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alessandro

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  • Valve Claims Steam Machine Outperforms 70% of Current Gaming PCs

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  • I doubt that the Steam Machine outperforms anything made in the last 5-10 years.

    It's all about the price... and the very recent years weren't exactly kind in relation for price per performance

  • ‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately

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  • It's mostly a poker game: you need to call with money to keep playing, otherwise you "fold" and they win... even if the winner got shitty ("no papers") cards.

  • ‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately

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  • You can buy it on ebay or alike: a PC/PS2 dvd is basically a license (even if it's broken: once bought the disc you can download the same exact version of the disc you own...under the EU laws, not sure about elsewhere but nations in the British commonwealth have strong customer protection ).

  • ‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately

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  • I am not defending IP laws, I am avoiding people making confusion about what's SKG scope. I am completely in favor of a similar initiative that addressees IP craziness; but it need to be appropriately represent on what the initiative is about.

    Broadly spreading the scope of an initiative is a hostile technique to sink the initiative down: I don't know if you're aware of the PirateSoftware fiasco: he tried to say that the initiative would force companies to keep server online forever... just to basically spread the idea "this is impossible, so SKG is impossible". Luckily SKG initiative was appropriately (and painstakingly patently) readdressed by Ross Scott calling on PirateSoftware, de facto, BS.

  • ‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately

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  • SKG address a different issue than NOLF's IP hellscape.

    When a game is killed it doesn't mean either is free or random shops can sell it without agreement with the right's holder: only people who bought it previously are (and must be) allowed to play.

  • Study finds 72% of Developers View Steam as Monopoly [from the overall pool, 75% of respondents were senior managers]

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  • If only all monopolies were so user-positive.

    All monopolies come into being super user-positive: it's the moment they need to make money that shit hits the fan.

    Is: Google Chrome is an overly appreciate, open source, web browser... then they came to shut down ad blocker "we gotta got +80% web browser share, what are you gonna do about it?"

  • Bethesda's best game just got controller support thanks to modders [OpenMW, open source fan-made engine]

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  • Bethesda's best game just got controller support thanks to modders [OpenMW, open source fan-made engine]

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  • That's the one lemmy did suggest: you can see yourself in the previde lemmy itself auto generate vere insidie the post.

    I guess pcgamer sneak the clickbait title in the metà data so they can have clickbait whenever their article are shared, but don't take full responsibility on their own very pages

  • Study finds 72% of Developers View Steam as Monopoly [from the overall pool, 75% of respondents were senior managers]

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  • Valve is "de facto" monopoly, bit the actual monopoly potential is in Microsoft hands. Microsoft is for PC gaming industry what Google is for the web browser one. Sure, there may be other cool web browsers, but it's Google that (through Android base) decide whic web browser will be delivered with the next billions of Android mobile device: some elderly people on smartphone don't even know what is a web browser ("oh, you mean when I Google? I don't know: I just Google").

    All future new PC will be sold with Microsoft Store and Xbox junk ware: Microsoft has been exceptionally shitty for not being the actual monopoly in the PC gaming industry. But that's a very feeble protection: break Valve business is just a mandatory "security update" away to happen. They can break Steam little by little (such as suggested by Tim Sweeney) or just a big blow by sheer monopolized manipulation (such as Google not allowing adblockers to chrome to feed their advertising business)

  • EA pinky promises to 'maintain creative control' in its post-buyout era, but the list of 'cultural values' it plans to keep doesn't mean much at all

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  • They fire the developer who says "2+2=4" and hire the one who says "2+2=5"... then the hired developer is absolutely free to say his/her "5" anytime they want until EA doesn't roll a new formula. (they is fire&hire again)

  • ARC Raiders released on Steam [~40$/€] [Kernel Level Anti-Cheat] [review: Very positive] [SteamDeck uknown (future uncertain due to KL anticheat)]

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  • The problem is that also... Apex Legends was fully linux/steam deck supported. When developers are insecure about their ability to provide protection against cheater... Linux is usually the first target so they can "show" they are resolute (in truth, insecure indeed) about anti-cheating.

    Kernel level anticheat, is the foundation of insecurity by developers. An example of "non-insecure" developer is Valve: all their efforts against cheater are nearly kernellevel-less.

  • Tis a silly place

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  • From the quote of Noja, switch the word "Russian" with trump, like this:

    repeats what trump disinformation campaigns say, doesn’t understand why they’re banned… huh

    and you get the identical quote of Amnesigenic...

    Just because you don’t like the people saying it doesn’t make it misinformation

    but from Maga.

  • A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

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  • Picture this: it's early 1900' and you're a opera singer or an actor for a Shakespeare's play and you're asked to give your opinion on Cinema... and someone theorize even TV to you.

    I know what you're going to say: these talentless people is coming to steal your job.

    Cinema is not a recognized art form: is a gimmick, a trick made with a huge number of photos.

    Those who want to call themselves "actors" are just talentless people who need "one right shot" and being patched in a sequence of "right shots" to complete a wanna-be play. But that not how you make are: every night, every play, you need to walk on stage, in front of the public and deliver "true" art.

    Advice? If you were an actor for live theater in the beginning of the 1900... just shut up for a a pair of decades to make sure is not actually art: or you're going to record in the history how much of a... uhm.... short sighted person you were.

    Humans make arts, humans decide what's art... Usually this happen in the switch of the next generation of humans: everything can be a tool for art, future generations of humans decide if they want to call it art or not.

  • [satirical fake news] Jared Kushner surprised $55 Billion Electronic Arts buyout does not include $10 Billion DLC

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  • I would add [satirical fake news] to the title, just to be sure

  • Squeeky clean

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  • UK, France, Canada and Australia are all in the ICC: this mean both Hamas and Netanyahu are wanted criminals if any of these put feet on the ground of these nations.

    Netanyahu would be reasonably safe in China, Russia, USA and Hungary tho.

  • Paradox agrees Bloodlines 2's paid clans "belong in the base game," thanks you for the "frank feedback"

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  • Last week argument in the PR team: "do we middle finger to our possible paying customers or not?"

    It was an heated discussion.

  • mmmm yes undoubtedly

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  • As some muslims in a muslim theocracy don't think they are the only worthy to be saved: they go around saying they know they are.

    Which is the universal annoying self-centered people who have no real nation, religion or actual belongship: they give a fuck about their flag/religion/social group only in the measure it serve their damaged, narcissistic, ego.

  • Worst part about living in Europe

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  • Soda Maker at home.

  • Handheld PC makers are slowly losing touch with Valve's successful Steam Deck template of affordability, and that's very concerning

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  • Any device that come with SteamOS by default, is a device that doesn't come with both Windows and Xbox game store by default. Basically Valve isn't paying for the OS, it's paying for devices that run Steam Store by default (instead direct, unfair, competition from Microsoft)

    Can Windows PC come by default with Steam Store? Of course... if Microsoft allow them to.