Road Rage?

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Well if it's gonna exist, it seems appropriate that it be on Linux.

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I just hope they're good. You can always write more story if you don't have a ton, but if you release a crap story it's harder to take it back.

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Watching the release of the Steam Machine unfold, I don't know what to think. Part of me feels like I'm watching these pitiful little eggs and the incubator light is blinking on and off with lousy wiring and I'm just thinking "Come on, come on, you lousy piece of &^%!, just hold out long enough to hatch me some chickens!!!" and getting this sinking feeling that it won't.
Another part is starting to feel like rather than a release, I'm basically watching a huge beta. Which maybe means they'll be gathering info on what people felt was missing (IMO polish, multimedia) and they're going to roll out the upgrades and when Alienware's next generation is ready they'll basically do a relaunch.
Still another part thinks "Hell, for all we know despite all the tepid press, lack of big PR and bits of bad news like this, actually the massive Steam sales channel is quietly doing its magic and in the end sales will be quite big."
Just don't know what to think.

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Quoting: reaVer

Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: reaVerYes and yes.

This has been debunked over and over and over again. There were no articles for Zoe's games while she was together with Nathan. In fact, the only two articles that Nathan wrote was one for Kotaku, before he was in a relationship with her [External Link] (and that wasn't even a review) and one for Rock, Paper, Shotgun [External Link], where the game is shortly mentioned. No full review, nothing while they were dating.

No one ever managed to produce any of the alleged review articles Zoe allegedly received by "sleeping around". This is and always has been a character assassination.

You think someone would get targeted like that by thousands of people without actually instigating anything?

Yes. Duh.
Mobs and gossips and bullies do that kind of thing all the time. Had you not noticed that large scale cyberbullying has become one of the distinctive social problems of the internet era? People commit suicide from it. In Canada we haven't forgotten Rehtaeh Parsons.
In any case, this is not an argument. If you want to claim person X did thing Y, and someone shows the evidence that person X did not do thing Y, the only valid thing you can do is produce actual evidence that they did.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI guess if I'm not with you, I'm against you?

No, but you do have see who is using a group you belong to, you identify with, to justify doing harm. I do not want to stand idly by while someone who purports to speak for me does harm.

That's why I speak out against Richard Dawkins, despite identifying as an atheist. That's why I speak out against fefe, despite him being in similar computer-ish circles than me. That's why I take a hard stand against the crocodiles, despite being one of those geeks who enjoys the odd game or two.

I just have little patience left for people who so blatently throw in arguments that have been debunked so. many. times. That I have debated so. many. times. This whole blunderbuss boiled over a year ago, and by now, I nearly count people who still unreflectingly parrot the "collusion!" line as lost causes.

And yes, what is "doing harm" is subjective. I do have ideologies and biases -- and I'm quite open about them. And there are certainly issues that are important enough for me that I can't "agree to disagree".

My little digression about certain political issues here in Germany was quite overdrawn, yes. It's a thing that's been on my mind a lot lately, considering I live in the middle of it. There is a significant overlap between the crocs and several factions of neo-reactionaries and identitarians; you just have to look at what Breitbart otherwise publishes, for example.

I don't even mean to insult or implicate Nyamiou; I don't know the person enough to judge one way or another. I wanted them to see from what corner they get their arguments from, their views on culture. And I may have gone a bit overboard there.

Fair enough. Just to be clear, I'm quite in agreement with you about all the vicious knuckle-dragging crap burbling around this "gamergate" thing.
But mistrust of the media is hardly a pastime limited to the dangerous right. I still haven't seen a serious challenge to the validity of Chomsky and Herman's "propaganda model" of the corporate media.

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I had originally thought that maybe if Valve was going to make this push for the Steam Machines, that they'd do an end run around NVidia and AMD's co-operation if necessary by pouring resources into the open source drivers, getting 'em to rough parity with Windows drivers by Steam Machine release. They've had a bunch of extra time, after all. But nope.

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: NyamiouVery funny, put it up your ass.

You know, coming back to your earlier post, there are certain people in my country who do claim that the political journals are conspiring to keep the current politicians in power, and to deceive the white German public.
(snip bla de bla)

You know, I generally respect you and like seeing your posts, but that was some pretty nasty coprolite. "Disagree with me and you're a fascist!" Well. I guess if I'm not with you, I'm against you?

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Glog78

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Glog78This list goes on. Let me ask a real question here , which market is the target for steam machines right of now?

Console gamers?

Why do you think console gamers should use a steam machine over their console ?

This has been discussed many times before on this very site. Ability to upgrade, number of "launch titles", price of games etc.

More importantly, the ability to play whole categories of games that consoles haven't been able to up until now. Try playing Civilization on an XBone.

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Quoting: SoltrummanMy guess is that Alienware looks at the market and sees a opportunity. People that want a gaming PC but do not want to admin and update a Windows PC.

I had not thought about the relatively hassle-free maintenance of Linux. That is indeed an advantage over Windows on a console-like machine.

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