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Cake day: December 24th, 2023
  • squid_slime@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie
    63·
    7 months ago

    Currently we are witnessing a capitalist genocide in Gaza were children are starving to death and the working class are powerless to stop this. But yea denial on both sides certainty is problematic, the issue is though “tankie” communists will argue propaganda as well as the libs and conservatives. We have been bombarded with fictitious narrative that its a real struggle to find comprehensive and honest reporting of previous events.

    Last month I read a “tankies” recap on Tiannamen Square protests, it went as far as to say there was no massacre and quoted creditable journalist that had reported a peaceful evening on the night of the massacre, but I equally saw photos of piled up buddies, bloodied police officers and alike. There’s also a conspiracy that the CIA staged the massacre or played some rule within it.

    Ive also dealt with american denying the genocide in Vietnam, or Americas rule in creating North Korean.

    Solidarity comrade

  • squid_slime@lemmy.worldtoGames@sh.itjust.works•Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?'English
    23·
    9 months ago

    Value is personal, I for one want a game, I dont want a bloated web browser that only connects through steam, which is what the steam client is. All the thing I need steam to do I can do and I can do it in a more agnostic way and less bloated. I use wayland therefore steam does not run without xwayland support enabled and even when enabled I can’t stream my desktop over steam remote.

    • Can’t use remote play and have an open source implementation that has fine tuning controls.
    • Installing mods through third party tools or manually is easy enough and allows for multiple distributors.
    • Dont use vr and even so its a closed ecosystem.
    • More than happy to visit steam in my own browser to buy and download games if that was possible.
    • Dont care for skins, cards, or any of the inventory system.
    • I talk to friends through open source solutions.

    If you do however want a streaming, mod manager, vr, forum, store front, download manager, DRM and much more in one bloated application then yes the value proposition is there.

    I highly value diy solutions in software, you on the other hand may not. And this is fine. GOG offers more to me than to you as steam offers less for me than for you.

  • squid_slime@lemmy.worldtoGames@sh.itjust.works•Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?'English
    66·
    9 months ago

    all of the things you have listed are things we as individuals can and have implemented without steam, theyre pretty good like adding code to wine and pushing linux to the larger audience and i myself have been on steam for 11 years with 320 games, but integrated modding? i mean we had mod managers before steams implementation.

    game streaming we have moonlite and shunshine > for amd hosts, and theres more.

    input remapping can be done through standalone applications i use sc-controller for remapping my steam controller.

    id say steams vr client is more of a negative than a positive, leads to segmentation and issues with device support when we should of focused on a wide approach to vr. like what google did with android, funded a free and open eco-system>(less so now)

    steam sells accessibility and DRM, personally i see this as a bad thing. force people to become dependent. and while gog isnt natively on linux there are work around like downloading from gog.com or installing heroic games launcher.