100% agree, this is probably a soft launch so they can go hard later.

Super scummy.

Smoking is also quite common, it still harmful.

Betting isnt required for sport, millions of kids manage to play sports without betting.

So we’ve established at the onset that Riot-owned broadcast and social channels will stay betting-free, which means no ads, no sponsored segments from betting partners, and no betting partner logos on team jerseys

Good, as it should be.

No mention of age controls, and I’m sure it’ll be the scummiest of gambling companies (tautology?) that signup for this.

Riot has a lot of children who play their games, this is a really disappointing decision from them.

Hardisks also. Dont store important data, they are due to fail eventually.

I’d be resistant to reuse the power supply. Its long overdue to fail, and if it fails and takes out your brand new stuff, you’ll be a bit unhappy.

Contact the app dev, its their problem.

Honestly, I agree, unless steam aggressively enshittifies themselves, I dont see any rivals catching up either. They are so far ahead, and so far, haven’t started screwing their customers.

And gog selling out to climb doesn’t really solve anything.

Isn’t steam responsible for match making only, and the actual game company is responsible for the servers? Are you sure its not the game servers?

Either way, that would be very frustrating if its happening mid round.

Your not wrong, but I just dont get the feeling that epic is going to transition towards actually being a competitive store. This is entirely my own myopic gut feel, not based on any facts.

My dislike of epic is that they seem to be buying their way into competing, instead of actually competing on features.

Free games sounds good now, but what happens when the fortnite gravy train runs out, and epic needs to start making a profit? They’ll likely have to enshittify fast.

Steam at least has a solid history of being generally good. But who knows what will happen if Gaben ever ascends.

Does steam really have frequent multiplayer downtime issues? I’ve never notice any issues, but I don’t play a lot of multiplayer anymore.

Cry’s in 100/20Mb

Exactly this. Company statements have zero basis in reality, they should be ignored unless they actually back them up with evidence or data.

It’s why shareholders (ultra wealthy people) are the enemy of art and why publicly traded studios all go to shit after enough time.

No arguments there…

Your probably right, but gaming company’s do plenty of other risky stuff, like Concord etc. Would have been nice if they had at least tried to make a sims along the way.

The games industry is more than happy to throw away billions churning out copy-cat games, that compete in incredibly crowded genres, so it would have been nice if they had at least tried to compete in the one genre with only a single competitor. Its kinda funny that TS4s biggest competitor is TS3.

Its a big piece of work sure, but there haven’t even been attempts (that I know of).

And sims is priced so high (with all the expansions) that getting in that market seems feasable if one of the big names wanted to try.

Seems worth an attempt, rather than churning out copy-cat FPS/dots/battle royals/flavour-of-the-month games :/

EA have been pulling their shit for decades though, so its surprising no one has tried to eat their lunch before now.

Its kinda bizarre that there are so few Sims clones/replacements.

If you want to go the AML SBC route, check out https://nexdock.com/

They are portable touch screen monitors, and if your lucky, its at most a USB + HDMI to get the touch screen working. They’ll also supply power to your SBC, which might help the portability aspect.

You can get similar portable monitors from Aliexpress as well.

Edit: just realised they now have WiFi. The nexpad has no WiFi, otherwise look for other portable monitors.

I think you’ve been underspecifying the problem a bit :) You dont want any 2.4ghz signals at all? Does airplane mode still give off 2.4ghz noise? Are you sure the noise is from the WiFi chip, and not the CPU?

So like an airgapped device? Have you considered getting a cheap off the shelf tablet and cutting the antennas? It wont connect to WiFi or BT anymore after that?

Sure, but a device with no radios is gonna be an uphill struggle to get anything useful onto as well. And airlines let you use a tablet/phone during ascent and descent right now, there is no need to remove the radios or use airplane mode anymore.

Why? What is your use case?

How is the “fraction of compute” being verified? Is the model available for independent analysis?

Right after a new feature is also perfect time for it to get axed

Love it or hate it, Google Messages is here to stay

Oh you sweet summer child…

I’m really happy to hear that, I still have and occasionally use my steam controller, I quite liked it.

Completed stray with it and a steamlink.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1gg5106/comment/luna2l5/

Initial version will be free, and DRM free, distributed by us and completely open. This will be so we can get feedback from modders and establish some confidence. When the project becomes more structured we will look at future options.

Consider me excited!

The studio shutdown definitely did get announced, but no formal cancellation AFAIK. Selling a cancelled game is just wrong

Too soon, I’m still sad.

I suspect KSP2 has probably killed all the goodwill earnt by KSP, I certainly won’t buy anything else until I know its a finished game.

Its not for you, its for spammers…

I want a modern Flatout 2, such a fun game.

https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gran-turismo-sophy/technology/

Chess/Go? AlphaZero would fit that description. Also think they were tackling StarCraft as well?

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStar_(software)

Text is a bad medium for conveying emotion.

To me, :/ has always been a fairly neutral expression, like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ or 😐, I would have used :( to convey upset, but its certainly reasonable that others would read it differently.

I kinda hoped my other comments would have made it clearer, but again, text is a bad medium :( oh well

Its a joke, relax. Almost all games get speed run, no reason to expect this to be different. And any% speed runs often skip huge portions of the story, no reason to expect this to be any different either. There is nothing to be mad at, it’ll likely happen, it’ll likely be silly/funny to watch.

I beleive in you!

I’m not mad, its a joke. There is nothing to be mad at.

Yeah, I get that, but on the more aggressively short cut games, you could argue its not the same game anymore if all the story is now skipped. Still entertaining to watch, and I do occasionally, but it can get a bit silly.

I’m still looking forward to the first:

“Hi guys, today I’m going to show you how the locker skip works, you just run at this locker while tapping crouch, annddddd we are clipped through the ground, and can now run to the exit. Easy game”

:D

I can’t wait to see speed runners cheese it and completely miss its point :/