 7 is coming to end of life.
This might be the last important Windows EOL, with Windows 8 not being important and Windows 10 being continued "forever".
We should prepare... stuff.
Very easy howtos to try Linux.
Realistic information what works and what doesn't.
Just information for people who until now didn't want Windows 10 even for free who might look for alternatives.
We're the alternative.
Let's show them.

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