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Yeah and the new guy takes 3 days to finish the job that the old carpenter can do in 2hrs. And when he wants it done faster he quickly asks the old guy to do it for him. That’s why nobody else in the site likes him.

Fair enough. Have a look at matrix.org, it links to element x as a recommend client.

Yes that’s the correct one. What’s scummy about it?

You can play it single player, but it has opt in ambient multiplayer. You can join other players if you find their summoning symbol thing, and you can see soapstone messages left by other players if you’re connected. You can also be invaded by invading spirits that are other players. It would be nice if you could connect and disconnect without having to return to the main menu.

Dark souls remastered. Seems to run perfectly at Max, disabled TAA because it looks disgusting. Only issue is with dark souls itself, sleep mode kicks you (safely) to the main menu because you lose your internet connection.

Its a complicated answer. It can play probably most modern AAA games. But it likely won’t be a great experience and I can only describe it as playable. If you want a very good experience with the steam deck, then use it for mid spec games or less and it’ll be perfect and have good battery life. If you want more then maybe try another hand held, or a console.

In the end the device you play your games on needs to do one thing well, and that’s to play the games you WANT to play.

If you are looking for an affordable device to play AAA games well on with no issues, get a ps5.

If you are looking for a hand held to play indie titles and the plethora of older games available I’d go for the steam deck.

I think it’ll be a while until we get a hand held experience like the steam deck but with AAA capable hardware.

Thanks for clarifying. Even more baffling why they’re doing this

Please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this cheaper than their existing patreon subscription which is $5 a month? That would be $60 annually.

I’m still not going to pay for it when because I don’t think it’s a good practice in the open source scene but just want to put it in perspective.

Epic games is pretty anti consumer as far as things go anyway

Recent updates have fixed it for me. Make sure you’re on the latest!

Great read as always

The bedrock UI is far more controller friendly. And it has aim snapping features and so on.

Perhaps it wasn’t the best example, but the point I’m trying to get across is that almost any game you’ve played recently is likely profiting a bigot in some way or another.

Shareholders will always exist. Funding sources. Executives. Just because they didn’t write the code doesn’t mean they weren’t involved with the development. And they certainly make money off the success.

Of course always vote with your wallet. Just saying it’s a complex topic and it’s one thing to boycott it because Rowling profits off it, but you’re also excluding the hundreds of hard working game developers who put years of their life towards a legitimately good game.

Unfortunately, because of the existence of shareholders, pretty much anything non indie is going to be profiting off exploitative rich people with generally loads of prejudice against marginalised groups. Even indie games you’re kinda stuck, look at factorio for example. Or you’re supporting the storefront. There may be ways to consume games ethically maybe but there’s always a catch somewhere. Informing consumers of these choices is important, but judging them for it is reductive considering the only winning move is not to play.

The last AAA game you played is almost guaranteed to have been worked on by at least one racist, trans phobic, radical extremist of some kind. Just something to consider.

I use modrinth on the deck and it’s been pretty good so far no real issues. I wish though that Java Minecraft was up to parity with bedrock regarding controller support

I’m not disagreeing that it’s different. It’s a more fair comparison to compare it to embedded software development, where you are writing low level code for a specific piece of hardware.

I’m just saying that abstraction in general is not an excuse for the current state of computer software. Computers are so insanely fast nowadays it makes no sense that Windows file Explorer and other such software can be so sluggish still.

Abstraction does not have to imply significant performance loss.

Phosphorus deficiency will always be a problem. If we can solve the problem of generating phosphorus, we’d cut out many negatives.