*screen flickers*

Yes someone did exactly this: it’s called “Dinkum” and it’s fantastic, much better than the Animal Crossing game that hit the Switch.

Every study I’ve seen on the subject said it helps or that it doesn’t hurt. Note that this tended to have a lot to do with the type of games and how they’re played.

Mobile games and similar attention vampires are worthless. On the other hand are puzzle, strategic, and some competitive games that challenge the user the most. The more you have to think or the faster you have to think, the more good it does.

Price out a build that will compete with this and not require an ATX tower.

The issue is that if you sell the PC at a loss, you’re effectively subsidzing every person and business who wants an SFF-PC but may not necessarily buy games for them. It’s not like the Steam Deck where you can bet the majority of those devices are ending up in the hands of gamers.

Meta Quest 3S is $400 CAD so hopefully Valve can bring the headset down towards that range!

I’ve got 3 under 10 and it’s brutal trying to find time for hobbies. I paid someone to repaste my GPU and that felt weird as hell

You’re right, and I’ve learned to ignore most advice I read from enthusiasts. I bought a cast iron pan 20 years ago for $15 and I still use it to cook almost everything, including eggs.

I did splurge and buy a nice dutch oven to make baking bread easier, but it’s not necessary.

Multiple times now I’ve been mocked relentlessly for PC building advice or opinions on software development I had that became commonplace within 3 years, like when I said noSQL databases were overrated as hell but they had their uses. Made enemies on both sides lol… And now that’s the common opinion.

Look up the drama around “leftpad” and Node.js. One day thousands of packages broke because of their dependence on someone else’s package. If a global army of software developers can’t deal with a mundane failure like leftpad, how is Valve supposed to manage against a targeted spearphishing campaign like this? Its not reasonable to expect Valve to comb through (or even be allowed to comb through) the source code of every game that hits the store.

I wonder how? Plex is actually worse to navigate and filled with ads and shit.

The issue I had: Jellyfin experience is a better on Firestick and Chromecast than it is on Roku, but the difference has been shrinking fast due to contributions from someone named 1hitsong on GitHub. That person has absolutely hammered patches out over the past few months.

I get your point about sexual attraction not being necessary, but you’re still kind of making the other user’s point for them. Deep Rock Galactic works because of a cohesive aesthetic with characters that actually fit the world they’re in. Concord was like a cast of soulless GI Joe toybait characters who went through a corporate intersectional diversity blender.

100% a change.org petition makes news which is useful but won’t otherwise do anything. What you need to do to back that up is cost Visa/Mastercard money, and the way to do that is to call them and tell their ethics teams that what they’re doing is deeply wrong.

E Pluribus Anus

The costs are much worse than the time imo.

not reading / watching a play by Beckett means you’re uncultured

Is there a community for Shit Lemmy Says?

Sometimes a market you don’t even know exists opens up when you do something, so I get the logic of trying to open a competitor… But what did Origin or UPlay even do? Epic has freebies and a better profit share for publishers, GoG has their commitment to support old games, itch.io has the best profit share, indie focus, and I believe free listing? You need to do something to stand out from the monster that is Steam, or you might as well just stop.

We desperately need to ban all forms of real money gambling in games, or at least prevent kids from accessing it.

I’ve been playing X-Wing. The mad lads who built XWVM have essentially modernized the game and got it working on and with modern hardware, while strictly preserving its feel. It’s amazing.

Absolute stealth hit. The last table tennis game… Man that hits hard.

I watched it expecting the same campy tropes from other fantasy/sci-fi movies of the era and what I got was a movie deeper than it lets on. That score too, amazing.