Quoting: TheRiddickChill my dudes, I just want to convert your planet into a CAPITALISM!

It's centraly planed (by you) without free market. so i don't think capitalism is right word to describe it.
I don't think we can use words as capitalism or socialism where there is just one person. With multiplayer it's more like socialism with sharing all resources between all players…

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Quoting: Arten

Quoting: Jarmer"It's worth noting at this point that Take-Two's CEO, Strauss Zelnick, was paid $42.1 million last year, which is more than two-and-a-half times the previous year. So once again, the people at the top are pulling in big numbers while cutting the people doing the work."

This is absolutely disgusting. I know these people have no shame, but I wish I could be dictator of earth for just a few minutes with the sole goal of throwing this person in jail for life in the bottom of a dark pit with lots of other horrible things down there to keep him company.

There is plausible genocide right now in progress in gaza, on other side you have terorists from hamas murdering civilians, there is war in ukraine where psychopath putin killing thousands of people just for his ego, and lot of anouther wars [External Link] we have totalitarian tendencies in practicaly every government and when you get power to change any of it, you just care for salary of Take Two CEO. I think you need better priorities...

OK, that's stupid. So first, does that mean you getting mugged would be perfectly OK because, after all, bigger things are happening elsewhere? Big injustices do not make smaller injustices stop existing. Virtually none of the people protesting genocide in Gaza would tell you that massive CEO salaries are just fine.

Second, there is a strong link between the general phenomenon of massive wealth at the very top and the totalitarian tendencies in government. Bottom line, rich people suppress effective democracy because it tends to oppose their project of buying the government. The interests of the very rich (such as this CEO) are somewhat opposed to the interests of most ordinary people, so they use their money to make sure they have power and everyone else doesn't, so their agenda cannot be effectively blocked. So, this particular fat cat grabbing all the money that could have gone to people he's laying off is in fact an instance of the broader problem causing most of the troubles you're talking about. Most wars represent a subset of this issue--governments operating on behalf of corporations with interests in the region (oil, minerals, sweatshops, markets) and on behalf of arms manufacturers and their profits. Recognizing the individual example helps to recognize the general issue. Your objection is completely wrongheaded.

Sidebar on Ukraine:

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(And incidentally no, Putin is not fighting that war because of his ego or any other unusual aspect of his personality. He's fighting it for reasons of realpolitik; it's ruthless, but if you transplanted any major decision maker from any NATO country into his position, they would have done the same, except maybe sooner because most of them are less patient than Putin. For various reasons, every powerbroker in Russia favours that war--trying to end it is probably one of the few things that could get him deposed. The weird thing about all this is, early on Putin wanted to join the West--he asked about Russia joining NATO, joining the EU, doing free trade agreements, all that stuff. For years after that failed he talked about security agreements/frameworks. We turned him down every time and made it clear we just wanted to beat Russia. Now he's our enemy and he's fighting to win, but that was our decision)

He wrote what problem he would solve if he had absolute disposable power. Regardless of whether I consider high CEO pay to be a problem, jailing one CEO is a bad priority when there are far worse problems. So your argument is stupid not mine. Notice I wrote about misplaced priorities. If we have a protester again genocide in gaze, we know he considers genocide a bigger problem and thus would use that power to solve that problem. Not jailing one guy on his salary. How do we know that? He's protesting genocide, not CEO pay. After genocide is stopped, he can start protest agains salary, but just now, his priority is genocide.

If you have a problem with the super-rich, isn't a better approach to address the underlying problem and therefore printing money? Because without that, income inequality would be much less. Instead he chooses a primitive vendetta against one guy, which solves nothing.

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Quoting: Jarmer"It's worth noting at this point that Take-Two's CEO, Strauss Zelnick, was paid $42.1 million last year, which is more than two-and-a-half times the previous year. So once again, the people at the top are pulling in big numbers while cutting the people doing the work."

This is absolutely disgusting. I know these people have no shame, but I wish I could be dictator of earth for just a few minutes with the sole goal of throwing this person in jail for life in the bottom of a dark pit with lots of other horrible things down there to keep him company.

There is plausible genocide right now in progress in gaza, on other side you have terorists from hamas murdering civilians, there is war in ukraine where psychopath putin killing thousands of people just for his ego, and lot of anouther wars [External Link] we have totalitarian tendencies in practicaly every government and when you get power to change any of it, you just care for salary of Take Two CEO. I think you need better priorities...

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Quoting: pbI wonder what's keeping Valve from just officially releasing SteamOS for general use.

They answered many times already - it's not ready yet.

Yeah... how many years would that count as an argument?

It's Valve... So we operate in Valve time :-D For example "Hopefully Next Week" means "9 Months Later"
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time [External Link]

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Quoting: axredneckAre many Doom mods in danger now?

Only ones which distribute IP which they can't. Look at Sigil megawad from Romero. For playing it you need original DOOM WAD. Problem is only if they distribute original resources.

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Quoting: usrtrvBiggest downside is the guilt of buying a minor upgrade. I need sell/give away my old Steamdeck so it's not gathering dust.

It's Valve evil plan how to convert people to linux. They release minor update which linux users need to buy and then they give old one to win/mac family members. Second hand steamdecks are devilish plan of lord Gaben to attack windows market share :grin::grin::grin::grin:

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I planed to buy Steamdeck to family member for christmas... so plan is canceled. He gets my old one :-D :grin:

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Quoting: Benedolt

Quoting: Liam DaweA lot of console ports a done by a third-party, and they end up having their own code-base that's separate.

In the case of Factorio a single (in-house) developer worked on the controls for the switch port. And after that was released he spent all his time fixing the switch version before moving on to the Steam Deck. That's what they said in an update [External Link] last December.
So they just seem to have a small team. :)

Yes small team. It look like they have whole team on web listed [External Link]. They have 13 programmers (Web included) and one of them is part-timer. Part-timer is one who work on linux support :-)

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So, we have body, joysticks and now display. One think for upgreads for deck which we need right now is main board with new CPU. Can some small chinase company buy cpu used in ASUS ROG Ally? :-)

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Quoting: ArtenWhat childish atitude?

Insulting a well-established gaming studio because Epic's failed promises led to said studio not releasing on our platform. Childish.

Also, ignoring the extraordinary lengths that the studio went to trying to work around those failed promises.

Childish is strawmaning somebody else. And here we have your strawman argument. I did not attack studio because they didn't port it. I'm ok with proton solution. I already explained my problem is with attitude of ROCKFISH. They probably didn't even build it under linux whole time and tried it on last couple of weeks. That is when they discovered issue with engine. I did not expect same work to linux as with windows. I even don't expect alpha or beta release on linux. But there is bare minimum continuous work which I expect and they did not do it.How we know it? Because couple of weeks ago we had message from them that they don't know about problem porting it on linux.

Everspace 2 has been developed for years, kickstarter has been in 2019. Unreal engine 5 has been revealed in 2020, early access in 2021 and full release in 2022. Certainly, if they knew about engine issues from start, when engine has been still actual product, they had much better chance to get patches from Epic. You cant argue epic lied them, when they had engine at least 3 years in hands and they did 0 work to check compatibility not only of engine, but also of their own work.

From features perspective unreal 4 is death project now, but has not been death in 2020. I did not expect them to have priority on linux. I expected them one in couple of month or two to atleast make linux build and test if there is some show stopper issue. And here we are, with show stopper issue, on dead engine.

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