I'll have to try Noise Torch again. I had problems getting it to work in the past, but I liked the look.

I've been using Cadmus [External Link] instead when it's necessary, but I'll take a look at Noise Torch again, too.

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I have one word for what this game is, and that is SWEET! Goin' on the list of wishes

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Quoting: dubigrasuI think that by now is crystal clear that the "classic" gamer doesn't like Stadia. Is just too different from what he knows and what he values, to wrap his mind around it.

tl;dr: Not everyone who dislikes Stadia is necessarily a stodgy, closed minded neo-phobe.

I consider myself a classic gamer who doesn't like like Stadia, and I'm not some sort of petty, myopic lump opposed to change. I'd like you to consider that not all "classic" gamers dismiss Stadia for what might be called its insubstantial nature, nor because we have a PC-Master-Race-like bias nor hate change qua change. In fact, we dismiss Stadia for the same reason many non-gamers would: Google.

Personally, I like almost everything about Stadia itself. I truly think the model's great, for exactly the sort of reasons you cite. I simply don't like nor trust Google (for all the usual reasons) and, for me, that's reason enough not to use Stadia. I feel reasonably confident that there are other gamers who share my thinking.

Thanks for listening. :)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: NanobangCan we eat other homeless folks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA [External Link]

OMG I haven't watched that video in, like, for. ev. er! Look at baby faced Lemmy being all lemm-azing! Probably longer since I saw the movie the song was written for [External Link].

You got me wondering, so I looked around and sure enough there's a movie about the homeless too [External Link].

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100% to creators? I'm deffo down for that, always. It's just like the Creator Days that Steam never has.

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Google says Stadia is very much 'alive and well' according to a new interview

I think we can all agree that Google is a pillar of integrity and candor, and --- as in any company --- the honesty of someone in marketing is beyond question.

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Can we eat other homeless folks?

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Congrats Liam! Though I'm not much interested in VR gaming, I have to admit I'd absolutely try it out if I were gifted a kit. I wish I could get more excited about VR, though.

For me it's less about the expense (though that is an issue) and more about the relaxation factor. Diversion and entertainment without exercise and exertion is generally what I want for myself at the end of the day.

Plopping my butt on the on the living room sofa, slipping my headset on, and cradling my Steam Controller in my lap is all integral to my video gaming enjoyment. The need to stand up and thrash about is anathema to what I'm looking for. VR gaming isn't for me.

And that's the term for this new activity: VR gaming. Just while writing this I realized that as different as movies, TV, and videos are from video gaming, that's how far video gaming is from VR gaming. In each case the media share certain qualities, but the experience is, as you and so many others express, radically different.

Now, a little face screen, maybe even a little 3D too, that I could wear with my normal headset? That sounds nice, sitting on the sofa, legs up, Steam Controller cradled in my lap.

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First off, kudos to Liam and GoL for including an article on an adult oriented Linux title. Aolta, looks very much worth the notice. The combination of whimsical cartoon art with unabashedly explicit sex puts me in mind of Bakshi's Fritz the Cat films. It certainly promises a unique video game experience. Would that I were into shokushu goukan, I might be interested in dropping a very reasonable ten bucks to play a randy Hanar in Liberty City. Alas, it isn't so.

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Is all this a part of Valve's a contract/agreement between Valve and a game seller? It sounds like how the recording industry landscape is littered with musicians who lost all rights to their songs because of the contract they initially signed.

Or is it akin to the verbal contract made to a loan shark in a movie, details of which might simply be a matter of how the loan shark is feeling that day.

If all this was part of a written contract signed by Rosen, then it sounds like buyer's regret. Caveat emptor and all that. Shouldn't have signed a contract. It seems almost benign compared to the preposterous EULAs of almost any robust corporate software company you care to mention.

But. If Valve is just --- abracadabra! --- making these rules up whole cloth (which I doubt) then, yes, sue the crap and marrow out of them. They're behaving as petty, vindictive bullies, and should be taken down a peg or three.

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