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I despise cloud gaming, but I can see that I'm doing my hating from a position of privilege - I have a reasonably beefy PC to play demanding games on. How many people have bought demanding games to play on Luna because they don't have that privilege? And now they're out of pocket and out of luck.

I suppose they'll have to consider Geforce Now? At least while that's still around.

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I miss my Stadia a lot. Really.

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Quoting: ZlopezCloud gaming is a curse, but I expect it to be more popular with the memory prices going up.

Nah, I just won't purchase games that won't run in the amount of RAM I have (i.e., they'll just have to design their games to run in less RAM or they won't get my gaming dollar).

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I don't think this will last much longer. I can see Amazon getting out of the game business entirely in the not-too-distant future. It will be interesting to see if they try to sell Twitch when that happens, and who would buy it, as I don't think there are many companies that would want it, due to all that's involved in running it and because it has been a money loser for years.

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Quoting: LoudTechieThe improvements each of them adds make it better for everybody.

“The more you share, the more your bowl will be plentiful.” -- Anderson Dawes

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneBut Linux is already "owned" by big tech companies. Google is one of the biggest contributors to kernel, Canonical is also contributing a majority to Debian while the company has the reputation of "Microsoft of the Linux world" (at least what some people write about),

You forgot Red Hat (IBM), Oracle Corporation and, technically, even System76 and Tuxedo Computers ...

😃

This is the power of open source, sharing and competition.
The tide that lifts all boats.
Google benefits greatly from its Linux ownership as such it has reason to make it better.

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  IBM too.


• Canonical too.


• Independent devs too.


• System76 too.


• Microsoft(Azure) too.


• Tuxedo computers too.


• Meta(Oculus vr) too.


• Valve too.


• Samsung too.


• Cisco too.


• The nsa too.


• Nvidia too.


• Arduino inc. too.

The improvements each of them adds make it better for everybody.
Causing each of them to gain even more value from it.
It also means that if one decides to screw others with it competition and freedom will keep them mostly in check.
None of these parties individually can be trusted with such a big project, yet open source and competition means that together they can.
I trust big tech, I'm basing my career on it. I just don't trust any of the big tech cooperation individually.

If everybody is super(user) nobody is. -- Syndrome, Pixar

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Also very curious about the "Prove You're Human". After what the studio did with their debut 1000X Resist they've got me hyped for whatever project would follow.

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Cloud gaming is a curse, but I expect it to be more popular with the memory prices going up.

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All I can see is they announced a bunch of YouTube logos. 😝

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I actually miss stadia, but I won't miss luna. Yeah, I'm weird like that.

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For what is worth, Google even with all its graveyard full of prototypes and such, actually fully refunded the titles bought under their platform.

At least gog keys they "offered" are still owned by us, not "rented".

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I originally wanted to try this game, but got discouraged by reading that you need to maintain your buildings otherwise they will just decay over time. So imagine that you go away for 2 weeks and all your work in game is gone. This doesn't sound like a game to me, but like a second job you need to take care of.

Anyway giving ability to self-host servers is a good step from the developers. Would be nice to see that with every game.

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I still haven't finished the game 😭 some of the puzzles are so difficult that i get stuck for hours and lose motivation

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​This d7vk version in my case still work with lastest mesa 26.1-dev (1.4.348)



​😀

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This is great news and I might convince my online posse to actually play this now. The base degradation was incredibly frustrating, and if we can turn that off on self-hosted instances, then that's a huge win.

And finally acknowledging that PvE players have literally zero interest in PvP - another huge win.

Albion Online has the same problem. To be fair, a lot of MMO-style games try to blend these two genres in the hope of reaching a wider audience, without understanding that all it does is frustrate and turn away the PvE players.

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New Brotato DLC let's gooo

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I watched the whole thing and saw a few things that peaked my interest. Also some curious choices and games that are definitely not for me. But did "Prove you're human" really try to sell itself to me by showing captchas? That would be one of the most curious choices.

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The question is how much control will you have over the game in a self hosted server? And more importantly, will you be able to disable the EAC requirement on a self hosted server? If so, it would be a major step forward in this game's future preservation and my interest in actually trying it out. Because if I look at the reviews and see multiple instances of people losing all their work because they didn't play for a week removes any interest I might have in the game.

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This is one of the first games I played when Steam came to Linux. In fact, the achievements say about a week after I created my Steam account. Good memories!

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Oh, nice, I hope they fixed the achievements, as I remember some not working.
Will the native build be updated, though?

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Hmm I should go back to this game. I remember it being quite fun.

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30-years old game and it still lives on and keeps improving thanks to this project 💯

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Suzerain is one of my most beloved games!

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Quoting: g000h

Quoting: AndrewDon't fucking use Epic, I had all sorts of games and skins and shit on Epic and there games. But I got hacked and there not FUCKING HELP! I lost everything, Stick with steam at least they will help. Linux will run Steam, Please stay away from Epic!

I feel your pain, but at the same time Epic practically forces you to use OTP (two-factor authentication) to login so I'm curious how you managed to get 'hacked' with this 2FA in place?

Also, hacking generally occurs because the user's PC is compromised, e.g. a Remote Access Trojan stealing your session login cookies, or like the recent CPU-Z exploit - Stealing Chrome Browser credentials after a person has installed malware-infected software.

Otp's get phished just as easily as passwords nowadays. Their only advantage is that they can protect against a simple "(educated) guess the password" attack.

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Picked it up. I like Tower Defence games (and I haven't succumbed to American spellings, heh).

My own favourite TD game is "Tower Dominion" which isn't in this collection, and I highly recommend it. Tower Dominion is somewhat roguelike / procedurally-generated so you can keep on playing fresh levels forever.

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Quoting: AndrewDon't fucking use Epic, I had all sorts of games and skins and shit on Epic and there games. But I got hacked and there not FUCKING HELP! I lost everything, Stick with steam at least they will help. Linux will run Steam, Please stay away from Epic!

I feel your pain, but at the same time Epic practically forces you to use OTP (two-factor authentication) to login so I'm curious how you managed to get 'hacked' with this 2FA in place?

Also, hacking generally occurs because the user's PC is compromised, e.g. a Remote Access Trojan stealing your session login cookies, or like the recent CPU-Z exploit - Stealing Chrome Browser credentials after a person has installed malware-infected software.

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Can confirm that it doesn't work at all on linux. I never played it and it looks insane, but man the guide is huge and I've a one yar old daughter and a very time consuming job, so I really don't gave the time for that now, a simpler installer would be amazing !

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneBut Linux is already "owned" by big tech companies. Google is one of the biggest contributors to kernel, Canonical is also contributing a majority to Debian while the company has the reputation of "Microsoft of the Linux world" (at least what some people write about),

You forgot Red Hat (IBM), Oracle Corporation and, technically, even System76 and Tuxedo Computers ...

😃

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I... had no idea about this whole Framework association. I'm also not totally sure I see the connection between DHH and Hyprland? I know DHH from creating Ruby on Rails if memory serves. It also seems like they are involved with a distribution that uses Arch and Hyprland called Omarchy. Are they also a contributor to/maintainer of Hyprland?

If so, that would be a big blow... I really liked Hyprland from what I've heard of it a year or so back, but not closely following any of the behind-the-scenes. I also really liked Ruby on Rails, and also am (was?) the proud owner of a Framework 16 and their vision.

I certainly hope Framework either reevaluate their support, or perhaps Hyprland becomes better managed.

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Quoting: STiAT

Quoting: CaldathrasYes, I have a Kepler GPU (the GeForce GT 730M, specifically). There are a lot of us Kepler users out there.

Especially in a time of game streaming and trying to retain hardware longer, I agree here. It's sad nvidia actually stopped the support for those GPUs (but well, they're like 12 years old).

But I guess Bazzite is generally a bit more focused on more recent hardware than other distributions. I guess "not for me" is the right term here. It seems to have a different audience in mind.

Yep. The problem is that Bazzite is being pushed by reviewers and YouTubers as the alternative to Windows. So, you have all these Windows users who are not willing to replace their legacy hardware just to upgrade to Win11 looking at Bazzite -- and not everybody is going to do the advance research like I did. Bazzite is not going to give them full performance on their legacy Nvidia GPU because the only option available is the Nouveau driver in Mesa. As I understand it, the immutable nature of Bazzite will not allow the user to install the proprietary driver -- that has to be done by the devs or not at all. As a result, these Windows users will be frustrated by the experience and blame Linux in general rather than the distro reviewers who mislead them.

[rant] As to those GPUs being 12 years old, that is just echoing the corporate mantra designed to keep you throwing away perfectly good hardware to purchase the latest thing the tech corporations have on offer. It encourages a throwaway mentality whose only benefit is to keep the profits rolling in for the corporations. [/rant]

I've said it before and I'll say it again ... Nvidia should open up the drivers, proprietary technology and all, to the community so they can take on full support of these GPUs. If you think about it, the reasoning is really not all that different than that of the Stop Killing Games movement.

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