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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThat's NEVER gonna happen - Tim Sweeny is openly anti-Linux, and he's quite vocal about it, too. If you're really keen, you can play it on your Stream Deck via Remote Play... It takes a bit of mucking around to get the settings just right, so gameplay is smooth; but it works.

I wouldn't be that cynical about it, it's always possible especially as Linux continues to grow. But unlikely? Definitely

Have you ever read Tim Sweeny's comments about Linux? The man almost-certainly has more love for Hitler than he does for Linux.

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Quoting: ScottCarammellshame, I actually really enjoyed Fortnite in my pre-Linux days and was hoping it'd finally come here someday. looking less likely by the day.

Quoting: dubigrasu

And we'll be kicking off the next generation of Epic with huge launch plans towards the end of the year.

So, Linux support?

Quoting: Aaron SparksMaybe it’s time to be open to allowing Linux users to play your games Tim Sweeney? Usually you would want to capitalize on an untapped market. I’m sure if shareholders actually got to vote on this they could have save some of those 1000 people’s jobs. What a douche.

That's NEVER gonna happen - Tim Sweeny is openly anti-Linux, and he's quite vocal about it, too. If you're really keen, you can play it on your Stream Deck via Remote Play... It takes a bit of mucking around to get the settings just right, so gameplay is smooth; but it works.

Quoting: ExpalphalogIt's all little kids now. Not sure exactly when the shift happened, but Fortnite's audience has skewed to elementary aged kids.

I'm in my 40s and I play it... For like, three months, get bored, don't play it for three months, rinse and repeat.

I like the "battle royal" / elimination thing, it's not super fast-paced for the entire game round, it balances leisurely exploring in a multiplayer environment with bursts of semi-fast-paced gameplay, it can involve strategy at times. Other multiplayer games are always lacking in one or more of these areas.

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Quoting: robvvYikes :-o I play games to get away from photo-realism!

Nah, I think for certain games it would be awesome... For example, if you had a game like The Last of Us or Red Dead Redemption, photo-realism would be great; but for a game like Palworld orHollow Knight, it would make absolutely no sense.

As long as they only use stuff like this where it is relevant it could be good.

Quoting: Mambo!Image: Am I out of touch? meme [External Link]

Exhibit "A" of where this sort of technology would make absolutely no sense.

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Quoting: RevenantDakMost platforms think I'm either 84 or 69. Later this year I'll be either 85 or 69, again. I usually put 1921 or 1956 for my birth year, in a few months I'll be putting 1957 for the year because it's none of anyone's business, and I'm not trying to impersonate a child. What a stupid law.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that does this! 🤣

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Quoting: discocatUsually when you announce a product, you try to show it in the best light, so my take on all this is that what they showed here (heavily edited result) is what they're the most proud of.

Nvidia generated all that content, those videos, those examples, being super duper proud of it like it was the best thing ever. They're genuinely convinced it's awesome.

Quoting: Stellaand completely deserved too. Nvidia itself has become a meme

Quoting: JarmerWOW that looks absolutely horrid. Their heads are so far up their own asses they couldn't tell? And then went on to be PROUD of that ...?

Based on what I saw in that YouTube video, I thought it looked awesome and has enormous potential... And I can't stand NVIDIA as a company!

Surely I'm not the only one?

Quoting: melkemindThat's why the game characters end up looking like Instagram models.

That's a bad thing? 😂

Quoting: BrokattI sincerely hope AMD and Intel won't follow but something tells me they can't help themselves.

Nah, I look forward to this - as long as it suits the particular game type! For example, it would make little sense to have such realism for say, Palworld... But it would be fantastic to see this implemented in The Last of Us.

Quoting: Jarmeras others have said, it 100% looks fake pornified. Which is just so misogynistic.

Again, that's a bad thing? 🤣

In all seriousness though, you're blowing this way, waaay out of proportion... This is no way "pornified"; even using the "Instagram models" comment above is grasping at straws, to be honest.

Quoting: EhvisDid they really pay off a bunch of studios for demo games so that those 7 people in the world that have a spare 5090 can use it?

Quoting: alka.setzerNvidia explicitly said that they were running two 5090, one for rendering the other for DLSS 5 processing so that they could maintain fluid fps on the demos. They also said they had DLSS 5 running in a single card on the lab (didn't said which, could be a rtx 6090). DLSS 5 is supposed to come out on Q4.

Quoting: kit89that required 2 5090s.

Meh. This will trickle down to us peasants in the coming years... It's a sign of what you can have now if you're rich, and what us peasants should expect in the future.

Quoting: KapelliniI haven't seen this mentioned nearly enough, it's enforcing instagram and tiktok filter beauty standards.

Good lord, here we go...

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Quoting: Linux_RocksCan they not call the original systems by their actual names due to copyright bullshit? If so, that's stupid on the part of the copyright holders. It's fair use, I'd say.

What do you mean? The games I am familiar with in this package are called the same thing they were called a bazillion years ago.

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Oh, this is most definitely going on my "wish" list, because there's some sick games there!

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Hopefully this is playable under SteamOS - I have the original games, and they are broken under SteamOS, which means that I can't play them on my Steam Deck.

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Quoting: elmapulmost of the people who use linux speak english, so USA might be one of the places where linux is used the most, banning all USA states would reduce the linux marketshare a lot...

Nope, I checked three different sources, and that would be India... Not where I was expecting, but I knew it wouldn't be America. And apparently it's by a pretty big margin, too.

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Quoting: ScottCarammellI would love to see how California would try to go about banning Linux as a platform for non-compliance. Just...love to see how they would try.

This.

Most Linux distros don't have a bazillion-dollar company like Canonical behind them and even in cases where they do, suing said company can only do so much to stop the distribution of a non-compliant operating system... For example, if they sued Canonical, it wouldn't be all that difficult for somebody to strip the Canonical-protected stuff (e.g. logos and trademarks, proprietary code, etc) out of Ubuntu and offer it as a "Canonical-free" distro that is still "non-compliant".

I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like all these Linux distros are getting paranoid on something that can't really affect them in Real World terms.

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