SteamOS is arch, so some of the derivatives are too.

Steam shouldn’t really care though.

Good. Scanning everything for CSAM is one thing, but requiring platforms to scan everything uploaded for alleged copyright infringement is insane

Sony does hardware features well pretty much across the board. It completely changes the experience without dominating it.

Third parties seem to either halfass it or ignore it.

Almost every game that uses the speaker is even more annoying.

Maybe, but they’re on the side of normal people here.

Court ordered mass surveillance is horseshit.

They definitely should be treated as super sketchy, because they are, but abandoning a project that doesn’t get anywhere near goals is part of the idea of kickstarter. It’s “this idea takes some minimum investment to make happen, and you (the funder) are willing to spend $X to make that happen if the critical mass is reached”. Abandoning failed campaigns is the core concept.

The weirdest part to me is thinking the timeless omnipotent god that the Bible explicitly says considers a thousand years less than nothing actually literally meant that he created everything in what we’d perceive as 7 days when talking to whatever arbitrary scribe wrote down the creation myth for him.

One random one that jumps to mind is a game I routinely see bundled on fanatical dirt cheap.

Ugly starts a little slow, and I think the writing is just weird, but the some of the puzzles are really cool, and there’s a good blend between pure puzzles and puzzles that require platformer execution.

I don’t know that I would have paid $20, and I paid less than the $7 it’s available for there now (it says for 10 hours), but I enjoyed what I played of it.

He wants all of his books in one index.

No problem. I’m never going to criticize piracy because I don’t really care either way, but I wouldn’t want to see anyone pay several times as much for a product that’s worse for their needs.

Just FYI, the official way to watch after the fact isn’t Sunday ticket. It’s NFL+, and removes commercials from the main broadcast, along with providing an abbreviated version that cuts out all the between play stuff but keeps all the action, and access to the film, and is (in the US) $100, not as expensive as Sunday ticket. You can also search for specific plays by specific players with NFL Pro. (Edit: it looks like they still call it gamepass internationally, and you also get the games live).

Doesn’t mean don’t look for alternatives, but it’s not as expensive as you’re thinking unless you want live games.

The game is learning.

There’s some reaction element, but the core loop is learning how to be optimally positioned to use your weapon, how to optimally pace your attacks, when your attacks leave you vulnerable. Then once you get that, you do the same with enemies. You learn where they hit hardest, what you can avoid, what their tells are, and when they’re vulnerable.

If you’re willing to learn and approach the game with learning as a goal, and understanding that you’ll die as part of that learning process, they’re great, because they do a really good job of creating difficulty in a way that almost all damage is predictable and avoidable if you know what you’re looking at and approach it the right way.

If you just want to button mash you’re going to have a bad time.

It sounds like they have to to stay in compliance with the platform’s rules, but the benefit of the engine being open source is that anyone else can offer the same porting services.

If you build a game for unreal, you start from scratch or bend the knee to whatever they demand of you.

Can you lock it so only you can upload?

It sounds like a useful way to share stuff with friends, but not if any random person can upload stuff.

lol the inflammatory bullshit title already decided it.

My habit of collapsing long sections so it’s less annoying to scroll probably doesn’t help either, but whatever.

I don’t disagree with that. But he’s almost definitely responding to all the vitriol directed at employees losing their jobs as a result of bad decisions passed way down the chain to them, and this article is trying to make it some gotcha hit piece.

I do think being in charge of monetization at a company that does so in the way almost any AAA studio does is an inherently unethical job and will have a hard time feeling sorry for him personally, since he’s willing to do that job, but people are also being miserable assholes to everyone else who just is trying to work on a game for a stable employer. And all he’s actually saying is “maybe don’t be an asshole to people”.

He’s very clearly talking about celebrating people losing their jobs, and does so without saying anything super crazy.

Good luck with that.

They didn’t do anything more than a handful of idiots no one wants to deal with is going to be bothered by.

Just going to throw this out there for fellow introverts.

You’re fully entitled to use Godot if you’re an asshole.

You’re not inherently entitled to interact with their development process or get their help, etc. They aren’t obligated to deal with bullshit to run an open source project.