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NONE_dc, do games w Pop it in your calendars
@NONE_dc@lemmy.world avatar

So is like what happened in ZA/UM with Disco Elysium?

Blaster_M, do games w Pop it in your calendars

Welp, guess I’m going to not buy it harder then…

Baggie, do gaming w Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam?

A touch, yes. I’m much happier being reliant on steam than Microsoft. They’re not incredibly indispensible either, you can do this stuff without them.

dastanktal, do games w Pop it in your calendars
@dastanktal@lemmy.ml avatar

Companies only answer to profit and unfortunately we get to see the results. Can’t have those proles making 250 million dollars now. That would eat into the profits of our shareholders.

Green_Mouse, do games w Pop it in your calendars
@Green_Mouse@piefed.social avatar

Yikes!

stupidcasey, do games w Pop it in your calendars

Gotta be honest, I would do the same and worse for 250 million dollars.

LostWanderer, do games w Pop it in your calendars
@LostWanderer@fedia.io avatar

I'm not particularly excited about this upcoming dumpster fire...Already took it off my Wishlist.

jherazob, do gaming w Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam?
@jherazob@beehaw.org avatar

We definitely are, Valve has single-handedly made Linux a viable gaming platform, but in the process became indispensable. Thanks to Gabe they’ve been rather good in that respect. However, whoever replaces him might not be as good as him.

slauraure,
@slauraure@beehaw.org avatar

They can’t replace him with a suit. There should be a shaman council that speaks with his spirit to make further decisions for Valve after his passing or retirement (they can just speak directly in this case).

AreaKode, do games w Pop it in your calendars

Arrrr…

atro_city, do games w Pop it in your calendars

Gib sauce!

JavaStack, do games w The Steam controller was ahead of its time

Is this the AI slop hyphen use I’ve heard so much about?

atomicpoet,

The em dash? I always use it—love it—you’ll have to take it from cold, dead hands.

Affidavit,

Windows: Alt+0151

Linux: Compose - + - + -

HeerlijkeDrop,

Yeah sure, emdashes and curly quotation marks were designed and put into Unicode specially for AI. Take some book or newspaper and look at what characters it uses

waterdog9,

This feels written in an AI generated voice as well though

  • all the semi-dramatic filler “Well, Valve had the last laugh”, “That said, it wasn’t perfect”, “And honestly?”, etc
  • each paragraph has an intro, some content, and a conclusion
  • all the punctuation is grammatically correct

Plus, it uses a very generic argument about why everyone else is wrong for not liking the controller, even though from the comments here it’s pretty clear the main reason is not having a d-pad

Metarespawn, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 7th

iam death stranding what i learned Balancing gaming with breaks improves focus and reaction time a lot. Even a 5-minute stretch every hour can keep you sharp for longer sessions.

echodot, do games w The Steam controller was ahead of its time

The difference is that the Steam Deck actually uses fairly traditional controls. Two joysticks, face buttons, d-pad (not that anyone uses the d-pad), multiple back triggers.

This thing was been really weird with its three analogue inputs (how am I supposed to use three analogue inputs) and every other button was limited. It also existed in a world where I can just get an Xbox controller and plug it into my PC, and it just works, so what’s the point anyway?

This thing isn’t even particularly good at controlling the steam deck, which kind of proves the point that it never really made sense as a product.

ipitco, do gaming w Beware games like this

I hope the 35k hours playtime was botted

Bronzebeard,

I’ve left a game open on the main screen, or paused, so many times that my play counters are not remotely trustworthy

ipitco,

35000 hours is a lot though. Really a lot if not done on purpose

MeatPilot, (edited )
@MeatPilot@lemmy.world avatar

That’s 4 years or 104 fortnights or 1,458+ poop socks.

To put that much time into something and say you don’t like, obviously it capture that person’s attention well beyond it’s intended shelf life. How can anyone improve on something that captured someone’s attention for four fucking years of playtime.

ipitco,

Something something fortnite joke

4 continuous years of 24/7 playtime, it’s important to say

billwashere,

That’s almost 17 years at a full time job….

ipitco,

Streamers have a good life

Unless you’re handicapped or unable to work for some reason and get a passive revenue that allows you to live, i’m not sure how people can do this

SirQuack,

I did this with Garry’s Mod, writing gamemodes and occasionally testing if it works.

Back before GMod 11 the game startup time was atrocious, so I just kept it running.

jawa22,

I have much more played time on EverQuest, but I’ve been playing that game for 26 years, so…

ipitco,

damn

TimLovesTech, do gaming w Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam?
@TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social avatar

As the only platform that cares about gamers I would say it’s your only choice under Windows also. Unless you pay for boxed versions and then rip/crack them so your not messing with physical media constantly, but then disk space becomes and issue fast.

slauraure,
@slauraure@beehaw.org avatar

This is fair but I’m also worried about introducing a new dependency for a game that normally does not rely on Steam.

TimLovesTech,
@TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social avatar

It is a bit of weighing the convenience of Steam dealing with your catalog of games, making them all just a download away, and keeping them outside of Steam and needing to come up with your own currarion method. And if you are buying (licensing it - because apparently nobody actually owns their games) the game outside one of these storefronts, you still have DRM to deal with most likely anyway.

Just have to weigh the pros vs cons.

slauraure,
@slauraure@beehaw.org avatar

I mean the only good alternative to Steam is GOG but there you’re not dealing with DRM.

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