Man, I used to throw on Werster’s vids back in the day to listen to while I worked. What a bummer he cheated.

I hope someone dumps invasive floating plants in next. Perhaps even some duckweed.

Yes!!! Give me more media superconglomerates!!! I love mergers and acquisitions!!!

How many times are you going to ask this same fucking question dude?

The dbzero instance has a lot of that and it’s kind of cringe. Easy to ignore, i guess.

There’s some pretty interesting tech and development behind it, too. Like the Proton-like translation layer which will allow x86-native games to be played on ARM (I think this is an accurate, if reductive, description of Valve’s FEX). It’s just a cool piece of hardware, sorry if I seem too excited 😅

It’s its own unit! From Valve’s own website:

Steam Frame is a streaming-first, wireless VR headset + controllers that can handle your whole Steam library. Step into immersive VR, or lean back and enjoy your non-VR catalog. And it supports stand-alone play too.

It’s got its own CPU, GPU, and RAM, and has SteamOS preinstalled (just like the Deck or upcoming Machine) that you can play standalone games on, but also stream from a PC for even beefier games.

New VR gear to compete with Meta’s bullshit Quest line. Has the added bonus of being developed with Linux in mind, so even if Valve enshittifies, I could install whatever OS I wanted on the Frame and it’s still mine.

Fuck, I cannot wait. I know they’re going to be hella expensive, but I have been waiting for a viable VR system ever since my Quest 2 became bloated with Meta’s bullshit bloat. I can’t even turn the thing on anymore because the home menu has to load Zuck’s stupid metaverse in its entirety before I can even think about booting a game up.

If youre a fan of creature collecting/battling games, do yourself a favor and play the first one. It is excellent!

I agree, and wasn’t attempting to justify the use of generative AI (I myself am vehemently against it). I’m not sure what the solution is here besides to stop using it; if I were a game dev, I may find myself tempted to use it because I have little artistic skill, if I had no other resources for art. On the other hand, I’d boot up MS Paint and start crudely drawing my assets until I got a real artist, but I suppose that’s hardly presentable.

If they told us that they used a locally hosted model to generate assets based on their own art, that would be perfectly acceptable. But we know that’s not happening.

I understand the need to place something in your game while it’s in development. But the moment it touches the public’s eye, any AI assets need to be replaced with real art.

He’s going to make her docile like a winter catfish!

Great, so I’m sure he won’t mind if antifa and the leftists steal the election! Thanks, Trump!

You can download a Linux distribution from the Internet, but you must use a tool like Balena-Etcher or Ventoy to “mount” that distribution (typically in the form of a .iso file) to an external media, like a USB flash drive. Then, you’d boot your system into that USB to install the Linux distribution to your machine.

I’ve hit a friend with sudo pacman -Syu before…

They looooove doing individual directs for their big games these days, I’m certain that’s what they’ll do for it.

I think the little bit they did show looked… off? I think I would have preferred a Twilight Princess remake.

Very cute bun! We have a pair in our backyard that much on the clover.

Can’t wait for them to never be allowed to touch a James Bond game again, because the clueless husks at Amazon will deliver the next game unfinished, buggy, and full of microtransactions.

This one looks fucking sick actually