It seems like more than half of these are TTRPG’s, fyi.

That’s not criticism, just an observation. Regardless, even if they were split into 2 separate bundles that’s still huge

You don’t have to update all the parts at the same time. Sure, if your motherboard/cpu/ram fails you’ll likely need to replace all 3, but your current graphics card, PSU, case, etc should still be fine.

Plus, if you’re going from a 10 year old rig you could buy used DDR4 era parts on EBay or Facebook to save money and it’d still be an upgrade

They’ve already stated that they aren’t going to sell the hardware at a loss. This is because they want the hardware business to be sustainable.

Meanwhile Meta is selling their headsets at a steep loss because they’re making it back by selling all of your data that they collect with it.

In fact, Valve reports that the Steam Machine is “six times as powerful” as the Steam Deck, and while this is mostly marketing speak (“power” is a vague and complex concept in gaming tech, and isn’t a linear spectrum), it’s not unfounded.

The Steam machine APU can perform 6x more operations per second than the Steam Deck APU.

This isn’t vague, nor complex. The reasons why the Steam Machine APU is more capable is complex, but the results are not.

Quit making mountains out of molehills

It’s the crux of the law suit

The plaintiffs making the claim doesn’t make it fact like you’re suggesting. The entire lawsuit is hinging on a single email from years ago. That’s not steady ground.

This is doubly true when you actually look at prices on other storefronts. How was EGS able to have lower prices or even give games away for free when said games were/are available on Steam at the same time?

And it’ll total to about a buck for each person that claims, because the lawyers are going to take almost all the money and you’re suckling their bollocks for no reason

This completely biased news rag brought to you entirely by the plaintiff’s law firm

Ew, resetera

Choosing not to release on Steam isn’t easy because it’s not a balanced market, at all.

It’s not Steam’s fault that the majority of the competition sucks ass.

but they take a ludicrous portion of game revenue.

It’s a standard cut for online storefronts, even today. And they even reduce their once game sales hit certain mile stones. It gets down to around 20%. The only reason anyone talks about it is because Tim Swiney harps on it nonstop because he wants to be the one with the monopoly

I did too but when I had a quick search around that’s what I found.

Source.

Yes.

I write code for 80-90% of my job. Fuck using AI for code.

3rd party EULA? Eww

Tim Sweeney was too cheap to pay a dev to put in a shopping for two fucking years while in that same time he spent hundreds of millions of dollars on paid exclusives.

Tim Swiney is a fucking idiot, and the board should vote to remove him as CEO. He’s been a liability for years.

“I know you are but what am I?”

Dude, get better material.

I pointed out that you don’t know what you’re talking about because the modding group in the article were requiring payment for access. That’s why they got shut down.

And Bethesda going after modding? They’ve encouraged modding for decades and most of their devs started out in that space. You’re going full tin hat here for no reason

You literally have no idea what you’re talking about

It still needs to get over the hurdle of VR headsets being heavy

It’s not necessarily about weight, so much as balance. An unbalanced headset puts alll the weight on the wearer’s nose and cheeks. The Steam Frame addresses this by moving the battery to the back of the user’s head, making the headset significantly more balanced

with emails from employees to devs as evidence

One email from 10+ years ago, and from it’s wording the author likely misspoke

Behind the Bastards had a different take. A lot of fascist movements get wierdly focussed on futurism and try to portray their movements as belonging in said future. Unfortunately I can’t remember the exact episodes this was mentioned

Logitech makes decent, and sometimes great, hardware.

Until they discontinue loved products with no clear replacement

I was the other way around (kinda). I didn’t mind the combat, though it also wasn’t anything special. The story was alright, but the 3-way split ending and how they used to pick which you got was complete horseshit, and it completely ruined the experience.

Add to that, I found the 2 previous games to be very disappointing as well. I don’t understand how the first game wasn’t a complete flop.

So CDPR has screwed me out of 3 games. Well, they owe me and they’re blacklisted until that changes. Unless they send me a free copy of CP2077 out of the blue they won’t see another dime from me ever again

I didn’t notice anything in the first book, my ex-Mormon friend did; and I think it was more to do with the writing style.

In the third book, it got more pronounced. I only know broad strokes about Mormonism so it’s hard to put a finger on more than a couple of details. That being said, the two spirits merging together to destroy/remake the world plays into some Mormon beliefs and plays into their focus on being doomsday preppers. Plus, the whole pivot to the main character handing the book to Sazed at the end to spread its teachings was a huge nod to John Smith allegedly finding the Book of Mormon and starting the church.

Those things are what caused me to do a bit of digging on Sanderson and finding out he went to Brigham Young University (and I just found out he teaches there too). Brigham Young is well known for being a Mormon University, since it’s named after the religion’s 2nd leader (and iirc he was also the guy that pushed the church to go poligamist)

Just FYI, the series devolves into Mormon propaganda in the first trilogy. I wasn’t sure why the third book felt so off until I saw that Sanderson went to Brigham Young University. I also talked to an ex-Mormon friend of mine, and he apparently noped out halfway through the first book when he saw the signs

due to the lack of a fully secure environment in the OS

Allowing kernel-level access to programs is the exact opposite of a “fully secure environment”.

The “reasons” these publishers give to force kerbel-level anti-cheat onto players are complete fabrications to cover up the fact that they’re too cheap/lazy to implement server-side anti-cheat and also want to monitor your computer to sell your data

In Barone’s defense, SDV was very much intended to be a spiritual successor to Harvest Moon.

He’s a bit of a rabble-rouser

He’s an investigative journalist. I fucking expect him to be a rabble rouser.

I just switched from an RTX 3070ti to an RX 9070XT and I stopped getting weird graphics glitches constantly. Nvidia drivers have gotten worse than AMD drivers over the years, even on Windows

It’s Gamers Nexus. How is that a gamble?

Palantir has contracts with multiple European governments to do similar shit

How long do matches take in this game? As in a range. Is it similar to League where it’s anywhere between 30min and 3 hours?

They can’t. The core gameplay of the MOBA genre inherently encourages toxicity

And hopefully by that time they’ve built up the open source community enough that even if Valve turned bad they wouldn’t be able to do much damage

No, it’s not a toggleable preference.

It’s similar to the EULA and third-party account disclosures where they’re mentioned on individual store pages, but you can’t specifically filter them out of searches without setting them up as tags

That’s why you enable mods in small batches. When you get an issue it’s a lot easier to find the offender.

Also, if you’re getting a CTD on startup you’re probably missing a dependency. Mod Organizer 2 is a lot better with warnings about that than Vortex

It’s not just that, it deliberately copied Harvest Moon. Eric Barone (Concerned Ape) even said so

Somebody modded it into Skyrim if that helps

Idk, The Elder Scrolls’ fandom debates a lot too. There’s still people fighting over whether the Stormcloaks or the Empire were right in Skyrim, or whether Morrowind or Oblivion are the best in the series

This. Unless you’re modding, PC gaming isn’t complicated. Every game nowadays automatically picks out options based on your hardware specs. While tuning options are there, they’re not required

That didn’t work out for GTA back in the day

It sounds like a Steam Deck is a perfect fit for you then. May your frames be high and your lag minimal