I still think the Star Wars fandom some how is still obsessed with what they expected Boba to be from a few min and a small amount of lines in small portions of two movies.

I find the timing on this suspect. That said, I work in tech (Software Engineer) and the make up of teams in general have been moving this way for years. Heck, in most of the teams I’ve been on QA is no longer a separate role, but rather a required piece of knowledge about the language you’re working in.

Heck, most…

The bigger issue isn’t that they aren’t enforcing it and more that the law was not written to account for this. Those agencies are bound to the letter of the law and that law is pretty vague. Our justice system, both Civil and Criminal, are built on an accuser bearing the the “burden of proof”. This is why you see so…

For all the mistakes that they have made, my guess is that this is partially why Valve is making the moves they’ve been making over the last 8ish years with their Linux-based push. They see Microsoft (and other companies) trying to take full control of the gaming ecosystem and Valve is trying to put things in place to…

The problem isn’t about devs supporting Linux that aren’t, it’s that they are actively taking games off the Trove that already have Linux and Mac versions.... and all of this just so they can have a Windows Client for managing downloads. It really doesn’t make a lot of sense as those games rarely get updates, so…

I really dislike these bans so much since it effectively isn’t any different than watching the show with people in the same room, but the law wasn’t written with today’s technology in mind.

In all the injustice that is rooted in White Supremacy and Racism in this county, it can be hard to remember that the Judge and Jury are bound by the written laws when determining guilt.

I think it is a mix big company not caring and local culture. I worked for a big Japanese tech company. Their culture is very much “We take pride in what we do, if you don’t like how we do it, go somewhere else”.

We are talking about the country who’s culture is so built by that mentality that it is against the law to…

The fact that it is running in the kernel and isn’t a hardware driver or an OS level piece of software is probably triggering AV software. This is bad. Anything that runs in the kernel doesn’t just have to be trusted, but also secure.... which never reaches 100% as there are always bugs and/or vulnerabilities.... not…

I think it is important to note that PCGamer, PCGamesN, and others have reported from interviews that there will be a simultaneous PC release, though I could be misreading that. But, either way, according to the developer there will be a PC release regardless.

It’s probably good to note that the Developer, Aspyr, has ported both KOTOR games to other platforms, so they’ve worked on the game/story before. This just may be that they don’t have the capital to do a full-scale AAA level remake on their own as they are a smaller studio

I think Take Two has an uphill battle to fight. If CNCNet, OpenRA, OpenMW, Zdoom, GemRB, and others didn’t exist (and, in the case of CnCNet & OpenRA, have support from EA to do so), then maybe it would be more clear cut. That said, Licensing requirements and Copyright protections don’t generally prevent reverse…

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…

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.