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Is this Valve counting to three... 😇

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Opus Magnum is quite tasty and visually pleasing. Looking forward to the DLC!

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Quoting: Nagezahn

Quoting: CharlieTheMadHatterAlso, don't forget that Atari has the legal power to shut down OpenTTD completely.

Do they? On what basis? I'm honestly curious, because this is a different game, and while the origin or the spiritual connection is obvious, there are so many games out there with clones that coexist. Just look at all the Minecraft-like games.

Because it's not different game, it's based on IP they own.

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US intellectual property law, and especially copyright law, have been quite difficult to apply toward software issues. The changing technological landscape and the short shelf life of code means that many of the protections built into the law don't seem to apply.

There also isn't a presumptive abandonment provision with a sensible duration to it, such as twenty years. There also isn't a provision like adverse possession in property law, where you lose the rights if someone openly uses your work but you don't enforce your rights.

And, lastly, the legal costs for enforcing or defending intellectual property cases is huge. There is no equivalent of "small claims court" that could provide an adjudication on the rights.

So much of US law has its roots in English civil law, especially property law, and its hoary fingers continue to grip legal precedent. Huge swaths of intellectual property law need to be revised, but as you can imagine, not only do experts disagree what that should look like, but moneyed interests prefer that things stay the same.

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Of course they owe a lot to the original TTD.

They don't owe jackshit to Atari.

It should be criminal to be able to buy the "rights" to a game that's more than 30 years old and start charging people for it just because you're a corporation that can afford to buy so-called Intellectual Property.

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I wonder if GNOME will ever have a stable API for extensions so they don't break every other update. It would also be neat if they could merge settings, tweaks, and gconf into a single application so users don't have to scour around quite as much for the setting they want to change (especially if they want to set the keyboard shortcuts to something that makes a lick of sense). I'll probably always remain a KDE fan first and foremost (menu bars >>> hamburger menus), but having those two issues solved would make GNOME a lot more attractive for me.

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worky now but ...

bwrap: execvp /usr/lib/pressure-vessel/from-host/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0/pv-adverb: Too many levels of symbolic links

its the application tray that is broken.

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Finally! They had controller support in the Switch version 3 years ago, but were dragging their feet on having the same in their PC version.

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No worky for me :( I am using flatpak to devorce away from the frequent breakage with ~arch gentoo

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Quoting: CharlieTheMadHatterAlso, don't forget that Atari has the legal power to shut down OpenTTD completely.

Do they? On what basis? I'm honestly curious, because this is a different game, and while the origin or the spiritual connection is obvious, there are so many games out there with clones that coexist. Just look at all the Minecraft-like games.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scaineThis sounds absolutely incredible. If they've genuinely created intra-distro consistency, that's a HUGE win for Linux as a gaming platform. Now, Valve, what are you going to do about that shitty kernel-level-anticheat problem?

Thinking on this somewhat. Perhaps this could be a way towards it. Have everyone run Steam inside a container, Valve can verify nothing in the container has changed. Perhaps this could help towards ensuring a secure environment?

Interesting thought. As it is, it's not enough, as external programs can still poke at he memory and code. But add to that encrypted memory and secure attestation (SGX enclave verifying the hash of the code, memory decryption keys only available inside the enclave), and it could be pretty bullet proof, no need for a kernel driver, "just" a recent CPU with recent microcode (and hopefully you will not be locked out of your game just because a security bug has been found for your CPU model).

I don't like this idea in general (imagine your bank wanting you to use an approved web browser on an approved OS), but I could see it working for anti-cheat in games. I wonder what the perf impact would be. And of course, it would require cooperation from anti-cheat providers.

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Quoting: tgurrYou probably still need to install 32bit graphics driver on your host for as long as you want to play 32bit native games. Maybe they could add an option like "Always run the windows version of the game (through Proton) for games which only have a 32bit native version" to be able to really get rid of the need to have to have 32bit libs installed. As (old) 32bit native games won't magically go away any time soon - if ever.

Well, it sounds like it's time for a new API compatibility layer, then ;)
Couldn't a shim work? A 32-bit library that calls into a 64-bit driver. Or would it require additional IPC mechanisms & overhead?

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"Female-fronted games"... I got the wrong idea for a moment 😂 Cancel me now 😊

All these sales and bundles later and I've hardly bought any games. There was a time when I got excited for new games but I've accumulated so many I haven't yet played, it's crazy.

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OpenTTD achieved what was probably the best possible outcome given the circumstances.
(If this situation involved a certain Japanese company starting with N, OpenTTD would already be facing cease-and-desist letters.)
Atari monetizing a game that sat abandoned for 25 years while OpenTTD developers maintained it entirely for free, can be seen as capitalizing on community labor without compensation.

Also, don't forget that Atari has the legal power to shut down OpenTTD completely. Which is the real problem with game preservation: When an old game suddenly becomes valuable again, the company that owns it can take control and destroy the project that actually kept the game alive all those years.

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Ooooh boy, yeah saw the old Play button turn green last night. Not sure if I'm ready for this emotional rollercoaster just yet but it's ready to go!

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Blink twice if you're held hostage.

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Thanks for mentioning this game I had forgotten about it and of course added to the Kickstarter.

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Quoting: ToddLI remember back then when I was visiting the SteamDeck Reddit page

How time flies, I did the same and I don't even recall when I stopped. Perhaps it was around the time the subreddit had its mod changed and became like instagram

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I found the second part ok, but not great. I too often got the respective generic "I don't understand" answer, even for very reasonable stuff I tried.

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You probably still need to install 32bit graphics driver on your host for as long as you want to play 32bit native games. Maybe they could add an option like "Always run the windows version of the game (through Proton) for games which only have a 32bit native version" to be able to really get rid of the need to have to have 32bit libs installed. As (old) 32bit native games won't magically go away any time soon - if ever.

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Anyone else hear… crying? Oh, my wallet. 😅

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Re-re-enable Bluetooth Wake for Steam Deck LCD

Hopefully that will stay enabled for some time as it's annoying issue if the Steam Deck is connected to TV most of the time.

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: robvvYikes :-o I play games to get away from photo-realism!

Nah, I think for certain games it would be awesome... For example, if you had a game like The Last of Us or Red Dead Redemption, photo-realism would be great; but for a game like Palworld orHollow Knight, it would make absolutely no sense.

As long as they only use stuff like this where it is relevant it could be good.

The thing you need to be aware of is that photo-realism and realistic are not necessarily the same thing. Take movies for instance (especially those from a time where they still took great pride from art direction). These are filmed, so by definition photo-realistic. However, everything you see on screen from people, lighting, atmosphere to color grading was created with intent. This is not necessarily realistic, but it makes the scene better. This is how it should be and this is also how games should be made. This tech is not benefiting any of that.

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Quoting: robvvYikes :-o I play games to get away from photo-realism!

Nah, I think for certain games it would be awesome... For example, if you had a game like The Last of Us or Red Dead Redemption, photo-realism would be great; but for a game like Palworld orHollow Knight, it would make absolutely no sense.

As long as they only use stuff like this where it is relevant it could be good.

Quoting: Mambo

Exhibit "A" of where this sort of technology would make absolutely no sense.

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Quoting: RevenantDakMost platforms think I'm either 84 or 69. Later this year I'll be either 85 or 69, again. I usually put 1921 or 1956 for my birth year, in a few months I'll be putting 1957 for the year because it's none of anyone's business, and I'm not trying to impersonate a child. What a stupid law.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that does this! 🤣

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I was waiting for this for switching my legion go 2. I don’t see brightness fix for it, but I’ll try it nevertheless

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Quoting: scaineThis sounds absolutely incredible. If they've genuinely created intra-distro consistency, that's a HUGE win for Linux as a gaming platform. Now, Valve, what are you going to do about that shitty kernel-level-anticheat problem?

Thinking on this somewhat. Perhaps this could be a way towards it. Have everyone run Steam inside a container, Valve can verify nothing in the container has changed. Perhaps this could help towards ensuring a secure environment?

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This sounds absolutely incredible. If they've genuinely created intra-distro consistency, that's a HUGE win for Linux as a gaming platform. Now, Valve, what are you going to do about that shitty kernel-level-anticheat problem?

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The Pac-Man meme is pure genius 😁

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