Quoting: denyasisGas Station Simulator??

Maybe I'm biased, or dumb, or too close to the source material, but I don't really understand at all the appeal of these "blue collar/service" job simulators.

It's really funny how people seem keen to play games simulating jobs they'd never want to do in real life. I have seen a Lawn Moving Simulator, too. That's that involuntary weekend activity most of us constantly complain about...

People are weird. :D

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Quoting: redneckdrowAmen! For once the Great-Windowed-One does something right! Did I just fall into a mirror-universe where Ballmer and his cultists never existed? Nah, no one's that lucky.

I almost hate myself for saying something positive about MS, but for the sake of objectivity: Their gaming branch always refrained from using more predatory/shady business models. Compared to companies like EA and Ubisoft at least, who seemed to have no quarrels using shady monetization schemes such as lootboxes and NFT.

Kudos on them for staying away from that NFT rubbish. Does anything symbolize the infinity of human greed better than NFT?

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Now all we need is autonomous driving that doesn't get you killed! :D

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I looked at Unity back in the days when Godot was in its early infancy and not yet a serious contender. I can see why Unity became so popular, particular back at a time when it was more or less the only affordable professional game engine around.
But honestly, unless your project needs very advanced 3D features, Godot is probably going to do the trick these days and it's 100% free, no strings attached. Compared to Unity, Godot is super-lightweight and efficient, which is a big plus. And version 4 is around the corner, which will close a lot of the feature-gaps Godot admittedly still has. The scripting language is probably a matter of taste. For me personally? I am having a blast with it. If you have some experience with Python and don't mind that language, GDscript is pretty easy to get into.

These days, I guess Unity is popular because it's already popular and there is no shortage of people having experience with it. Other than that, I find it harder and harder to come up with reasons to use Unity over Godot. But that's just my opinion of course. :)

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Quoting: PenglingThe main problem I have with the Discovery Queue doesn't sound like it's even being addressed by these updates: It too often recommends random stuff "because it's popular", to the detriment of recommending stuff that matches what I actually play and have on my wishlist.

There's no point in recommending the latest all-singing-all-dancing DLC-and-microtransactions-riddled licensed sports or war game to a gal whose main gig is cutesy action games and stuff with a retro angle - it's not something that I would ever buy, and their (generally correct) statement that gaming tastes can change over time would never apply to that.

Pretty much this. My taste in gaming seems to be very much not mainstream, despite me playing quite a number of mainstream games. Ok, what my friends play Steam doesn't know, because the only persons on my friends list are my immediate family. But even given that, I don't get why the queue still recommends me shooters, platformers and racing games when I have about zero minutes played in either of these genres and they do know THAT. If I wanted to see what's currently popular I can always look at the sales rankings. The point of the queue should be recommending me games I have a chance to like but so far do not own. But it rather seems to be "Look, this person doesn't play shooters yet, so let's try and sell her some shooters! Everyone likes shooters, right?"

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Quoting: tfkWhy is OneShot native but unsupported?

Don't know about that particular game, but there are reasons other than Linux support why a game doesn't work on the Deck. Not all games can be played well on a screen that small, and not all offer controller support, just to name two of the more common ones. I am actually quite a bit surprised that so many of these 50 games work well on a device they weren't designed for. That's pretty amazing.

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Wow, for some reason I had not expected a native version of this game to happen, since most larger studios seemed to largely have given up on them in favor of Proton (or just not caring).

Great news! :)

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47Isn't ESO also on Stadia? Seems like an MMO is a good candidate for a game to play through streaming.

ESO is on Stadia. It runs well and supports cross play but it is limited in that you can't use add-ons and the fps is capped.

Which is quite a dealbreaker, IMHO. ESO is borderline unplayable without mods. Their default UI is -really- that bad, and their trading system is industry worst. Mods are quite needed to remedy some of the pain from that. The PC/NA server is getting a lot of console refugees, a lot of them state the lack of mods being the central reason for switching...

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I know some people hate on Paradox's DLC-heavy business model, but what other publisher would still release updates for such an old game after all these years? Great to see them keeping this indie gem alive!

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Quoting: KimyrielleThe problem with Russia is that it thinks it has a natural right to have a buffer of slave states in between them and the closest country they don't like.

Well there's some inflammatory rhetoric. But they were fine with countries like Finland who just weren't part of an anti-Russia military alliance. Are you wanting to claim that Finland has (until now when it's petitioning to join NATO, which will I suppose set it free) been a slave state of Russia?

Russia was fine with Finland...after it invaded it without provocation and stole quite a lot of land from it in 1939, that is. Literally with the argument that it needed a buffer zone. But ok...

What's next? Claiming that the post-WW2 regimes in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany and Czechoslovakia were somehow NOT slave states of Soviet Union/Russia and they were NOT primarily meant to be a buffer between the Soviet Union the the West?

QuoteSo tell me, if Mexico joined, or even threatened to join, a Russian military alliance or the Shanghai Co-operation Organization, would the United States be shrugging and saying "Well, none of our business, is it?" Give me a break. The tanks would be rolling south before you could say "Monroe Doctrine". And you would be saying it was completely justified.

I am not happy with some of the things the West did and still does. It's funny how you preemptively accuse me of supporting an invasion of Mexico or any other nation, when you really don't know me well enough to make such a judgment. Your entire line of reasoning amounts to "But the US was bad, too!". Which I...never denied. But know what...it's a pretty weak defense before court to say "Ok, I stole that car, but I am not the only car thief on Earth". Which is essentially what you're defending/downplaying Russia's actions with.

PS: Thanks for accusing me to be clueless about international things. Not sure why you think my rhetoric would be inflammatory and what you're doing here is completely fine? I will bow out of this discussion, before Liam steps in. Have a nice day.

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