I'm amazed Fortnite is still a thing. I don't know anything about that gaming sub-culture (teens mostly right?) but I would have thought its time would have passed by now. But it's multiplayer, and I know absolutely nothing about mutliplayer games whatsoever, so .... shrugs. I'm also amazed occasionally I see some gaming articles about world of warcraft and I have to check the calendar to ensure I know what year it is.

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Of that list: Prey. All day long Prey. Every time Prey. EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY PREY! It's so damn good.

Some highlights from my wishlist for deep discounts:

• Ruiner - $2 - 90% off - cyberpunk shooter goodness - https://store.steampowered.com/app/464060/RUINER/ [External Link]


• Hammerwatch 2 - $5 - %80 off - arpg dungeon crawler - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1538970/Hammerwatch_II/ [External Link]

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Quoting: eggroleSo ML to unblur the blur added by the other pass of ML.

I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.

Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.

8k is officially dead (for now at least). The manufacturers aren't making them at all anymore, so you can't buy them even if you wanted to (which you shouldn't.) -- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/lg-joins-the-rest-of-the-world-accepts-that-people-dont-want-8k-tvs/ [External Link]

I do live video streaming engineering as my career. I can tell you first hand that the VAST majority of content I handle is still 1080p. Like probably 95%. Occasionally we will get a 4k ingest, but it's not often. For decent bandwidth, you also need a 4k signal to be hevc 265, whereas a 1080p signal is just fine on good ol ancient avc 264. For stuff in post, a lot more is rendered out in 4k and streamed out in 4k, but even for some of the edits our team does, a lot of the source is delivered in 1080, and then they upscale it on the render so it's just fake 4k LOL

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Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?

LOL what on earth is this comment.

• flathub steam app is not published by Valve


• flathub steam app is not supported by Valve


• Valve themselves recommend using the native deb


• flathub steam app is WAY out of date (7 months ago was most recent update)


• flatpak steam has lots of issues and problems being reported by users


• your "marked improvements in performance" comment is misleading. I'm assuming you mean because of the libraries? This has a positive effect on some systems and negative effect on others. So it is DEFINITELY not an improvement for everyone on all systems.

using the flatpak steam app is fine, just please don't go around telling people this version "works brilliantly and performs way better" ... it's simply not true.

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I wound up caving to my own pressure - picked up cassette beasts for the deck. UH OH THAT WAS PROBABLY A BAD IDEA. It's REALLY good. I played it way too long last night and now today is a mess lol. I'm normally not big on creature collectors (poke-a-like?) but this is just so cool. Plus the soundtrack - whoa.

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I highly recommend Chained Echoes for anyone who hasn't played it yet. SO GOOD.

For me, out of this list specifically, Cassette Beasts looks like it might be a fun Deck game ...!

Outside of that, from my wishlist & browsing:

• The Last Spell - turn based rpg - 90% off !!!


• Black Geyser - crpg - 50% off

I'm trying not to overdo it lol. My backlog isn't even a backlog anymore, it's a backforest

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Man this is awesome! People have been asking for this forever. I'm pumped for this to come out of beta!

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this rts looks amazing! Thank you for the rec, wishlisted :)

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eh I don't know. Personally, as the dad of two littluns, I honestly don't care whatsoever about any form of parental controls. Implement them, don't implement them, whatever.

In the end it doesn't matter. Smart kids will ALWAYS find a way to get around stuff like that.

For me, I'm much more concerned just about in-general parenting them to have screen time limits across all screens and devices and just doing it myself.

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These changes look awesome! Looks like slow and steady rolling out of good stuff.

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