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- Comment on Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games 3 weeks ago:
It’s usually the same reason for their best games. :)
With previous Half-Life games came Source engine and the entire Steam.
- Comment on Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games 3 weeks ago:
Sure, it’s not like their last full release was actually a single player only game.
The headline is taken a bit out of context, the guy being interviewed seems to imply he doesn’t really consider VR “single player games”.
And besides, he left Valve 7 years ago.
- Comment on Mozilla accused of tracking users in Firefox without consent 1 month ago:
I don’t think you read the article, or you just like being tracked.
- Comment on The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive 2 months ago:
It’s not like physical media makes any difference anyway these days.
Actual disk often gets just a glorified installer, and even if it includes the entire game you’re likely to have to activate it online anyway.
The “own your games” ship has sailed long ago, unless you only buy no-DRM and your own backups.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
One of the reasons being Nvidia forcing unethical vendor lock in through their licensing.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 2 months ago:
I don’t know why people are saying this is a well written article - the author seems to be bewildered that a game that looks good is bad.
It’s really not that complicated. At the end of the day it’s a game and gameplay is the single most important feature.
Just look at Breath of the Wild: it doesn’t look particularly amazing, and it runs like shit on the only hardware it’s available on.
But it’s the great gameplay that keeps people coming back for more. - Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025 2 months ago:
Right, that’s why I’m not convinced this will ever actually release.
Abandoning all previous work, and the fact that new devs don’t exactly have experience with this genre…
I’m still gonna give it a try, but I’m not hopeful. - Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025 2 months ago:
I’m surprised it’s not cancelled yet.
I think at this point its development is even more troubled than the original, which is kinda impressive in its own way.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
I don’t think so. Maybe they’ll have something new for the next Nintendo Switch?
In fact, the Shield is using the same chip as the Switch (same for the newer revisions).
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
It’s supposed to use S905X3 with ARM Cortex-A55.
There’s already plenty of devices on the market with this chip, and it’s fine, but in real world as a user you won’t really see any improvement over something like a nearly 10 year old Nvidia Shield that’s still using a more powerful chipset.
Which is sad for a new device…
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
They’re supposedly using pretty much the same chipset. So the most important part is still underpowered, these Android boxes generally work fine even with 2-3GBs of RAM.
- Comment on “Orb: On the Movements of the Earth” Teaser Visual 3 months ago:
Just a bunch of stuff about geological and astronomical properties of the mudball known as Earth.
- Comment on “Orb: On the Movements of the Earth” Teaser Visual 3 months ago:
The manga is set in medieval Poland, so yep.
- Comment on Apple Hits a Major Roadblock as EU Targets App Store 4 months ago:
You know, this explanation isn’t wrong, but having a printer manufacturer in your analogy show up as a victim just feels wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
No, it really doesn’t.
In competitors’ apps you can still integrate it with 3rd party services.
Teams keeps failing at the most basic features of a chat/calling app.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Such as?
Last I checked there’s still no alternative that doesn’t require some sacrifices.
- Comment on ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram 6 months ago:
You should search for something like “data protection office” in Czech language, they likely have tips on how to lodge a complaint.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 7 months ago:
I don’t use Kagi, but pretty sure they offer the plan you want.
- Comment on Delivery attempt at 2am - charged to redeliver! 9 months ago:
Better question, what kind of a scam company charges for redelivery?
- Comment on Discord Servers asking for Phone Numbers and 'Verification Levels' 9 months ago:
I doubt they do. They just want to be “secure” and are unwilling to admit setting the level at “highest” is bullshit.
It’s not like you can easily get a new number and circumvent this “security” measure if you want… /s
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 10 months ago:
There’s no “feds” in Europe.
And if you bothered to check it yourself instead of bitching about it based on some random guy’s post spreading FUD you might have found out Proton contributed to a legal fight that changed the Swiss law and made a repeat of this situation impossible.
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 10 months ago:
It’s explained in the article, actually. ;)
The project was using Nintendo proprietary libraries, and Valve’s already shown on previous occasion that they don’t really want to go to court with sue-happy Nintendo.
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 10 months ago:
Sure did. It’s really not that hard to understand why Valve would not let someone remake a game that still hovers at around #50th place in Steam’s most played games globally…
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 10 months ago:
You know, you chose a bad post to get edgy.
Valve is actually one of the companies that treats fan projects very well, sometimes they’ll even let you sell your project on Steam (see Black Mesa remake).
- Comment on Honda announces a new line of electric cars, the Honda 0 10 months ago:
I wouldn’t hold my breath. In some EU countries Honda doesn’t even admit this model exists anymore…
I’m guessing the relatively high price and low mileage might have killed it.
- Comment on The Coffin of Andy and Leyley Developer Sells Title 11 months ago:
Apparently it wasn’t just drama. Steam post doesn’t mention that, but it seems the dev was doxed just before making this decision. :/
- Comment on The Coffin of Andy and Leyley Developer Sells Title 11 months ago:
This is the exact type of comment that led the dev to abandon everything.
It’s not “the incest game”, the topic of incest barely even appears only if you make several specific choices in the game, and even then it’s never painted in a good light.
- Comment on Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues 11 months ago:
No, read the article. App claimed to be end-to-end encrypted, it was anything but.
- Comment on We're going in the wrong direction 11 months ago:
They fucking what!?
Anyway, the “Enhancer for YouTube” addon has an option to force a normal player for the shorts.
- Comment on EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments 1 year ago:
No, EFF that’s linked here is doing a good job.
OP is just using shitty titles to stir up drama.