Crozekiel

It has to be a butthole. That's the popular current trend.

I have a bridge to sell you.

I recognize that as some part of a saying indicating someone is gullible, but don't actually know the source. I know this is off-topic, but where does this come from?

What does that have to do with anything here?? I don't know about you, but my likeness is not permanently located in a public space...

Freedom of panorama (FoP) is a provision in the copyright laws of various jurisdictions that permits taking photographs and video footage and creating other images (such as paintings) of buildings and sometimes sculptures and other art works which are permanently located in a public space, without infringing on any copyright that may otherwise subsist in such works, and the publishing of such images.

Same scam as before, just made a lot easier by AI bullshit unfortunately.

I shudder to think about my surgeon having to deal with a 400ms ping to the fucking robot cutting me open and how badly that could go...

Didn't he already put out a fluff video with ai generated images of basically that, like almost a year ago?

What "better right for consumers" are you advocating for? The false claim that Steam bars anyone on their platform from selling cheaper is easily proven false by looking at any of the numerous websites that track prices of games from various storefronts and is the key point used by Epic's legal team to try to garner support to break up steam in order to gain market share themselves and make the industry markedly worse.

Your post is thinly veiled "Valve bad, give money to Epic instead", whether you realize it or not. So what is your plan to make the industry actually better?

True, which is why it is so easy to tell which one you are doing. :)

There is open source software to run a stream deck, OBS is native (as you mentioned), and my Scarlett audio interface Just Works™. I'm not some big streamer or anything, but I dabble and nothing I could do on Windows is missing in Linux. Even my wacom tablet just works by plugging it in.

When I made the switch, I spent the money on a new ssd and literally pulled the windows one out and had it stashed away something like an "in case of emergency, break glass" type of thing. I realized recently I hadn't touched that in 4 years and decided to format it and install Cachy to try that out on my laptop; everyone just won't shup up about how good it is so I figured I should give it a chance.

You're just simping for a different billionaire out here regurgitating Tim Sweeney's talking points verbatim...

Make it so I OWN my games if a dev isn’t okay with that they can sell somewhere else.

I feel like we might be more likely to be successful lobbying Valve to make this a thing than we are the government. Fingers still crossed as hard as they can be for Stop Killing Games going somewhere productive in the EU.

The interesting thing about Steam being a monopoly to me, is that the complaints are always that they charge too much... They aren't undercutting all of the competition in order to maintain massive market share at all. The biggest complaint seems to be "they charge so much money, but I have to list my game on their platform or else I will get basically zero sales and visibility to my game!"

Yea, Steam is huge. The eventual total enshittification of Valve terrifies me, but not enough to just nuke them today and hope a better alternative materializes out of thin air tomorrow. From what I can see, their market share is purely a factor of offering a better product, so smashing them to bits just sounds like being forced to use even worse products.