Pycorax

Yea, the annoying thing is that this used to be fine. I was able to order the Steam Deck with my non-US account and pick it up when I happened to be in the US. Now, I can’t even do that. I have a 15 year old account and spent probably more than a couple thousand bucks by now. Surely I’ve earned it?

Each global region that’s supported that is. I wish they’d have some way for regions outside of those list to still try. There was essentially 0 chance I was able to get a Steam Controller being outside of those lists.

What the other responders have said aside, are you seriously comparing a hardware focused company the size of Asus to Valve who’s hardware business is more of a side thing?

While I agree with the author’s written examples at the top, saying hardly noticeable inconsistencies in the animation causes a lost in trust is quite a hyperbole imo. Still, it does shatter the expectation of Apple’s stuff being smooth and “perfect”.

While it is Ideal to nip all these inconsistencies, speaking from an engineering perspective, this sounds like a huge amount of work for something that almost all users will never notice.

You’re not wrong but is that not the entire console business in a nutshell? Getting a console is essentially signing up for a closed platform

Because you’re trying to work around their excuse. If it’s not bad parenting, they’ll find some other absurd reason. Don’t even try to follow their nonsensical attempts to justify this invasion of privacy, that just gives them more fuel.

Both could be true. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are doing it, heck if I were them, it’s a prime opportunity to fan the flames. That doesn’t mean the hate is manufactured or the concerns aren’t valid. The billionaires did this to themselves.

Europeans? More like most of the world really…

Having played all 3 of them, I enjoyed The Dark Ages far more than Eternal. With the exception of the Marauder, Eternal was basically just “keep shooting and moving and you’ll never die” and was way too fast on its default setting. While 2016 was plenty fast, it was still somewhat tactical at times. The Dark Ages goes in that direction but with the parries which is an interesting mechanic that was refreshing imo. At times it feels like a rhythm game which was pretty fun. My main issue with it is that it drags in for a bit too long and that it felt like they weren’t really willing to commit all the way with the parry gameplay.

I really regret not buying one of the earlier GoPros. The Insta360 frankly has been a huge disappointment. The batteries are really awful.

Cortana was actually really good on Windows Phone but they dumbed it down and added all sort of crap to it by the time it was integrated onto the desktop. They could’ve doubled down on whatads it good but nope.

Seems like their parent company hasn’t learned anything since the whole Superfish nonsense all those years ago. Glad I’ve stayed far away from them all this time.

Not OP but I have tried it and it really doesn’t age well. The story is novel for its time and I think it’s still alright but the level design absolutely didn’t especially when you put it beside games like Half Life that came out at about the same time. The maze in The Library was especially awful. Frankly, to me, the Xen levels in Half Life was better and that’s saying something.

Frankly, the only Halo games I ever had fun was Reach and Infinite even though Infinite’s story was eh… The gameplay was the most fun I’ve had in any Halo game.

Good luck!

Their recent release has them pretty competitive with AMD and Apple to an extent again. It’s not an absolute disaster that was pre 16th gen (if that’s what they’re called) .

Not sure if it would help, but if you can try installing it with ADB instead, ADB gives much more helpful information on why it failed rather than a useless generic unsupported error message.

Tribalism is one hell of a drug…

Satya may have grown the company share price but he’s absolutely killed everything that made Microslop even remotely interesting before he became CEO.

Nah I meant when we’re writing rendering code on our own. Those fixes in the drivers are custom made for those games only and aren’t applied in any other application, especially anything you write yourself.

Same issue with AMD’s drivers sometimes. Not to say that their drivers are perfect but as a graphics engineer, I’ve had stuff my colleagues wrote and tested on Nvidia work fine but break on AMD because AMD was implementing the OpenGL spec exactly but Nvidia decided to be “lenient” and add hacks that make incomplete code work.