Or just playing games with higher graphics settings that the Steam Deck wouldn’t be able to run.

“The outline of a potential story” being out is different from an actual game being out though.

OP wrote he is playing both. I agree if you want to play the story once, Black Mesa is better, but if OP wants to play both, then nothing wrong with that.

I’m not saying ignore it, it’s a valid reason to not like the game, like any other subjective reason.

I’m saying calling the game “Pokemon with guns” is dismissive of what the game is. It’s like calling Minecraft “Rust with animal husbandry”, which completely misses what the game is about.

People say “Pokemon with guns” as if that was some kind of core gameplay. You can play through the game without ever using them. It’s a small feature, that absolutely is there, but reducing the game to that is missing the forest for the trees.

It’s an open world crafting base building game to enjoy with co-op, that has catchable creatures like Pokemon. There is no Pokemon game that fits this niche. The guns are not important to what the game is.

Apparently I was the only one to read the title that way, but I thought your brothers died (late) in their 40s.

Why is it insane? Is it surprising that people make joke offers? Joke offers exist on any online auction site.

The sellers are players. Of course people are going to troll by creating such offers. Doesn’t mean anything.

Where I worked QA did nothing else but programming. They were writing automated tests for anything we worked on.

Wikipedia has rules that a topic has to have some level of relevance to be added. While a major video game character can have enough relevance, an article for a random piece of scenery or for a “rusty dagger” item from some game would never be allowed.

Game wikis also often have unique features, for example for showing item stats or have a look and feel that fits the game.

Yeah, my SteamVR library is why I keep a Windows virtual machine around.

I understood it perfectly well, and wanted to clarify that it is not the concept of paying for mods that is problematic, but implementations like Steam did.

Because just saying “the paid mods shit” gives people a wrong idea that giving creators money is a bad thing, when that’s not the problematic part.

Why you took my “the store shouldn’t get a cut” comment and thought I support stores getting a cut, I have no clue.

You do know that this whole comment chain was started by Valve trying to push paid mods with the help of Bethesda right?

Yes, I started the conversion by saying that’s bad and should be called out, why?

“kid down the street” really? Are you creating the image of a fictional modder to attract pity?

No, I’m going with your story of being a kid with no money in a third world country, because it was my childhood too. I solved that problem by spending my free time modding a free to play game – I was that kid down the street. Never got paid though. I would love if others did.

So lets see, 30% goes to Steam, 45% goes to Bethesda and whats left to the “modder who actually needs the money” is… 25% yep

Yep, total bullshit. Why are you bringing it up though? We are in agreement here.

Are you okay with paying foreign corporations to exploit the work of the “kid down the street”, keeping the vast majority of the profit?

No, why? As I said in my first comment, they shouldn’t get a cut. I’m not sure why are you are bringing these arguments to me, as if I ever disagreed.

Before you start typing ‘but other companies wouldn’t charge so much from the modder!’,

Why would I ever type that, when I only support paid mods where all of the money goes to the modder without middlemen stealing a share?

If you WANT to pay for mods I really need to ask, what is stopping you? If you actually care about the modders getting money, many of them have ko-fi/patreon platforms where they actually keep most of the money you give them

Nothing, not long ago I bought a Kerbal Space Program mod for volumetric clouds from a guy called Blackrack. It’s a paid mod only available by paying him on Patreon. It looks amazing and I think it’s great he gets money for it. Which is why I support paid mods and don’t like when people are against them.

There is nothing stopping you from paying for mods, now that Im an adult with a job I do pay for them often.

Not sure why are you against them then. Based on your comments I think you are not against paid mods, you are against companies like Steam or Bethesda taking a cut. Which is exactly my position too, so I’m not sure what are you actually disagreeing with me about.

Wow, you managed to completely reverse what I said.

By your logic we should also make libraries paid, […] lets put a price on everything

That doesn’t follow at all. Books are not free, and yet libraries work just fine. By my logic we should allow book authors to charge for their books. Oh right, we already do. Why do you not like that?

I didn’t mention having to charge for anything at all, even mods. I think mod authors should be allowed to charge for them if they choose to, just like for anyone else making anything else.

and charge for all FOSS too

What a great example of my point. Charging for software is allowed, and yet there is lots of software released for free. Seems it’s not that bad after all?

What an utopia this will lead to!

Quite the opposite. Good thing I don’t share your ideas.

I come from a third world country and as a kid most people could only afford one maybe two games, all my friends bought half-life and warcraft 3

So you were fine with paying foreign corporations for these games, but you are not fine paying the kid down the street for his mod? Why do these well-off corporations deserve your money, but the modder who actually needs the money doesn’t?

So is all art, should artists all work for free? Why do I have to pay for books and movies? Aren’t the authors motivated by passion? Isn’t your argument the same one used by corporations underpaying game devs all the time, “since they should be happy fulfilling their passion”?

the capitalistic idea that only money can motivate people to do things sucks.

Agree, and I wish we lived in an utopia where nobody needs money and everyone can share their work freely. Sadly, this is not the world we live in, and so we need to reward passionate people to let them dedicate time to their passion rather than having to only focus on work for survival. That way not only rich people can afford to make mods.

Why are you against mod creators getting paid for their work? Some mods are amazing and definitely deserve some money.

The store shouldn’t get a cut though. But if that’s what you mean, let’s call that out specifically.

Since the 2014 release date.

I looked at the latest and most “recent” heroes games… they’re all rated/reviewed SO harshly.

Many of the negative reviews are (and rightly so) because of Ubisoft forcing you to use their crappy launcher, adding DRM, and otherwise making the customer experience horrible, and not because there is anything wrong with the genre.

Neither do I, which is why I would love evidence to confirm my suspicions, so I can show it to others.

But I also try not to make claims that are merely suspicious, however likely.

I agree, but the argument here is “why won’t they let you upload more data if they make money off of it”. My point is that it doesn’t apply here, because uploaded files is not the data that can make them money.

Any proof, or just tinfoil?

I already use a different app for voice chat, and never used Discord’s voice chat feature.

Discord is a modern alternative to IRC, Slack, or a more fully featured version of Matrix. I never considered it for the voice chat feature.

People always bring up voice chat alternatives, which don’t replace Discord at all, because voice chat is a tiny unimportant feature of Discord that I wouldn’t notice if they removed.

Source that they make money off of uploaded files?

They did.

• Android 10 Quince Tart
• Android 11 Red Velvet Cake
• Android 12 Snow Cone

But yeah, the codenames are almost never mentioned.

It couldn’t download while an app is installing. So while an already downloaded app was installing, you had nothing downloading until it finishes installing.

Press the volume down button. This will immediately silence the call without hanging up.

Press the volume down button. This will immediately silence the call without hanging up.

Female leads are fine as long as the game is good? Why are male leads fine even if the game is not good? Why does the gender matter either way?

I played coop with a friend.

Got really confused when devs started talking about cheaters ruining it and how they need to focus dev time on adding anti-cheat.

Why would someone play this with strangers.

You may be thinking of Slack

There is no popup whatsoever during navigation. The alleged popup screen is actually what appears when you yourself click a pin (whether normal or sponsored). Nothing ever pops up by itself.

The article was corrected, maybe you read it before that happened.

The meaning is that the card appears when you tap a pin. “Pop up” sounds like something that appears by itself, which is not the case here. It does “pop up” when you want it to, but you’d agree that’s not what people would think if you described it as a “pop up”.

You are completely right that they want to get a cut and it’s bullshit.

But I don’t see anything wrong with paid mods, where all of the money goes to the mod author (which this situation isn’t). Some mods take months to develop and a massive amount of skill, and it’s sensible to expect payment for it.

It’s a false dichotomy between “corporations profiting” and “all mods need to be free”. To me both situations are losing ones.

What do you suggest would go wrong? I never even gave Steam my name, so how would they even know it’s different?

By adding a free feature that doesn’t make anything worse?

Do we really think video games are promoting violence?

No, that’s not their argument. They are saying the gun manufacturer advertised their real life gun in the video game. They don’t have an issue with video game violence, they have an issue with advertising weapons to children.

So that if you leave the room to make yourself a tea or something while the game is loading, your won’t miss the cut scene / beginning of the action / lose the game because it started without you present.

The “joke” was that TikTok is ran by the Chinese government.

Sony required the PSN account, which Arrowhead didn’t enforce. Clearly they didn’t want it either. Until Sony forced them to enforce it. Arrowheads mistake was not enforcing it the entire time. They tried to be the good guys by ignoring the Sony requirement and when this was no longer possible ended up with an apparent bait and switch. If they just listened to Sony and required it the entire time, they wouldn’t get into this situation.

So yes, they should give refunds.

What should they do in your opinion? Remember this is a Sony decision Arrowhead have no power over.