Makes sense. They need to save some GPUs for the poor crypto farmers and AI speculators.

Don’t worry. Trump won. You’ll hear a whole lot less about Gaza and genocide now.

I mean, Nintendo have often been fairly good with back compatibility.

If the architecture and form factor of physical media isn’t really changing, there’s not a lot of need to block older games from running.

They’re already on ARM, and there’s not much better for mobile gaming and GPUs have been fairly similar for a long time now.

The more interesting question is: will the Switch games get a performance boost on Switch 2? And it’s probably going to depend on the game. I’d imagine they’ll test a lot of the more popular titles, and anything with issues just gets it disabled until the developer patches it. It’d be nice to play TotK at a decent frame rate. Impressive as it is, it certainly chugs.

But I wrote I DO NOT GIVE FACEBOOK PERMISSION in big letters and everything!

Amusing as that is, I’m pretty sure it’s happened in every war since time began, and will continue to happen until we’re back at sticks and stones.

Yeah, but that Cardinal Glick though. They should have made that guy pope.

Intel’s long term prospects rely on China invading Taiwan.

Some are clearly designed for just that.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Firewall-Appliance-4xUSB2-0-OPNsense-Ethernet/dp/B0CB3M6M16?th=1

Do you honestly think that people who use Windows do it for no reason?

We’re not just using a browser over here. We have thousands of games we’d like to continue running, as well as thousands of dollars of business software. PC gaming is buggy enough as it is, without throwing one of a million distros of Linux into the mix.

“None of my stuff works but I least I don’t have to use WinBloWz$$$”

But spoiler: Everything you want is spread across about 5 services, and there’s gaps in it anyway.

Well any political choice will increase the wealth of the billionaire class in general. Any candidate that is a threat to that will be smeared to dust before they get anywhere near power.

But Musk is going for the more direct approach, and tbh I think the second Trump gets power again he’ll have no need for Musk and will treat him like the parasite he is. He’s certainly done that before.

There’s been a two pronged assault on it over the years.

Mostly from websites doing anything to spam up the results via SEO and mass produced articles about product recommendations, that are little more than the top 10 selling items of that type on Amazon along with affiliate links.

But also from within as Google morphed from a search company to an advertising company. Especially once they reached peak saturation and that all important growth must continue. I just don’t think the capitalism machine works for these tech corporations once they reach the size of Google. How do you even grow from there? Enshittification and eating yourself is the only possible outcome.

I would think it would still do most of it’s business on console regardless of which PC store it launched on.

Lack of a physical release probably hurt more than not being on Steam. When you go pure digital, you miss out on those impulse purchases.

In fairness if it had a microwave oven in the 60s, I’d probably want a warning if I was just near that building.

It was not a time when things were tested for long-term safety…

Yes, but they’re the same sort of people that think Elon Musk is a genius.

Keeping untrusted clients in their own ecosystem is an interesting idea, and would let people access the game without affecting anyone in the “trusted” chain, but you will all be lumped in with the obvious cheaters with blatant speed/flying/aiming bots.

If you were playing without cheats on Linux, I’d imagine you’d stop soon after.

The best idea would be to let people run their own servers and then allow or IP ban cheaters themselves, but I guess with everything needing to make money from skins and paints or whatever the fuck Apex sells, that’s out of the question and has been since about the Xbox 360 era.

Yeah, they don’t ban immediately. They collate a huge amount of data and then do it in waves.

That way cheaters know what software got them banned, but not the exact behaviour that gave it away.

Careful what you wish for because the next step after killing physical is cloud gaming only.

Not people on Linux.