I mean, there aren’t a lot of Java games, and C# (especially with newer runtimes) isn’t that bad if that’s what you’re referencing.

The old Civ games were a lot of Python, which is perhaps the most atrocious of all, performance wise. But they worked okay.

To be fair, they are too big.

They just have too many employees and costs. The way they’re organized, they’re stuck with gigantic budget, milquetoast, broad appeal games just to attempt sales they need to break even, with all the inefficiency that comes at that team size… unless they fire a ton of people and split up the rest.

My observation over the past decade is that “medium size” is the game dev sweet spot. Think Coffee Stain, Obsidian, and so on.

There’s certainly no conflict of interest there…

Google gets a cut from the Google Ads click, which takes the user directly to the Play Store (or, if on desktop, the Chrome extension store).

If it’s some free shovelware app, they get a cut from the ads spammed onto the user’s screen. If it’s a sham subscription app, they get a cut of that. I see this a lot test clicking ads these days.

If its legit phishing, that’s a fair point; they don’t get a direct cut of the scam, other than the attention it drives towards their app stores and the data they collect for the user’s profile. But the point I’m trying to make is that it’s incredibly hypocritical to paint 3rd party apps (and indeed any competing app store) as a danger when they do such a poor job policing their own store. They may have a point, but it doesn’t really tackle scamware unless they change their moderation habits.

Could it perhaps be, I don’t know, the entire rest of the world calling out China’s own genocides?

And no, the US has no leg to stand on when it comes to stamping out ethnic groups, especially Muslims. So?

We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer.

Translation: if they want scamware, it better be from Google Play, where Google gets a 30% cut. On top of the cut they got for the phishing link in Google Ads.

And if anything thinks I’m being hyperbolic, go on Google Play and search for pretty much anything. Or turn off your adblocker.

The key being FSR 3.

If it was FSR 4, that’d much better looking at high res.

I mean, we already have Gaming PC OEMs and mini PCs. It’d be awesome if they start shipping SteamOS, but they can’t sell hardware at a near loss + make up for it with Steam sales + guarantee hardware support in software like Valve can.

And most don’t have the volume for “semi custom” AMD SKUs.

EDIT: The only entity I could see doing this is Intel, selling an Arc Steam Machine. That would be awesome, actually.

Whooaaaa, slow down.

It’s going to be awesome, but there’s no way Valve and spin up the production volume of a PlayStation or Xbox that fast. It will probably take a few more Steam Machines to get there.

Uh oh.

…Oh. I see, I misread the generation.

Yeah, that’s a huge caveat, one that would get me to reconsider the whole box, as FSR4 is way better than 3. I wonder if there’s a chance for AMD (or Valve) to backport it?

AMD must feel good about this, given their (apparent) alarmingly small desktop GPU marketshare.

…They really just need OEMs to ship the things, and now they got a great one.

I’d be neat if Steam offered an Intel Arc variant too. The B series is massively underrated.

Yeah.

I was with family, on an RTX 2060 laptop and a nice TV. I fed it 1080P for the TV to upscale (since that’s the only res it would take at 120HZ or something like that), and it looked good. Those TV ASICs are quite powerful these days.

I mean, it will do 4K in old games just fine.

FSR(4) is less noticable at higher res, anyway.

Yeah, that’s tiny. That’s like 3.8L.

I travel with a 10L SFF PC, and that’s small for an SFF case.

…Isn’t this a bit ironic, considering GTA’s/RDR’s writing of (loosely) “plain folk’s plights?”

It’d be like CDPR going all in on DRM/corpo surveillance tech. And NO, CDPR Bot, that was not a suggestion!

…The picture says 'Start Now. Download."

I posted some similar ads above.

I mean, I’m using Firefox now? Cromite blocks them by default too. I tested with and without a VPN as well.

If you’re gonna get all pointy, what I was trying to politely imply is your original statement is incorrect.

I wouldn’t call fake download links on a download page ‘restrained’

Firefox blocks them by default. You have to turn off enhanced tracking protection.