Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: elmapul1)3 billions? wow, hat is just 500x less money than than microsoft, google or amazon! my 6 milllion dollar corporation

Don't be a disingenuous jerk, did you not read that the date was 2012 nearly 10 years ago?

I think elmapul's point stands, though. Say they've tripled in size in 9 years. That would make them worth $9 billion. Still not near the same league as MS or Google or Amazon.

Back to the original context. There was an ludicrous argument that Valve couldn't afford to be a CDN or have the server power necessary to offer cloud gaming services.

My references to Wikipedia prove two things. [1] Valve has the money [2] Valve is already a massive CDN.

Arguing what Valve's may or may not be worth is just a diversion. It's immaterial and irrelevant to the plot beyond that reality that they have massive amounts of capitol to do whatever they please.

And let me be clear, the video game entertainment market has exponentially exploded since 2012. No sane level headed person could believe that Valve is somehow incapable of achieving things they have already mastered and are world leaders in for the last decade. That would be disingenuous if not grossly naive.

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Quoting: elmapul1)3 billions? wow, hat is just 500x less money than than microsoft, google or amazon! my 6 milllion dollar corporation

Don't be a disingenuous jerk, did you not read that the date was 2012 nearly 10 years ago?

Honestly, you are on the level of 1+1 = 3 right now, and you're not even worth my time to carry on a discussion -- also holy god man -- spell check your posts once in a while -- are you drunk?

Also, why the shitting all over Valve, the literal only hand that feeds -- that level of shillery makes no sense -- you are a clusterfuck of contradictions.

Oh awesome, I just discovered I can click on your profile and block you -- since you have nothing intelligible to say I will cleanse my feed of your nonsense. Good god man. I mean I'm genuinely impressed by how much of a proud fool you've made yourself out to be.

Oh I also stopped reading past the quotation btw, again -- if you want to sit at my big boy table you need to behave and prove that you are sane by making sane arguments and acknowledging facts and data.

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Quoting: elmapulas for Valve entering the cloud gaming business i dont think they have enough money to host servers, they wouldnt be doing the economics of scale nescessary for this type of service, unlike google, amazon and ms wich already have most their infrastructure in place

Bro. . .

By 2012, Valve employed around 250 people and was reportedly worth over US$3 billion, making it the most profitable company per employee in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation [External Link]

Also, Valve is basically a CDN and accounted for like 1-2% of all internet traffic last time I checked.

In the kindest way I know how, you may want to update your view to include these facts. There's no way.

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Quoting: ridgeI really dislike how Valve relies so much on DXVK, but on the other hand I can acknowledge that adding native Vulkan to the Source engine would proooobably be a big undertaking in lots of old spaghetti code.... maybe, I don't know.

But from a "stupid user who doesn't know what the Source engine source code looks like" point of view, I really wish they could just implement Vulkan natively.

Well they did LITERALLY fund DXVK development didn't they?

To me that's no different than them funding and using SDL.

And our community does complain about reinventing the wheel often enough -- IIUC their DXVK bindings are literally paper-thin taking optimized functions and simply redirecting them to the appropriate DXVK function.

Edit: Another argument for their DXVK bindings is that their internal DX functions are already highly optimized, when a parallel code is created it's often not as optimized in the sense that it doesn't get as much time, care, testing, eyeballs, etc...

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I remember 10 years ago when I wanted something like this and couldn't fathom why application launchers were so crazy and excotic -- Kickoff [External Link], Lancelot [External Link]

For a GUI app, Panther Launcher by Rastersoft (a fork of ElementaryOS Slingshot) [External Link] got the closest to what I was wanting.

This one looks really good too.

I also really like TUI apps like parsing .desktop launchers with fzf (sway-launcher-desktop) [External Link].

This one from System76 looks pretty good too. Simplicity & effective function is really good.

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I bought a bunch of GOG games a while, and then upon trying to install them in WINE I just wished that they had Steam counter-parts.

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This vertex glitch was funny as fuck. I got lots of hilarious screenshots and had a game with 21 head-shots just the day before it rolled out.

It was interesting to see AWP and others in scope mode was just fine.

As much as I would like to live in a perfect world where these kinds of issues don't happen, I wouldn't trade Valve style for the stick-up-the-ass passionless corpo style disguised as gaming companies and yeeted onto the stock exchange to go Neo-Harkonnen on quarterly earnings -- that is the kind of capitalism people bitch about all the time. Privately owned like Valve and bam you have literally nurtured one of the biggest multi-billion dollar entertainment industries into existence, and manage to rank as the most lucrative company per employee in the United States a few years back.

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Hmm, it would be cool if I could donate a Pizza and some Beer to them as thanks for doing such cool work, but I know that's not why they do it.

They've really done an amazing job on this.

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If it plays like Age of Empires II I'm in.

This is worth a look. At first I read the first two sentences as "Planetary Annihilation" and facepalmed, apparently the "X Annihilation" naming schema is more popular than I realized.

Edit:

After digging through their site the relevant links at this time are:

https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/BYAR-Chobby/releases/download/v1.1252.0/Beyond-All-Reason-1.1252.0.AppImage [External Link]

https://flathub.org/apps/details/info.beyondallreason.bar [External Link]

flatpak install beyondallreason

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