I certainly wish there would be the equivalent software written for the HOTAS controllers. A port of the Thrustmaster T.A.R.G.E.T. software is lacking, and really one of the few reasons I need Windows for still...

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Quoting: ObsidianBlk

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Linux_RocksAlso, corporations being PC or inclusive cause it's good for business is annoyingly fake. But it's better than the other options.

Yeah, for me it's just bigotry in the other direction. Instead of Corps asking people to stop being bigots, they're asking you to put other types of people on pedestals. Which is still bigotry, because certain other types of people are not put on those pedestals.

Whether a company's display of support is genuine or self serving is a matter of debate. However, showing support for a group that has been treated (at best) less than acceptably in a historical context is not "bigotry in the other direction". At this point, as a society, it's not enough to *quietly* say "we accept you" because, like with any relationship, you do actually have to *say* it to that person. You have to let them *know*, unambiguously, that, yes, they matter and they're accepted. Maybe, on a societal level, that means, at the very least, they get a market display, or a few characters taking the spotlight in a show or movie, or they get to parade down main street. Maybe it's time those groups get a bit of the spotlight and the respect they deserve. There's plenty to go around

I've always been more of the 'respect people for who they are, not what they are' mindset.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksAlso, corporations being PC or inclusive cause it's good for business is annoyingly fake. But it's better than the other options.

Yeah, for me it's just bigotry in the other direction. Instead of Corps asking people to stop being bigots, they're asking you to put other types of people on pedestals. Which is still bigotry, because certain other types of people are not put on those pedestals.

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Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: hardpenguinOkay, I really wanna fight zombies in my own neighbourhood so I am sold 😁

Won't lie... always thought my old neighborhood might make a good post apocalyptic base area. Flat residential bound by a river and major highway.

I wonder how big the maps in game are.... IRL my neighborhood is on the order of 7sq km. My current one is a a 3-4km circle (I'm not doing that type of math today)

Ha, what if you live in a cabin in the woods out in the middle of nowhere, would the game just be really boring?

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I don't really care about who owns Activision/Blizzard, as I simply try to avoid their games anyhow. The ones I was irritated about was Obsidian and inXile, as they used to make Linux native games... Zenimax has been broken / anti-Linux for a long time.

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Quoting: BalkanSpyEpic Games is getting more and more desperate now that their cash cow Fortnite is losing popularity. It is getting increasingly difficult for them to stay afloat.

Funny how that works, isn't it? Maybe they should have stuck to actually making games instead of trying to compete without any incentives to customers to buy from them over Valve. Exclusivity just pisses people off. They needed to actually have features that people cared about.

One feature that would have gotten me to buy games from them is a native Linux client, no client, no usage by me...

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Quoting: MohandevirSeriously. AAA studios have proven time and again that most of their games are beautiful empty shells filled with micro-transactions scams. EA, Ubisoft and Activision/Blizzard all fall into this category. Gaming studios for shareholders. Not my cup of tea. Sad for the players and the real creators that would like to create games they want to play. They are gradually killing the industry. I haven't bought a AAA game in ages, I involuntarily tend to encourage indie developers, lately. I find that their games are of better quality.

All of those companies were making fantastic games back before they became too big to give a crap. Every once in a while, a 'gem' falls out of the coal, and we get stuff like Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor. But for the most part, they just churn out the same crap year after year.

The new Assassin's Creed doesn't even look all that better, graphically, then the last 4 of them...

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Quoting: grigi

Quoting: slaapliedjeI came to the conclusion a while ago that if I'm ever in the need for a new laptop (I have a few for different purposes already that should last me a few years), I'm totally getting a Framework one. They support Linux builds, and the engineering on them means I won't just have one sitting around collecting dust when I can basically infinitely upgrade it...

I'm in Batch 1 for FW 16. I'll consider doing a writeup for it when I get it. Probably only in 2 months.

My kind of writeup will probably be things like... does it suspend, have weird errors, other power management issues, etc...

Because my current notebook, whilst good ito performance and ergonomics, completely sucks when it comes to things like power management fails, random crashes, suspend-resume lottery, tons of repeating and random kernel errors in dmesg, lack of firmware updates (even for windows, it's a shit show there too).

Never getting an MSI ever again.

Nice! Yeah I swore off MSI when I had a motherboard that would randomly shit on the USB. Only way to get it working again that I could find was to pull the CMOS battery. It was like the firmware would get corrupted while it was on.

Funny thing is, it seems to me not a single manufacturer / operating system can figure out the power management... you have stupid things like the newer sleep states that allows network traffic, so that updates can be done while the computer is 'asleep'. The other day I booted up my Steam Deck and it said my macbook pro was ready to stream from... I hadn't used it in days!

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Quoting: Marlock

Quoting: Guestany competitive game requires a player to outspeed an opponent, what did you expect from a first person shooter?

mandatory pedantic reply: chess
sorry, i just couldn't resist

analog world jokes aside I did play "Sid Meyer's Civilization 2" and "Stars!", which both were turn-based and supported competitive multiplayer... Stars! even supported play-by-email, which is absurdly cumbersome compared to modern multiplayer gaming options, but was pretty cool in the era of 56kbps dialup internet

I also rather play slower paced games, mainly because my reflexes are horribly slow for anything else

And despite the rise in prominence of competitive online multiplayer realtime games like shooters, battle royales and whatnot there are popular modern takes for slower gameplay too (eg: League of Legends's non-rts offspring TFT)

Civilization 2 is still my favorite in the series. Built up a few old PCs just so I could play it in it's native environment, though it does work in Wine.

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Quoting: BrokattMaybe for those who use the Steam Deck as their main gaming device and are prepared to pay for for marginal better performance in AAA games. But how big a portion of the total user base is that? I get the impression that most that have a Steam Deck (or ROG Ally) are satisfied except for the performance in Starfield.

The Steam Deck is my only gaming device, after never owning a gaming PC or console in my adult life, and only occasionally playing a few steam games on my low-end Mac or Linux laptops as a college student. There’s nothing I want changed on it as of now, and I wonder how many people have use cases like mine, where the concerns of hardcore long-time gamers feel totally irrelevant, because this thing opened up a new or long forgotten hobby to us and seems revolutionary, rather than ready for a refresh.

I also don’t really have much attraction to most AAA games, and since I’ve missed out on so many interesting games, I am enjoying playing the best of the last two decades that I’ve missed, and emulating childhood favorites from consoles I never had, but play at the houses of friends or relatives.

I mostly use my Steam Deck for emulation of older games, and playing platform games and such. I like cranking resolution / details up way too high for most of the modern games to have good performance on the Steam Deck. But then I also would rather play those on my Super Ultrawide monitor instead of a 800p screen.

I do wish there were an official dock that had some cooling built into it, so it could work kind of like the Switch does, where it clocks things upward when docked, and you can get a bit better performance out of it when plugged into a television. I don't think it'd be that difficult to have something like this happen, but I tend to think it'd need some extra cooling. It is a really great device and I don't see the need to buy a faster one. I think the design of the ROG Ally and Legion Go made a mistake with going 1080p. It looks good on specs, and sadly a lot of gamer culture is 'more specs!', but all it does is drain battery and make a lot of assumptions about playability that aren't going to be possible on a small form factor anyhow. I'd much rather play at 1280x800@60 fps than play at 1920x1080@30 fps on such a small screen.

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