GreenMartian

OKAY, BUT WHY ARE WE SCREAMING AT EACH OTHER?

I'm not disagreeing, but Steam went out of their way to support Linux because they needed to, when they first dipped their toes in selling hardware (Steam Machine, circa 2013 I think).

GOG had no incentive to do so when Linux gaming was such a small slice of their pie. And now that it's growing fast, they still have no incentive to do so, because third parties are already doing the work for them.

At the end of the day, we gamers are still the beneficiaries of the immense effort of CDPR, Valve, and the whole open source community.

The user figures are strongly impacted by the closing of Microsoft's acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard

I was sceptical of the 500m figure for Xbox (even if we include Xbox on Windows); but it makes sense if they include Battle.net figures I guess..

My impression from looking at how the likes of Temu and Shein are raking in billions is that, people are perfectly happy with cheap leas-than-mediocre slop.

Forza Horizon, on the other hand, are actually quite fun.

I had some fun with Bing AI..

Draw me an illustration of the following. A lady with pink, long flowy hair holding up a blank sign. She is wearing an off-white silky gown. The background are some pastel coloured pink lilies, and sky in the colour of pastel blue, yellow, and green.

Sign should be above her head. The lady has Caucasian features.

She should have a face that looks angry and determined to right a wrong. Also, use some bold outlines.

Sure, it doesn't exactly have character like the one in the OP.

But I also put almost no effort in prompting (less than a minute). And Bing (Dall-E) isn't exactly the pinnacle of image generation AI. And the whole tech will only get better by time.

The problem is that it doesn't even have to be "very good"; the majority of people are entirely happy with "good enough". It's not hard to imagine how the whole thing will threaten and disrupt so many industries.

just worlds to run around in

Which, ironically, was why I only played the main quest in Starfield vanilla. Running around empty, boring planets, with copy-pasted dungeons (there's only, what, 10 varieties?), felt like nothing but a colossal waste of time.

So glad I didn't pay for it (Gamepass, with apologies to my Linux friends).

Most clients can show split votes. So a 0 upvote is different to 1up 1down.

On that note, not a single person downvoted your comment 🥲

where the policy is, what the policy is.

And most of all, why the policy is.

I wanted to be snarky in the response. But I realise Lemmy is so diverse, that it's possible there are people who genuinely are not used to the saying. One of 10,000

Okay, so, actually in this case, "both sides have the fault" is correct. Because the two sides are Musk and Hitler (insert <it's the same picture> meme), and the fault is censorship.

Musk (pot) is accusing (calling) Hitler (kettle) of overt censorship (black), while he himself is in fact doing the exact same thing.

Well the open source crowd is probably one of the most diverse communities in so many ways.

Everything from wife-killers, toenail-eaters, to geniuses that rolled a one in social skills. From Mexico, to Israel, to Indonesia. From a kid in the library who can't afford a computer, to millionaires running a data centre in their basement.

Diversity is one-third of DEI, which currently is public enemy number one. So here we are..