Ironically Marvel Cosmic Invasion came out December 1st and it’s a very solid sidescrolling beat em up

Ubisoft Paris Mobile, Ubisoft Ivory Tower, Ubisoft Nadeo, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Owlient, Ubisoft Da Nang, Ubisoft Paris, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Chengdu, Ubisoft San Francisco, Ubisoft Milan, Ubisoft Mumbai, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Mainz, Ubisoft Bordeaux, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Saguenay, and Ubisoft Bucharest to name a few are Ubisoft and they produce and publish games.

Yes, these are all their children studios. Ubisoft Entertainment (colloquially referred to as just Ubisoft), as an entity, is a video game publisher.

Does that make all their children studios AAA? A lot of them don’t have massive employee numbers and their budget per game varies greatly lol.

Ubisoft is a publisher, not a game dev studio. They publish games made by their child studios. They don’t produce games themselves.

Larian has less than a 1000 employees

Yes, they have 500 employees which would be quite large for an Indie development studio.

DICE (studio behind the Battlefield games), for example, has 700 employees. CD Project RED, (Cyberpunk, Witcher games), has 615 employees.

If budget is the qualifier for AAA, Larian has put out multiple massive budgeted games in both BG3 and Divinity 2. I’m not sure which metric would disqualify Larian as being a AAA studio.

It’s debatable if Larian is AAA

What’s debatable about Larian being a AAA studio?

Larian is alright

As someone with a burned out 9800x3D and an equally useless X870 motherboard, I would personally say to maybe wait for benchmarks, user reviews, and such for whatever CPU AMD puts out in 2027.

Friendly reminder that seedboxes are definitely worth it. Go for a seedbox if you can afford it

If you’re confident that your system is compromised and it persists beyond re-installations, you can try to reduce the attack surface by switching up your setup a bit.

1. Try installing something like OpenBSD or FreeBSD if your hardware is supported. Software made for Linux often doesn’t even work on BSD flavors unless it’s recompiled specifically for those Operating Systems. Another alternative would be Alpine Linux. Software that relies on glibc often doesn’t work on Alpine thanks to musl.

2. If your network has been compromised, consider looking into your router’s settings. If you can, try to setup OPNSense so you have better control and visibility over network traffic. You can setup some pretty extensive firewall rules, and if you’re savvy with pf you can really go all out. Alternatively, you can setup an app like Wireshark to take a look at what ingress and egress traffic looks like for your device.

None of this has to be permanent unless you’re comfortable with a different setup. Hackers will eventually get bored and move on. You just need to outlast them with a setup they can’t do much with.

Sure. I wrote the docker-compose file in the repository. Unless something major has changed, it should be pretty straightforward to just clone the repo and then run

$ docker compose up

Really wish I knew about Jellyfin 5 years ago. So much of my money I could’ve redirected to a seedbox or a decent vpn service. Fuck streaming services

I’m with you on that. The remake of 4 feels very stripped down and frankly I was hoping for a more faithful adaptation that at least included all it’s original levels.

Thanks for mentioning reTHAWed, though. I didn’t know it existed until today

Midnight Club I and Midnight Club II for PS2/Xbox were some of the best arcade street racing games. I never got to play the 3rd game or later titles, but the first two were sick.

I’m crushed they left out Let’s Get Dirty. Or maybe it was licensing issues.

I mean yeah. Games are getting more expensive and we’re not making more money to be able to afford them. Compound that with inflation of other more crucial goods (groceries, hygiene products, gas, etc.). It feels like anyone could’ve seen this coming lol.

Ghost of Tsushima

There’s never been a better time than right now to be a patient gamer lol. Most of my friends have huge backlogs of games to play and that will do wonders keeping you occupied when new $80 titles start dropping.

Am I right in thinking that I could play on the Deck’s screen almost every game which could run on a Playstation 4?

Sure, assuming the game is released on a supported platform like Steam, or any of the platforms Heroic or Lutris support. Though I guess if you really wanted specific PlayStation games running on your deck you could setup PS Now to stream it.

Am I right in thinking that I could play on the big screen games until the middle of the Playstation 4 era?

Same as above really, with the only caveat being that changing the resolution will obviously diminish performance. Eg. If you dock the deck on a 4k TV and set the game’s resolution to 4K you shouldn’t be surprised if the game runs like ass.

Since I’d be buying a used LCD deck, I fear that the battery would be in poor health. Is there a way to know its health? If I replace the battery, could I get a better one?

I don’t know of any tools to measure or monitor the health of the deck’s battery.

You can replace the battery if you’re up to it. I don’t believe there are any higher capacity internal batteries available without some significant modifications to the unit.

Most other deck users that are concerned with battery life opt for power banks. You can always explore that route if it becomes a concern.

My PC screen can charge devices through USB-C and has 4 usb ports. It delivers enough power to charge my Surface Go 1 while using it. In my mind, it could clearly replace a dock, but would I have any advantages in getting one? Could the official dock be used for another handheld like my kid’s Switch?

I can only speak for myself, but I like using my dock because it has an Ethernet port so I don’t have to rely on my wireless connection when I’m on the couch and a Display Port so that it could be docked at my desk and plugged into one of my monitors. When I’m doing game development, this comes in pretty handy; I can build the game directly on the deck or transfer to it, then test it out in game mode very quickly. I’ll admit, this is a sort of a niche usecase, though.

If I end up using a Dual Schock 4 or a Dual Sense when my Steam Deck is docked, will I have to pair them again with my consoles every time after using them with the Deck?

I don’t own a Dual Sense (or a PS5), so I cant speak to that. Every bluetooth controller I’ve used behaves the same though. When I turn off the deck or undock it, the controller enters pairing mode and if I turn on my PS4 the controller is automatically paired to it. I don’t have to do anything extra.

Since I’d be buying a used Steam Deck, is there anything I should be particularly careful about?

As with any used product, if it comes with a warranty of any kind pay very close attention to the wording so you’re aware of the avenues available should anything bad happen to the product.

Other than that, good luck! And congratulations on your wedding!

That’s slightly more reassuring. The store page sure makes it seem that way. Glad they clarified.

I was going to give it a try, but there’s no way I’m making an Epic Games account just to play this game with friends. I’ll pass on this one.