Quoting: ottergauzeThe only good I can see coming from this (and I'm grasping at straws here) is that once we see demand for AI slow down (hopefully), the used hardware market will be absolutely swamped.

I dunno. I start to think that when the AI bubble explode, there won't be any gaming pc arounds anymore, all the hardware will be in server farms. So... they will start to sell people cloud gaming to recover from losess. With no material alternatives. Since OEM will be gone too.

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Obvious. When the market becomes competitive, just cut off the largest share of consumers from you potential customer share.

Instead of replacing the jobs of the consumers, leaving them with no salary to spend in games, of all the jobs they could have replaced with AI they should have started with the easiest ones to automatize. CEOs 🤣.

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Quoting: Craggles086Think Borderlands 2 had native Steam Controller support. Had to do some work for Borderlands 3 to get Steam Input configs to work well with the first Steam Controller, but since Steam Controller 1 was basically unsupported by this time hardly surprising.

Really? I think I always played it with 2 xbox controllers. And on windows: the game had no local coop, you needed a crazy hack where you had to start 2 local instances at the same time, connect them via multiplayer and shape the windows to use half the screen. And even like that the HUD was not scaled correctly.

It was a to messy solution to setup everytime (just starting windows was woah) and I think we never went past the first boss.

Games that I remember were better with SC were Portal 2 ofc but also Magika 2. Which also was using steam controller api btw. It was awesome on any controller really (every player had the actual controller layout on the hud: like player 1 steam controller buttons, player 2 xbox buttons, player 3 dualshock buttons. At the same time on the same screen. Awesome.

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Quoting: Renzatic GearIn short, there's nothing built for the Steam Controller, but the Steam Controller is pretty much built for everything, and is pretty good at of it in my opinion.

Yes... probably I should have argued better my point. K&M games, aren't local coop games. They are all single player games. Not since long long long time ago at least, when I was playing wasd and my brother up left down right arrows (for those who are old enough to remember).

Paleolithic aside, local coop games are all regular controller designed (and until very recently local coop was always castrated from PC versions so that's already a huge improvement - thank you steam).

That means that 1 steam controller is enough: only one single player at a time when playing single player games. When I share my screen with my wife or my daughters for a local coop it's 1 steam + 1 regular controller. If more players, more regulat controllers. Another steam controller it's a waste of money. And for old steam controller a worse experience (probably the new controller not so much, I guess just more confusing).

So until games start to be designed to take advantage of the full steam controller interface, 1 steam controller is all one needs in his own house imho.

Back at the time of steam controller 1 I did not thought about that and bought 2 out of enthusiasm when all that I really ever needed (and actually used in practice) was 1 controller. I have a virtually unused steam controller 1 at home (anyone interested? :) )

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Cool. I also had 2 steam controllers. Must admit the second one was useless. The first I used to play PC games, mostly strategy, on my TV, single player. All multiplayer stuff however, was meant to be played with a standard controller, and indeed I always went better with multiple xbox one controllers.

The thing is no game was ever developed to take advantage of the full featureset of the steam controller, not even Valve ones. Ok, portal 2 was definitely better with steam controller, but not a must. And I expect the same to be true for this new version too. Thus, in my modest opinion, 1 controller is enough a gamer arsenal to enable you to play PC games on your TV (without K&M ofc). If game developers decide to push their game designs further, and take advantage of valve controllers also for coop games, I'm always in time to get a second one.

I think I will get mine when I buy the steam box.

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Quoting: geckofish52Forgive my ignorance, but my understanding is that unlike Manjaro, which lumps Arch updates into point releases, Endeavour is basically an Arch installer. So what constitutes a new "release"?

A new splash screen.

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As always he doesn't lose a chance to advocate for less transparency and worse customer service.

But I can surely entertain the idea that the concept should be reversed: not an "AI generated content" badge but rather an "AI content free" one.

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Hei. It was true. They didn't hit the bottom rock already.

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Well, one could argue that there is artistic value in Bible bestiality, incest and rape. For sure it inspired some awesome art through the centuries.

Anyway, the ambiguity of that rule it's just because who wrote it clumsily tried to make censors and libertine happy at the same time. So it can be interpreted one way or another depending on convenience. Because they know it all to well: it's not their job to decide what is legal or morally acceptable. Unless in addition to their job at a payment processing company they are also MPs in some sovereign country with a voters mandate as a secondary job. And even then they would be pushing the issue on the wrong one of their jobs.

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Uhm... so if I understood correctly, Mastercard added this rule the 3rd of June:

"The sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks
serious artistic value (such as, by way of example and not limitation, images of
nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a
person or body part, and bestiality), or any other material that the Corporation deems
unacceptable to sell in connection with a Mark."

And now that the processors and banks are enforcing it is saying "not our fault, we know nothing of this".

Oooooook. Nice defense there Mastercard.

Problem is a lot of Mastercard users live in western democracies where we vote representatives to collectively discuss and decide what is legal and what is not on our behalf. Nobody is happy when Mr Mastercard wakes up in the morning and decides what is moral or not for us. Even when it happens that we agree on the subject.

Oddly enough, even in Autocracies I bet the autocrates don't like that as well.

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