Quoting: EMO GANGSTERlooks like we can no longer use Remote Play on non-steam games? it seems like I can no longer stream non-steam games it just shows the game with a grayed out install button instead streaming button is this bug?

Off topic but I wanted to ask, who's that avatar? Looks like Jack Skellington after using the Charles Atlas system.

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Quoting: eldaking

Quoting: Doc AngeloThe dynamic ones sound interesting, but I'm not sure if these are actually useful. I already have a "Walking Simulator" category, but it would be of course kinda nice to not have to put a new game manually there. But... using the store tag "Walking Simulator" ends up with all kinds of games... even Skyrim, which is of course a joke of the community. This just can't work out. The other options were not really useful, especially "genres".

Yeah, steam tags always were a huge mess. The top selling "Strategy" games are... Counter Strike and a bunch of other shooters. But not to be outdone, Hearts of Iron 4 and several strategy games have the Action tag. RPG is applied to pretty much everything, but somehow misses some very normal RPGs. Which have the Puzzle tag because of some dungeon puzzles, but then some actual hardcore puzzle games are tagged only under Strategy. Look, I know that genres are simplifications and many games are in a gray area... but there has to be a better way.

Frankly, improving how games are tagged is a huge thing they could do to improve discoverability, especially if they are planning on incorporating some form of Deep Dive.

Quoting: LakortaI agree with eldaking. Platform and negative filters would be nice, also unless I missed it there's no OR filter

Yeah, was noticing it... filters are always cumulative, so it is impossible to create a category that combines two tags. I can select games that are both action rpgs and jrpgs, but not all games that are either...

They should hire a couple of library people. We know how to do searches. And subject headings.

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My take on this:
Stallman is opinionated, pedantic, and tries to be precise in his thinking. And in certain respects not very social. So his comments on this stuff involved a certain amount of what many would consider hair-splitting: Trying to define things carefully both in terms of what they are and what they are not, looking at things dispassionately and parsing them. (I also think he somewhat underestimates the complexity of this sort of thing and so overestimates his ability to come to good conclusions without any relevant background) Given that approach, no matter what his specific position it was going to end up looking bad in a situation where people are upset (for damn good reasons) and calling for broad, blanket moral condemnations.
Probably I wouldn't agree with the specifics of what Stallman thought about the subject, although the one specific quote I've seen in this thread seems reasonable within the very specific point it is making. People may draw implications from that quote, like that Stallman had more general ideas that were apologetics for similar bad stuff, but I don't think that follows--he was making a specific point about a specific definition and its application to a specific act. If you'd asked him if Minsky was doing a total douche move, or committing some other crime that wasn't rape, he might well have said yes. He was being pedantic, and tone deaf about the fact that this was the wrong time to be pedantic.

So OK, I think this is clearly throwing Stallman overboard. And it has nothing to do with "cancel culture" or "SJWs" or whatever bullshit--Epstein was horribly evil, and lots of people were colluding with him, and people are furious and want some blood, whether they're "SJWs" or not. And once they get their blood up they don't want to hear someone being dispassionate about it and they're not going to look at the fine print when they see something that looks bad. This tends to be true of people whatever their politics, and I would hope that people are none too pleased with scuzzbucket rich folks using kids for sex, whatever their politics. If there's someone whose politics are OK with that, I'm fine with cancel-culturing them.

But what I notice is that it's clear a fair number of other MIT people did actual things, like taking Epstein's money and defending taking Epstein's money and probably knowing all along just how much of a douchebag he was and helping to cover it up. But it's Stallman, who wasn't involved in any of that, and who would be far more likely to have refused the money than any of these Negroponte types, who gets hung out to dry. Note the way only Stallman's name stays on that email string. Stallman's an easy sacrifice because he wasn't a power broker and always made the powerful types uncomfortable. It's the upper echelon sleazebags that actually need to be burned at the stake; Stallman is a convenient patsy to take the heat.

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Quoting: BeamboomI'd say the swimmer animations are extremely important in a game like this. And I think the animations here looked a bit too mechanical/"animation on loop". Wonder how it looks when she takes a sharp turn.

Other than that this really looks like a chill trip.

You're right . . . but having read your post I couldn't pay attention to anything else when I was watching the trailer!

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You can find Kind Words on Steam.

And that's something new in the world. :wink:

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pigs got animated

Ooh! I've been waiting for this!
(What? I'm fond of pigs) :wink:

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Quoting: eldaking

Quoting: 14Link to interview?

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-canonical-views-the-snap-ecosystem-as-a-compelling-distribution-agnostic-solution/ [External Link]

It is actually defending snaps and its "advantages", but I was still horrified because I didn't know about the issues in the first place. I was like "wait, Canonical wants to control distribution of snaps for all distros and calls that 'agnostic'? The backend is proprietary?"

Um. That certainly confirms my gut feel that I prefer flatpaks.
Side note: So, according to the article Canonical are doing an "internet of things" push and all their packages for that are snaps, period? Isn't IoT one of the few areas where you'd expect bloat to still actually matter, because you're using tiny cheap computers with little storage?

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Quoting: devnull

While I don't know the truth about Discord, I can read English. You are incorrectly parsing what you're replying to and this is leading you to be inaccurately insulting.

Translation you have no idea what we're talking about but feel the need to claim I'm insulting someone? What on earth guy.

Hahahahah!!!!
Clearly I have an advantage here. I, as I mentioned, understand how to read English. And parse sentences. Decode meaning. That kind of thing. Thus, I could see the obvious meaning of a sentence typed by one person, and realize when someone else made a rejoinder which made no sense unless they'd totally misconstrued it. You haven't been doing much of that parsing and decoding stuff--not accurately, anyway.

At this point it's clear that was accidentally-on-purpose. Just as your rejoinder to me relies on systematically twisting what's being said. The sad thing is, it's possible you've got a good argument somewhere hidden--but you've spent so much time trying to make people you're talking to look bad that you haven't had room to actually explain much about your position. And you've been so sure that, I dunno, the other person actually knows you're right and is only saying something different because they want to make people think wrong things, or something, that you haven't been bothering to make it very clear what your points are really about.

I myself am predisposed to be neutral or even on your side on the actual topic--I'm suspicious of corporations and quite willing to believe in their ill intentions. But when someone is acting like you're acting, I conclude that if they had real points to make they would be doing it instead of flaming.

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Quoting: dubigrasuI keep hearing about how bad native version runs, but I don't see it. It works and looks just fine for me, actually more than fine, quite good.
Probably looks better (?) with SteamPlay, but horrid, really?

How bad the view from a not-perfectly-clean window is depends partly on whether you're looking through the window or at the window.

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Quoting: devnull..Claims to be done with thread, takes another jab.

Didn't you just claim to be done with the thread?

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