I meant to say, any more videos supporting the movement which may have caused an influx in support. Sure, there are indeed videos by some semi prolific developers with a following attempting at crashing the initiative, but as you mentioned, we are trying to get the initiative to pass, not tank it :)

Edit: mandatory link to the initiative (this is the kind of initiative that matters and will lead to action if the threshold is reached!) https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

From when I last checked a few days ago, it went from approx 450k to over 550k! Impressive!

Let’s keep the momentum going, so far this week, we’ve seen videos from:

• penguinz0 with 17M followers
• jeffgeerling’s second channel with 116k subscribers

penguinz0 has certainly caused a large influx, and I’m hoping Jeff will also have an impact.

Any more?

Denuvo specifically costs money as it’s some kind of subscription so from what I understand most games will drop denuvo one day or another the moment it costs more than the cost of piracy, which is probably once the wave of initial sales has passed.

The imagine if their cloud runs the game using proton. The provider with the lowest overhead would have lower costs and thus a cheaper service. If Microsoft doesn’t do it, someone else could.

The video game landscape is already filled to the brims with more games than I need to play for the rest of my life and you want me to hurry up to pay for a game as it comes out, to ditch out the full price when my computer would suffer for the lack of latest gen hardware when I could easily find a large amount of fantastic games for less than 10 bucks and comfortably max out their settings?

Like, the witcher 3 with all its DLC, a fantastic game which is 10 years old but got a free graphics upgrade and with all its DLC, worth hundreds of hours of gameplay and a memorable experience is less than 10 bucks, as we speak, both on steam and gog.

Most people already have more games than they have time to play. Patient gamer has never been more rewarding. We fall too often for the fear of missing out the experience and hype of a new launch…

I finished GTA 4 and 5 like a year ago, on my steam deck. I couldn’t care less if these games came out like 10 years ago. It gives me the flexibility to play them how I want to.

I would encourage you to support GoG before you have to rely on them, otherwise if everyone does like you they may not be able to sustain their business.

It’s a bit akin to waiting for a crash before putting your seatbelt on.

Seems he’s using the same orange tan as the other orange guy haha

Beautiful :)

I see a lot of praise for this game but have not looked a lot into it. How would you describe it and what makes it so good? I’m letting myself be convinced for my next game to play :)

True, many games sold physically are still faced with the risk of disappearing, due to DRM…

The joycon sliding on the table, is that a mouse-mode? @1:11 in the reveal trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpcsQQvgAQ

The way DLSS3 and 3.5 work (though not DLSS4 it seems) is they always guess a previous frame, never a next frame. They always rely on an authentic frame and guess an intermediate frame between prior to it, because they need to know the end state and interpolate backwards from it.

This is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning_super_sampling#DLSS_3.0

I’m not sure how AMDs frame gen works, is it different?

The performance improvements claims are a bit shady as they compare the old FG technique which only creates one frame for every legit frame, with the next gen FG which can generate up to 3.

All Nvidia performance plots I’ve seen mention this at the bottom, making comparison very favorable to the 5000 series GPU supposedly.

Edit:

• MFG https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss4-multi-frame-generation-ai-innovations/
• RTX 5000 performance claims https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-50-series-graphics-cards-gpu-laptop-announcements/

I can’t seem to find the source, it only says AMD, but the AMD keynote has not happened yet, where is the information from actually? Is it a leak?

I haven’t read the article so I can’t comment on it, but thinking that the solution is simply avoiding the services in question is not enough. It assumes that people know what the consequences to sign up are (most people probably don’t understand DRM) and it also assumes that there are better alternatives. Unfortunately, for the latter, I feel like there are fewer and fewer alternatives and the ones remaining are becoming increasingly niche. One may not be able to get a car which is self-repair friendly, independent on internet connectivity. So what does one do if one needs a car? Build one?

What’s the difference? And is this OS specific?

So cloudflare admits they are bulk processing the reports and the article just goes saying yeah too bad, it happens. But this is just for me a solid argument that scaling companies to that level is not beneficial, neither for themselves (as they get this kind of coverage about not doing the job properly), then for the websites being unjustly blocked and for visitors being misguided. I wish we could have a more competitive market instead of cloudflare, google and possibly some few others…

Gog does. The game manor lords is in early access on gog.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/manor_lords

Check the video. It clearly shows how performance drops significantly the moment you run out of vram. It doesn’t meant the performance will be perfect in 1440p, it means Intel is using that as a competition ground, something the 8GB cards fail at and maybe Intel’s GPU isn’t great but the 12GB will probably make a difference (and Intel is maybe being quiet at 1080p because they are likely to perform worse).

With its 8GB, the 4060 performs quite poorly when scaling up the resolution. There’s a great video by hardware unboxed showing how limiting 8GB are, in 1440p.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecvuRvR8Uls

Indeed, I’ve shared this with friends but we need more people and more awareness! This is a golden opportunity, if this tentative does not succeed, who knows how long until next time?

Of course, if a person with large following spreads the word, it can have a great effect, but please do not wait for this to happen, do not rely on this. By individually spreading the word, we are putting much more weight on it and giving it a much better shot.

This is a serious shot! Take it.

I’m not sure I see the issue to be honest. The development is made in the open, the architecture is pretty flexible and is designed to be rather robust to rug pulls specifically such that less trust is required in the model.

Also, whenever these discussions happen, I can’t stop feeling that it is somehow also meant to imply that mastodon is somehow better. And I am not a fan of that, as if there could only be one good social network. The internet is better with multiple services, multiple of many things. That’s how there is cooperation, compatibility and development for the better.

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Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know, I’ve been eyeing the game and interested in getting it. I think I’ve even seen it on gog, so that’s great!

How’s the game nowadays? I think I recall the game having some issues when it came out, assuming it’s true, are they all now resolved?

They don’t have to have a backdoor. They are most likely in possession of a master key to decrypt your data:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/04/apple-holds-the-master-key-when-it-comes-to-icloud-security-privacy/

You mean this key? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/04/apple-holds-the-master-key-when-it-comes-to-icloud-security-privacy/

In japanese for those who want the original experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMZARZ8DE8I&t=11

The story was difficult to follow, for me, and plays a significant role in the game and is likely to influence your decisions. What I wish I did and what I recommend you, is make sure you pay close attention to it in the beginning, knowing who’s who, who’s battling who and why. Consider taking notes haha

Edit: the story and the game are fantastic, I hope you enjoy it like I did. I recently finished the game and started with the extensions.

It’s impressive how this initiative has gathered 360k votes in no time yet completely stagnated ever since. I don’t think it means that the initiative is done, actually I am quite optimistic it can pass, but these things go in waves. I think every time there is a new coverage on the initiative it launches it higher, we just need some folks who have some local presence in the EU to get their audience to act. Perhaps some famous video game streamers? Has that been done already?

The age of DRM means that they can now “unlaunch” the game and force you into a reimbursement while giving up the game. Why? What if someone liked it and wanted to keep playing? is this an online only game? This is just sad.

edit: this is a good time to remind people, if you live in the EU, please support the “Stop Killing Games” initiative, it has just past a third of the required signatures, and has 10 months to go still:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

Loved this game and the story. The second half of the game is where it really become interesting! I remember that mission in the screenshot :)

This is going very well it seems! I see the next few countries close to passing the threshold are:

• Denmark (88%)
• Netherlands (87%)
• Germany (75%)

Assuming we get those, we would need one more country. The highest remaining country is Ireland (55%). Getting all those still wouldn’t reach 1M signatures, but the rest could keep being distributed across the EU (even including countries which have already passed the threshold, I’m assuming).

This is all very exciting and gives me a lot of hope! Keep signing folks!

Recently started Fallout 3 on steam deck, am a few hours in, pretty good game! Love the freedom, the exploration, but it can occasionally be a challenging game with the fighting and various encounters. Story is good so far.

Title mixed up Wayland and Nvidia :) I don’t think you typically get a new GPU assigned on the fly as you select one window manager over another :D

I have this one sitting on my digital shelf, should probably play it!

The Witcher 3. It’s not far from being 10, but got a very nice graphics update for free and has 2 DLC. The game and the DLC and the free graphics update and a very recent mod kit, all for around 10-15 USD right now on GOG . it’s a steal! I highly recommend it. It became my favorite game of all time, very fast. And it will offer around 100h, and it will also offer replayability. What is there not to like?

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• The whole Pokémon franchise on gameboy/GBC/GBA/DS…
• Skullmonkeys on PS1
• The Crash bandicoot trilogy on PS1
• Abe’s Odysee on PS1

If you want to play them on an android phone, lemuroid is a great plug and play emulator. If you want to play on a PC, retroarch works well, but I recommend to follow guides on their website to get started.

I just replayed the 1 and 2 recently, love’em. Is reloaded bad?

Yes, it seems you are right. Nonetheless, even at equal prices, isn’t it surprising?