Aaand they’re more powerful for the same (or even lower) price. All the people saying you can’t build anything better than the Steam Machine for the same price have been awfully quiet these last few days. I guess the memes about Valve fanboys have some truth to them.
On the other hand, the Steam Machine is smaller and needs less power, so there’s that. I don’t know if anyone cares that much, but I can appreciate very small PCs.
Paid actor or just retard?
There’s clear data showing piracy almost never has a negative impact on sales. If anything, it’s usually a positive impact. And the exceptions to this are not video games.
Don’t kid yourself. The artists will get fired either way. Whether or not the game sells well will not change anything. Aside from the point above.
Anti-piracy advocates like you are the cancer of the gamer community. You’re doing absolutely nothing for the world, but spewing corporate propaganda that is based on nothing but the words of an ultra rich pedophile.
It’s like trying to boycott Nestle.
Sooo, like… entirely possible with some effort?
Piracy isn’t stealing either way, but this slogan is good. We need more people to pirate than ever before.
Why is Netflix on the list??
Because it does make games and is part of the anti-stopkillinggames lobby.
And why is Riot on the list?
Shit game company in general. Also part of the lobby if I remember correctly.
ESL is an e-sports organisation, they do e-sport events, they don’t make games. Why are they on the list?
This one I’m not sure. Probably part of the lobby as well? Can’t confirm right now, but a lot ot companies you haven’t even heard about are lobbying against it.
Ain’t nobody buying it for the official price, let alone twice that lol
For some time I worked for Microsoft on their Copilot AI (outsource, I did not know I was signing up to work for Microsoft).
I cannot tell you how many good translators Microsoft hires just to rate Copilot’s responses in various languages. They often had interesting insights to share, but whenever I asked my managers where to put it, they said we don’t care. It’s just rated 1 to 5, and that’s it. Nobody even cares about language-specific nuances.
Technically none of the translators are ever ‘hired’, let alone ‘employed’. All the work is based on shit contracts through several proxies. Some people weren’t even sure that they were doing work for Microsoft. Hell, as a junior manager even I never had contact with anybody from Microsoft. Only our seniors.
It’s an overall incredibly depressing environment. Very knowledgeable and passionate people still try to do their jobs as well as possible and provide insightful feedback, despite the fact it’s supposed to completely replace them. Only to be ignored and ghosted when a given language is deemed not worth the cost by microslop.
I was literally the only person who ever responded to translators labeled as no longer useful. Even though they still had their contracts active. And I know that, because several of them told me that. Nobody else bothered to even respond as people asked for any available jobs when struggling to make a living.
That’s great to hear. I wish I had that kind freedom when it comes to work devices.
However, you’re talking about ‘companies’ and ‘employees’. Not ‘people’. As I mentioned, not a single thing about any of my comments in this thread was directed at anyone using Windows for work. It’s entirely out of scope.
Everything I wrote here is meant towards people using their personal devices for their personal lives. Anything else wouldn’t make sense.
For me personally, it has always been crystal clear that any ‘switch to linux’ discussions exclude employees and their work devices by default. Perhaps I should be underscoring that to avoid misunderstandings.
True, but what’s the connection?
Workplaces already usually run Windows Enterprise. And IT departments are practically guaranteed not to let you debloat the OS.
Also, I’m not shaming anyone for using Windows at work. It’s not the employees’ call. I use Windows for work too, because that’s what the company installs on all PCs.
Most orgs will no doubt continue running Windows for a long time to come, due to Active Directory, Intune, and other services. A lot of smaller ones could more or less easily switch to Linux, but I can’t see that happening with medium+ sized ones.
Absolutely. That’s what I meant by the music software. From what I’ve seen it’s the most common to have older versions that a lot of people use, that don’t work on newer OSes.
Still, a basic DE with multimedia apps, a web browser, an office suite, an IDE, and games cover something like 99.3% of users (arbitrary number).
Why SteamOS specifically? It’s not a particularly good Linux distro, unless you’re using a Steam Deck or a Steam Machine.
And even then, better options exist if you feel like switching the device’s OS. Personally I keep SteamOS on my Deck, because I don’t want to reinstall all the games. Otherwise I’d move to Bazzite.
There are plenty of Linux distros with either Nvidia drivers pre-installed or with toddler level installation of them. If your only issue is nvidia drivers, then it makes no sense to wait for SteamOS. Try Pop!_OS, Manjaro, Ubuntu, Mint, or Fedora. Any of these will do a better job than SteamOS (ok, maybe not ubuntu), and they’re available right now.
Some people really do say that Linux is too much hassle, but then go through a 30 step process just to have a slightly less bloated piece of spyware.
I mean, it’s good that this option exists. I’m sure it’ll be helpful for people who need Windows 10 for some obscure music software, that doesn’t work well or at all in a virtual machine or through wine. That might really be Windows 10’s singular last use case.
Boy, the good ole days are gone when it comes to Windows.
No such thing ever existed. All of this has been a work in progress for the last 30 years.
The “good old” Windows XP didn’t send data to Microsoft every 30 seconds. But not because it was a good operating system or because Microsoft was a nice company.
It was the case only due to lack of resources and infrastructure. That’s why every new Windows release featured gradually more spyware. Microsoft was slowly but steadily progressing towards its original goal. That goal never changed.
Some people are severely misinterpreting inability to spy en masse with unwillingness to do so. Microsoft was never unwilling. Not even for a minute.
Tl;dr
USA:
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I don’t know where the gatekeeping comes from. Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but I literally encouraged the other person to play more varieties of games, which as far as I know is the opposite of gatekeeping.
Though I can agree the ‘take’ wasn’t particularly good. I found the other comment stupid, so I wrote a stupid, maybe mocking reply. That’s all there is to it.
I guess it depends on what you’re into, but for me stories in GTA are mediocre at best. Just average action movies dragged out into 40+ hour walking, driving, and shooting simulators.
Have you ever, like, played a game other than GTA?
Did you know they all usually feature stories? I mean, I do understand it’s kinda crazy, but it’s true!
And the stories in other games are infinitely better, too. They’re more than just poorly written characters saying ‘fuck’ or the n-word twice in every sentence.
Honestly, I highly recommend playing video games. Try it some time.
Maybe for rich countries. Sudan’s GDP is $44.69 billion as of 2026. $50 million is more than 1% of its GDP. That’s a lot more than nothing.
Can you imagine some country forgiving France a debt 1% of its GDP? That’d be over $30 billion.