So, ... now Nvidia Executives are confirming what we intuitively determined years ago (governments want to use their software & hardware as a backdoor)

Logical Psychopathy, Madman strat with big balls just coming out and saying it putting the blame where it belongs, much respect.

They appear to have self-preservation.

They appear to understand that making their products a military proxy will lead to the destruction of their wealth and understand that would be not in their or their investors interests.

Now lets see how they do dismounting the tiger without becoming dinner.

What's apparent from the last few years, is that there has been a shakeup, and for some reason a ton of backdoors have been closed ( CUPS ). I'm guessing there is a new generation of backdoors that have already taken their place and that information will not be shared with non-"friends".

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The stats are pretty interesting:

India ( 8.46% )

US ( 5.24% )
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america [External Link]

Europe ( 4.31% )
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/europe [External Link]

World ( 3.9% )

We're on the right path, much thanks to everyone who has laid stones on this roadway to bliss.

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(MasterCard used Payment Processors to talk to Valve) (Valve requested direct communication with MasterCard and were declined) (Payment Processors) specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand.

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This is hilarious because as I understand it MasterCard is now in the "it wasn't us" -- "deny" phase. They are acting like it's not them but they are cowards to not tell the public, if someone gave the order -- who gave the order?

So much damage has been done to their brand. Whoever gave the order must have calculated the cost because the fallout from this may lead to VISA / MasterCard annihilation in the future.

I'm really pleased, the more they try to tighten grip, the closer they bring themselves to their own dissolution.

Black markets are what give a currency its value in their early phases -- their attempt to control & prohibit will only feed the rise of the next beast to take their place.

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No coward can ever be trusted

"Cowards can never be moral. Here is why: People can know what is right and even want to do what is right but still not act rightly." - Mohandas Gandhi

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I hope the art style remains playful and not too detailed -- when things translate from anime, manga, or drawings into 3d or even 2d into 3d the shock factor can multiply. It has to keep the playful fantasy style to remain fun -- too much realism would be too distracting and kill this game for me.

Looks okayish so far. It would be funny if they stole a page from Serious Sam 3 and did Hippy gore mode or something with flowers for funzies.

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SplitGate 1: 91% Positive
SplitGate 2: 61% Positive

So first they pandered to half of the people with a "Make FPS Great Again" hat, pissing off the other half.

Then they doubled down while announcing $80-145 micro transactions for "skins" pissing everyone off.

Then they pissed off the previously unpissed off half by pandering and begging for forgiveness or something like that.

Did I get that right?

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Now they are attempting to narcicistically rationalize their mistakes away that they: "launched too early", "bit off more than we could chew" and use excuses like "boneheaded mistakes".

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Things that should have been learned:

1. Keep your political opinions separate from your business.

2. If you piss off spiteful evangelical activists -- DO NOT BACKTRACK -- you will never be forgiven anyways.

3. Everyone hates expensive micro-transactions.

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What now? They should:

1. Fail Often
2. Fail Early and
3. Fail Upward

They might as well take some big risks now.

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FTFY: Skate; an upcoming next-generation skateboarding game will be unsupported by SteamDeck & Gamers of Linux due to improper management.

It's now confirmed EA Javelin root-kit kernel malware will be required to make sure that skateboard chuds are not also secret UnIx I Gno Dis l33t h4x0rs of the aether who virtua kickflip unfairly.

I'll wipe my tears away with double diamond hand benjamins.

"Performative game dev as 'the product'" is a scourge on Video Games.

This is just a selection event in the industry, someone should create the "Darwin* GameDev Awards" where we send out trophies to publishers that self-annihilate.

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I never played Oblivion, but I recently found this animated cartoon comedy series by Matthew McCleskey that I enjoy a lot ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=-D9iQ68k2d4 [External Link] )

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This will be amazing for getting text size right on TVs in large rooms.

I really wish that Vector based graphics were standard and not raster, we could have had vector based TTY that assumes a 3:2 or 4:3 screen and scales without incorrect line-breaks.

I love Steam's strats -- "be best", "do good things for customer", "take care of gamers", "listen".

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Quoting: suchput some effort into not killing those games once you're done with them, please. Thank you.

Consumer interests and Publisher interests are diametrically opposed. As consumers it's our responsibility* to exercise our rights to make sure the exchange is fair.

We hold the money, they covet our wealth.

If they want our wealth they need to not engage in theft against consumers.

It is morally wrong to sell someone access to an amenity with the intention of later destroying that amenity.

At the very least they should be required to publish the server source code, a multiplayer API so modders can roll their own, or include LAN based multiplayer so players can continue to use their purchases.

Unreal Tournament solved this in 1999, also CS 1.6, StarCraft BroodWar -- there was no need for a centralized servers. All multiplayer games should be this way in one form or another.

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