Just went through my wishlist with an AI and deleted everything that contained Denuvo and Easy Anti-Cheat.

Not gonna buy headaches & spyware. One good thing about the future.

This may sound silly, but what I really would like to play is the old school DOS Snake game where you eat apples to get longer. I think I saw it in the Arch repos as `snake`, add cool-retro-term for SFX.

If anyone hasn't played Cyberpunk 2077 and likes dark dystopians like Akira, it's a masterpiece and 60% off

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@CatKiller -- Perfectly Put.

1. Conflict of Vision
2. The Subject or Art has been overworked muddying the vision from better to worse.

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@Laim -- Perfect title "looking way too bright"

Colors are at least 15% over-saturated, maybe up to 30%

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Video 2 Time Index 0:47 - 0:50 -- Notice the "Light Saber" treatment -- where the Health Recharge Stations for Nostalgia "Memberberries" have been retroactively reworked to be "Overly Glowie" departing from their original design -- similar to how Star Wars Light Sabers were a PITA to SFX in Ep4, 5 and 6 and then in 1-3 and 7-9 were overused when previously other weapons in the SW universe were a bigger deal like the bounty hunter gun, jetpack and other tech due to real world fanfare effecting the fantasy world.

In any case the new video looks like a 15% reduction in grit which is not a good thing. Ravenholm needs to be more filthy and dirty, not shiny.

@:27 the Red Laser glows so ___king bright it feels like an insult to my intelligence, and to be quite frank like a shift to a overly tistic future where everything needs to look like a CASINO with bright flashing lights to feed the dopamine hits of a cellphone generation with the 2-second attention span of a goldfish.

Honestly it comes off as denigrating and undignifying.

In any case I'll check it out and I do support these kinds of efforts to old beloved projects, but I am not particularly hype 9k since I am on a XTX and the last RTX Remix I played had terrible performance -- I agree with previous sentiments that any lag or artifacts could really kill the experience and immersion.

I am half grump because I remember how during the PlayStation 2 there was this obsession with Revolutionary "Graphics" and the Gameplay, Story and Mechanics at the time were often the cost -- I would never make that trade or sidegrade.

Lets see what happens in 4 days -- I hope they dial down the obnoxious over-saturation some.

Sound Design undestands the principle of Negative Space, and I think that the lighting and reflections are in service to an Ego to sell a product, and not so much to the original work and are over-used at levels which cause the inverse desired effect when attempting to dignify and service the universe

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Looks like the devs got excited and are hauling ass, this is an exciting time to be a RTS fan.

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From my view, the only thing that will revive this company is a new Turok game that stays true to the 1990s Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition ethos.

I don't think anyone in the west is brave enough for such an undertaking as investors dictate content. I would sooner trust India, China or the east with this IP.

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California has major Sparking Power Lines during Wind Events and Insufficient Water Infrastructure problems to service the growing population, and millions of dead trees due to invasive bug species killing them (bark beetle).

It's great when communities come together to try to turn something bad into something good, but even better would be if the population understood the source of these problems and made sure the infrastructure mismanagement was not a ticking time bomb to begin with.

California Fires have become a Fire Industrial Complex, when construction and industries run out of work you can be sure the next one is on it's way. That's not okay, take it as words of warning for the part of the world you live in.

The transformers aren't even made domestically, and the ETA from ordering to having replacement parts on hand is can require up to a year.

Why is power infrastructure on decaying falling telephone poles instead of in the ground if Wind Events are a problem?

Why has the state been allowed to monopolize power production and socialize it under their direct control with none of the responsibilities.

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Lets Gooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

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I'm really getting sick of these Buy N Large companies after 5 years of small businesses being ***** and the upward transfer of wealth.

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games

You Disrespected Gamer's and will NOT be Missed, Get Fucked.

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SMH, imagine blocking your own customers from giving you money.

It's hard to root for the underdog when they aren't doing themselves any favors.

I would seriously consider discontinuing usage of any company that blocks a VPN. Don't make it hard for me to give you money -- I will not disable my VPN or Adblocker, I will instead stop giving you money and ban your site at my /etc/hosts and DNS level.

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The juice just isn't worth the squeeze.

Hopefully Valve won't get any bad PR from what Lenovo, and ASUS do.

I'll never own another Lenovo device, and I've owned so many ASUS devices over the last 2 decades and I am pretty much unimpressed with their quality & done with them too.

I found out years later that OG Steam Machine's bad PR was due to Dell / Alienware's fuckups with the red ring of death.

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I think the drop in sales on the graph probably is just indicative that customers have limited money and are probably saving up for Nintendo Switch 2.

If I want to offload heavy gaming I'm going to do it by streaming from a desktop not by attempting to buy a slightly more powerful handheld without the tried & true formula and trusted reputation of Valve.

And as for Nintendo, after they crybullied Emulators out of existence (Ryujinx) and then admits they are legal ( eg: https://androidauthority.com/nintendo-emulators-legal-3517187/ [External Link] ) -- I avoid telling people what they should do -- but in this instance Nintendo might as well be an abusive wife beating spouse and I can't in good conscience let it through the gates of troy.

The same way that Chief Asshole Larry Ellison of ORACLE (O.ne R.ich A.sshole C.alled L.arry E.llison) wanted to copyright APIs in the ORACLE vs GOOGLE lawsuit which would make WINE illegal -- Nintendo is an enemy of ALL gamers. If they legally could they would END ALL EMULATION and GAME PRESERVATION.

The short term gains are not worth the squeeze -- the same as Micro-Transaction gaming -- these are blights, plagues, diseases on Gaming and they must be destroyed. I implore literally everyone to vote with your dollar against them.

I don't want to live in a world where Xenophobic Developers are actively hostile against gamers.

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Idk why but the quote button is missing in LibreWorlf

@soulsource - And yet, most Windows users I have talked to recently fail to see any issues with ads showing up in their application launcher, or in their notifications. Or stuff randomly breaking. Or...

At this point I have given up on trying to convince people to switch. They obviously enjoy sitting on a cactus.

The takeaway for me personally -- It's unnecessary that Linux "compete" with Windows. We just need to be way cooler, more fun, and awesome in every measurable way.

Linux is Awesome, and by just being way cooler, and having better stuff we'll win.

Parabola is a great example -- YT download frontend -- Non Linux Alternatives are plagued with Adware, Warez, Viruses, Malware, etc...

Software sourcing -- downloading random .exes off the net and installing them is slightly weird, maybe it's changed lately and I support the User's rights to do what they want, but it's fucking weird and a security oof.

Bars & Menus -- don't like Gnome menu? KDE, don't like that, Waybar, Cinnamon, whatever gets the job done -- users have choices.

Filesystem & Snapshots -- don't ever break your computer again, roll back the funk to the last good state.

Easy Hardware Transfer -- New computer but don't want to redo the software? Most AMD Linux you can just pull the NVME and plug it into the new hardware and it just works if there's no proprietary blobs needed.

Need obscure software or beta software? Just install via the beta channel via bin or have your machine compile it yourself automatically, no biggie.

Got random Windows .exe from Y2K that you still need to run? Decent chances it'll run in WINE OOB even if it no longer runs on Windows.

Want to buy a machine and not dick around with software? No problem, buy from one of Linux laptop manufacturers and get a great community, support and access to optimal hardware right away.

Viruses and Malware? We laugh.

Games? I stopped counting after 10k on Steam, plenty to play.

Controllers? Got that.

Hardware support? Most hardware works OOB and if it doesn't it's easy to find options that do.

Tired of slow computers? Linux doesn't really slow down after 6 months from a big fat registry, or rando weird software mods to the file tree -- it stays as fast as it always was.

Don't like Distro A, no problem Distro B, C, D are options.

I could probably continue this list a bit, but the takeaway is pretty simple -- we already are the optimal choice in so many ways -- and we just need to let people know that we are happy and having a awesome time.

When people see that they are drawn, and want to have that for themselves.

Windows works for your friends? That's fantastic. Linux works for us.

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