Anyone else think a seismic shift is coming for gaming soon? Like “Crash of 1983” level of catastrophic.

Triple-A games just don’t have any heart and soul while crammed full of micro transactions. Shovelware makes it harder for good titles to float to the top.

Indie studios are our best hope.

Amen. I miss old Blizzard.

It’s a low effort, shameless, money grab. Is anyone surprised?

Remember when games were made by people who enjoyed playing them?

I want SteamOS to turn into a general purpose OS so I can shitcan Windows for good!

Anyone who bought into this crap kind of deserves it at this point.

I keep my appliances dumb AF because I have half a chance at repairing them should something break.

There are also fewer points of failure.

If I need to install their client to play a game, I just don’t play it.

Remember when we thought we had it bad?

…and still isn’t worth a cock in cold water.

It was. I have no taste.

Yeah I’ve read too many Decky horror stories. I’m not giving my Steam Deck AIDS to change the startup animation.

Just so everyone is aware, it’s stupid easy to use any video for the startup animation.

Rename the video and have it replaced the file in the following directory.

~/.steam/root/config/uioverrides/movies/

I’m using a modified PSX intro with Valve branding.

It’s time to make Microsoft hurt. Let’s go!

Much respect to Torvalds, but the LTT dude sets off my creep alarms.

Thin clients connecting to virtual desktops is already the norm

I can’t believe I have lived long enough to see the return of the dumb terminal.

You live there and you’re still wrong.

Denmark has a free‑market capitalist economy.

Go learn what socialism is.

Some of y’all need to go live in a socialist country for a few years and learn something about how it actually works.

Spoiler alert. You don’t want any part of it.

Where in the world has socialism been successful in the past?

I’ll wait.

In this particular case, you’re 100% correct.

It still beats having to watch some wannabe influencer flap their gums about nothing for twenty minutes just so their video is long enough to monitize to suit themselves.

This may be no help at all, but instead of having to waste my time watching unnecessarily drawn out videos, I’ve been feeding the links into perplexity and asking it to summarize the video for me. Saves a shitload of time.

Welp, vote with your wallet. Money is the only thing these companies understand.