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Quoting: LinasCCP

CPC :neutral:

Pretty sure it's CCP for Chinese Communist Party in English (in French that would be PCC).

Quoting: CyborgZetaI'm surprised the Steam Flatpak is that high. I see more than a few people around the Web explicitly not recommend using the Steam Flatpak. Even I quit using it a while back during that AppArmor bug in Ubuntu that made certain Flatpaks, such as Steam, unusable for a time.

Well, it works very well for me, avoids cluttering my home with random game files, I don't require multilib on my system, and it sandboxes proprietary applications (games are not known for their good security practices). I've been using it for years, and only had the occasional issue (such as CEF sandboxing initially not working in Gmod).

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Quoting: hell0I'm wondering whether their cheat detection is server side. Some wording let me think it might be: "detection levels", "turn on the banning of users in a couple of days after the update".

I believe Valve would be the first big company to attempt it, and it could be huge if they do it properly.

VAC has always been server side and there are many other anticheat that are server side on some level

VAC is also client side,they compare the hash of known cheating libraries with the ones loaded. Someone got their ban overturned after realizing the culprit hash corresponded to a zero-byte file.

This is probably to make false positives obvious, to avoid falsely banning players while it gets tuned.

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That skin-colored pair of pants in the screenshot, though: I thought the character was naked.

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That hedline had me worried for a moment. I've stopped counting the number of games I've bought, and got a new, separate release before my first playthrough. Maybe I should stop buying them in advance? A free upgrade is awesome, though!

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Quoting: PhiladelphusFrom the aesthetic, this looks like something that could be used to generate reference materials for TTRPGs like D&D. Not necessarily like a battlemap*, but something like "After a day of traveling, you come to the lovely town seen in this picture," or "Here's what the king's castle looks like."

Neat to see Rust getting more use in games, too!

*Though I don't know what the camera constraints are; maybe you could get a top-down view? Maybe I'll pick it up and see…

There is even a first-person mode. I was going to suggest you play the free demo :)

That's what I did, it ran quite well on Steam Deck, so I picked it up.
It's very usable on SD, though the control hints show keyboard shortcuts.

It would be awesome to get some export functionality, for 3D prints, blender, top-down maps, etc.

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Quoting: pbI guess LinkedIn might be useful for business contacts. For example, when an indie developer unexpectedly becomes successful, scammers friendly publishers might want an easy way to contact them.

Well, There are also tools like Godot, Krita, substance painter, etc, listed on Steam. I imagine those have more of a presence in the "corporate" world, especially as there can be video tutorials and other content published there.

I don't see mastodon though, which is sad.

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Quoting: BelaptirThey restricted it so much that you must be in the same household (aka under the same roof) to invite someone.

What? Darn, this is only noted at the very end of the FAQ. And I was sharing my library with my brother who lives in another EU country.

There goes pour family sharing, I guess... Though I suggested on the forum that they should keep the same limitations as before (no offline, library locking), instead, when they detect a long distance pairing.

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Questions:

• Can you use both ports for video input (plug the SD in either port)?
  


• Can you use the other USB port as a video output, to connect an external screen? (Daisy chaining)
  


• Can you opt out of charging whatever is connected? As in, If I'm doing light office work, the Steam Deck could last for 12 hours, no need for charging, I'd rather have the external screen last longer.
  


• I assume either USB-C ports can be used as power inputs as well?
  

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Quoting: JarmerAt first I was having an absolutely wonderful time in bg3 but then the ending happened ...

I haven't played this game myself, but I think there are more than a hundred possible endings, plus minor ones... Was it just yours, or would it end in a similar way had you made different choices? (I've read your spoiler tag).

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Hugh, another hero-based game. I am not very interested in the genre, sadly.
This looks like a fun game otherwise, with these rails reminiscent of BioShock Infinite's skyhook. So Maybe I'll play a single-class (or few-class?) mod one day. It would be pretty nice with a command system similar to Nuclear Dawn or Natural Selection.

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With a name like this, I had initially assumed it was a KDE project :grin:

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