Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedjeSeriously. I am actually shocked that MS hasn't just full on forced users to use a 'shim' OS that just launches an Edge browser to access your desktop in the cloud.

Eh, they probably would have by now, but Google got there first (ChromeOS) and now they have NIH syndrome. :grin:

Which is a rarity for MS to have a NIH syndrome... granted now that Windows 11 looks like ChromeOS, Win 12 will be.

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Quoting: fireplaceI don’t know why people are still arguing about this. The best solution is clearly game streaming from self hosted hardware. That way you can play games from any device anywhere (pros for game streaming) while owning the hardware and games assuming they’re free as in freedom (pros for traditional gaming).

Richard Stallman wrote a nice article explaining why we shouldn’t be using SaaSS (service as a software substitute) which is what these new services are doing. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html [External Link]

Seriously. I am actually shocked that MS hasn't just full on forced users to use a 'shim' OS that just launches an Edge browser to access your desktop in the cloud. Fit it on a small flash media that is immutable and force everyone to pay subscription fees for everything.

Gone soon will be the days when you can just pay once for your software. Pretty sure if it were not for Linux, we would already be doing that. Competition keeps them more honest.

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Quoting: AzP

Quoting: hummer010

Quoting: AzPI hope they spend some time on improving performance... Considering the graphical fidelity, the game is a bit "power hungry".

This. There's better looking games that run a lot smoother than Valheim on my tired old laptop.

Yeah, I play it on an AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, 32 GB RAM, RX 6700 XT and 5120x1440 screen, and I guess it's mainly the resolution that drags down the FPS to below 60. That's quite many pixels to push.
A "positive" note though is that the Linux performance matches the Windows one, both for OpenGL and Vulkan.

I somehow feel that I need a 5120x1440 monitor... but can't justify it until my 3840x1200 monitor dies...

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: slaapliedjeKind of interesting to compare the major three large space sims, Elite: Dangerous, No Man's Sky, and Star Citizen.

For the major large space sims, for me the X4: Foundations still wins...

Ah, another game I have that I lack the time to enjoy... one of these days!

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Quoting: iiari

Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: iiariAnd regarding the top 10 list, still very impressed NMS is still there. What a comeback story.

NMS? Is it still the beautiful, yet stinking pile or crap, full of flawed game mechanics it used to be?
(Honest question).

This is off topic, and I haven't played it in quite some time, but apparently it has duel mindshare as one of the games that promised the most and didn't deliver in history, but one which the devs stuck with to create one of the most compelling games in history as well. They've apparently really fleshed it out and the ongoing additions to the gameworld and function have been terrific. Lots of written and TY video content about it out there if you're interested...

I play it and like most of it. The devs have, bit by bit, been overhauling most of the major parts of the game. Ground combat, space combat, base building, planetary vehicles, and how freighters work so far, plus adding a lot more to do around the Anomaly hub and getting multiplayer worked out. I'm hoping at some point they re-do the main storyline, which to me is one of the primary weaknesses of the game at this point, incentivizing just hopping from system to system without exploring them in order to get to the center faster. I expect that settlements and space stations will get re-done first though.

Not sure what "stinking pile of crap" is defined as here, or what game mechanics in particular, so it's hard to address whether they've been dealt with or not.

Kind of interesting to compare the major three large space sims, Elite: Dangerous, No Man's Sky, and Star Citizen.

Elite's Approach has been to release earlier, and fill in the gaps as they go along.
No Man's Sky approach was to promise a lot; release, get blasted for it being incomplete (compared to what their vision was), then they stuck with it and kept improving it, releasing the VR stuff for it which is quite workable, where Elite broke VR witht he planet landing...
Then we have Star Citizen, which is in the 'forever eating money' phase.

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Not that I've been playing any of these games on the Deck lately. Just wanted to shout out how awesome the Deck is. Some old systems, like the PSP, didn't have all that many buttons on it. So as I'm playing Untold Legends, I got frustrated enough that to block you have to hold down the right bumper and press circle... so I took the Input and made L4 press both buttons for me. It's brilliant! I did something similar with Dark Alliance, making the weapon and spell changing buttons be assigned to the four underneath so I wouldn't have to take my thumb off of the stick to switch those.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: anewsonnice of the verge to do dbrand's job for them

I got the email detailing out the whole thing. Literally just randomly was someone at The Verge happened to turn on the performance setting all the way up to be able to see the fan speed and wondered what was going on. dbrand still couldn't reproduce it, and then a bunch of back and forth and the discovery of the different brands of fans came down. So this is more on Valve than it is dbrand. No one but Valve is going to know how many units were shipped that had the worse fan.

It's on both companies as dbrand should have done more in-house testing and Valve shouldn't have used the Delta fan.

Valve could have known who had gotten the Delta fans and let the customers know at least.

I got my Killswitch today and it is phenomenal, by the way!

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Quoting: anewsonnice of the verge to do dbrand's job for them

I got the email detailing out the whole thing. Literally just randomly was someone at The Verge happened to turn on the performance setting all the way up to be able to see the fan speed and wondered what was going on. dbrand still couldn't reproduce it, and then a bunch of back and forth and the discovery of the different brands of fans came down. So this is more on Valve than it is dbrand. No one but Valve is going to know how many units were shipped that had the worse fan.

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Quoting: StalePopcornA company owning their mistake up front—I don't own a Steam Deck but it makes me feel like buying a skin for my phone from them :wink:

I bought from them based on their humor alone. Their PS5 case is awesome. Plus flipping the bird to Sony made me laugh. I should be getting my Killswitch soonish, I'll post here and let people know how it is.

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Quoting: BielFPs

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyone who knows anything about Google pretty much knew it. They try to diversify their businesses, but they almost always end up giving up on them and going back to 'give us data to sell ads to'

Maybe nowadays yes, but back then Stadia was still in beta and most of user were excited about the brand new Read Dead Redemption 2 support

Also kudos for @YoRHa-2B who apparently also saw that coming

Ha, yeah I mean I never signed up for it as I knew it was going to happen when Stadia was first announced. I'd have never signed up for it regardless, as it always seemed a way to take money from people without letting them ever actually own anything.

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