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We already have Heroic and that’s far preferable to installing any of Epic’s software on my machine.

This stems from our success in identifying an IP with a strong genre moat and scaling it up by expanding co-op and content volume

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Anyway the entire article seems to allude that with Subnautica 3 they intend to turn it into yet another online micro-transaction turd

Big corpo-owned studios can’t make games anymore.

They just can’t.

Good games require creative thought, shared vision, and the liberty to change anything you don’t like.

They need a personal passion to make your dream real and to share that dream with the player.

An environment where a quarter of the workforce got fired and you’ve been given the project only because the ‘board’ thinks it’s the best chance to shit out something profitable for the shareholders is not where that happens.

They’re now calling it the “Inkterface” and there’s a good few things you’ll need to make it including:

• 1 x Adafruit ESP32 Feather with 2MB PSRAM.
• 1 x Adafruit eInk Breakout Friend.
• 1 x Adafruit 5.83" Monochrome eInk Panel.
• 13 x M2.5 x 5mm Pan Head Machine Screws.
• 4 x 1/4" x 1/4" x 3/16" Stepped Magnet SB443-OUT.

Funny how these days it’s so completely assumed every maker has a 3D printer that it doesn’t get mentioned, no more than instructions would mention anything as trivial as needing a screwdriver.

I have an Epic account which has hundreds of free games, but not a single penny paid.

I access it via Heroic launcher on Linux.

I consider this as doing my small part.

This.

It almost never gets better later, in anime. It goes the other way around.

When live-action TV shows get better in second seasons, it’s often because the acting cast find their groove and learn how to play their character, and the writers learn how to produce scripts that work for them.

Anime largely doesn’t have this.

In anime it often starts strong because you have the excitement of new characters to meet, a cool new world to learn about, a great premise, some looming mystery. But once all that’s done with it fizzles out.

Sometimes it doesn’t even last a season before it takes a dive. And it’s because all the writer really had was a grab bag of cool ideas, and not really a story. And once that initial excitement is over there’s nothing left.

My wisdom is “always put a white outline around black subtitles”

Sure, for real.

Of course, it isn’t like you can’t build yourself a small PC. I’ve got a build in a Fractal Design Terra with a beefy GPU, and that thing is barely bigger than a shoebox.

But building small is even more daunting than building large, so IMO it ties into the same angle of people wanting something that is premade and a product that just works, right down to the SteamOS operating system it ships with.

They can’t, and they won’t.

The way I see it, the people the Steam Machine is meant for are these:

1. People who are sick of the increasingly predatory nature of console gaming and want to switch to PC, but don’t have the confidence or knowledge to build their own

2. People who are similarly sick of Windows bullshit and want to try Linux, but don’t have the confidence or knowledge to do it themselves

3. People with plenty of cash who fancy an extra gaming PC to put under the TV

4. Valve fans who will buy anything Valve releases, no matter what

IMO it’s not trying to compete against consoles directly, and especially not on price, it’s trying to be an alternative to people who are already sick of consoles.

A person with a hammer? Why does it need to be difficult :P

Or just go with direct address

“If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”