I think part of this has to be related to the idea that you cant do good, creative, interesting things on e the number of cooks in the kitchen gets above a certain size, which might actually be quite small. I mean look at terraria and stardew valley. Microscopic dev teams with impact the size of asteroids in terms of total effect and the long term impact on gaming.

I think “good” in media is an extension of having a singular vision for what you are trying to do. Focus too much on crowd pleasing and you lose the plot.

I bought Witcher 3 AND ALL dlc for like 8 dollars last year during this sale.

I could see them buying ARM/ deepening the relationship with ARM. But Intel?

There is a short story in here about someone who can’t pass a captcha, loses their identity, and has to move on to becoming a fisherman in Norway.

Dude I can’t even pass a catchpa these day. I still don’t know if a e-bike is a scooter, a bike, or a moped.

That just seems like at least double the cost.

Wouldn’t that be the point of focusing on the interoperability layers and recent investment in Arch?

it does not remotely get the same kind of battery life as it does in OSX

Yeah exactly. So you need to invest into finding the fixes to that. Which is what Valve appears to be doing? It might be a fishing expedition or just a virtue signal to the foss world, sure. But they did do the thing.

And yes on AMD. I did leave that window for myself to crawl out through. I think if the trip down ARM on Arch ends up being a fishing expedition, they flip over to a known quantity for a refresh.

Obviously anecdotal, but if the next Steam deck was Intel based, I wouldn’t buy it.

This seems like it would put the price far out of reach.

With their recent donations to Arch Linux were focused on unblocking some issues with supporting Arch on ARM (notibally stuff needed for better automated builds) would suggest they want to stick with Arch.

Next you need good emulation layers for x64 and x86 as that is what all games are written in. Which there are leaks that say they are working on this as well.

Thats two legs of support for an ARM architecture.

But that is two big blockers that could take years to solve.

Sure. But what you are describing is “uncertainty”. Uncertainty in isolation isn’t a form of evidence. It could take years. It could not. Its not just Valve looking to solve this issue. MS has committed to ARM based interoperability; so has Apple. MS and Apple obviously want things to work seamlessly between ARM and x64, x86. The heat/ power to performance gains are just too much to leave on the table and both of those Software/ Hardware manufacturers saw this coming. If this was a project coming out of Valve & Arch doing the work; sure, I’d give it a time line of a couple to several years. But Valve while coming in with backing and there are other players looking to overcome and address the same problem. With teams like MS and Apple also working on it, I expect this to be figured out on a faster timeline. Months/ few years.

Within a couple of years and I don’t think it will be arm based.

Sure. If thats your bet thats your bet. My bet is solidly on ARM. Its what the evidence we have points at, even if there isn’t a ton of certainty around it.

Its gonna be ARM based. Just no other way to get the power to performance. Maybe some of the AMD architectures. Also, expect soldered RAM.

Yeah idk. He pulled a 4070 and a 4090 for the comparison. Like, ok, but that doesn’t seem super fair. Like if I’m shelling out for a 4090, bruh you bet your ass I’m going to throw that into a legit case with a premium board, high ram, great cpu, all the fixings.

Much more interesting to me would be if this set up could work well with a used 30 series card. Something more price appropriate for the overall rig. It just doesn’t make sense to pair a $800 mini computer (which honestly, seem like great, fun little machines) with an almost 2k graphics card.

How about we pair it with a used, top tier card from last gen, something more price appropriate for the set up?

Be, um, …selective seductive

ftfy.

I completely disagree with the top comment. Dont worry about the main game.

I advocate that you go in with the mindset that you are a part of an old and important guild, and that the main story is just an extension of your every day job of being a Witcher. The “side quests” are unbelievably good. So good that half of them have better stories than entire video games and series. I didn’t bother with the main story (only in parts, organically). I just wandered the country side and “did the job of a Witcher”. There is sooooooooo much to this game. Also, get the DLC’s.

One word of warning however. The power scaling is somewhat broken. If you over-level before moving forward, the game can get pretty boring only because the enemies become trivially easy to beat.

edit: Also, try and bang anything with eyes.

10 years? Bruh 10 months. I saw some stuff recently that was image gen, and there is not a fucking chance I would be able to say it was or wasn’t generated. Like I do some aspects of this shit for a living and I’m fucked.

Code generation, image and video generation, voxel generation, voice generation.

We’re fucked. This is like, seeing the iceberg in that minute before it hits on the titantic.

Idk. Like, I’m sure some of you have seen the most recent gen-AI stuff, but its like, un-fucking-canny.

I don’t know where this all goes, but its happening so fast, I’m sure legacy institutions like unions are going to struggle to keep up.

Man I remember dropping shittyflash games on new ground and going FUCKING WILD when one person had played it.

Likewise. Downloading demo now.

But also, like, I’m at least 100 hours into pixel dungeon. Idk what to tell indie game developers. Like, its not guaranteed to be a hit.

You know I could have played Euro Truck simulator for more than an hour if it had been an online pay-to-win MOBA.

Steam has to be one of the most profitable companies on a per-head count basis of all time.

There are so many great city builder demos on Steam right now, you can play 3 new ones every single day this week

There are so many great city builder demos on Steam right now, you can play 3 new ones every single day this week

Yeah this game was… interesting enough. I can’t say it was really worth the time to figure out though. I really like RPGs, open world/ multi-path games. But this one just didn’t “hook” me.

This highlights the importance of anonymity and things like federated spaces on the modern web.

The tendency for people to want to take credit for their work is also at issue here, but the old Internet has a stronger, “I am my username”, emphasis on anonymity and relatively little credit taking for creativity.

I think the focus on personalities, and on single platforms gives companies leverage over as a users and creators of the Internet.I think if we were less concerned about ownership and taking credit, and more concerned about distribution and access, we can make it basically impossible for companies to gain leverage over ideas.

I think also the modern, reactionary view of copyright law is deeply problematic and counter productive. I don’t think the online left quite realizes they can’t can’t have it both ways. Like I get the instinct towards protectionism of small creators, but I think that modern concepts of copyright are fundamentally flawed at both a fundamental legal.level, but also at a conceptual level for what they are ‘pre-supposed’ to protect.

We’re in the ‘weird’ phase of a new form factor.

There are a few designs that have been interesting. I like weird, but as a steamdeck daily driver, its a pretty good starting point. Hard to improve upon.

Yep.

Mmo game of were wolf or sheriff, but there are goal is to blend in the the NPCs

Theres probably a room temperature superconductor for example.

I thought that one was a no go? Did I miss more news?

Material science has just been crushing it for a good long minute now.

100%

Nintendo is running on good will fumes from previous generations of games. Its basically the same strategy Marvel/ Disney/ Starwars, etc… use with franchise management.

Same opinion. I bought both the original deck and the OLED variant.

I suppose I would entertain things if they came up with some kind of ARM chip more similar to the M series apple silicon, but right now, the thing is BEAST. There is just going to be a limit to how much hardware power and how much battery power can be paired and still keep the thing in the existing form factor.

My current opinion is that right now, its more/ better software that we need. I want a button based key board that works in desktop mode.

So I don’t really see a point in a major update until there is a significant hardware redesign.

Its a great time to be a gamer.

Exactly. I just can’t justify a high end GPU purchase if I can’t also get some work out of it.

Google meet is still a thing?

You are here:

Windows Users:

“I AM BECOME 🤡 FACE PAINT MEME”

If they could inject the ad’s into your veins, they would.

Poorly. that shit was hard.

New games are very expensive and not that much better than older games.

Oh duh I see it there now. And good symbolism.

I just want to point out that the fruit in this image is almost certainly a strawberry guava and not an apple.