Probably worth emailing Gabe over ig.

Well there’s a couple factors at play:

• Some disgruntled people who are just frustrated with the current ecosystem of software/media gouging (Piracy of Nintendo and Sony ROMs are the first thing that come to mind, along with things like Adobe product cracks). Slogans would be things like “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”, and “It’s always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games”.
• Places that ignore Western/International copyright law and don’t seriously prosecute their citizens, who are then able to host databases where anyone can download/stream from, with income from ads and donations (Basically China/Russia, and some countries outside like Brazil)
• Places where the price of purchasing legitimate media is just so insanely high (compared to average income) that having an online distribution network hosted no matter the risk would be the most accessible option (most notably Brazil with their high af import taxes, along with other LATAM nations). This is even seen in places that have no distribution officially period, such as Cuba’s “paquete” (Literal HDDs and flash drives being smuggled with foreign data through informal networks)
• “Software Cracker”/“Aaron Swartz” ideologists who believe information should be free and accessible to anyone, no matter what and who pride themselves on releasing protected media not out of financial gain or hatred for the publisher, but for online street cred and to “Democratize” information. This is most notable through shadow libraries like Anna’s Archive.

There are probably other cases I have not mentioned, but these are the big ones.

That was the case with The Finals (Embark’s previous game) according to testimony by the team, and they are using the same development practices here.

Steam already requires AI disclosure, I wonder if that’s one of the store preference options you can toggle already.

I wonder how economical it would be to do a homemade EV conversion once my car’s engine is no longer feasible to maintain.

Especially if the linux support is good. I guess we’ll have to wait for reviews.

That’s why I have a 3d printer - so I don’t need to buy storage housing XD

The initial releases are main segments in NA, but they upload the full episodes for earlier seasons if memory serves. So probably in a year or two this season’s full episodes will be updated.

Shoot, if you’re willing to share data with the rest of us I can send a few your way - my old IT contract jobs gave me plenty of salvaged parts to work with.

Nah it’s free in NA too

It’s called a VPN mate, and a copy of qBittorrent

That’s why you should learn to sail the virtual seas early, lad. Why worry about the corpo fleet when you got your own vessel filled with treasure to float on with :)

You can using the steam beta builds feature. I believe it’s the earliest one.

That’s a self-inflicted wound brother. It’s like playing a leaked copy of a game before release.

Tbf the only broken multiplayer is on the opt in unstable branch. It’s not like b41 mp vanished.

…and multiplayer, overhauled animations, 3d models, new textures, and mods galore :)

Yep, someone already joked that they picked 4 digits for their username so they have a failsafe for getting banned 9,998 times. That was at 0004.

If you look at their chat history it really explains it all tbh. I wonder if we could get this instance to defederate their account haven.

Oh goddammit, you’re here. Move on to Lembot_0006 already, ya contrarian doofus.

I’d argue that’s mainly a problem for games that don’t allow community hosted servers and modded content - and TF2 allows both.

“I’m doing my part!”

I love helping ppl w/ questions :)

I mean here’s the comparison:

With Linux, you select the right tool to the job. The ones given to you out the gate depending on what you install (Mint vs Arch, for instance) might be enough for all your needs, and you get to pick and choose starting gear. If you need more tools after the fact, you have a software center to install flatpacks for anything generic you may want, and the terminal lets you go wild if there’s anything special not covered you need modified. There’s manual pages, and the forms are last resort for most.

On Windows, you are given a generic toolset. Usually it works, but sometimes they just break for no discernable reason. You can call Microsoft for support, but good luck talking to a human. You can’t pick a different starting toolset, and while you can install software (by using a web browser and hoping you don’t get phished), it’s difficult to change underlying components without getting blocked by the OS or breaking a core function. Windows forums are quite a wasteland, and almost nothing is documented for the user.

They started their business in there a while ago (I believe they were the first online distributor who managed to succeed in the Russian market, despite media fears of mass piracy), and I would imagine that revoking all of the users’ Steam Libraries wouldn’t be a popular move, or terminating all their accounts.

I’m not sure why they continued purchases after 2022 though. Maybe their Eastern Europe payment processor doesn’t ask too many questions?

Fallout New Vegas still hooks me in.

The market will - and it’d be foolish to underestimate the market forces valve will spark by making viable alternatives mass market.

I’m referring to your prior comments and history speaking in communities. The most recent one I remember involved Portal, Half-life, and counterstrike.

You’re not at Lembot_0005 level comments yet tho, so that’s good.

Hey look, the contrarian is back! Wow! I thought you would take some time to reflect after your wack takes.

Used market prices, probably. An 8GB VRAM video card and an appropriate CPU that wouldn’t bottleneck performance could easily fit under $500. I guess nowadays the RAM would be the hangup lol.

Steam on Chromebooks died for this?

The ELIZA effect and the experiences of that experiment should have been guidelines as to why those utilities should not be mass-market. LLM’s, if used for conversation or personal advice, lead to delusion and irrational actions.

RUST is a game, Rust is the programming thing. Maybe we need to normalize that in posting articles lol

It’s been polished a lot since then (they update every month), but yeah, it’s still around and it’s fun. Sucks that Alistair has this take tho.

I enjoyed rust by hosting my own personal whitelisted server for my friends and I to mess around on, that’s my favorite way to enjoy the game. You can play on linux by disabling their anticheat on your community server (since the server just rejects the proton client with EAC enabled, you don’t get banned).

In a roundabout way, yes, because it allows a player to player economy to form (outside of valve’s purview), which other games prevent by preventing trading.

However, the ability for items that have been purchased or acquired to be traded to people has a great effect of making common things more accessible to players as a whole, even those who don’t spend money (Craft hats or unique weapons in TF2, for instance).

I think that as a buyer, you would want to have something that isn’t permalocked to your account, but I could see the argument from an abuse standpoint.

A 12GB card for 200 euros or less would be incredibly far from reality, unfortunately. Maybe if they bought a 1080ti, but that’s not the greatest move in 2025.

Nah it’s worse, because you can trade TF2/Steam items. You can’t do shit with games like Fortnite, Overwatch, Valorant, etc…

200 Euros? You aren’t going to get anything new for good value with that budget, unfortunately. You’re looking at a minimum of 2 generations behind current.

RTX 30 series cards (although avoid anything with less than 8GB VRAM if possible), equivalent AMD gpus, or anything from Intel ARC with decent VRAM could fit the bill, all of it would be used though.

VRAM is usually your bottleneck when it comes to cheap cards, so look out for anything with at least 8GB.

It was ext4 for the SD card on default format on Deck (Not too sure why, maybe something to do with size limitations?)

I wonder if having a mixed batch of games in your portfolio helps too: fast paced shooters/fighting games for reflexes, simulation games/RPGs for multitasking and executive functioning, and even fringe stuff like VR games for exercise or “comfy” games for stress management.

Guessing the disk format used between both systems is identical too (at least from what I saw on my steam deck when using the tool integrated into SteamOS big picture)

6 years ago might be a bit ambitious, unless you are thinking of certain games that were more AA or Indie.

But yeah, having this in the ecosystem will be great in the long term, no question.