Quoting: GBGamesFirst Oxenfree, now these games. Is there something going on?

Oxenfree was itch.io, not GOG.

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Quoting: mZSq7Fq3qsI miss the times when allmost all games had their own dedicaded servers available and you could just host your own server.

Good god, yes! I am SO annoyed by the fact that community maintained servers are going the way of the dodo... :angry:

Isn't this because of the publishers/developers wanting to keep tight grip on the game? And everything having to be connected and "massive"? Quite often local clan would be more than enough to have fun...

Which reminds me - if anyone still hasn't signed up for https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ [External Link] / https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home [External Link] -- now's the time! :)

The reason is pretty simple: money. They want more of it.

How do you get more money from online games? Lock them down, force people into only your servers and then you can do:

- DLC
- Micro-transactions
- Skins
- Etc etc

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Quoting: pilkI kinda wonder, though, if weaning off kernel-level access will help with playing on a VM. If I could run the windows-only games I occasionally play on a VM, I wouldn't be dualbooting.

Doubtful. Certain games very specifically disallow and block VMs, as they can be used to help cheating at scale.

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Quoting: coolitic"Shouldn't need a calculator" as if the conversion ratio wasn't absolutely trivial.

And from that point alone, they stretch it out into buzz-words about "Companies manipulating children to spend money", as if having a (trivial) conversion step was the root of the issue.

This reeks of "I get it and it's easy for me therefore it's not a problem" level of thinking. No, it's not trivial. Every game on this is completely different. We shouldn't have to get a calculator out every time.

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Quoting: LamuNobody's in favour of these goofy, overbearing 'covenants' (as cultlike as it sounds).

Any normal person is. The only people usually not in favour of them are the exact type of assholes they aim to keep away. It's utterly daft to be against such simple rules. Too many people turn into keyboard warrior idiots.

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I get that for how some people live, in that way it's a downgrade. But, I don't really believe a family sharing system is meant at all for different countries. That, really, feels like a bit of a stretch for Valve getting developers on board to allow games to be shared like this at all.

Different households in the same country though, that I feel they could (and should) relax on a bit. Like for me as a co-parent, the kiddo is between two houses in two completely different cities.

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Quoting: chrI'm still having a rare sunlight glare issue on my AMD setup. Though something similar-sounding was mentioned a couple of patches ago, so I suspect they fixed that on the newest Mesa, and I should finally stop procrastinating and update my old system. :whistle:

The issue basically removes color and ups the whites on the game view, making distinguishing objects much harder. I haven't bothered doing anything because appears only roughly in 1/20 of the matches and lasts a minute in the absolute worst case.

Huh weird, can't say I've ever seen that issue on AMD myself here.

Quoting: apemaxThis update also finally fixes the mouse cursor leaving the game window on Wayland issue, For me at least on Gnome/Arch. :)

I wonder if that's why sometimes it feels like my planes won't turn properly...

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Quoting: CGull"Without going through GZDoom and others"? What's so bad about GZDoom? This makes it sound like they are some kind of torture. People who don't know are going to read this and assume they're horrible.

You're reading into that far too much. It's about it being click and play, which on Steam Deck is the most important thing.

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Quoting: dos

Quoting: Liam DaweI did mention clearly in the article that multi-touch works so it definitely acts like a touchpad.

You only mentioned two finger scroll, which is usually emulated as a basic mouse wheel.

evtest output will tell you everything.

Looks like it's detected as a mouse, Plasma settings also blanks out touchpad settings. Although I did just discover three fingers on the pad will also bring up the alt+tab switcher.

Available devices:
/dev/input/event0: Power Button
/dev/input/event1: Lid Switch
/dev/input/event10: AMIRA-KEYBOAR USB KEYBOARD
/dev/input/event11: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
/dev/input/event12: HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=8
/dev/input/event13: HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=9
/dev/input/event14: FTS3528:00 2808:1015
/dev/input/event15: FTS3528:00 2808:1015 UNKNOWN
/dev/input/event16: sof-nau8821-max Headset Jack
/dev/input/event17: AMIRA-KEYBOAR USB KEYBOARD Mouse
/dev/input/event18: AMIRA-KEYBOAR USB KEYBOARD Consumer Control
/dev/input/event19: KTMicro KT USB Audio
/dev/input/event2: Power Button
/dev/input/event3: Video Bus
/dev/input/event4: PC Speaker
/dev/input/event5: Valve Software Steam Controller
/dev/input/event6: Valve Software Steam Controller
/dev/input/event7: HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=3
/dev/input/event8: HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=7
/dev/input/event9: Microsoft X-Box 360 pad 0

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