Tetris effect (not the game)

Not even Microsoft was putting Windows on their Surface Duo phones, I think we can safely say mobile Windows is dead…

TW: Potentially the dumbest comment I’ve ever read on Lemmy.

I suppose RTX Remix is what they’ll focus on going forward?

Feels like the best meta for console purchasing is to only buy every other gen. I imagine the Sw2 is a blast for someone who didn’t have the 1 and now gets to play all those games at an improved quality/framerate

damn near 2026 and new releases are still shipping with a 30hz target lmao

I feel sincerely sorry for the millions of IT Help Desk workers who will see an influx of people coming to them saying “I asked Copilot to free space on my computer and all my files are gone!!! Fix it!!!”

Okay, so far so good.
Looks like the yellow painted fuck didn’t ruin it.

That’s what I meant by directional, I wish more games had it!

An option to choose what controller glyphs I want to use (Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, directional) and a option to always use those glyphs even when mouse input is detected, so I can use Gyro without the glyphs constantly flickering ☺️

Then put the disclaimer in all games? So what, not like they’re limited quantity

Ludicrously bad wording, a CEO really should have realized that there’s situations corpo speak isn’t the right choice

Damn, that’s huge!
I thought they were still ways off from making the switch!

Wonder if anyone ever managed to homebrew it to run something else

Pros

• Unique premium-looking flat design, IPX8-rated.
• Large and fast 144Hz OLED panel, the UD selfie camera is inconspicuous.
• Extra-long battery life, quick wired and wireless charging.
• Exceptional price/performance ratio.
• Plenty of gaming-oriented features, including pressure-sensitive shoulder triggers.
• Flexible and well-executed external display and peripherals gaming experience.
• Excellent connectivity with 3.5mm jack, IR blaster and DP output over Type-C.
• Advanced cooling design with a fan and coolant.

Cons

• Basic HDR video playback support only.
• The software is still plagued by awkward English translations from Chinese.
• The speaker sound quality could still use some improvement.
• Camera experience is unimpressive.
• No eSIM support.

Pissing off perhaps the only fans of this failure lol

The Gabenbox Series X
The Gabenstation 5
The… Gabenitch 2???

Since when? Because last I used it Video and Audio calls required their native app (their excuse was their encryption couldn’t run on the website)

The one fucking app of theirs that was done really well and they kill it.
Microsoft might as well deprecate their UI Toolkit now. The best 3rd party app to showcase it is dead and even their own apps are just web wrappers nowadays 🙄

This is also my recommendation.
Even if you don’t care about any of the extra features, the fact that you get TMR Sticks, a charging dock and 2.4g dongle included makes it a better purchase than any Xbox controller

I can confirm it has no hearts/timer or the usual Freemium Mobile monetization tactics. At most you can watch an ad to revive after death or to get extra coins but it’s optional.
It’s also on Steam for cheap and that version has zero monetization.

Call me ignorant, if this happened and it brought a new golden era of modding (1.7.10 style) where everyone’s playing the same version I’d be maybe the happiest player ever.
Modders backporting content is nothing new, hell, they even brought the mobs that didn’t make the cut from those stupid mob votes to life.
Let modding become the new updates, fuck it. At this point they’d likely be better realised than Microsoft’s efforts.

That’s funny. It’s basically Valve’s Steam Machine strategy

Review Sample? You’re an influencer now :P

Other point the maintainers raised is the possibility that GenAI code violates the GPL license.
It’s a good concern to have, and one I feel people don’t talk about enough.

Looking a bit further into it, a bug report on the GZDoom GitHub page titled “Project management” was opened that gave a little more detail noting issues with the lead of GZDoom pushing untested code, using an LLM to write code and hiding “not insignificant changes in commits, which has people worried that you’ll randomly rip out features that they rely on”. In reply, the project lead simply said “Feel free to fork the project under a” (yes, that really all they said).
A later comment before the bug report was locked points out the specific change in GZDoom that was made with ChatGPT.

Lately it feels like GenAI is gonna push FOSS projects and its maintainers to the breaking point. So much for this great future every AI vendor promised us 🙄

RogueJack21.
Basically Slay the Spire meets Black Jack. Very fun, the UI is great and the animations are super smooth.

Skate Story.
Skating game with insanely trippy visuals, great music, runs super smooth even on my aging PC.

FEED MY MECH.
Iron Lung meets the Resource management/Task juggling of FNAF. Descend thousands of feet into an abandoned underground colony in your Mech and retrieve what’s left. Beware your surroundings.

Time Snatcher Handy.
Roguelike bullet hell where you can freeze time at will, but only for 60 seconds. These seconds serve both as your health and currency, so you gotta be really careful with how you utilize it.

Above all, I think the real problem here is that when people hear “Xbox is failing” they think “No wonder” instead of “What happened?”

but we’re trying to reinforce by adding more value to these plans as well."
Fortnite Crew and Ubisoft+ Classics

So if you don’t play Fortnite and aren’t interested in 15 different Assassin’s Creed titles, fuck you I guess

End of an era 🥲

Obligatory plug: Rock Band 3 Deluxe mod, Rock Band 4 Deluxe mod
Shoutout to the Milohax team

If you bought Maze Mice not too long before the sale started, you might be able to get the difference refunded to you by taking to Steam Support

Fun fact: Steam (at least on Linux) shares caches between users with the same hardware.
Easier to happen on the Deck since it’s the same hardware for all, but even on my desktop PC I’ve seen it downloading and uploading shaders often.

Yeah sure but why didn’t they put a “Shader Compilation” loading screen then?
Many games have one that tell you what’s happening and give you an option to skip, better than having to find out via a tweet…

Absolutely love the mascot!

And how is said person gonna get Termux?
The playstore version is very crippled and Google could remove it for any bullshit reason they want

Gearbox was been scummy for a while now. Customers can learn to stop giving them money or can keep putting up with this.

Congrats!!!

There was one helluva gamer in Utah today.