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This would be a lot cooler if they would support RDNA3. It's annoying that I bought a 7900 XTX and I miss out on features that my card could handle, even when it is still the strongest AMD card on the market.

Agreed.

all hail the fake frames?

Frame generation is OK for slower moving games where input lag isn't critical.

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Meanwhile I have somehow managed the impossible and have kept my same Arch Linux install going for over a decade now. Luck or dark magic, you decide...

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all hail the fake frames?

I have never and will never use any form of frame generation or upscaling. If I wanted to play my games on a 480p monitor, I would have bought a 480p monitor and a 3dfx voodoo gfx card from 1998.

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This would be a lot cooler if they would support RDNA3. It's annoying that I bought a 7900 XTX and I miss out on features that my card could handle, even when it is still the strongest AMD card on the market.

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Oh man that is tempting, especially since I never bought the expansions and they're bundling them for free to owners of the base game now. I actually reinstalled the original game a couple months ago, but didn't really feel like starting over in an inferior interface (the lack of jumping and dodging compared to modern games is a real hurdle for me, I feel so glued to the ground). I might even get a couple friends to join.

The gameplay in GW1 is entirely different, I'm not even sure I'd call it an MMO to be honest.

It can be, or not be. I played it on dial-up or a similarly slow connection back in the day, so I basically had to play solo: by the time I finished loading a map, any other party members would be far ahead. The henchmen system was a godsend for me and I played most of it solo. It was still fun to chat in the cities, though, exchange advice, find help for the tougher missions.

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@FutureSuture you can set GTK Theme to Breeze with an environment variable or in KDE Plasma's settings.

I typed my initial comment despite having done exactly this. Not only do they not look exactly the same but they do not function exactly the same either i.e. I cannot simply throw my cursor in the top-right corner to access the window decorations.

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"We believe that companies need to work together in order to build the open metaverse in a way that’s interoperable and fair,” said the guy who openly hates open source operating systems. This could be an April 1st post.

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I had that empty feeling after finishing BG3 as an evil Durge, Although I suspect that's called depression

Let me add it to my wishlist.

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Sometimes I feel like I WANT Fedora KDE to break on me.... It's too damn stable

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Recently I switched to Fedora KDE as well (after weird experiences with OpenSUSE) and I'm in love with it. I just works and I so streamlined 😍

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Great news and very much in the spirit of FOSS- someone created something becase of the personal need and now it's evolving.

It's also amusing that the project was created in C# and .net -a very much MS tech stack :D

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@FutureSuture you can set GTK Theme to Breeze with an environment variable or in KDE Plasma's settings.
Recently switched my main from Arch to Bazzite and learned to love throwing everything in a container. Also that wallpaper was hella controversial when it was the default yet I like it, I even used it on my phone at some point. Nice to see I'm not the only one.

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Unity on UE5 wh- what? I could not comprehend the title on first read

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Are there more of this kind?

There are. Blender Studio tries to do one for almost every major feature release that comes down the pipe.

https://studio.blender.org/films/

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I do love Plasma but I am thinking of switching to Cinnamon the next time the opportunity arises. The reason for this is that while I can live without Qt applications, I cannot live without GTK applications. Lutris, SC Controller, and Firefox just do not adhere to the selected window decorations. They always look off. That bothers me.

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Are there still new Blender short movies like the one with the rabbit or with the dragon?
And I think there was one with a younger and older man.

Are there more of this kind?

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Calling this "interoperable and fair" feels pretty disingenuous when Epic has leaned so hard on exclusives and the same tactics every wannabe monopolist uses. It might be interesting for Fortnite fans, but who is really going to install Fortnite just to play something like Hollow Knight through it - that's a gimmick, like if Steam had only ever existed inside Team Fortress. What actually matters to players is solid controller support, broad OS support (including Linux), and all the quality-of-life features Steam already provides. A real metaverse would connect existing universes instead of locking them behind Fortnite’s walls; honestly, even Minecraft would be a better fit, and even there it would still just be a gimmick. Sweeney clearly has talent, but his metaverse ambitions seem to reach far beyond what Epic is actually delivering. Cross-play is pretty much the only real technical contribution Epic has made - and even that was ultimately driven by their own self-interest.

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The "working" version of the metaverse likely will be UGC, with strong emphasis on mobile, similar to Roblox. Some Steam Machines will be just a grain of sand in the universe in comparison. Maybe not in our perception, but in the market as a whole.
Also, anti-cheat is getting more and more restrictive throughout the industry, and Valve said they are not interested in supporting kernel anti-cheat. Once the Supreme Court has likely rejected Apple's appeal, the only connection between Epic and Valve I can think of would be another lawsuit, this time against Valve's 30% cut.

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I'm also running Fedora KDE for my gaming rig, but with the CachyOS kernel/settings via Copr. It's a joy to use!

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Just random selection of games into arbitrary categories and pick the winner doesn't really chime with me.

In recent years, I haven't played a single nominated game in all but maybe one category. So voting it's definitely random for me because I'm a sucker and want the badge.

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I tried the demo once. Shortly after startup the display went black, the system froze, and the graphics card's fans whined like crazy. Even resetting the system didn't fix it, I had to forcefully power down the computer and boot it up again. That was a first in many many years for that to happen. Haven't dared to touch the game since then.

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whipped €5 their way. wild, the leaps and bounds in the past few years.

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It's (as its always been) just a popularity contest. I liken it to a high school play production or something. The cool kids get the acting role but the real people doing the actual work putting on the show are behind the scenes getting no recognition.

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Blender is incredible. I've created models for a game only touching a fraction of the possibilities available. It can be very complex but you can get stuff done without being an expert. Obviously, the more you know the easier it will be.

It's also a lot of fun learning to use it. There are a ton of useful tutorials online.

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Oooh! I see that Playnite successfully does the one thing I really miss from Steam: showing me what the game is.
With a large library full of random things gotten from various bundles, it can be really time-consuming just figuring out what kind of game something in my Steam library is. Steam's game page only shows things that are useful for when I already know what the game is, but nothing to help me remember why I would want to play it.

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Yeah, I can't deny this might be a success.
A lot still needs to be proven, but it could work.
Affordable VR is starting to hit the market.
Fortnite is a very stable engagement driver.
Many industry players would love to depose of Steam.
It must be clear to them all that they will be trading one overlord for another, but to some it might be worth the gamble.

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Meh, just doesn't look interesting at all. Not into super heroes either. I'll pass.

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So now, windows stuff runs on Valve's hardware/software, android stuff runs on Valve's hardware/software, x86 runs on arm, which ecosystem would be next.

Based on technological maturity and (gaming) market size I would point to Nintendo, but I don't think Valve would sail these treacherous legal waters.

They could go after Apple, but they've little to gain from it and it would be lots of hard work.
The Darling project isn't nearly mature or legally stable enough right now.

TeslaOS can, but that would cost their protection as Tesla games monopolist, also that market is embarrassingly small.

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Sorry, but does anyone even care about Game Awards really?

I've been calling it The Game Advertisements for years, since that's the vast majority of the presentation anyway. Most of the awards are just a little sidebar saying who won, and then back to the ads! The recognition is so fleeting, you've got to really be paying attention to see it at all.

Plus Imagine Dragons, of course.

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Lmao I'm glad I'm not the only one that does stuff like this! I think my latest one was when I couldn't figure out why cachyos was suddenly compiling OpenSSL from the AUR, and ended up breaking enough stuff that it was easier to just pick a different distro.

Currently running steamOS on my desktop to celebrate the new steam machine announcement, and fedora kinoite on the laptop with the nvidia graphics, because it kinda reminds me of steamOS. Until the next distro hop!

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