Quoting: hardpenguinYes, this is good. Gotta get rid of the AI generated images (it is difficult to call it art).

It's obvious that this will not happen, right?

I do understand - and share - such feelings, but in the end, it's like trying to get rid of photos in the early stages of photography because they're "not art".

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Quoting: EikeBut I'm already a fan!?!

But do you make a high-pitched whining sound?

*lol *

My daughter (6 yo) is great at that!

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Quoting: NodThere are three common schools of thought:

Well, thanks for trying to be neutral, I guess. :D

... but I'd remove everything about "religous".

My stance for school 3: They just want to play games and don't care how they are running, but that they are running. They don't want to restrain themselves to some 10 to 20% of the Steam catalogue, mostly indies, that are running natively.

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Quoting: RavenWingsJust what my Steam Deck needs: Another fan :wink:

But I'm already a fan!?!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyGames that aren't open source are normal, and there are various reasons that isn't likely to change unless our whole economic system changes. Game engines that aren't open source . . . I kind of hope gradually become eclipsed by ones that are. But emulator things for making old games work that aren't open source are . . . problematic IMO. Especially when there's just one guy doing it. He loses interest or gets hit by a bus and then it just quietly rots because nobody can ever update it again, and so much for preserving the game. Not a basket I'd want to be putting my eggs in.

Amusingly, even if something is open source, if someone doesn't maintain the code, it'll stop working. Xkobo is an example, the C source is out there, but modern gcc doesn't like it too much. It's still built for NetBSD 9.0 though!

Yes, but if anybody is interested enough, they can take over.

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By the way, I saw a libSDL3 in my Steam directories lately. What is that about? Are they using an early development version?

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Quoting: fabertaweI've set my scaling to 1.1 (1440p monitor), just enough to make reading "discussions" legible for these old eyes. Desperately needed!

Similar here, i couldn't stand the original new scaling, but I'm all fine with 1.2. :-D

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Quoting: apocalyptechBah.

I know a lot of folks really like the new update, but for me it was the final straw which made me abandon the beta branch and try to avoid it for awhile. I know they've said they put a lot of work into making it fast/smooth/whatever, but it just *feels* dog-slow to me. Visible little flickers when a menu activates. Little rendering delays when a window closes so there's a black area visible on the main window until the client catches up. It's just so infuriating.

This!

Quoting: apocalyptechI hate how every app nowadays is just some Electron-or-whatever webapp, and optimizing that kind of thing properly is nearly impossible. I really miss native widgets.

This, too!

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Purple Library GuyDepends what you mean. In the sense that it's a bug rather than a feature, sure. Or, in the sense that it's not "intended", OK.
In the sense that a "feature of X" is something that inevitably goes with it . . . yeah, it's a feature of capitalism.

That's like saying that traffic accidents are a "feature" of automobiles.

They are. Introducing the automobile is introducing the traffic accident.

You apparently define the term "feature" so broadly that literally anything can be considered a feature.

According to my understanding, "feature" can be understood in two ways: as a property/trait of something, or in the dichotomy bug vs. feature, as an intended trait.

In all of our history, car traffic has come with accidents. Of course, this is not intended.

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Quoting: elmapul, if your game makes the player confused you probably need to tweak it so the players dont get confused anymore instead of relying on then using an note taking overlay to keep track of their progress

There are some games that have a huge amount of content and it's useful to have some notes, for example for what do you want to do first. I do that a lot in games like FFXIV, where I want to keep a track of what I'm missing here and there. Other times, I might just want to remember to come back some place later because I don't want to forget something.

The point I'm trying to make is that not because you can take notes to help you with the game it means the game is confusing or badly designed.

Yes! Good luck playing Hadean Lands [External Link] without taking notes. I actually made Excel LibreOffice Calc tables for this one! And I'm sure this is part of the artistic vision of the developer.

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