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The username is the joke.

I’m not putting in more effort than you clowns unless I feel like it lol

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Prove_your_argument,

Yeah the kushner share is a bribe to bypass regulatory oversight, didn’t you know?

Prove_your_argument,

As long as the money keeps coming there won’t be any problems.

That’s always how it’s been!

Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support (thisweekinvideogames.com)

An article from this weekend that seemingly got buried by soundbites about the Steam Machine price in the same interview, but given that we have no information on price, this seems way more interesting to me. I mean…I basically self-select games that don’t use these kinds of anti-cheat at all, but this is important...

Prove_your_argument,

Still not going to convince some stubborn hold outs like the rust guy. Nothing will ever convince them.

Prove_your_argument,

When Linux market share hits 20% it would be a monumental achievement, and developers would probably still avoid it.

Don’t get me wrong, I moved to Linux this year. I want to see it gain traction in the gaming space.

It’s just not likely to happen any time soon. Loads of very basic use cases are a fucking shitshow because of a lot of reasons.

Just getting sunshine setup with a virtual display is a nightmare on Wayland without scripts to enable/disable displays and without being in front of the computer you want to remote to, because the simple logic of “if this display =off, then other display =on” is not a thing.

Prove_your_argument,

60% of anticheat implementations need to be fixed. 682 total titles. https://areweanticheatyet.com/

You just need to convince developers of a handful of titles, like fortnite, apex, valorant, BF2042, bf6, rust, R6 siege, league of legends, call of duty 2025… should be easy right?

It’ll never happen. The ones who are fanatical about it like the rust guy believe carte blanche that linux support will only make cheating worse and not positively improve the community. He doesn’t care about linux sales, the windows ones throw so much dosh at him that there’s no “market force” incentivizing him otherwise.

‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations (bloody-disgusting.com)

Geoff Keighley and company are back again, revealing the nominees for the 2025 edition of The Game Awards, which will stream live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 11, 2025. This year the one to beat is Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which has received 12 nominations, and the...

Prove_your_argument,

For me, I found it to be a beautiful work of art and a heartbreaking story about family.

It’s not a mass appeal title that absolutely everyone will love though. The game is not particularly easy and it takes time to develop the story.

Every time you get to the end of an act in Expedition 33 there is so much emotion. If you aren’t following the story, don’t get emotionally attached to the games you play and the stories of the characters, and aren’t patient enough to enjoy it then obviously it won’t be for you. That’s ok. It’s all art. They all mean different things to each one of us.

I’m confident we’ll get another hades, another silksong, another death stranding. I’m sure they’re all the very best representation of their iterative releases and worthy of the highest of praises too. I don’t even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.

I don’t know if i’ll ever be as impressed by another title as I did by expedition 33. Baldur’s Gate 3 amazed me in other ways a couple years ago and it’s a huge feat. Before that for me it was Elden Ring, amazing for other reasons.

I haven’t started kingdom come deliverance 2 yet, and I never played the first one, so I don’t want to say too much. All of the impressions i’ve heard sound like it is very deserving though. My assumption is that this and Exp33 have been the two GOTY contenders, but we’ll see.

Prove_your_argument,

I kind of figure death stranding too. It at least has sounded like it deserves to be up there even though it basically just fits in to the “ps5 exclusive” slot.

Blue Prince sounds like it’s the Myst of this generation too, but that kind of game just doesn’t draw appeal in modern times. Everything i’ve heard about it points to it being a game that way more people should probably try, but they just haven’t. Puzzle games rarely get mass appeal.

Prove_your_argument,

Ah cool, so it’s better than say either of the Zelda games? since multiple releases this year seem to be on that tier.

I know it has high reviews but I am always doubtful it’s more of a hype review especially when people are desperate to justify their $500 hardware+game bundle purchase on top of their $70 20-hour game

Prove_your_argument,

I’m saying Zelda Breath of the Wild and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. I figured it was implied. Those are both goty tier flagship titles for the old switch.

I’m asking if you think donkey kong bananza lives up to those or surpasses those. DKB is a 18 hour game according to how long to beat. Everything else in the running costs less and/or has way more play hours.

Prove_your_argument,

I wasn’t one of those people who thought the switch 2 would fail though. I knew it would be a huge commercial success. Just like how every single zelda game that ever comes out will be a huge commercial success, same for pokemon, metroid, mario, and other titles with enormous multigenerational fanbases. They could release the worst game of all time and still get 9 figure revenues out of it from branding alone and reviewers would still slap a 8/10 or 9/10 on the game. At least nintendo generally isn’t another EA/sportsball/call of duty style yearly release churn like so many devs though. I’ll give them that.

Pokemon still sucks compared to Palworld or any number of other pokeclones that are less commercially successful due to lack of brand recognition. The last metroid game that isn’t a remaster was less than ten hours long, which also sucks.

The switch 2 is also the first console release in many years to not have extreme scarcity. It’s been less than a year and I can pickup at msrp a switch 2 today at the closest B&M stores to my house. I’m right by a major city and we’re usually the last ones to have stock available due to population density. It took years to be able to buy a ps5 at retail without getting very lucky. Not surprised that nintendo has made so many sales.

Will say though I have completely stopped using the switch 1 ever since I picked up a deck in 2023. Monthly active users for Steam have doubled since Jan 2020. https://steamdb.info/app/753/charts/#6y - there are more pc gamers than ever, and we’re seeing consoles start to fade away it feels like, like the arcade cabinets before them. I don’t think steam will replace nintendo in any way, but I do think there is way more potential for growth on the PC side than the nintendo side.

Prove_your_argument,

I wish this was a likely outcome but realistically steam hardware is too small a userbase. They are most likely to get performance profiles for their hardware due to the standardization and free steam marketing of compatibility, but windows users are still a supermajority.

Prove_your_argument,

They’re marketing where it matters, to people who use their platform.

They sent out all the demo units for reviewers to hit the wider gaming audience on PC.

This stuff is never gonna convert console users who don’t already have steam accounts.

Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller (www.pcgamer.com)

Following on from the success of the Steam Deck, Valve is creating its very own ecosystem of products. The Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller are all set to launch in the new year. We’ve tried each of them and here’s what you need to know about each one....

Prove_your_argument,

This absolutely must be a skin for the fucking thing. If they want to be baller they can include a handle that sticks on too.

Prove_your_argument,

There’s no display, no battery, no controller included, no OS fees.. I think it could be cheaper than $800.

Because it’s all custom hardware we don’t really have a great basis for comparison. I’m going to guess that the cheapest variant will be something like $650. Doubt more than $700 though.

Prove_your_argument,

~$25 for an 8bitdo ultimate 2c! The price is just too good. I know it doesn’t have TMR or the extra buttons, but it just works and feels really good to me compared to the xbox elite controller that got the shoulder button issue within 3 months for me.

The trackpads are unnecessary imo. Games made for controller aren’t going to expect the deck touchpads, they’re gonna expect xbox and playstation controllers without it. The touchpads just fit a very specific niche of people who want to play with the steam deck on a TV in games that are not fully controller supported and don’t have a keyboard and mouse paired for that use case. Always better to have options I suppose.

Prove_your_argument,

Why do you want SteamOS and not just linux?

I swapped over to pop a couple months back and things just work. Gaming stuff outside of steam works too.

There’s other immutable distros for people afraid of messing up their system but in the modern world of flatpaks, lutris prefixes and wine/proton I have found I really don’t need to mess with my system too much. I find it hard to justify the immutability because of that.

I doubt SteamOS will ever support most hardware versions. Nvidia by itself is still not where they need to be on the linux side, and that’s the majority of gamers’ hardware today (and why all steam hardware is AMD gpu based.) Then there’s all the weird audio and network gear that has very limited support because a system integrator chose some oddball model or brand that nobody else uses.

Prove_your_argument,

GPU performance, unknown OS compatibility issues, performance profiles for normies.

I love NUC like devices and I already run linux, but i’m confident the steamos implementation will just work on their hardware because they’re building it for it.

If you’re on an AMD GPU and not at least dual booting linux you’re missing out imo. Only a handful of competitive online games need windows for anticheat/drm.

Prove_your_argument,

Because normies can’t get Fortnite running easily on linux (afaik anyway), or other popular competitive titles like battlefield 6 or call of duty 2025 to run at all.

Most of the normies probably already have a console with some licenses that will carry over. PC gamers have a desktop system (often in addition to a console.) It’s just not the same.

Consoles just work. You don’t need to understand much. The deck has definitely not been a painless process but obviously it’s pretty good, especially if you stick to green checkmark titles. Having to research what games will work, how well they work, and how to make them work if not by default is too much for a lot of people.

I’m glad it’s coming though. More people running linux means better support overall from hardware vendors and software developers. Gaming on linux is in a great place today but it feels more like how gaming was 20 years ago where you sometimes have to look something up to get something working, and installing an OS is simply too much for a lot of people.

Prove_your_argument,

I think there’s also some overall ignorance about how linux works with drivers too. They assume they’re going to have a steam deck-like experience that is easy and just works, but they don’t realize the valve chosen hardware’s drivers are built into the OS by valve.

Everybody wants an OS that “just works” - it’s the least interesting part of computing for users. It’s simply the thing that lets you actually do what you want to do with comptuers. Be it a HTPC, a console-like experience or something else. Drivers ruin all of it though especially when you’re bringing your own hardware.

I don’t see any likelihood that we’re gonna leave the existing driver-hell for a more streamlined experience either. It’s definitely gotten better over the years but for all of microsoft’s attempts at getting it to “just work” on their own OS, it constantly breaks. They released AMD drivers earlier this year with weird fucking versions that fucked people with AMD GPUs, requiring some manual intervention of DDU + Reinstalling a proper driver version. I’ve seen the same thing over and over again in userland for Intel graphics, intel audio and wifi and other popular and unpopular brands too. It’s one of the biggest reasons I swapped to linux, because there’s no fucking windows update lol.

Prove_your_argument,

It can’t really replace mouse and keyboard though. Not unless developers start designing games to work that way, and these touchpads are exclusive to an ultraminority of the hardware market share. The deck gives you that virtual keyboard which kinda works with the touchpads but it’s not ideal.

There’s no shortage of amazing games that are fully compatible with controllers though, thankfully.

Btw have you tried a trackball? i’ve been using a thumb based one like a logitech M575 for the better part of 30 years, ever since I saw one at CompUSA. Professionally 100% of my time is spent with one, and I used to have top tier KDR in counter strike 1.X back in the day (though I use normal mice for gaming usually nowadays.)

Prove_your_argument,

The worst part are all the games that have anticheat that totally works fine on linux, but they simply don’t allow it to function in their game. At least there’s a list https://areweanticheatyet.com/

Prove_your_argument,

My magic 8 ball says they’ll release an oled refresh to up the price $50-100 and not much else before switch 3, which is still many years away for either to happen.

As-is the thing has sold a ton despite no new games existing really.

Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition (www.minecraft.net)

Minecraft: Java Edition has been obfuscated since its release. This obfuscation meant that people couldn’t see our source code. Instead, everything was scrambled – and those who wanted to mod Java Edition had to try and piece together what every class and function in the code did....

Prove_your_argument,

The monkeypaw says they will stop updates for the java edition or release a new version that doesn’t work on the java edition.

They probably see how many sales are generated from the free work done by modders though. If someone wants to come along and do for free the thing you might have to actually pay designers, developers, artists and all the support staff for and they still need to pay you to play it, you’d be foolish not to encourage the exploitation of free labor.

Prove_your_argument,

If game performance is what makes games better then consoles will never reach the heights of PCs.

Prove_your_argument,

It’s called Firefox

Prove_your_argument,

The answer alex, is “What is the name of the app for browser games?”

:P

Prove_your_argument,

So browser games are games that run in a browser. The browser is the app.

Are you saying you want some silly 3rd party wrapper “application” that simply loads a page in whatever browser without the typical URL controls like so many android and apple “apps” are? because that’s just silly.

If you want to click an icon to open, create a hyperlink shortcut and click that to launch it… you could even create a separate profile that launches JUST for games, so that it doesn’t show up in your normal profile or interact with other cached files or cookies or even have the same addons.

Prove_your_argument,

it doesn’t make any sense to have a centralized distributor acting as a middleman. The current implementation requires bringing your own game files either manually or via a steam connection. There’s only two games, the minecraft clone mentioned is just a web browser game and not actually minecraft.

Since most browser games simply “just work” when you go to the website i’d just create a profile launcher firefox link, and then in that profile build out each game you want as one of your homepage links, which would just be a grid of bookmarks basically. It’s entirely overkill for exactly two games imo, and if you’re on a desktop that can run these games you’re better off running them natively.

If you’re on mobile you’re currently SOL it looks.

Prove_your_argument,

Microsoft is maximizing subscription revenue this year. It’s all about increasing that y/y revenue while burning cash on AI that will explode in their face revenue wise, unless the subscription price hikes land.

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They’re also upping the sub price for some home user office plans. Apparently it’s milk the customer time at microsoft.

Prove_your_argument,

My boss showed me the article yesterday, but apparently it’s the old news from earlier this year. It went from 70 to 100 back in Feb.

That’s still a giant increase from whatever you would have paid last year.

Prove_your_argument,

Capitalism doesn’t really see building a well treated highly compensated team of exceptional high skill workers as consistently generating more money for them.

For this to work you need a few people at the helm who actually give a shit about long term results. Capital wants bigger numbers with each earnings report which doesn’t always happen with gaming.

I for one have no comprehension as to how blizzard has maintained it’s following, but it’s a great example for how even the best companies can turn to shit by shareholder/board member directions. The money got too big with WoW.

Prove_your_argument,

Relies on proper leadership that isn’t following current MBA principals.

It’s too easy to go for a cash grab. Broadcom is a great example.

Prove_your_argument,

They're coming for our jobs.... by scheduling so many meetings that no one can actually work!

Are they project managers under the hood? :)

Prove_your_argument,

Finally, someone who is creating something that isn't short format video... or really fucking long format video.

Reading what you have here has been wonderful. Thank you!

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