Quoting: pilkThing is, among all the other disgusting things she is, You-Know-Who is a known copyright troll that sues anything she doesn't like.

If that were true she'd have gotten rid of Hairy Pothead when it was published some 15 years ago. But now there are sequels.

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Quoting: CatKillerI did really enjoy the Shadowrun games on the Deck, so I'd recommend picking those up to anyone that's interested. The individual games are in the sale but the trilogy bundle hasn't had that discount applied and so works out more expensive than getting the games separately.

Shadowrun Hong Kong has a couple borked areas. This one battle on a rooftop locks up my Steam Deck completely and I have to force a restart. It only does this after the battle is over and you go to exit the level at the elevator, but there is no save after the fight so you must redo it every time. I gave up after a half dozen retries.

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Quoting: MacTavishMeanwhile the steam client still sucks on linux. When a new revamped Wayland native Linux Steam client?

I don't have any problems with it.. In what way does it suck?

I do have a really peculiar issue. Whenever I start Steam via desktop icon which has a
Exec=/usr/games/steam %U
line, the client will start but will only show the indicator which in turn apart from allowing to exit the client will play dead. When starting from the command line with
$ /usr/games/steam
it works as expected (as does Steam when installed as snap package).
I wouldn't say it sucks but it... has issues.

You should edit the desktop shortcut to include a command to log all output to a file on execution, that will help you narrow down the issue.

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Quoting: TharvasIf someone still needs an invite, shoot me a DM.

How do you like it? And how's the performance for you?

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Quoting: whizseSo essentially this anti-cheat system is based on witchcraft?

The 9th level spell, True Polymorph

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Quoting: MacTavishMeanwhile the steam client still sucks on linux. When a new revamped Wayland native Linux Steam client?

I don't have any problems with it.. In what way does it suck?

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Quoting: JarmerThey're a big studio, they should know way better.

They have maybe 30 to 40 employees, that's not a "big studio"

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Quoting: doragasuWeird they go for patent infringement and not for copyright infringement

They appear to be using Poké Ball-like items in the trailer for Palworld on Steam... Maybe it's something to do with this?

Quoting: PenglingOn the other hand, it's being speculated that Nintendo is going after Palworld on patent grounds due to holding patents on the concept of catching monsters in a ball

Quoting: GuestI'm guessing one of the issues is about Patent Publication No. 20240278129(the mechanic of throwing the Poke-ball in third person, in Legends Arceus)

Ah-ha! Exactly as I thought...

Quoting: Penglingsomething that was inspired by real-world gachapon toys that existed before the Pokemon games did.

Well this is interesting... I didn't know this!

Let me also introduce you to Robotrek:

QuoteRobotrek (1994) was another early title similar to Pokémon. It was a predecessor to the core gameplay of Pokémon in that the protagonist does not himself fight, but instead sends out robots, which are kept in capsules outside of battle.[6] There was a resemblance in functionality between these capsules and the Poké Balls used in Pokémon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster-taming_game#History

So the patent is for monsters being caught in balls? How is that worthy of being a patent?

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThat doesn't need to be a local presence - there are a lot of consumer electronics companies that ship their products overseas for diagnostics and / or repairs... Some of them do it for select issues, some do it for everything but it's common practice.

I don't know about you, but I feel far less confident in repairs that need to be shipped over long distances.. Fedex, UPS, DHL, TNT; none of the transport services are actually dedicated to quality transport. You only need 1 poorly run hub or driver to damage your device. You may be a former project manager, but I've been working in a warehouse for 11 years now. I see the level of care these people put into their work on a daily basis. International shipping reliability is spotty.

DHL can't even be bothered to deliver to us within normal business hours, and I'm in a major metropolitan area.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyYeah, Valve Software will be at PAX Australia to tell us that they're going to release the Steam Deck locally in 2048... Meanwhile, everybody else - from two-bit nobodies through to billion dollar multinationals - can release their wares in a tenth of the time that Valve Software can, and generate a profit in the process!

What people keep missing on this point though, is how Valve is still a relative newbie to the hardware game. When you think about all the other lot doing handhelds, laptops and so on, they already have *all* the contacts and stuff in place to ship near worldwide for various types of hardware. Stuff like this takes time, but even so, it has been a bit too long for our Aus friends.

And shipping to Australia means official hardware support in Australia. So diagnostics, repairs, and replacements need a contact as well.

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