Yes, I’ve attended everything you mention. I understand you think that is a large presence, but it amounted to less than 25% of the show. Larian and Nintendo were the exception, not the rule, they made up the bulk of the AAA presence.

“Something needs to change or you’re not going to get my support,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas

In b4 Chip Roy is demonized as an “activist rep” who is “subverting democracy”.

I’m not saying they have no presence, I’m just saying PAX has not historically been a priority for AAA studios compared to things like E3 and Gamescom. On the whole, PAX is like 75% comics, tabletop/board game, and general nerd stuff, and less than 25% game studio presence. Which makes sense because Penny Arcade is a comic and they’ve always had an association with that crowd. Video games just tend to have a lot of overlap with that crowd, so it’s been worth it for studios to have a presence, some years more than others, some years more indie than AAA (ex Indie Megabooth).

Note that they give you a different ISO when you choose AMD vs Nvidia on the bazzite website. So when you do the reinstall, make sure to grab the ISO for AMD.

A shift is definitely happening, but idk if counting booths at PAX and GDC is representative.

PAX’ audience are primarily comic and board game nerds, they’re historically light on video game booths in their expo hall, usually prioritizing indie booths when they can. GDC’s audience is game developers not players, so the expo is typically a bunch of hardware and backend service companies.

He’s not wrong, Baldur’s Gate 3 is a steal for the price it is. “Really great games” do exist and they’re worth their price tag, the problem is the number of AAA games of that caliber are like 1 in 30. We’re lucky to get one in any given year. Meanwhile, there are consistently high quality indie games coming out for less than $40.

gparted is a straightforward partition editing tool, in case you’re not aware, OP.

Yep, this is an old problem with Denuvo, new proton version looks like a new system. I guess if the containerization is perfect, Denuvo won’t be able to solve this and retain the same functionality.

How do I invest in Florida dentistry?

I think you took away a different meaning from my comment than I intended.

The 4D chess of it all is, publicly criticizing Trump now sounds the same as Fox News and MAGA have sounded since Obama took office 15 years ago.

The strategy has always been to declare all these terrible things are already happening and make the public numb to hearing this rhetoric. Then later, when they take office, they can just do those things and the public doesn’t know how to react, because half the population was already mentally there. You say “Trump is corrupt! He’s destroying the country!” and people just say, “mhm, the president is corrupt, what else is new?” and go back to scrolling social media.

It’s the end-game for the Whataboutism strategy that the GOP has been leaning on for decades.

I’m convinced 90% of them have never run either and just like to complain about stuff.

Ah ok hah, was just confused by the fact that it doesn’t seem relevant at all.

Are you responding to the comment you think you’re responding to?

Banning is fine, we’re talking about remote bricking. If I hack my Xbox, I’m fine with not being allowed to use it to join msft’s network, but I am not fine with them identifying my hacked device over the internet and actively sending some sort of backdoor self-destruct instruction to it. To me that’s a violation of the CFAA.

Yeah, I guess they thought he was doing a big research project on diversity lol. Banned from libraries, sure obviously. Banned from book stores? Why? He’s good business! If I owned a book store I’d gladly sell him 100 books, and 100 more when he’s done.

I disagree with his views, and he definitely should pay for every book he burned, but I’ll defend to the death the right to burn things in protest.

Hm, I would have said it’s not arson if he did it on his own property in a safe manner. But I also don’t know if the definition of arson includes any burning of others’ property without permission, even if you were allowed to bring the property somewhere where you’re allowed to start fires…

As long as the fines he is now due cover the cost of rebuying brand new copies, I thank him for his donation.

It’s hard to say. I agree, it seems like the MAU data for each of League and Fortnite is roughly the same as MAU for all of Steam (which is nuts). Of course there’s no way to know how much overlap is there. Still, both of these titles would be a hard stop for people deciding whether to switch to Linux.

As for msft themselves though, ironically I don’t know what titles they have that keep players on windows. Battle.net works on Linux, Minecraft Java ed works on Linux (not sure about bedrock ed compatibility or player count, but afaik most of those players are on non-PC platforms), all their zenimax titles are sold through steam and work great on Linux. CoD might be their biggest hold.

I disagree on number of games, but I agree on player count. The number of PC games that are not on steam (or don’t work on linux) is tiny these days. But the number of PC gamers who don’t need steam, or need something that doesn’t run on linux is probably still quite high. Still, even if valve was able to push a few % of PC gamers to Linux, that would be huge. We’re currently at 2% on Linux in steam surveys. I could see a power move by valve around win10 eol bringing that closer to 10%.

I think that was them drawing a line on eol windows. They cut both 7 and 8.1 at the same time. Could just be the policy now.

Part of me wants them to take the opportunity to push people to switch to Linux, the other part of me thinks that will be perceived no differently from msft’s badgering about win11.