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Steam users redeemed over $80 million in physical wallet cards in December 2023
21 February 2024 at 12:40 pm UTC Likes: 1

QuoteThis time around, they didn't give all that many details on Steam's overall growth. We didn't get notes on monthly or daily active users like we've seen in the past.

That is a shame - what with me having nudged them specifically about that - especially with Sony and Epic having recently provided MAU numbers. Where Steam currently fits in the ecosystem would be useful information.

EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) gets new default look and different font sizes
20 February 2024 at 3:47 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis file renaming thing is kind of uniting two of my pet peeves. I find it annoying and pointless when people rename their companies or projects or whatever to an acronym based on what previously was a perfectly good actual name with a meaning, often claiming that the acronym doesn't even stand for the name it was based on but is just meaningless now. Why?! So for instance, what was once the Royal Bank of Canada, a perfectly good, dignified name, is now RBC, which according to them means nothing whatsoever and does not stand for Royal Bank of Canada but is just three arbitrary letters. What the fuck, really. But I mean, banks are evil so what do I expect, right? So this project, which used to have a descriptive name so if it got mentioned I'd be able to tell what it was, now has an acronym which if I see it referred to I'll be going "So what the hell is 'ES-DE'?" (Acronyms are also generally less searchable than actual names, because there are so often other things with the same one, so it's a pain and a bad idea in the internet age to change a descriptive name into an acronym)

But since it's a project with computer files involved, it gets to also add in my pet peeve about filenames and data formats and stuff, which is that in this day and age with lots of memory and sophisticated string handling there is no excuse for making such things less human-readable rather than more. So before, if I was browsing around and saw this configuration file, I'd be able to tell, ah, that's a configuration file for that Emulation Station thing. Now, again, I'll be going "Huh. What the hell is this file? Should it be there? Will something break if I delete it? No clue."

You missed a third: with all the tarting around the developers are doing, the user has to manually rename files. JFC, you know what you used to call the file, you know what you've arbitrarily changed the name to, the absolute least you can do is see if there's a file called the old thing and rename it to the new thing when you introduce a version that demands the new thing rather than the old thing.

There's a new Godot Engine addon to simplify testing on Steam Deck
19 February 2024 at 3:04 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: grigiI can totally see the Steam Deck being a fantastic tool for games developers.
It's affordable, powerful, and easy to deploy software to.
It has many input schemes you can try, is a nice portable size, etc...

The trick they missed, that I hope they correct with the Deck 2, is having a Kensington slot. Load up your game/demo on some Decks and let people play.

Steam Next Fest returns with more demos and livestreams
8 February 2024 at 7:00 am UTC Likes: 4

I've found this site which has a handy scrollable list of all the Next Fest game descriptions.

World War Z disables Vulkan on Steam Deck (but you can get it back)
7 February 2024 at 5:46 am UTC

Quoting: Marlockcan a user on a linux pc pass
QuoteSteamDeck=1 %command%
to fake being on a steam deck too?

Yes.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/forspoken-desktop-linux-spoof-steam-deck/

Steam Next Fest returns with more demos and livestreams
5 February 2024 at 8:56 pm UTC

Emberbane looks like it might be interesting. Synergy, too (although there's not a Linux demo for this one - the full game is supposed to be coming for Linux, though).

Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld to come with Manjaro Linux
5 February 2024 at 3:40 pm UTC Likes: 3

It's very close to being a viable device.

It has trackpads!... But they're in an awful position (and the rest of the controls are also terribly placed).

It comes with Linux!... But it's Manjaro.

It has a 16:10 display!... But the resolution is too high for the GPU to comfortably drive in the power envelope of a handheld.

Having multiple RAM configurations is also very silly: it increases production costs with zero benefit to either customers or developers.

Still, maybe someone else will do better on another attempt.

The top Steam Deck games for January 2024 have been revealed - Palworld hits 2nd place
4 February 2024 at 11:00 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderI wouldnt share a car with a crazy person who cant type "art of rally" correctly...... (There are no capitals in the art of rally title.....)
I'm not gonna write Metal Gear Solid as allcaps, either.

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