Twitter is one of the worst platforms on the internet. Its algorithms and formatting are intentionally designed to destroy any nuance and promote the most disagreed with positions at the top of every reply. Yet ironically it's still an echo chamber because of the lack of dislikes and the moderation tools each user has for replies. It's basically Reddit if Reddit only sorted by controversial. Plus it runs absolutely terribly on mobile unless you use their app.

While it's not impossible, I find it hard to imagine Elon making it any worse of a platform.

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Quoting: SolitaryThere is quite a lot of games that seemingly work, but are labeled as Unsupported. Supraland for example, even though the standalone DLC Six Inches Under is Verified.

Speaking for this game specifically I asked the developers two years ago why they dropped and deleted the Linux native version and they said:

"we support proton. the native solution was bad and is dropped
low fps for reasons we cannot change"

I asked them last week "Wait what happened to the proton version?" And they said:

"i don't understand what's going on. we offer no proton version. but steamdeck seems to try to run everything using proton
valve says it has hitches"

They also clarified that siu is using a newer engine version and dx12 instead of dx11.

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Love it. Use it to play Lancer and aside from the clients getting low fps on integrated graphics (fixed by v9 maybeee?) and some small module bugs it runs great. Love I can self host it with very low system requirements on the server and that it automates a lot of the game's rolls. I can't compare it to other paid vtt solutions but compared to r20 it's worth it in my opinion just for the automatic rolls.

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In my opinion demos used to hurt game sales. Back when the only games media was positive if you were undecided on playing a game a demo would only help you make a more informed purchase decision and avoid playing it if it was bad.

These days the situation is completely the opposite. Those undecided on a game have tons of resources ie internet videos and reviews which tend to be more negative than one's experience playing the game. Additionally there's lots of competition so anything to get your game talked about or played is good.

SteamNextFest sales data shows these days demos work.

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Quoting: ShabbyXI'm glad they realized they lost this war, and now the poor people that trust microsoft have a working browser. If only they'd realize the same with NT and switch windows's kernel to Linux

They didn't make edge chromium based because they thought chromium was better. They were "forced" to because google was changing how youtube displays videos, which broke hardware decoding.

I can't find anything on this specifically but I'm guessing you are talking about the youtube switch to vp9 from avc. If so I will say, a website using free codecs that are part of the w3c standard instead of patented ones that aren't is a good thing always.

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I guess I might be an enigma then because I have been a big netbook/chromebook fan since 2012 and for my usecase which is being able to do as much as I can on my desktop on the go without wasting money I've always brought my own keyboard. I can see this being good in the education sector or for light to medium work and I guess judging by the comments that market is where most stuff at this price point goes. Good luck to them.

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I feel bad for these lowend laptop makers considering the deck is about to come out. They're not bad devices and for pure productivity the larger and higher res screen is nice but I imagine if the deck gets accessories that make it more into a convertible laptop it could swallow most of this lowend market

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: CFWhitman

Quoting: elmapulagain, that was an retraction from their first message.

The way I remember their first message was that one hundred percent Steam compatibility* was their eventual goal for the Steam Deck rather than a "promise" of the state of things when the Steam Deck first shipped. Of course they should have known how people tend to hear what they want to hear.

*(Of course this would be with the obvious caveat of the form factor not being appropriate for certain games such as VR titles.)

actually, it might have been "playable"
but their definion of playable is not the same as verified...

VR exclusive games are always marked unsupported on the deck even if they could run perfectly on Linux or even on the deck's hardware. This is said explicitly in the valve video.

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Quoting: JauRight now, people only see "windows" even if we can guarantee 100% compatibility [with proton].

I'm not sure what the issue is. If you only have a windows build that's all that should show. If your game works in proton that's gonna get you at least a playable rating on the deck and on protondb so anyone who doesn't care about native can play without issue. And the people who do care about native should know.

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Quoting: denyasisI wonder if they hired the same artist(s) from the Hollow Knight devs?

Can't speak for artist but they did hire the same marketing person, Leth.

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