This argument was discussed already: subscription had, and has, it’s own market in which is a finite resource of customers willing to endlessly pay.

The problem was for products that were “surprise subscription” : a customer buying Crew1 on the shelves of the single player category… then, after some random number of month discover it was, indeed, a “surprise subscription” which ended whenever Ubisoft felt like to do so.

You just note down the company who delivered the idiotic product: next time your options for purchase are narrower, but it narrow the chance to buy products badly designed.

Just because some companies sells USB butplugs it doesn’t mean USB standard is necessarily a pain in the ass overall.

The popularity of joystick was strongly tied to arcade machine; they are associated with fighting games because fighting games were the latest great thing Arcades had at their time to die out: home consoles such as DreamCast and N64 couldn’t give you the thrilling experience of beat “on the street” a random kid (as per “one quarter per virtual beating”). We talk about Tekken being an arcade experience before the world transitioned toward the triangular bosom of Lara at home (for those who were kids at that time). Arcade was the "mythical gaming”, the one all the kids knew they couldn’t have at home. Joystick, as such, was the ultimate “mythical” gaming device… to bad it was shit. Yeah, you could get the hang of “the moves”, the “feeling to push with your whole forearm if needed” just… not for too long. Not for pick a dialogue option, not for command trops, not for “dogeroll then attack”…or basically anything which wasn’t whatever arcade game was designed around that dumb, red clown-nose, big lever.

Nostalgia makes remember some things correctly: “yes, you had fun” but forget the fine details “the 35th side scrolling beat 'em up of this year… Cool!”

Joystick (emphasis on “joy”), Joypad… then a “joy-less” but more tame name as “controller” with added “thumb stick” if you need details… now everything seems to turn in touch, and maybe haptic… or probabily “let’s just wait for the AI reach the end of it” kind of controller device

Sony: PC doesn’t make us money.

That’s quite correct, PC does not, indeed, make their Playstation’s money. Once customers realize they can be treated with respect, it’s unlikely they’ll return to the PlayStation’s walled garden to be constantly bi**h slapped and forced to pay for everything (for example, even just to play online).

Soda Maker at home.

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.

mini PC things.

…or PC things, but mini.

Microsoft: Fuck you, you piece of shit. I’m firing every one of you motherfuckers so I can buy another 30 Ferrari’s.

Nintendo: We are not going to do that.

Lemmy: –

Lemmy: points PocketPair

One year ago, right at the beginning of the petition, PirateSoftware came out misreading the initiative by suggesting the idea the petition was about forcing indie developer to host their server, at their expense, forever and other stupid idea on this line. A fabricated these narrative to act as the typical popular youtubers that say endlessly: “this is st0pid, they are st0pid”. The fabricated narrative confused other popular YouTubers with mixed feelings; and there was very little support. This assured PirateSoftware the first place on the youtube rankings when you search for “stop killing games”, plus had lot of kids brainwashed into thinking " this is st0pid". This kind of criticism never went away completely, the were partially silenced by the very recent roaring as people understood correctly what it was actually about. As SKG keep hitting its milestone the angered roar did lowered, so now you can ear again the “this is st0pid” team

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nier-creator-speaks-out-against-payment-processors-pressuring-japanese-adult-content-platforms/

“It’s a security hole that endangers democracy itself.” NieR creator speaks out against payment processors pressuring Japanese adult content platforms

NieR creator Yoko Taro comments on the series of instances of Japanese adult platforms being pressured by credit card payment processors.

Copy of the claims

clams: False “No Funding” Declaration

evidences:

Multiple media interviews identifying Scott as handling “the standard day-to-day work of running the Stop Killing Games initiative”

Scott described as the primary strategic decision-maker and public spokesperson throughout the campaignConservative Professional Value Assessment:•Intensive Periods: “Many weeks” of 12-14 hours/day during critical campaign phases

Conservative Estimate: 15-20 weeks at high intensity (12-14 hours/day) = 1,260-1,960 hours

Regular Campaign Work: Additional ongoing daily campaign management throughout 12+ month period

Professional Rate: €50-75/hour for campaign management/advocacy services (market rate)•Minimum Estimated Value: €63,000-147,000 in professional contribution

**Additional Considerations: **

This represents only documented intensive periods, not total campaign involvement

Scott has managed strategic decisions, media relations, and operational leadership throughout

Even conservative calculations show contribution exceeding €500 threshold by 125-295 times

They don’t allow more than a bunch of replies from unregistered until it block itself: naturally people that don’t want to bother with register and being stalked switch to other chatbot.

Why do Mistral have to shot them in the foot? It’s really a massive spending in terms of electric bill if they keep q/a to anonymous guests?

There are US companies that allow unregistered q/a: they know they need most expanse feedback from everyone; if you’re registered to a platform your kind of question aren’t the same as if you were anonymous: you need both (registered and anonymous) to understand how to improve the model.

Block unregistered user? They will go elsewhere.

We need more EU companies with AI and enough investment to understand this.

It’s not like Devs can afford to say “Hey, you! No, not you, the other one… hire me now!”

What’s the difference between ARM and x86 other than proprietary?

Both ARM and x86 are proprietary, innovation is made differently tho.

Arm holding set new standard for the broader concept of innovation, trying to gather as many companies possible to further innovate in their own way and as many companies possible.

X86 is mostly ruled by Intel and the way Intel manufacture things; AMD is thrown in the mix both both need to be cautions around their business: it’s in their hope no third party interfere with what and how X86 are manufactured.

RiscV is the ultimate goal: a platform not owned by anyone, which anyone is free to innovate for their propose (like Linux’s kernel which power big Super Computers mainframes, desktop pc or table clock: there’s a root capability, then everything extend from there by its purpose.).

How is steam an ARM store? (Genuine question not a disagreement)

It’s not an ARM store in the sense they sell ARM hardware; but the store itself (also) runs on ARM CPU: to have a piece of software (such as Steam, as the steam client you download and install) run on different platform, you need some work to be done: CDProjekt did the job for CyberPunk 2077 (for the Nintendo Switch 2) as Valve did the job for Steam (for the MACs)

What specific brands/companies/developers do you see becoming relevant in this context within the next year?

Intel could come in to play, the reason they are not “seriously” in the RISC business is because the conflict of interest with “their” X86.

Both Nvidia and AMD are already in both ARM and RiscV business.

Any company in the smartphone business can join in: they just need ARM binaries (CPU) and full Vulkan support (GPU)

Will this translate to more budget friendly pc-gaming options?

You can buy a ARM Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (and alike) for about ~15$, add this a MicroSD, a K/M and a screen to attach to hdmi, and you have a fully fledged Linux PC with basic office capabilities.

I am a former pc-gamer. Built my last PC in 2009. Even then it was a budget build (AMD gfx).

A Raspberry Pi 4 B 2GB would cost about ~40€ (there are cheaper chinese variant) would match a 2009 Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB ram and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330. You can power it with a powerbank.

They assumed that every download was by someone who would otherwise have paid over 53 USD for it, which by itself is an absurd delusion.

You’re wrong, your presumption assume one single person to download a single file he/she never ear about.

What’s most likely, people download ROMs for nostalgia, ie: something they, or their parents, bought them when they were children. So, if we assume someone download their “childhood library” which was already paid, of about ~30 cartridge (admitted the download is the right one, and didn’t required multiple download attempt); in the view of the FBI, that single person “stole” 3180 USD he/she paid ~20 years ago.

You’re not just supposed to lose the things you bought, you’re supposed to be fined (for attempt to play the product you already paid) with price updated to current industry standard.

Steam Deck 1 (also called “Steam Deck One” or “The First Steam Deck”) uses Ryzen 2. Not gonna say anything else.

xcancel (fromerly twitter) statement announced here by SKG

Thanks for the thumbnail link, I’ve added it

Looks more like a DSSL testing (which had dedicated cores/hardware) rather the actual potential. Also, one single title, wake me when there’s a test to match everything SteamDeck can emulate (Switch 1 too)

If is designed to work on Linux (Linux drivers), that’s all you need to distro-hop the device until the end of time