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Aatube, do gaming w Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead

"Specifically, the named Plaintiffs won binding decisions from arbitrators rendering Valve's arbitration provision unenforceable for both lack of notice and because it impermissibly seeks to bar public injunctive relief."

So none of these stupid clauses are valid? FOO FYEAH!

Speculater, do games w Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden
@Speculater@lemmy.world avatar

How dare they! *Drops another 300 hours in Slay The Spire"

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug, do games w AI-powered drawing app stuns developers by turning sketches into functional games

I never thought I’d be a luddite in my 20s.

I remember being so in love with computers and learning about technology and reading science fiction.

Now I’m a programmer and I despise the future we’re heading towards. It’s only going to get worse.

vrighter,

that’s one reason I got out of a software develepment carreer.

simple, do games w Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”
@simple@piefed.social avatar

This is standard in most platforms with social features, companies record chats in case someone gets reported for negative behavior. It's also temporarily stored so they're not just listening in and hoarding your chats.

The terms also lay out that "these recordings are available only if the report is submitted within 24 hours," suggesting that recordings are deleted from local storage after a full day.

Sylvartas,

Yeah I’m not sure why that’s news. At least Nintendo is being somewhat transparent about if

dukeofdummies, do astronomy w In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees

… I mean that would’ve been the clearest conflict of interest you could’ve possibly summoned.

keepthepace,

Thing is, I don’t think NASA and SpaceX compete. NASA is not a for-profit company and was happy to see successful private companies in the sector. They’ll happily be a SpaceX client so that they can focus on actual research and do things that are not profitable (yet)

dukeofdummies,

In practice, you’re probably right.

But in terms of “I wanna cut waste, and make the government lean! So I am gonna delete the space part of the government and replace it with my own!”

Just sounds bad, like really bad. Even worse than the armored Teslas. I can’t imagine NASA is the top of people’s lists of “utter wastes of time” It’s not a regulator, it’s not in the “known enemies” list unless you’re a flat earther. I dunno how you spin it to be palatable.

someguy3,

Really doubt that was it.

BedSharkPal,

SpaceX gets most of their money from NASA contracts no?

PhilipTheBucket,

I think that is probably the actual reason. Musk probably fired most of NASA, and then realized that the absolute carnage would in this case impact him personally, and it suddenly became an important issue and he needs to have them all rehired so that they can keep paying him his contracts. He still doesn’t give a shit about other people’s contracts / medications / intelligence operations / statutorily enforced payments / whatever.

corsicanguppy,

The problem is that so many other companies also get their money from NASA. Cutting out NASA makes it a clear pipe from gov to spaceX.

Of course, so many other projects NASA is running will also just die, but those don’t even help Elon anyway so they’re pointless. Or so.

Thcdenton, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
@Thcdenton@lemmy.world avatar
blackstampede,

Unexpected Waterworld dipstick guy

Thcdenton,
@Thcdenton@lemmy.world avatar

He’s my go-to for posts like these

blackstampede,

Underutilized meme format, honestly. It can apply to almost anything in daily life circa 2025.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Of course Atari’s new handheld includes a trackball, spinner, and numpad

I wish trackballs were utilized more. Near-mouse levels of accuracy at the thumb over a joystick is great.

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

One of the top Deadlock players uses a trackball. We all stan our ergonomic king.

silverchase,
@silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

Valve tried trackballs with the Steam Controller but ditched them for trackpads that emulate trackball physics. They found small ones felt bad but big ones were too bulky and heavy. Clearly they like that idea, since every controller-like thing they’ve designed since includes pads.

ms_lane,

Also they can spin on their own in a handheld-

In a stationary device like a desktop trackball or an arcade cabinet, they settle but a handheld device is moving very slightly while being held and more vigorously when picked up/put down, which can move the ball. Trackpads won’t do that.

ryathal, do games w Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”

I don’t even bother claiming free Amazon games on the epic store.

L0rdMathias, do games w Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”

do nothing

Win

The gaben method works again

Badeendje, do games w Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

And games are gimped on gamepass. When palworld released I had to purchase it on steam anyway to be able to play with my buddies. Also patches are late. Very late. I will not be renewing.

Delusional,

Yeah Xbox game pass uses the Xbox version of the game which is sometimes different. Deep rock galactic on game pass won’t let you play with deep rock steam players and vice versa.

drdiddlybadger, do gaming w Volition (Saints Row developer) shuts down

They made a lot of bad moves after a while but the saints row series and their other games were pretty baller. Sad. Hope the team all find good stable positions after.

theangriestbird,

To what extent were the og Saint’s Row games and the remake made by the same people? I know Volition’s name was on both games, but I wonder if a lot of the experienced leaders left Volition after Saints Row 4? Seems like that’s always the explanation whenever a studio’s games take a sudden dip in quality.

drdiddlybadger,

You know it’s pretty likely the most experienced people left long ago. It would explain a whoooooooole lot.

dormedas, do games w AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

Yeah, not sure if “use upscaling, raytracing and compress a little more” counts as “rethinking”

Goodeye8,

I think calculating the rays in a different way does constitute as rethinking the pipeline, especially when we consider that path tracing is one of the most computationally heavy processes in computer graphics. In fact path tracing is so heavy we don’t even do full path tracing (as in we don’t calculate all the possible rays), we essentially cheat by calculating a handful of rays and then sending it through a denoiser (which is why it takes a second to calculate the shadow of your character). There’s a lot of performance to be found in raytracing and if they’ve found some then that’s a pretty big deal.

dormedas,

I do know all of this, it’s just dedicated hardware for a step we’re currently simulating in shaders. Dedicated hardware that if I’m not mistaken exists on NVIDIA graphics cards already.

That’s an added capability, not a rethinking. But it will enable raytracing in a way that is far less expensive.

scrubbles, do gaming w Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion - Ars Technica
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Private equity is the death knell to any brand. For example Joanne’s was sold to private equity. I’ve worked for companies owned by private equity, they are there to extract every last cent for themselves while the brand is whittled away. Any cent that would be invested is instead given to the investors so they can buy new Audis and boats.

I’m not saying EA didn’t deserve it, but this is for sure the end of EA as we’ve ever known it

CarbonatedPastaSauce, (edited ) do games w Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines

I don’t see the point. How are you going to alt-tab back and forth between the game and Excel with a controller? Pfffft.

Edit: Do controllers even HAVE an autosum shortcut?

_stranger_,
And009,

Only peasants use 1 device. Spreadsheet be on a separate monitor

purplemonkeymad,

PC for the Game, Laptop for Satisfactory Modeller, tablet for wiki, and a paper notepad and pen for writing down numbers.

DarkFuture, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
@DarkFuture@lemmy.world avatar

Panic?

I’m crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We’re awful.

floquant,

Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.

Zacryon,
@Zacryon@feddit.org avatar

Right now.

Zetta,

Forever, humanity could only ever conceivably expand so far due to the expansion of the universe, so as far as we know a still insignificant portion of the universe we could colonize.

Zacryon,
@Zacryon@feddit.org avatar

Until we make some scientific breakthrough which might solve that problem. If there is any possible of course. There is so much we still don’t know.

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