Personally, I wouldn’t include Proton in the costs of the Steam Machine. The Deck already is benefiting from it immensely, and I would consider it to be a cost of expanding into Linux gaming in general - especially with the Lenovo handheld and other devices starting to jump on the bandwagon as Microsoft continues to take repeated dumps on their userbase. Its R&D costs are being won back by the market % Steam takes on any games bought and played in Linux, which means that it can benefit from that continued revenue stream rather than the one-off hardware sale.

The hardware has to break even. The software already has.

Don’t forget aggressive rent-seeking behavior.

Agreed. The distinction is between ‘millionaires’ and ‘multi-millionaires’ imo.

They’re buying the parts directly from the manufacturers though, so cutting out the retailer middle-man could offset the R&D costs.

What? You need to expand your knowledge of apple types. I’ve had a similar variety; a bit floral, but not bad.

Millionaires don’t count as ‘rich’ any more. One million is no longer enough for stability.

I have that and an ‘OnLive founding member’ T-shirt that I wear to tech events. Especially when I suspect there’s going to be something tone-deaf getting launched.

I got both for free.

Since when has breaking the rules stopped this administration?

You’re thinking of SUV’s, which typically have the flat, giant grill that is hard to see over and is far more likely to kill people on impact.

Minivans typically have a short, sloped front which not only provides good visibility, but also is less dangerous to pedestrians in accidents.

Your standards are weird. Several of these games are considered the current pinnacle of their genres.

It’s not just Microsoft any more though. Practically any time you have a prompt for something in software/web pages that benefits the company, the only options are ‘yes’ and ‘maybe later’. It’s become so ubiquitous that I’m genuinely surprised when a prompt like that actually has a ‘no’ option.

Your entire family being made to suffer. If you care about your family, at least.

The implication is that they’ll have to jump ship to Linux, and thus become a member of the unixsocks community.

Risking the health of babies for profit is kinda Nestlé’s SOP.

If the server runs a significantly cut-down rendering model, you can do things like culling player models when you can’t see them. No more wallhacks.

Symphony was incredible for the time, but its difficulty was all over the place and pretty much becomes zero in late-game. Many, many Metroidvanias by indie developers have far surpassed SotN in quality.

It’s one of my favorite games of all time, but I understand that nostalgia plays a big part in that.

You can run it streaming from a PC. The architecture of the source PC can be anything that’ll run SteamVR, assumedly.

Why did you post essentially the same thing, but with different wording, one hour apart? Into the same community?

It sounds dumb because you’re just posting LLM spam and you won’t ever actually do the thing.

Also, YAML. Yech.

It does make him an ephebophile though if he preferred them to adults.

And a rapist. Let’s not forget that.