Not to mention there could easily be a court case where Valve gets told they can’t host mods that infringe on copyright and are told to remove it all and not accept anything like it.
Kiss goodbye to your Skyrim mods that add Thomas the tank engine characters as dragons, Spiderman as a playable character, LOTR characters and weapons, etc.
As much as I think steam workshop is great and convenient, it shouldn’t be the only accessible option.
Uhhh yeah of course it’s a cash grab, it’s a product from a for-profit business. They want to make money from it. Valve is trying to grab cash too.
And eh, the deck isn’t better in all departments. It costs significantly more, it’s far bulkier, you can’t share your physical game cartridges with friends/family, the battery life is worse, couch gaming isn’t as refined, detachable joycons are great, the switch is better at split screen gaming especially considering you don’t need to buy any extra controllers to do it, etc.
I have a Switch and a Steam Deck, I’ve played on both for thousands of hours. They’re both good devices.
Liking one doesn’t mean you have to hate the other one. They’re not even directly comparable. Sure they seem similar on the surface, but IMO they’re pretty different devices with less overlap than you’d expect.
Why? Fedora is an amazing distro. Don’t be put off by the “tips fedora” memey-sounding name
Yup.
And in the wider PC space, VRAM is a big issue as well.
Everybody keeps acting like every single big game that comes out is “unoptimised” because it uses more than 8GB of VRAM when playing at 1440p or above at ultra settings, and people with 8GB or lower GPUs are struggling.
Are all these games unoptimised? Or is it simply that they’re done targeting consoles with 8GB RAM, are now exclusively focusing on ones with 16GB, and because of Nvidia being notoriously stingy with VRAM, lots of people on PC are suddenly finding their cards falling short?
Thank fuck Valve had the sense to put 16GB of unified memory in the Deck. Could you imagine if they only went with 8GB, or even 12GB?
Yes I have 2500+ hours of playtime for Femboy Adventures: The Catboi Chronicles, but that’s just a joke, bro
Oh no, won’t someone please think about the religious LGBT-hate organisation 😭😭
As a religious organisation, they are allowed to hire based on characteristics that you usually aren’t allowed to discriminate with. They’ve repeatedly supported legislation that would allow them to refuse to hire LGBT people.
Across several countries, they’ve campaigned against the right for homosexual sex, marriages, inclusion in media.
They refused a $3.5m contract from the San Francisco city gov because it would’ve included giving the same domestic benefits to same-sex couples.
They said they’d leave New York if they were forced to offer the same domestic benefits to same-sex couples.
They campaigned against UK local councils including gay people in media like leaflets and the like.
High ups in The Salvation Army has said if you support gay rights you shouldn’t donate to them.
They’re extremely transphobic too, of course.
They did a bunch of child sexual abuse in Australia.
In the UK they own a lot of property that poor people stay in, and the conditions have been so bad that it was unlawful.
For the most part it’s just that they’re homophobic as fuck.
Same as you would with any other data.
Although it’d matter much less if you know you can just pirate it again in the event of you doing no backups and losing the data.
I disagree. Piracy is the answer IMO.
as someone else said, invasive DRM exists on discs too
discs can’t store enough data for a lot of modern games, necessitating downloads anyway
discs can be damaged, lost, or stolen
The only way to ensure we still have access to this stuff in the future is a healthy cracking and pirating community.
Big news, but it’ll be a while before the deck gets this.
I’m on the beta channel for Deck updates, and we only recently updated to 5.27.5, which was released in early May, 2023.
Plasma 6 will probably take a comparatively longer time to be validated by Valve, because it’s such a huge update.
And even the “they don’t pay the artist thing” is somewhat defensible in that the record labels take a much larger cut than Spotify.
They’re the main ones taking the money away from artists.
By far my main issue with Spotify is for giving massive paycheques to the likes of Joe Rogan
The story was alright but pretty forgettable. The combat was kinda fun although maybe repetitive if you just fall into using the same combos all the time.
It’s the set design that I find really good. The castle is large and filled with all kinds of little details.
To me it feels like the kinda game that would benefit from having a modding community that can add more stuff to do.
It’s not the full force. I shared my account and for a while it was the same, you had to dismiss warnings and say “yeah I’m totally in the same household”, but about a month ago it stopped working entirely.
I stopped paying. I could justify sharing my netflix account, but £18 for a single person household, with me not being much of a TV watcher in the first place? Nah.
If they had just been slightly less greedy, I’d have happily continued. Shit company.
Exactly, all these redditors and lemmyers (lemmings??) keep saying “oh he should be working for MI5 or a cyber security firm, not getting court-ordered mental support!”
And it makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Even if we ignore him purposely breaking the law while on curfew from breaking the law previously, has been violent, and straight up said he wants to commit more crime, even if all of that is ignored, no company would trust him.
His application would be thrown straight into the bin in my company, and we don’t even deal with stuff that’s that sensitive.
Like seriously, have these people ever heard of the concept of insider threats?
And people keep making up bullshit about him.
He’s not in prison, he’s in a mental institution getting therapy because he has issues and was violent. He straight up told the judge he intends to commit more crimes.
I have zero love for Rockstar’s bs and I do have admiration of this young man’s skills, but he clearly presented himself as someone who can’t just be free without any further intervention.
Intel graphics has improved leaps and bounds but it’s still problematic and more poorly supported than AMD.
I imagine part of it (beyond general stuff like Intel trailing AMD in efficiency, both on the CPU and GPU side, as well as the die size being far larger for the same performance, meaning more expensive) is that Valve really didn’t want Intel graphics issues being reported in reviews and forums as being Proton/Linux issues.
On top of that, Intel straight up doesn’t have a custom semiconductor division. AMD does (predominantly for Xbox/PS, but they’re not the only ones).
Intel would either have to set up an entirely new working group for Valve (expensive! Something that Valve would’ve wanted to avoid considering they had no idea whether the Deck would be a hit or not) or they’d have had to go with an off-the-shelf intel CPU.