And while I know people love to tout that the Constitution can be changed, it requires enough State Legislatures to approve an Amendment before it can be ratified. All Congress can do it propose an Amendment.

Ok, as much as I see the writing on the wall with Activision Blizzard, it’s important to note that the US legal system requires that someone/an entity be tried before they are actually considered caught.

Now if only our police could catch on to that fact.

The argument is that the State and A/B are in disagreement over…

A lot of this depends on personal taste. Unfortunately, most AAA games are not the Doom’s, SoTN, or FFVIIs. Instead it’s Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, FIFA’s and other yearly releases that do little to actually innovate and just repeat the same formula with slightly different characters.

I’ll take a Nintendo game any…

Are we sure it’s not Nimloth, the White Tree in Numenor, with the Sun shining behind it?

That would make more sense than Tirion with the Two Trees in the background. My guess is that it could be either at this point.

Also, didn’t the Numenorians frequently visit Tirion (and vice versa) during the second age? EDIT: I’m…

This. I prefer working for smaller/med sized tech companies, but I can definitely say, if nothing else, that the pay in tech is much better than in gamedev. The perks/benefits are better if you work for a company that prioritizes their employees. Which can make it hard to get Software/Tech/IT Engineers in tech on…

I feel like the big benefits something like the Steam Deck will have is two-fold:

1. The fact that any USB-C PC Dock can work to Dock it to a TV or KB/M + Monitor helps to solve potential issues with the control schemes some people may be worried about and it’s at a price point and portability that makes it suitable…

It has two, they are marked L4, L5, R4, and R5 IIRC from what I saw.

I’d guess the dock is largely just a USB-C dock and just passes power, video, and USB through. Steam’s controller API, and SteamOS itself, already have support for all the major controllers. (IIRC the PS5 controller driver was mainlined into the Linux kernel shortly after the PS5 launched)

Jonathan Blow is a really smart developer, but he’s got some issues when it comes to his ego. I’ve seen him trying to put down other developers (software devs, not just gamedevs) on twitter just for disagreeing with him.

All games have one job to do and that is to entertain.

Many of the people building these tools don’t do it for the reasons you list.

Not sure how well that would work either. A simple bug in the console itself could be used to monitor traffic for the encryption key(s) and install that onto the router or other network device to decrypt and re-encrypt traffic on the fly. Not to mention how important latency is for gaming, that’s almost a non-starter.

The reality here is, in addition to being an arms race, is that as long as the cheaters/players have physical control of their hardware, they can either add (via purchase, install, etc) or make their own mods, kernel modifications, etc that circumvent or trick Anti-cheat software. All the while causing AC makers to…

I’m in no hurry for Nintendo to roll out a new console that’s “required” to play new games.

Mod licensing confuses me anyway. Since most mods are using the assets from the core game (obviously not all are), then modders don’t have any copyright or licensing rights to the assets, even if they are modded. Additionally, many modern games put limits on the kinds of licenses modders can use with their mod code or…

Or the user is too lazy to configure the discoverability tools.

It’s quite a bit finnicky. Steam is the only thing I can get to consistently recognize it and that’s probably because their controller API is specifically designed to recognize Switch, PS4/5, and Xbox controllers..... assuming you’ve turned that detection on (By default I think only XBox or Generic compatibility is…

It’s quite a bit finnicky. Steam is the only thing I can get to consistently recognize it and that’s probably…

The 8BitDo SN30 Pro + controller is probably my favorite right now. Not only can I use it on my switch AND it looks like a SNES and PS2 controller had a baby, but it also can be used as a generic XInput controller on my PC, a controller for MacOS, or a DInput controller for my Android phone.

The 8BitDo SN30 Pro + controller is probably my favorite right now. Not only can I use it on my switch AND it looks…

DLSS is in the Linux driver, but it currently only works for Native Linux applications. As you mentioned, the drivers are necessarily different. This change is to allow Windows games running in WINE/Proton to utilize the Linux Driver’s DLSS features. This is, more or less, what WINE is doing for Windows APIs and…

That depends on what you like. I use Linux for more than just the terminal. Outside of certain games, there’s very little I need that doesn’t run on Linux and since much of my work is specifically developing for cloud solutions that run on Linux, it’s always been easier for me to just use Linux. WSL2 is cool, but it…