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Unity announced big changes following the hated Runtime Fee
22 Sep 2023 at 9:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

To continue above ^^ Mudahar today covered 10 years of Xbox leaks. Its clear the global leaders are trying to get rid of Personal Computing and move gaming to "the cloud" where you can't own a copy, content can be censored, updated or removed and game preservation and emulators is a thing of the past.

I don't think these moves by Unity are missteps, they might as well come out and say they only want you to be able to Stream Their Editor since that seems to be the way things are going.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=z_XUBUc_uDQ [External Link]

Unity announced big changes following the hated Runtime Fee
22 Sep 2023 at 8:26 pm UTC Likes: 7

Always Online Editor?

Welcome to the future of digital hell on earth.

This is the world as it will be if we fail in our foss quest.

The Lord of the Bin

MonoGame plan to create a non-profit foundation to support development
22 Sep 2023 at 9:59 am UTC

Quoting: shorberg
Quoting: ElectricPrismThe name Mono hasn't aged well, I could imagine CoronaGame wouldnt be too popular either. Corona Beer sales probably aren't too hot either.

I'll beat the dead horse a little too -- stigmatized names like Gimp are going to sound offputting to donors. This isn't hard.

I wish them well with their efforts to transform and safeguard their ethos and values.
Hmm... What's wrong with 'mono'?
eli5; It's another name for herpes

We may see Counter-Strike 2 release next week
21 Sep 2023 at 11:43 pm UTC

That would be great, I just play casual bot deathmatch games these days and custom games in the server browser in cs:go like `surf_`.

As such even though I have hundreds of house I didn't qualify for the beta invite.

(lets face it, during the early years too of csgo and dota the last thing I wanted to deal with was the game crashing and then the matchmaking system harassing me because I "left a match" and penalizing me for internet issues, power outages, or crashes due to general buginess.)

I hope they greatly expand their invite, it should be interesting.

I also hope that there are a decent amount of DeathMatch Surfing maps in the Custom Server Browser, I particularly miss the RPG of CS:S and CS 1.6 -- csgo surf is meh -_-

Edit: On a side note, I hope this also leads to the release of the Source 2 Engine so we can see mods update to the new engine from 2013.

MonoGame plan to create a non-profit foundation to support development
21 Sep 2023 at 10:14 pm UTC Likes: 1

The name Mono hasn't aged well, I could imagine CoronaGame wouldnt be too popular either. Corona Beer sales probably aren't too hot either.

I'll beat the dead horse a little too -- stigmatized names like Gimp are going to sound offputting to donors. This isn't hard.

I wish them well with their efforts to transform and safeguard their ethos and values.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection multiplayer seems broken on Steam Deck
21 Sep 2023 at 9:15 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: steamdeckguyBRUH

I bought MCC for my steam deck back in February when it was broken. Played through a couple of campaigns then uninstalled.

You mean to tell me THE EXACT SAME DAY I decide to check on the status of multiplayer and redownload after hearing that it was fixed in April, that it breaks again???

WTF
Exactly, reasons like this are why I don't play Halo daily anymore. Microsoft needs to step up their game and not be so nepotistic.

I could play MCC every day for a decade and have fun -- but when I don't know if I'm going to have the whole thing come crashing down and break, additional new obnoxious microsoft account logins, hard-anti-cheats, etc... I am sick of being poked and prodded. I just end up playing CounterStrike instead because it's easy and reliable, and with CS2 around the corner and in beta now it's not like I'm a choosing beggar.

Thanks everyone who puts a word in, I DO want to see them sort this out real soon. Here's to hope ^.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection multiplayer seems broken on Steam Deck
20 Sep 2023 at 7:27 pm UTC Likes: 1

Bummer, good thing I haven't got sucked into their mcc deck multiplayer again for fear of this very possibility.

I hope their goodwill is plain, and we see them fix it very soon.

I bet a lot of their customers have decks, we'll see if they are enough to wake the lion up to do something.

Terraria dev Re-Logic donates $100K to Godot Engine and FNA, plus ongoing funding
19 Sep 2023 at 11:54 pm UTC Likes: 10

This gives me fuzzy feelz.

Also, the modern proverb: `Fuck around and find out` rings the bell.

During these dark times, it's very heartwarming to find hope in these exemplars.

May we all be like them too and say no to tyranny, and tyranny disguised as civility aswell.

There's no place for tyranny in our free world.

Steam goes green as Valve celebrate 20 years
13 Sep 2023 at 9:28 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderMan its great to see that old green colour back.......
Yeah I would be okay if this was default for a while lmao.

Happy Birthday to Steam as it turned 20 today
13 Sep 2023 at 6:13 am UTC Likes: 1

Congratulations Valve & Steam. I have that ugly puke green for my Steam Deck controller and my KDE theme and it's incredibly charming and fun.

It makes me feel like I am playing on a Aperture Science or Black Mesa Research Facility computer from another age when in desktop mode.

The perfect companion. Love it.