Quoting: KimyrielleThe toxic masculinity (and that's what we're talking about here in the end) that has more or less defined gaming culture since its inception needs to be finally removed from it.

People are people. Some are assholes, some are nice. Some of them are male, some of them are female. Who cares? It's the behavior we're talking about, not the gender.

It would be awesome if you could believe me that what I say comes from a place where I hope that people can be nice to each other, no matter what their gender, their skin color, their religion is or whatever you could use to divide human beings into groups.

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Godot is just rather simple and clear. Unity seemed really convoluted in comparison.

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunI kind of agree with both of you, but I'm more on the side of "Family sharing is not what it should be". Say what you what about consoles (and I can say a lot), but all my friends own a PS4 and they swap games all the time. And if Sony (SONY!!!) are letting people swap games, I see no reason why Valve should have a stick up their b*tt about it. Surely there is a way to do this properly.

Sony lets you swap physical copies. With them being physical come quite a few limitations. You can't swap at the click of a button. You have to physically exchange the games. You also have to be in the region for that to work, so you can't swap your games with anyone on the planet. With digitally distributed games, swapping would be instantaneous and with the whole planet. Sony lets you not swap digital copies from their store. (As far as I know.)

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Quoting: KimyrielleFamily sharing is the most useless feature in Steam, honestly. You'd expect it to lock only the game somebody is using, but it locks the entire library. So if my daughter is playing any Steam game, I can't use my entire library as long as she's playing. Might as well let her use my computer in the first place. *rolleyes*

While I see your point, it is just not possible to do this without locking the whole library. People would start to give access to each others library and buy significantly less titles. When my buddy plays Skyrim yet again, I can play his whole library, and other friends can play yet another game all from this one persons library, I think I would finish some games without ever buying them, as would other people.

Valve can't check if you really just use this feature for "family", so they have to restrict it that way.

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If they wanted to be clear about this, they could've clear it up. They did not.

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Quoting: EhvisAnd the page you linked lists at least 12.

Ah, I made the mistake to think that TNG was over when DS9 started. There are a few more CGI scenes, but it's really not much.

It's just awesome that practical effects hold up so much. As a kid I always thought that the Enterprise in TNG was a computer generated model. But it's not. It's a real model.

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Very good times, indeed!

But that shot is not CGI, these are models. Only 3 scenes in TNG were made with computers: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/CGI [External Link]

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I find it to be interesting, that only the part from the video where it doesn't work well is posted everywhere on the web, but the part where it works well is omitted. The idea of streaming is interesting, and I'm eager what can be achieved with this.

However, Google indeed did fuck up in a lot of ways. The whole communication of what Stadia is was done really poor, that there's only 1 single title in the subscription is ridiculous, and the selection of titles is rather sparse. That they don't get the features in time for release is on top of that.

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Quoting: NezchanStill puzzled by the "Zeldaesque" description when it looks and apparently plays nothing like the Zelda games save in the most abstract sense, and what we see of the story is leagues away. Even stuff like "punishing combat", I'm pretty sure that's not the first thing people look for when picking up a Zelda game.

This game is a rather direct copy of Hyper Light Drifter, and that game referenced Zelda as one of the influences. I think this is why they chose to market it like this.

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Finally they're doing this (if they actually make it impossible for apps to access the users home directory). Running closed source binaries on your system with the rights of your own user is really nothing but a security nightmare. Any stupid little game can fetch your bookmarks, your documents, your SSH keys (!) and whatever else it might be interested in. If you take that in mind, any big Steam sale could be seen as poking little holes into your privacy protection... for many one big reason they use Linux in the first place. But, the same is true for the Steam client itself. It also is a closed source binary, so itself should be run in a container as well.

I use firejail for that right now, but sadly some games don't like that and don't work anymore. It's just some of them. Would be awesome if Valve would make Steam run itself in a proper container that doesn't lead to problems with games.

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