I got into portable M.2 storage when the fastest (~150/170MB/s) flashdrive I had said goodby, less than a year after I got it. After the refund I got a Corsair "GT" that said to be USB 3.0, but could only deliver 50MB/s. I was very pissed off because the thing was more expensive than the faster Lexar I had.

Later I saw a USB adapter for M.2 drivers. It was dirt cheap and together with the cheapest 120GB M.2 drive I could find, it was only 60% of the price I paid for the over-hyped Corsair "GT" 3.0 with only 32GB. So I bought it, and it was the biggest surprise I had gambling with unknown hardware. Even being only a SATA M.2 driver paired with a cheap USB adapter, they could still provide ~400MB/s, while having four times the capacity and costing almost half of the last "high speed" flashdrive I had.

Never again I will spend money on over-hyped flash storage. From now on I will "roll my own".

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This company gathered a lot of good will for them in the tech community. Everyone and their grandmother want them to succeed.

But they better lower their early expectations of profits. History is full of breakthrough products that failed to gain traction, because they cost too much compared to proven solutions.

Right now cooling fans are mass produced and dirt cheap. While this has its advantages, some manufacturers may find it prohibitive to implement if it raises the end price too much. So it is possible, for example, that this ends up in a Steam Deck competitor that cost over 1000 dollars, because Valve may find it too costly to implement in a 400 bucks base model Steam Deck.

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Seems alright to me. They could do a lot worse if you look at what some big studios are doing.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpider

Do some drifting with a cruise ship in Summer Trip Cruise

Naaa thats not drifting....... This is real drifitng...... [External Link]

Anyone can drift a tiny hatchback automobile. Real drifting starts at 50 tonnes or more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H91Z5yAiUA [External Link]

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Is stuff like this that makes me stay in my position of only buy officially supported Linux games. Like others mentioned, there is already too much stuff to play. I'm not losing my sleep even if Half Life 3 get launched and don't receive a Linux port.

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Quoting: Grogan

Quoting: M@GOidL4D2 is overrated. There is nothing special in that game. And I did not played over 3000 hours of it. No sir.

I used to like that game for half an hour or so. I seldom finished an entire level (I just played single player). My favourite was the swamp level, I'd have been more likely to finish all the parts of that one.

They did a lot of work on that game years later. However, they dumbed down the ONE thing that actually amused me about that game. The gore! It used to be utterly over the top, now it's modest.

I only played it for that long because I found myself a tight group to play coop. That and thanks to the community, a healthy amount of "AAA" maps that Valve would not be wrong to grab and launch as L4D3.

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Got this a while ago. While they did a good job emulating the controls of Mario Kart 64, I wasn't a fan of the design of obstacles in some tracks. The art of some items could use some work to make them less confusing too.

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L4D2 is overrated. There is nothing special in that game. And I did not played over 3000 hours of it. No sir.

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I personally have no horse in this race, since I prefer tradicional packaging over Snap/Flatpack.

Also, since I'm not a Canonical hater, I also do not see any problem with this. Other distros don't promote Snap, so why Canonical had any obligation to support a competitor option?

In the end, I will not be affected by this so, whatever.

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Just got Truxton and, I am pleasantly surprised. First good impression is the minuscule size of the download, just 4MB. So no extra junk in the emulator. The controller was recognized correctly, you can start playing right away. Another nice surprise is a great CRT filter, that not only looks perfect with a sharp image, but was enabled by default. Also, being a shmup, rotated screen (or "Tate" for the connoisseurs) is not only available, but is applied automatically if you initiate the game with the monitor already rotated. The only bug I found was the overlay options didn't work right in the "Tate" mode, but setting those to off let you play without distractions.

And for the casual (or "the ones that suck at it") gamers like me, there are several options to easy your way trough the game, like difficult options, extra lives, auto shootings, etc.

I have to say, this release positively impressed me. Those who did it clearly new what they were doing and the final product, with the exception of a minor bug, is very polished. Other companies launching old emulated arcade games (looking at you Capcom), could learn a thing or two from those guys at Bitware.

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