Why won’t the government just give them the money and trust that they’ll do what they said? It worked out great paying companies to roll out fiber years ago, that’s why we’re all on reliable, high speed fiber internet today.

The free trial isn’t a business model. It’s a demo.

You only have a F2P model after you add the aggressive monetisation.

Okay, but if they packed it full of microtransactions and premium currency, it’d be a worse game.

Unless you mean you just want the publisher to make less money, which isn’t an option they’re going to be interested in.

I for one definitely feel like big corporations are pissing on me.

Whatever compromise anyone tries to come up with will be ignored and exploited as hard as advertisers possibly can.

A compromise that actually works would depend on advertisers actually complying. The advertisers that do will be vastly outnumbered by the advertisers that don’t.

So we’re getting the arms race either way.

I’m not interested in my computer striking a balance between my needs and the needs of people seeking to manipulate me into buying things.

I paid for my computer, it serves my needs. Yes I do run Linux, how did you guess?

If you still have your job, you can start on Factorio mods.

People are playing it on Steam Deck. Handhelds might not be viable for high end raiding, but there’s a lot more to the game than that.

That’s kind of why I switched. I was spending time and effort trying to force Windows to obey, I decided I might as well spend that time on an OS that wasn’t actively fighting against me.

My mom says my disk is big enough.

They’ve done new lighting and stuff like DLSS that applies to the entire game, and they’ve also done a bunch of new textures and art assets for some of the game.

You joke, but I did a ten year old dungeon earlier today and the group talked about how much more colorful it was.

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DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

Okay, but they’re still calling it GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK DELUXE EDITION.

Headline is dumb. If capacitors are better at being batteries than batteries are, they just become the next generation of batteries.

It also calls all the customers who don’t want to be locked out of the product they paid for ‘fickle’ and brought up gamergate out of nowhere, so I’m honestly not sure what sort of agenda they’re pushing.

This. Removing the $200 Android tablet from the dash isn’t going to make cars suddenly $5,000 cheaper.

That many hours spent to pull a stunt like that. And I thought people who played healers in MMORPGs were powered by hate.

I think we’re going to see major NPCs get their dialog hand-written and background characters get AI dialog.

You could have random shopkeepers ramble on for hours about how their kids are doing in school or trouble they’re having with a delivery company or whatever topic. Nobody’s going to write that, but we could AI generate it.

If only there was some way to take that link to the article and use it to find out what the article says.

Well, we’ve now got Steam Deck turning your portable console into a full PC, just connect a keyboard. Also no need to buy a Steam Deck version of that game you bought on Steam ten years ago, it’s already there and probably runs great.

It might be that proprietary, single purpose gaming portables are going to lose to more flexible portables even if smartphones are too limited to do the job.

On the Linux side, you get people installing debug builds of drivers, bisecting to identify which commit broke something, doing apitraces, capturing crash dumps and opening bug reports to submit that stuff to driver devs.

You don’t really get that sort of thing on Windows, so the drivers try to do it through telemetry. It’s how the devs know which games or hardware configs are crashing and need fixes.

having a community help you with your games and find bugs is beautiful and probably pretty fucking cool for devs.

That’s all well and fine for free open source projects, but products that expect me to pay money for them need to pay contributors. I’m not donating my time and effort so that some shareholder can buy another yacht.

Also, Intel are going pretty hard with driver updates and fixes. I’m really hoping they make it, we need more competition.

The main issue is probably nobody works with Intel to do any testing before launch.

Stage one and stage three enshittification. You forgot the bit in the middle where they chase business customers.