All the layoffs were inevitable with the extremely obvious bubble in any computer related jobs. Same as dotcom bubble with a bunch of superfluous hires for superfluous tasks and ridiculous budgets that were not going to pan out. So yes now we’ll have tons of unemployed programmers and art departments from companies overhiring for at least a decade.
find a pirate station with a high value smuggling mission
keep accepting and canceling mission, filling inventory with the smuggling good
warp home to a base with a place to sell
makes tens of millions in like half an hour with almost no setup. Just need a base with a warp and a trading post. Haven’t played in a bit so maybe patched out but it wasn’t in the major update prior to this one.
With the widespread support for Steam/Valve on this forum because of their contributions to making Linux gaming easier, I’m now confused as to why people here are using Linux in the first place....
Yeah this is my main point, I feel the same way when people are trying to run other proprietary software. I understand just being very particular about workflow, big part of the reason I use any given Linux distro, but moving to Linux to then go through the hoops of running MS Office, which even in the best case scenario will be another app that is not easy to update, has always seemed silly to me.
I’m genuinely curious about why someone would use/support Linux and then use/support Steam, and how people manage to conflate the two. I’ve already posted other paragraphs in other places complaining about Steam over the course of years so I’m alr.
What is good about the service that is in any way similar to Linux, is my question. The two seem explicitly opposed in my eyes besides that Steam is using and therefore contributing to some Linux related projects.
It seems akin to supporting Microsoft for their implementation of WSL. MS also makes good some good products. They also have contributed. They are still anti-thetical to what I thought most Linux users want out of a company. Steam still seems anti-thetical to what I thought most Linux users wanted out of software.
ay I chose the weird galaxy ending and got to Budullangr immediately, been having a blast out here for a while. So many metal fingers and planets full of carbon that I easily set up bases worth millions a day idn abt 20 hrs.
Did everyone conveniently forget that Steam DRM is the reason why Steam came to prominence, and why it was ever used by any devs in the first place. Yes it’s easily cracked and barely an anti-piracy measure, even admitted by Valve, but it is still DRM.
They already have once though. Many of Morrowind’s dungeons were procedurally generated in development then edited a bit after, that was the same engine. Same with Daggerfall altho that was a diff engine.
Very different game but Amnesia: the Bunker has plenty of procedural generation as well.
It’s not at all impossible for one of the largest game development studios to have some procedurally generated, essentially dungeon content. Doing a bit more than the exact same place copied and pasted would be a huge undertaking yes, but if they wanted to they could have. There are plenty of 3D rogue-likes out now as well. Returnal is AAA and haa procedurally generated levels, far more complicated than neccesary for Bethesda to do in order to populate planets in their game about planet exploration.
It varies a whoooole lot depending on preparation and beans but I’ve certainly had somehow sorta salty tasting coffee. One bagel place I used to go to every morning had especially bad, salty tasting coffee from the bitterness. I was tired one morning and accidentally used salt instead of sugar, forgot I had added anything except creamer, and didn’t think about how salty the coffee was until 3/4 of the way through it because of the aftertaste.
Usually pour over is far less bitter, the French press coffee I make isn’t salty at all but is bitter, moka pot coffee I make is neither bitter nor salty.
Coffee usually has no sodium in it so it isn’t literally salty, probably just the bitterness, or it’s just from the water source.
The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months....
Making it seem like Steam’s problems for the first ten years were some software bugs inherent to all software.
It required you login every 48 hrs to two weeks to play most games for DRM purposes, they had no return policy, app’s buttons barely worked, overlay made games run considerably worse, it frequently took up a shitton of resources. The 48 hr thing meant that if you were offline for a bit and Steam was down or slowed (any time a bit sale happened or a big game was launched) most games were unplayable.
Steam came out in 2003 and tons of people complained about Steam DRM hearkening the end of actually owning videogames until at least 2012. GoG came out in 2008, didn’t require a launcher at all, sidestepped everything wrong with Steam.
There’s been non-buggy, not anti-consumer software as long as there’s been computers, Steam prior to like 2016 was not that. There’s been an alternative, buying physical games (until they all started using Steam DRM or worse) and GoG.
Yeah Epic Launcher is barebones. Both Steam and Epic are anti-consumer because of DRM, and making users beholden to any buggy software update to play software they purchase. At least Epic pays devs.
I’m on a mission to try out lots of first/third person shooters on the DS and 3DS. It’s quite an underappreciated genre on these systems, even though the DS has quite a rich selection. They can be quite fun and some can be finished in an evening....
Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people' (www.pcgamer.com)
PSA: You're abbreviating Firefox wrong (website-archive.mozilla.org)
Kind of a click-baity title; I apologize....
What's your favorite trick in NMS?
I’m curious what little neat things you guys have found or adopted while playing....
Why do you use Linux?
With the widespread support for Steam/Valve on this forum because of their contributions to making Linux gaming easier, I’m now confused as to why people here are using Linux in the first place....
Budullangr roll call!
Any other Buds here? Finally made it over a few days ago and it’s everything I’d hoped it would be. Weird worlds galore!
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because 'when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there' but 'they certainly weren't bored' (www.pcgamer.com)
Sure Todd, lol
Does black coffee taste slightly salty?
Recently switched to black coffee for a few weeks. I’ve had sour, bitter notes from the office coffee machine and a chain cafe....
Epic Games Store is offering developers 100% of revenue for six months of exclusivity (www.videogameschronicle.com)
The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months....
3 more reviews of DS "shooters", now with robots/mechs (Chibi Robo, MechAssault, Bionicle)
I’m on a mission to try out lots of first/third person shooters on the DS and 3DS. It’s quite an underappreciated genre on these systems, even though the DS has quite a rich selection. They can be quite fun and some can be finished in an evening....