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ampersandrew, do games w How can i casual gamer enter a game online competition?
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Search “online tournament X” where X is the name of the game you want to play. Tampa Never Sleeps does tournaments for the likes of Street Fighter 6 and Guilty Gear Strive every week, for instance. They’re all free.

ampersandrew, do games w How do gameplay youtuber develop interesting commentary?
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Why would I watch your channel when I could watch someone else’s? A good answer to that question is how you grow an audience. I watch a lot of fighting game content on YouTube, and I can find value in Maximilian Dood for being good at explaining the legacies of old games or what makes new ones tick; I can find value in commentary and breakdown from those who win major tournaments and break down the subtleties that I might have missed. But there are hundreds of channels YouTube wants to show me of people playing those same games with no reason for me to actually click on them in the first place.

I made what people seem to think are a couple of good video tutorials to teach Skullgirls quickly. It’s got a reputation of being exceptionally hard, but I disagree, and I thought I could explain them quickly. They worked, but the more general fighting game tutorials I made after that didn’t do so well. Maybe there isn’t as much demand for them as I thought, or maybe they just weren’t as good. Still, I was making something that I felt like people couldn’t easily get elsewhere.

ampersandrew, do games w Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
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I did fuss with it according to the directions in forums, and it didn’t change anything, but I also barely understood what I was doing.

ampersandrew, do games w Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
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I have that crackling thing sometimes too, but only on desktop and not on Steam Deck, so the issue lies in something that’s different between those two things. On my desktop, my usual use case is to have a bunch of programs open at any given time and put it to sleep at the end of the night rather than close everything and power off. While low spec games like Skullgirls are fine, if I boot up a higher spec game like Kingdom Come: Deliverance II after waking my computer from sleep, I’ll get the crackling. If I just rebooted, the crackling is gone. I don’t understand the problem, but at least I have a workaround, and it’s better than Microsoft determining when I should reboot my computer. It’s my computer. I decide that.

ampersandrew, do games w Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
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The Mac thing is two-fold. Apple moved to new architecture before it was primed and ready for gaming, and Valve has been slow to adapt Steam to it. Apple’s solution, which will not work, because Valve tried the same thing a decade ago, is to juice the market by funding ports. Apple’s putting far more money into it, because it’s such small potatoes on their balance sheet, but the result will be much the same. This isn’t a situation where getting a few heavy hitters will solve their library problem and get everyone else to fall in line. The problem is Apple and its platform are hostile to getting this sort of game on it.

ampersandrew, do games w Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
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A little dramatic, but yes, I’m already not playing those games.

ampersandrew, do games w Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
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There’s definitely some selection bias for me that made it easy to not even be interested in buying the types of games that won’t work on Linux, and that made my switch easier. I hope the solution that we eventually arrive at isn’t, “Here’s a custom kernel compatible with our anti-cheat,” but instead, “Here’s a way to play our game without kernel level anti-cheat.”

ampersandrew, do games w Evo Las Vegas 2025 wrap-up
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Even this is only a guess. There are a lot of reasons why developers got away from this model, and there are one or two reasons why I’m the weirdo who wants us to return to it.

ampersandrew, do games w Evo Las Vegas 2025 wrap-up
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Strive has excellent variety right now. Out of eight players, we had eight different characters. The nature of a tournament is that you’ll see repeats of the characters played by the people who stay in longer. The problem with a game like CvS2 is that you see those same characters over and over again throughout the pools stages, and you see very similar teams across the players in top 8. That Ramlethal player won the ArcSys world tour very recently, also.

ampersandrew, do games w Evo Las Vegas 2025 wrap-up
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I plan to! I usually get Prime for one month per year, around Christmas shopping season, so I’ll check it out then, along with Fallout season 2 and Reacher season 3.

ampersandrew, do games w The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made
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Oh, my player character was definitely on the list of asshole characters that made the game grating. And even if his actions before the story began precipitated everyone else being an asshole, it didn’t make the game less annoying to experience it fresh as the player.

ampersandrew, do games w Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing.
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The video evidence in that essay will do more justice than any of my anecdotes, but even things that seemed like possible ways to handle a story mission were not what the developers intended and resulted in a mission failed, like trying to take the high ground in a valley, or trying to sneak in through a window instead of entering from the ground floor.

ampersandrew, do games w Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing.
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It’s an all-timer as far as video game stories and production value, but the railroading that they did to players did irk a great deal of us, as chronicled in that Nakey Jakey video. They set up so many dynamic systems for the player to interact with and then basically dictated that you couldn’t get creative with them during the story missions. Deviating even slightly from the intended path would be a mission failed.

ampersandrew, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?
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Halo 5 makes the whole story worthless

It really did.

ampersandrew, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?
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Half of Halo 4 was the best story they ever put in a Halo game. The other half was embarrassingly formulaic sci-fi.

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