Gaming on Linux is pretty good nowadays. I’ve only run into one or two games I couldn’t get working. The vast majority of games work with Proton right out of the box

My TV is 6 years old now and it does 120hz. My PC monitor does 200.

I’ll rip open Ultra Magnus, and every other Autobot, until the Matrix has been destroyed.

Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy.

It’s a pity you Autobots die so easily, or I might have a sense of satisfaction now!

I may have seen this movie more than any other single movie that exists. I can hear his voice in my head. So many great vocal performances.

Trust me, if the parents would have let me punch some holes through the walls to get rid of some heat, I would have.

I loved my FX cpu but I lived in a desert and the heat in the summer coming off that thing would make my room 100F or more. First machine I built a custom water loop for. Didn’t help with the heat in the room, but did stop it from shutting down randomly, so I could continue to sit in the sweltering heat in my underpants and play video games until dawn. Better times.

Montana also has low taxes. All the super cars I see at shows have Montana plates and the rich asshole owners will tell you they bought a condo or something there so they can cheat the California taxes.

Your mangled brain would like you to know that there is a boxer called Contact Mike.

He’s actively anti-MAGA. Dude knows first-hand what fascism does to people.

“With great power, there must come great responsibility.” Spider-Man comes up in a lot of my political arguments and it’s an incredibly useful tool to get to some people.

Your comment made me laugh aloud, and then be sad. Bravo.

Most of this already exists and they haven’t taken that tack, though. SteamOS is just Arch and KDE, with access to anything Arch has access to. If you don’t like that, Valve made it trivial to put another OS on the Deck, like Bazzite.

Steam Play is already a streaming technology, which works great and is free to use and has been for like at least a decade.

Steam Store is already gigantic, despite having some well funded competition who has to resort to exclusives and free game giveaways to entice users. It’s already the de facto default game store for PC, and provides lots of extra features beyond just game delivery.

Most of the technology Steam uses (like Proton or GameScope or Arch) are open-source. We can (and do) fork their work for our own purposes regularly.

I don’t think Valve is perfect, but I do think they value their open approach to technology. I think as long as the company is never publicly traded, I would imagine anyone who currently works at Valve would share that attitude with GabeN, otherwise I imagine they wouldn’t work there long.

If they go public and have to report to shareholders, then I completely agree that the enshittification will be swift and merciless. I hope Gabe makes Valve an employee-owned co-op or something when he decides to retire. I can only imagine he has strong plans for the transition of power.

I’d work on my car and my computer/gamedev stuff, and teach others to do the same. Also more gardening.

What games are you playing? I have not encountered anything so far that has needed more than proton-ge, and even then it’s only a couple of games that don’t just work out of the box. I guess I primarily play indie games though, nothing that would have like anti-cheat which I understand is a hurdle.

I bought a box of spoons at the Business Costco and now this is my whole life

Bong rip

Isn’t PewDiePie a Nazi?

It’s not bad. I haven’t dug too much into it but it’s got the pokemon feel and I’ve enjoyed what I played of it.

A Disco Elysium style Trek game would be killer. Make me make ethical decisions about other species, decide if I want to be a Starfleet or a Maquis, and make awkward conversation with my superior officer that gets me reassigned to Delta Shift cleaning the Holodecks, and seriously reconsider my life.

Yeah, I prefer a direct and honest approach. If it ends up that you lose friends over it, those friends may not be worth keeping.

Look at this guy and his bootstraps, everyone!