Outrage? We’re just discussing it, mate…

They specifically advertise it as an “upgradable alternative to the Steam Machine”; with that in mind, assuming the name isn’t intended to evoke comparisons to Steam Machine is kind of ridiculous, no?

To what end? The republicans have been trying to kill the USPS for a very long time.

Mate, I could not care less about your screenshot. I’m referring to your posts in this thread, which extends to this very reply, where you’ve got a generally off-putting, condescending tone and frankly, I’m glad you’re getting downvoted for them, because that sort of behavior is just not something I’d like to see rewarded on the fediverse.

Have you considered that, perhaps, your prickly attitude and the tone of your posts is the source of the downvotes, rather than the content?

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See, this is what they should have been doing from the start. Actually add value for gamers rather than try to win market share through exclusivity agreements. This is how you complete with valve. Do more of this.

He and his friends made gobs of money insider trading on oil prices, so there’s that.

Because gamers have a finite amount of time and money? New releases are literally competing for both of those.

Not to mention, some companies right now are abusing interview candidates to get free work with “trial project” type assignments, or “How would you fix this problem, if you were hired?” type of free consultations. If some candidates abused the companies in return, I’d call that fair play.

Look at this guy with his fancy bottom sheets.

If only they had voted for the candidates who wanted a strong social safety net, rather than the ones that wanted to fuck everyone who isn’t part of the 0.1%, maybe they wouldn’t have to worry now…

The fact that they’re pushing for AI to be a utility when the fucking internet isn’t is just absurd.

Yeah, that’s more or less what I was getting at. Looking at the descriptions as a new player, being slaves sounds awful and the note about ‘Tip: Get into a cage when you spawn to avoid a beating’ makes it sound like it’s going to be a constant fight for survival, not one where any time you get injured there’s a hundred guards lining up to bandage you back to health. You basically have carte blanche to train some of the more obnoxious skills to level (e.g. assassinate, unarmed, etc.) without having to worry about getting eaten by animals or having bandits steal all of your stuff, and by the time you inevitably escape you’ll have 30+ in a lot of useful skills (or even more if you decide to stay long enough to do it). I had a really rough time on my first few characters until I tried that start, and then I played that save for 200+ hours off of the back of that free Rebirth skill training.

It also has a weird noob trap built in, where the “default” start is actually pretty bad, and one of the ones that as a new player sounds horrible is actually by far the easiest (that being the two slaves in Rebirth.)

I’d be more concerned if someone isn’t worried about the future, to be honest.

It’s most likely the one you’re given each time you go for a physical (or at least, we are where I live) - it’s more like:

In the past week, how often have you…

• Worried about the future
• Felt that you can’t do anything right
• Had trouble focusing on common tasks
• Felt hopeless or depressed
• …etc

with options like “Never”, “Rarely”, “Most days”, “Almost all of the time”

I mean, if he actually did it, he should absolutely be investigated and appropriate action taken, but like… this is ridiculous, right? It’s not just me?

For what it’s worth, you can add a non-Steam game in Steam and still access all of the compatibility options. I find this considerably easier than trying to get the game to work manually.

It’s not that they need it to develop features, it’s that if developers want to claim that Steam is overcharging, they need to be willing to give up access to the features Steam provides, because Steam is providing a service to developers through that promotion. As a personal anecdote, I’ve bought tons of games that I’ve never seen mentioned anywhere except on Steam, and would never have found at all if not for Steam promoting them to me.

The popular complaint is that if your game isn’t on Steam, it doesn’t sell on PC. The purpose of the thought experiment is to consider whether simply existing on Steam is all it takes, because if not, then Steam is clearly providing a service to them above and beyond simply having their game available to buy on its storefront.