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Google reveal Stadia will only have 12 games available at launch, more later in the year
18 Nov 2019 at 9:34 pm UTC

For me, fear of missing out expresses itself mostly in always wanting to be the last person to leave (a place/party) and trying to maintain high availability/flexibility for anything that comes up, and has nothing whatsoever to do with social media. If people use it in relation to consumer goods and "exclusives" then no, that tends to have the opposite effect on me. I don’t feel thrilled about owning something others don’t, and if a company is selling something in limited numbers I assume in most cases it’s either not good enough for ongoing sales or artificially expensive; either way I’m happy to "miss" it. But collector types have always been a good source of low-effort profits for companies willing to cash in on people’s ego.

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Stadia looks to be very limited at launch and not just the amount of games
16 Nov 2019 at 5:30 pm UTC Likes: 6

I too am surprised by the fact that people are surprised by the lack of features at launch. This is a challenging service to implement and Google has an incredibly large audience. It makes sense to expect breakage across so many potential devices, networks and use cases and to expand the service slowly, not unlike Valve’s Proton whitelist. I do however believe they should have more clearly expressed that it would be a beta at "launch" for those who did not see the obvious and thought they were pre-purchasing something like a full-featured console launch.

That said, I don’t understand why they would need a mobile app to be involved in any of this, and it’s just making me even more wary of the whole thing with regards to spying on the users. I’m going back from "I might consider it if..." to a big fat no.

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Google reveal Stadia will only have 12 games available at launch, more later in the year
12 Nov 2019 at 6:07 pm UTC

They do have twice the number of games planned by the end of the year. If they keep adding more high-profile titles every few weeks, I could see it becoming competitive with services like PlayStation Plus in a reasonable amount of time.

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Google reveal Stadia will only have 12 games available at launch, more later in the year
11 Nov 2019 at 8:19 pm UTC Likes: 1

I could have been interested in Assassin’s Creed, and maybe RDR2, but they’re not enough for me to trust Stadia. Borderlands 3 is kind of tempting, though. There is no guarantee that it will run well on Proton when it drops on Steam. I can wait and see, though. And obviously I’d rather buy Tomb Raider straight from Feral.

On a different note, Just Dance definitely isn’t the kind of game I expected here. I feel like the slightest lag would ruin the experience.

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Build a busy city on Mars in The Farlanders, an in-development city-builder with a free web demo
11 Nov 2019 at 4:09 pm UTC

Oh, I tried this one a while ago. Not my usual cup of tea but I enjoyed playing a few games to figure out the resource economy.

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Valve rolls out the new Steam Library and Remote Play Together for everyone
31 Oct 2019 at 2:38 am UTC

I wonder if they will fix the ordering of the recent news shelf anytime soon. Yesterday, this week, this week, yesterday (‽), last week, this week...

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Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section
27 Oct 2019 at 1:42 pm UTC

Did the Gnome people actually post the relevant patent and claim anywhere? Not that I don’t trust them per se, but out of principle I would like to see the documents before I consider donating to their lawsuit.

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A new Steam Client Beta is up and it looks like Valve may add better support for Soundtracks
25 Oct 2019 at 6:24 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestBTW, have you guys seen the new Tux logo they've put at the top left menu?
I would love to see that same icon replacing the SteamOS one, it's far better than the classic Tux.

To be honest, at that size, if I didn’t know it’s a penguin I’d think it’s a fat fly seen from above. Or an inverted light bulb with flaps.

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition arrives on Linux on November 5th
17 Oct 2019 at 4:20 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: sub
Quoting: Eike
Quoting: sub
Quoting: Grim85When Stadia was announced I asked them [Feral] on Twitter if the footage of Shadow of the Tomb Raider was their work and they said it was not
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1132685-shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-coming-to-linux-on-5-november?p=1132779#post1132779 [External Link]
Hm, thanks. Couldn't find this with Google or on Twitter directly, but I'm not sure I would if it exists. :)
I don't have a Twitter account.
This make things even harder to find.

That's why I said "take it with a grain of salt".
Maybe someone finds that tweet.