And this is one of the reasons that my main OS is Ubuntu-based AND what I do have windows 10 for (A single game that doesn’t work in Linux natively or with SteamPlay) is completely on an SSD.

My biggest concern with some of these “studies” isn’t the studies themselves, but the way the media jumps on a single publication. I’m going to post what I posted in work chat related to the new “cloud apocalypse” study and someone else who knows waaaay more about weather and climate than I do:

Video games are software and the way software is “released” has significantly changed in recent years. While there are largely still “releases” to launch a new product (or new major version of software), they have largely moved to continuous development, integration, and deployment (in some cases).

NCSoft is a shitty company, and no one should ever work with them, period.

This isn’t a choice being given to ArenaNet, but rather handed down to the them from NCSoft. My understanding is that NCSoft will tell them who goes and ArenaNet will have little choice in the matter.

Sadly seems all to common among some groups of gamedevs. See the comment I posted here referencing a tweet about the issue: https://kotaku.com/1832651329

Seems to be quite common among GameDevs (not necessarily a majority) to not use Version Control with their source. Learned about this from GameDev/Game Porter Ethan Lee on twitter a few weeks ago:

That doesn’t mean that all parts of the company are subject to continue spending company money if they aren’t bringing it in. I could see IF (and to me it’s a BIG “if”) a subsidiary was actually costing Activision money in their division (or, more specifically, repeatedly failing to bring in money), then there’s cause…

I’ll be curious to see how this plays out. My understanding is that LOTR was the book series he didn’t want to create. The Hobbit was never supposed to be part of the overarching series, etc. Rather WWI is where he developed the First Age stories that only recently have been published in some form or another.

You misunderstand my argument. Making 2 step authentication a default that you can change is hardly “forcing people” to use it. It’s a nudge.

The core problem with your argument is that not all users behave the same. I know a near equal amount of non-technical people that want automatic security updates and others that feel that forcing them to secure/update themselves is a breach of their privacy. Additionally, what if said customer doesn’t have a…

Because they are designed to fly as well as possible in both space and in atmosphere?

Yeah, I’m not justifying their lack of non-SMS 2FA, just pointing out that just because they are a part of Google, who makes a 2FA app, doesn’t mean they’ll use it right away (if at all).

• Steam is not a monopoly. They are the Market Leader, but not a Monopoly. Monopolies try and prevent competition, Valve on the other hand keeps creating new tools that they are allowing Devs to use that don’t have their games on Steam. Features such as SteamNetworkingSockets, SteamPlay, SteamController API,…

This. I have no problem with working to make things more user friendly for consumers using software, but it is YOUR responsibility to secure yourself and MY responsibility to secure the software that runs on the device(s). I spend enough time each day fixing bugs, adding features, and testing that I don’t have time to…

Welcome to how subsidiaries work. I worked for a company owned by a larger entity. Our management and the other companies that larger entity own tended to fight with each other a lot and very little was brought directly in from the parent org. Just because X owns Y doesn’t mean anything. There’s as much (or more) in…

Valve also has open source repos that you can submit bug reports to. Some of these map directly to Steam services. https://github.com/ValveSoftware

My laptop (strangely enough) has 2 M.2 slots and 2 2.5 SATA slots. I’ve got 3 SSDs and I keep my Linux install on the M.2 (It’s a System76 so it was pre-installed) and my Windows install on the smaller 120GB SSD. I have 2 partitions on the 3rd 500GB SSD that are split between 1 ext4 partition for the Linux OS and 1…

I know some may think this is trivial, but since I know a few people that are “held back” from using Ubuntu/Linux Mint/etc due to Adobe, I figured I’d point out witch apps on this list have Linux versions as well:

I think FFXV is her most meh.