“We didn’t leak this.”

Yeah no shit bub.

They made their own controller if that’s what you’re asking.

The fact is Steam is the only company that benefits from an army of simps ready to defend Gaben at the slightest hint of negativity.

Well yeah it’d be weird to defend gaben against allegations at a different company.

Oh, did you mean that gaben is the only person who has a weirdly parasocial fan base? That’s demonstrably not true.

It doesn’t get them money, but it still registers as engagement with the audience which I think is really the only true metric.

I guess I just don’t understand the relevance of his other opinions to the discussion about the specific ones we’re talking about.

“I was served a plate of raw chicken tenders” “The chef usually makes Michelin quality meals”

It just doesn’t advance the actual discussion.

That doesn’t make any sense. He’s a valuable addition to… What general community, humanity? I mean, I’m not disputing that he has a following, I just don’t see how that has anything to do with the discussion around his self-professed and now recanted dogshit awful opinions about the lives of other humans.

What’s the purpose of your post? It comes off as agreement with his message at worst, and an irrelevant non sequitor at best.

Wild. Neat!

If I’m thinking of the same thing you are, I believe they were/are working on making biological neuron chips play a traditionally-running game of doom, less making doom run on a neural network.

I’ve never used unity either, sounds like they used a property that means “variable time between frames” in a context that is expecting a constant.

Almost sounds like they were setting up a “thing happens faster if your CPU is faster” type of logical bug that the engine is at least preventing internally.

I made an AutoHotkey script (v1) for this game to make the camera controls more like Rimworld’s, if anyone here would find that useful.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/57690/discussions/0/353916584656479519/

It is an excellent game.

Clanfolk, a (very alpha and also very playable) game that draws clear inspiration from Rimworld, but has a kind of tech progression that feels spiritually similar to bootstrapping a factory in Factorio, while being set in the Scottish Highlands.

I don’t know what a solution would look like here. In your opinion, what should be done to stop Valve from being anti-competitive? What specifics should I be raising awareness of and looking into? What should be done by/about Gabe Newell?

I would like to know more about what you believe the solution here is, because at its core I see Valve as the end result of very talented and self-driven people doing an amazing job at delivering a very good product. I would hope that would lead to success, and I am given to understand that Gabe (to focus back in) is not a disinterested corporate figurehead as the position is with other software companies.

There’s some amount of anti-competitive behavior that is just… Doing business in a space with competitors. I write private code that I use myself and within the company I work for that I choose not to share with my competitors, is that anti-competitive behavior? This is a dumb example, but also I haven’t seen a direct convincing argument as to what Valve is doing to deserve the label.

In many ways, to provide my viewpoint, they’ve directly supported both unofficial modifications to their storefront by users (Decky Loader, for loading steam deck mods), modifications to their hardware (OLED screen mods, replacement parts on iFixit for reasonable prices), and even support Windows on the deck and are beginning (through reading commit logs) to support competitors’ hardware in their custom OS. They’ve singlehandedly pushed gaming on Linux into the mainstream eye and are doing well with it.

All that to say that I don’t think the way that Gabe became a billionaire was bad, and while I would prefer he use his personal wealth to better society I both don’t know enough about what he does with his money to know whether or not he’s already doing that and also think that any solution here would genuinely go against fundamental liberties and personal freedoms that I personally agree with. I’m not an absolutist on this, but enough of what I do know about the history of Valve and Gabe in specific lead me to lend him some amount of goodwill, because he has through his works and actions earned it from me.

I don’t disagree that billionaires are bad. Personally, I strongly believe in a Star Trek post-monetary future.

I wouldn’t call Gabe Newell a friend, although I suspect I don’t disagree with many of his opinions.

You are able to email him at [email protected], as is anyone else. I’ve emailed twice. Once when I was 13 to inform him of a bug in portal 2, and once a few years ago to inquire about steam being ported to arm.

There was a lot to explain about my position there and it may be a bit disjointed. If there’s anything I can clarify on my thinking, I’d be happy to.

I don’t see how posting to lemmy in general is going to influence people that disagree with you both because I don’t think there are many people here that do and also I think that your comment in particular is so far removed from the topic of this article that it borders on being a non sequitur entirely, and I’m worried you may get the feeling that the people downvoting you are against your message and not the fact that your message isn’t relevant beyond being a knee-jerk reactionary cry against Valve, one of the only privately owned companies that seems to listen to user feedback as thoroughly as the article demonstrates.

I don’t believe Valve is a monopoly and I’ve directly been able to talk to Gabe Newell via email multiple times over multiple years. Maybe some of their inter-business dealings could be better for their business partners, but as a lifelong steam user that so far has felt comfortable buying almost every hardware product they’ve put out I continue to feel comfortable supporting them because they seem to actually care about their customers from what I have directly experienced.

I don’t mean any of this in a confrontational tone, and I apologize for the general shill vibes of that second paragraph. I’d be happy to continue the discussion, I think your message is correct and good and I think there are better more effective ways of acting on it.

I mean, comments are free. If you believe that’s a decent enough use of your limited time on this Earth, who am I to argue?

This would’ve been a useless comment even if it were relevant.

Ah man, I was wanting some fall too. Ah well.

Hell, at least shopping malls were up-front about their literal storefronts.

Okiedokie, I guess that makes total sense and isn’t it’s own form of virtue signalling against the argument that people shouldn’t pre-order, you really explained your position and showed me!

Don’t pre-order.

Simple as.

Fellow HP fan, I was kinda weirded out by the whole “free access to unforgivable curses” and “canonically killing people” and the honestly kinda disheartening stance on goblin personhood but man flying around the grounds is so fun

Neat Hogwarts and environs sandbox-ish, which is a thing I have personally always wanted, garbage story and some half-baked gameplay.

Need?

I run windows on ARM, no issues using x86-64 apps.

Ok

Why not?

The engine sucks shit. It is functional and useful and bad.

And for me, it doesn’t. Sorry to hear that you’re having that issue.

Yeah, you used to have to get satellite for that to be an issue.

It has direct connect multiplayer. I’d assume any server-based comms are for multi-platform, which is understandable.

If you have internet over Ethernet you likely already have wifi. This post is complaining about the cost of tethering to cellular data plans where presumably no alternative Internet sources exist. Most people don’t use wifi hotspots from their phone because they don’t have a Wi-Fi router, they use the hotspot from their phone because they don’t have other internet connections.

What does this have to do with phone-based hotspots costing money unnecessarily?