Quoting: dziadulewicz

QuoteTaking aim at Epic Games

Good! And please free Alan Wake II from your shackles EpiG so it can be available on Steam, then i'll buy from there. Won't give you epic pigs money ever.

Epic published it, so you'll be giving them money regardless.

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Oh, that is good. Even if parents are clued up on the nefariousness of the practice, it's so widespread, the pressure to let their kid do it anyway so as not to be different from others must be very high.

Quoting: coolitic"Shouldn't need a calculator" as if the conversion ratio wasn't absolutely trivial.

And from that point alone, they stretch it out into buzz-words about "Companies manipulating children to spend money", as if having a (trivial) conversion step was the root of the issue.

A new user, voicing support for the companies' point of view? Did you register only to do that?

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A game forcing the system into a boot loop? Ouch.

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Quoting: ZlopezI'm not sure why companies are taking growth for granted. Why they won't rather work with what they made the current year and expect that the next year will be the same or maybe save some of the money for bad times if you are making more than you expected, so you have some reserves.

The stock market doesn’t work that way. It’s cool and useful or sometimes necessary, but it is also cancer.

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Quoting: emphyHow does one permanently disable this creepy tracking?

By not using Steam!

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Oh, that is lovely. I tried playing LiS2, but bounced right off it not far in. A return of the protagonist from the first one is very welcome.

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This update makes me very happy. I can run Room Setup again and games actually launch now.

It still creates a black window every time VR is started which can't be killed and survives even killing Steam, but one can't have everything.

I'll be very glad to play Alyx again.

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Oh, right, that's Gunslinger. Well, then. Incompetent game devs. Or something.

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At least Call of Juarez is a game from 2007, I'd say the most you could count on back then were two cores.

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QuoteThe Switch 2 will no doubt sell by the truck-loads once again.

Hmm, maybe, but remember, only every-second Nintendo console ever sells well.

From a purely "consumer" point of view, always more, more, best, let me buy new stuff all the time is the norm. Moar shiny and all that, but also just get the most popular thing. This includes all those Nintendo customers, but all the PC master racists, too.

For a "thinksumer", all these other considerations come into play: is the company making the product a bunch of cunts, what about the planet, maybe I'll go on a holiday instead or invest in big tech shares.

It's certainly much easier being a consumer. We all know that, though, right? This being a Linux gaming site and all.

Edit:

But on topic: I'll welcome a Deck 2 in 3 years (meaning: I'll buy it gladly. If they put it out sooner I'll buy it ungladly). I think switching to a 16:9 aspect ratio would be best for seamless portable-docked transitions, I love 16:10 in a laptop, but less so for a purely gaming device. I'd like it to have 2-3x the power in the same power envelope (20W). The form factor is fine, something perhaps a touch smaller would be great. I don't need a higher res screen, but I'd like Valve to put more pressure on devs to test their games on small screens. A higher resolution at 7-8" doesn't mean all those tiny letters will now magically become readable.

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