Are you really going to reject good games just because they dared to use AI in some irrelevant corner? You're in for a rough time as its use becomes the norm.

I absolutely will. If they use that garbage on something, I will just skip it. I can basically play any game up to the PS2 emulated on a PC (many PS3 Xbox 360 games too) not including the countless games already ported that run natively or though proton that don't use the buzzletters at all. I can always play something else because there will always be a market for games without AI trash in it.

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Not really interested in these with the deck being the deck also that 1000usd price tag on the highest tier model is a large step over the highest priced oled deck. I am curious to see how they perform when gamersnexus benchmarks and stress tests them, and ifixit tearing it down and giving it a repairability score.

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no mention of hotswappable switches kinda sucks, I do like that they're trying to do something with the keyboard and qmk support for it is a plus

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The apology is so sincere you can tell by how they decided to not proofread anything and forgot how to spell "inconvenience". I bet the playerbase really felt that.

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Why not put high quality assets as a free DLC.

100% this. Monster Hunter Wilds which has uhh a number of problems even does this and with the "high quality texture pack" its 135GBs instead of 65GBs without it. Not all users want it or can even use it as MHWilds specifically wants 16GB minimum video memory to use that texture pack.

Pirates "repack" games to remove additional voiceovers and let you download the languages you want seperately or even encode videos again just to cut down on game size (eg. 4k prerender to 1440p or 1080p), and it would be great to see publishers take note and do the same. Saves on disk space, saves on bandwidth.

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I find it interesting there's just a $50 gap between the two. Which means .... why does the regular 9070 even exist? If you're spending that kind of money, the difference is negligible and you get a much better card.

This is one of those weird things about AMD's pricing that is easy to miss. They initially do something like this in terms of pricing kind of like the 6000-series cards and then they change pricing after a couple weeks or couple months. When that change happens the stack will probably look more like a 100usd difference between those two cards which would make more sense.
That likely price change would make far more sense to have both of these cards flank nvidia's 5070 pricing. Which I think they may wait on that before saying anything about a 9060xt to see if they change the pricing a bit to better place that card and additional RDNA 4 cards. AMD's gpu side of things can be pretty odd sometimes and this is one of those ways, at least its a better move than price == nvidia - 50usd

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More people play counter strike and that has linux compatibility, either that means CS2's anti-cheat is magic or somebody here isn't telling the whole story. A chart with unlabled axies is really funny and so is the end of the chart, uh oh looks like cheating went back up. Now if only they removed windows support then they could see a whole 100% cheating reduction.

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You can always torrent the game you once bought or if there is a title you WOULD buy, but it's not "legally" available.

I would like to specifically clarify what kind of games the petition is responsing to since it is genuinely complicated. These games are ones where you can no longer play the game at all due to a crucial server connection being permanently severed without any way to use it ever again. Removing the game from your library is just insult to injury. Few may have server emulators but generally speaking once these games shut down they are unplayable forever.

Torrents/piracy do not work on these games. For example if half-life 2 required a connection to a server in order to play it and then the server went down permanently and there is no way to crack the game without running that server (or relying on someone else to run that server in the case of some revival efforts) and it is now gone, you can torrent the files but you can't play the game even if say drm like denuvo is removed. Even a backup will not work because of its reliance on that server which is now gone. This is how the crew works, there is a fan effort to make a server emulator, but at this moment even if you pirate the game files you cannot play the game.

One last thing to note is that ubisoft itself said that it would patch other entries in the crew series when the server eventually shuts down so that they can be played offline ie the exact opposite of what they're doing with the crew 1. That just shows this server requirement is not needed at all and only adds more work for them later when they have to later patch the game to remove its reliance on that server.

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I'll eat my current Steam Deck if Valve went with Intel or NVIDIA. Don't hold me to that.

We're going to get the linux version of Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe if this happens

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Improved support for the Anbernic RG28XX handheld (H700 ARM Cortex-A53).

thats pretty neat, I wonder what that does in terms of performance for it and if other devices like the dozen of 35xx devices will get any kernel improvements

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