If I may, what Oscar nominee would that be? I've never heard about this and that sounds really interesting.

Flow. Cool movie. Box office made something like $50 million on a $5 million budget too. Something like that, almost 10:1, which is crazy for a modern movie.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Godot is quietly coming for Unity and it's fascinating times.

Last year, Blender powered a wildly profitable Oscar nominee, something that seemed impossible for a long time.

It's just a matter of a few years before Godot is doing similar.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Could be really good. At first glance I feel like the sticks are in a really awkward spot, but I imagine in reality they're in almost the exact same spot as the dualsense controller, there are just touch pads where the dualsense has open space.

Probably an improvement, the touchpad on the dualsense isn't really useful except when navigating menus completely outside of anything like a game.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Metal buttons sound awful. Especially copper. Copper looks cool as hell, but . . . is terrible for buttons. They're heavy and just going to be awful on your fingers.

There are some things plastic is just really good at. Like keyboards, even the craziest mechanical keyboard nerds, they don't want metal keycaps for the same reasons. They might look cool and appeal to some expensive = good crowd, but I don't want to type for hours on a metal keyboard, because I don't hate my hands. This just seems the same to me.

Mmmmmaybe this being some kind of 3d printed resin+metal makes me wrong? But . . . I doubt it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: TheRiddickWould you not be better off just buying a SteamDeck or one of its slightly updated competitors?

If you primarily want to play retro games on a TV, the deck is going to be a lot more expensive and no better than the low end version.

If you want to play newer stuff for about the same price, I'm pretty sure the 8600G will also destroy the steam deck.

It's a good thing. If you don't want to be mobile, I can totally see preferring one of these.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Crazy. What this really means is, every feature of this controller, any customization of the buttons and features like that, are all being planned, by the maker, to work on Linux on day one.

Right now I really like my 8biitDo Ultimate, but I hate that I can't properly configure all the buttons on Linux.

Good times.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

What's really cool about the giveaway is really just what it says about Linux support. KH doesn't have a native Linux version, but we've gone through this slow creep of like, not antagonizing Linux users, occasionally having patch notes that mention making something work in Proton, to things like Neil Druckman acknowledging that yes they care about Steam Deck, to it being a key piece of marketing on launch day.

Weird times.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Mountain ManWhy do people keep poking the bear? It's not like Nintendo is going to suddenly say, "Fine, you win. We will stop attempting to protect our intellectual property rights."

Yes, why do people keep doing what's right in the face of an idiotic legal system. Silly protesters with their values. We'll never understand. When the deck's stacked against you, just roll over immediately, that's what I say.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I suspect we'll get an update within a year.

Keeping the specs the same (I know the OLED bumps them a bit, but it's purposefully not a lot faster) for two whole years is an eternity for devices like this. No phone or tablet stays stagnant for more than about a year, and while the Steam Deck is the generic, like the google or the iPad of the space, it does have competitors who will just put out much faster versions of the same thing. Even consoles, other than Nintendo, a "pro" version just a few years in is pretty standard, Valve should fall sort of in between the iPad and PlayStation I figure.

I suspect we'll see an update every 2-2.5 years, basically following AMD's hardware roadmap but usually skipping one iteration.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I conveniently, just this morning, decided to hit the button and upgrade my main PC to Fedora 40's beta. It seems I got in late enough that I got 5.4.6-1 initially and then 5.4.6.-3 on upgrade, completely bypassing the "probably OK" builds that were up there.

This is a good reminder of how often, boring old versions of software are pretty nice things.

View this comment - View article - View full comments