So it's a consulting company that specializes in Godot? With a possible future focus of console integration?

That seems really niche... Like not supporting a business niche.

Or is it a consulting company that basically acts as a legal bridge to allow porting to consoles (or integrating other proprietary tech)?

I guess that could work. Still seems like a fairly limited customer base or am I missing something?

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Quoting: denyasisGas Station Simulator??

Maybe I'm biased, or dumb, or too close to the source material, but I don't really understand at all the appeal of these "blue collar/service" job simulators.

I mean if you're really into it, we have job openings. It's even like an RPG! You start off doing low level work like picking up roadkill and you get to choose you starting equipment (do you want a shovel.... Or gloves?)!!

You can even level up [External Link], but it still won't suck up dead animals. Side quest: unclog the Pelican. (Pro tip: pick gloves at the start!)

Lol i agree.....

Im waiting for "Office Worker Simulator"..... Welcome to the mind numbing world of Data Entry...... Work at the same company for three years without your boss even knowing your name........ Have daily fights with the printer that never works and has contant paper jams, even though IT says the printer is fine and no error messages appear it never works and keeps ruining your work...... Work hard and watch as you get passed over for every promotion as they are given to relatives/friends of the bosses...... Make one mistake and watch as your pay gets docked and get an email from any manager above you warning you that you are making to many mistakes..... Beg and plead to your new bosses that you are worthy enough to keep around during a corporate merger, spending months not knowing if you will have a job everyday you turn up for work...... Get escorted out of the building by security after getting fired for making three mistakes in the same calendar year..... ALL THIS AND MORE IN OFFICE WORKER SIMULATOR!!!

Lol, can't say I deal with any of that here, I picked up the Union Member DLC subscription, only $1000 a year (totally worth it)!

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Oh, that's cool. I have knock off switch pro controller in my house too. I might have to try to see if I can get them to work along with the joycons

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Quoting: RFSharpeYou have to respect a development team that bases their design/marketing decisions on logic instead of profit.

Someone should email this to Paradox!!

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Gas Station Simulator??

Maybe I'm biased, or dumb, or too close to the source material, but I don't really understand at all the appeal of these "blue collar/service" job simulators.

I mean if you're really into it, we have job openings. It's even like an RPG! You start off doing low level work like picking up roadkill and you get to choose you starting equipment (do you want a shovel.... Or gloves?)!!

You can even level up [External Link], but it still won't suck up dead animals. Side quest: unclog the Pelican. (Pro tip: pick gloves at the start!)

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: TheSHEEEP"Hatespeech" aka "someone was mean to me on the internet" aka "please protect me from different opinions voiced strongly" aka "I'm sure this will never be abused" aka "whatever those in power deem to be unacceptable at this point in time, to be changed later, this is totally not a slippery slope, trust us".

Mmm definitely don't agree there. Huge difference between mean text and hate speech and I think anyone with a bit of common sense can generally tell the difference. There's really no place for hate speech.

Agreed. There's a total difference between the two.

Having a moderation system for a game actively marketed to everyone is fine and I'm a little surprised was not implemented earlier.

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Did not know that was a thing, or even a problem.

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Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: itscalledrealityGen 1 hardware is never for the plebeians.

I'd be careful of wandering into some elitism here. You might think this is true and I might agree, but as I stare at the Steam store, I see the Deck mentioned 3 times, 2 prominently. It seems clear to me they believe differently.

I’m just being tongue in cheek. Valve’s goal is of course to sell as many of these as possible. It just usually takes a product generation or so before less technical people will comfortably not complain.

Oh, I see, my apologies. I think I was just reading your comment very literally, sorry about that.

Quoting: 1xok

Quoting: itscalledrealityI’m just being tongue in cheek. Valve’s goal is of course to sell as many of these as possible. It just usually takes a product generation or so before less technical people will comfortably not complain.

It is a PC. If you can't tell the difference in games, you can't appreciate it. The Steam Deck is clearly aimed at PC users and they are used to suffering. Even with Windows. :)

If you come from PC, the Steam Deck is already a huge relief.

Windows aside, I think I agree a bit with itsacllesreality on the 1st Gen part, especially with it being a PC. 1st Gen PC gear does have a bit of a reputation of having issues. Whether or not that is still the case, we can debate, but I can honestly say it's affected my PC building choices over the past 20+ years. I tend to wait for late Gen1 refreshes when buying hardware, lol. Part of the reason I'm not considering a Deck at the moment (aside from the price).

I'm glad the rollout is going so smoothly so far, though.

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Quoting: mr-victoryThey can't put this to physical stores for obvious reasons (many high profile games unsupported, software has deal breaker bugs) but what then?

They continue with with their exclusive sale on Steam. There's really few downsides to remaining exclusively on Steam.

Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47I don't see why the game library is an obstacle to selling Steam Decks in brick-and-mortar retailers.

Agreed. There are other risks that could dissuade Valve. There's the increased rate of possible returns with brick and mortar. People are more motivated to do a return then they can travel back to the store. There's the loss of information control, with brick and mortar reporting sales, lack there of, and returns to their investors; something Valve doesn't have to do.

Quoting: itscalledrealityGen 1 hardware is never for the plebeians.

I'd be careful of wandering into some elitism here. You might think this is true and I might agree, but as I stare at the Steam store, I see the Deck mentioned 3 times, 2 prominently. It seems clear to me they believe differently.

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Quoting: 1xokOver the last years I had performance problems in many games, for example in Nier: Automata, where I simply did not reach 60 fps @1080p consistently. I had attributed this to my graphics card alone (a GTX 970) until earlier this year.

Then I bought an AMD RX 6600 XT a few months ago. Not a monster but you would expect powerful enough to play a five year old game like Automata with constant 60 fps in high settings. But again, no such luck for me. Then rather out of helplessness I activated this demon from Feral and attention: problem solved!

Not only Automata, but also Elite: Dangerous and many other games run much better with it. It really makes a big difference. Not so much in increasing peak performance but in consistency. I think the effects are especially big when you combine a current graphics card with a somewhat older processor. In my case, an Intel Skylake model.

To be honest, I kinda relegated "scriptish" stuff like this into the pile of silly gimmicks. I'm glad it worked for you. I'll have to give it a shot on my GTX 1079 and Intel 9700 whatever-lake. Anything to keep it running smoothly for years to come!

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