But why, some say, the Switch? Why did they choose this as their goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 98 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

They choose to go to mod a Switch. They choose to mod a Switch in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…

They are investigating those issues though so I assume they intend to fix them.

I would be extremely surprised if every single game just worked on the first try.

Why would you ever buy the deluxe version of any game?

If it comes to that point for video games, I don’t really think it matters much. If AI is used or not since it would be a part of any normal working procedure.

If you insist.

It’s consistently one of the most played games on steam.

112 thousand are playing it right now, making it the 9th most currently played game.

Dota 2 which is almost always the most or second most played game was also released in 2013

Do you play a different game each day?

Impressive! I can barely manage to play anything these days. I usually play on the train to work though.

Yeah

Sure, but that’s entirely their choice to make. It’s not comparable to when they bought exclusively.

Epic is the publisher. Of course they want to use their own platform to publish their own games.

I was just making a joke about civ fans always dislike every civ game except their favorite.

They won’t. For some reason you are only allowed to like a single civ game and you must hate every sequent game.

The huge AI LLM boom/bubble started after chatGPT came out.

But of fucking course it existed before.

How are both conditions meer when all this just started 2(?) years ago? And progress is still going very fast.

It’s somewhat enjoyable.

Good thing that ray tracing is very rarely required.

Of course some games are gonna be ahead of others on dropping conventional lightning. That’s just life sometimes.

The digital foundry video explains better than I can why the dev cost is lower with ray tracing only.

Ray tracing really is the future. Instead of doing a bunch of tricks to make things look good all lightning is just simulated using ray tracing.

I remember when metro exodus enhanced edition came out and they explained that when they remade the game for RTX only, they could remove a lot of workarounds like invisible lights. And actually just light the scenes with actual light from bulbs or the sun and it just looked great.

IMO we have to move someday to the newer technology. Whenever that’s today or not, I don’t know. But it really is the future. Historically it also isn’t unusual at all that someone had to get new hardware to play new games. It’s just that it was stagnated for a while.

Edit: pretty sure it was this video from digital foundry: https://youtu.be/NbpZCSf4_Yk?t=1376

I forgot about Cemu. Not sure about dolphin but if Nintendo fucked up their emulation security with the Wii U and Switch it seems likely if they fucked up the Wii as well.

Isn’t the switch the only in production console that you can emulate and hasn’t it been like that for a long time?

Deny

Probably a year or two after the Sony exlusivity period.

Thats Stellaris

I have an LCD near launch edition and is it really about brightness? I don’t want OLED because the LCD is dim (which it can be outside or in sunlight), but because the LCD is pretty mediocre or possibly even bad. The OLED is supposed to be pretty damn good colour wise. It’s also bigger which is nice.

If you want to stream music or video I found this app from a simple search and it worked for me: BubbleUPnP.

Kodi is also supposed to work but it’s interface is a pain.

I have just set so that I need a digital ID to use the card for digital purchases.

Why?

It works perfectly well for me.

You would have to get a credit card though.

I don’t have one and I don’t want one. A debit card is good enough for me and those are possible and common to get before you turn 18.

I also imagine it’s easier for kids to get their parents to enter their credit card details compared to an ID card without asking questions.

That possibly happened for the same reason it happened to steam a few years ago. Tom Scott explains it pretty well: https://youtu.be/dkSslseq9Y8

Nah you shouldn’t have too. Pretty sure the launcher I use on my Steam deck is called Heroic

Use a third party launcher.

They could try doing something. I dunno maybe trading limits and/or time-outs combined with DMCA takedowns.

Maybe the cost of setting up casinos isn’t very high but it takes time to build up trust from consumers and get customers.

If they can shutdown the biggest casinos that are sponsoring YouTubers and competitions that’s at least a decent win.

I never said that they should disable trading. Just that they should go after gambling sites and introduce things that would make it harder to gamble.

What are the downsides to banning it for us?

Yeah, it will probably be removed in a year or two. Three years at most.

Tactical Beach Wizards is really good.

I bought it at launch because I know that the dev is just amazing and it completely checked out.

I also highly recommended heat signature and gunpoint by the same dev.

Do GOG work properly on Steam Deck now?

Unfortunately denunvo is actually really good at accompanying its goal of entirely stopping pirates or at least delaying them for months.

Last I checked there are only a handful of crackers able to crack denunvo. 1 only likes football manager, 1 is a completely insane russian apologist, and iirc the other one is fairly sane but very inconsistent cracker.

I doubt there is any room to route cables there though. Doesn’t look like it anyways.