Looking at Collective Shout, I can't wait for the future where people are more concerned about victims than trying to appear to be morally superior... Good lord, it's lazy... They even straight up admit, they have a singular unnamed person looking for things that are described as:

"[...]too distressing for us to make public."

Which is of course always a convenient way to avoid actually defending your claim.

Re: Your corporations facilitating and profiting from rape, incest and child sexual abuse game sales

Note how it isn't mentioning fictional themes; it is directly accusing payment processors of profiting from actual abuse with real victims.

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Well... I was actually using PayPal to pay on Steam, but there is no reason for me not to switch so I guess I will then.

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To put it a different way, no doubt they exist today, but if Fedora and Ubuntu were to stop having them, at what point would Flathub or whoever be saying "man, these things are a pain to maintain, we should drop them"? Why is the effort different, and who in the Flatpak world has the workforce and motivation to put it in if it's being claimed to be too hard for major Linux distributions?

Agreed, and this does not even address the elephant in the room:

Flatpak is Red Hat.
Flatpak is FreeDesktop, FreeDesktop is Red Hat.
Fedora might claim to be independent from Red Hat, but not really. In theory yes, in actuality no.

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Getting flashbacks to the absolute shitshow 2 years ago when Fedora had another brilliant proposal that people went to war over, I thought I recognized Fabios name from the discussions. If you forgor, perhaps purged your memory banks or just live under rock-sized boulders, you may interwebsearchnaningans the following: F40 Change Request: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

Yeah, no. This guy can't convince me he could not see the big picture with the SteamDeck, EoL for Win 10 etc.

And his attempt at an excuse for picking 44 instead of something reasonable like 48 or even 50 kinda confirms it for me. He knew what he did, and knew how it would be perceived, he wanted the drama.

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While I don't remember the name of it, it always warms my nostalgic heart to see the hardware monitor you use on the right side of your screen @mrdeathjr. :wub:

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Well, if I compile the game without Denuvo and that's literally the ONLY change made, and I get a performance difference on the same machine used to test, I think it's pretty safe to say that the cause of the discrepancy is indeed related to Denuvo.

You would think that...

That's right, I'm looking at you, ituneshelper.exe! :angry:

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I know the BS Denuvo is spreading, but the latest example that comes to my mind is Jedi Survivor. It was just a terrible stutter test, totally unplayable, even on high end hardware, before they removed Denuvo.

It's the third game I personnally witness where there is a major performance/experience boost, when Denuvo is removed.

The thing is, it is not just a "Denuvo: On/Off" situation. While Denuvo is a complete product, you have to integrate it into your game. How you do that will affect the result. Even if you add a compile option to enable/disable your Deunvo integration (like is commonly done with Debug/Release builds), and you get a performance difference, all you know is that you have a performance difference, but crucially you don't know why.

They always hide this behind "other updates", but I've not seen such day an light difference, in other update contexts.

Releasing something to production is expensive and time consuming (for both developer and user), so you generally don't do it just to try one thing, and instead bunch several things into the new version.

If on the other hand there was a beta version that specifically is just to test Denuvo on/off, then that is a different matter, they are much cheaper to release and can contain just one specific fix.

(edit: for the record, I've not seen any convincing evidence that it actually works and delivers more revenue for the devs, so I don't advocate for denuvo in any context.)

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Definately not easy to find if you aren't used to it, but all it does is allow it to start the OBSE-loader like with the other Bethesda games. Hope that helps!

source: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/blob/0b409b02a7f8fcb9c2905b1724b8749dfbe96b6f/gamefixes-steam/22330.py [External Link]

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Many thanks, as always, GE! :heart:

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Love the Wii-pointer there mrdeathjr :woot:

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