jeeva

If you don’t count arbitrary clusters of buttons as a d-pad, I think this is an invalid comparison.

Do you count, e.g., the A/B/X/Y buttons as a d-pad?

I think the difference was that there was no impact damage for the vehicles in this game (so people were abusing it), whereas PS definitely did have that.

If they have enough money to burn on LLM results, they clearly have enough and I don’t need to keep donating mine.

Sure, but machine learning like that is very different to how LLMs are trained and their output.

For what it’s worth, I subscribe to the “use your TV as a screen, plug another device in to deal with content” method. It’s not connected to the network.

So, whatever my TV wants to do, I’m not using it’s janky apps that might get slow over time or try to advertise to me - my Nvidia shield (which is on the ropes/way out due to some updates it pushed) CEC wakes the TV and plays content without having any particular insight into my emotional state. But I can replace that relatively easily/cheaply until my screen literally stops working, rather than if some new service isn’t supported on it or an old one is deprecated.

I’m being tempted to replace the shield with a NUC or other device due to the updates I mentioned above - but I can probably replace the launcher more easily.

Just as I was saying to myself “I’m pretty happy with the Garmin I have, I don’t need a new Pebble,” here come Pebble’s marketing department with a reason!

… What do you mean this is an announcement from Garmin?

Feels like anyone that confused would have a really hard time buying Steam games in the first place…

I am amused to report that this is a legally distinct definitely-not-Zachtronics company that just happens to have two guys (including Zach) from Zachtronics in.

… But yeah, they’re back, whoo!

Oof, annoyingly I didn’t notice that.

I’ve seen a lot of positive reviews, too! Performance isn’t terrible for me, though I haven’t started tweaking it yet.

I tried a pair of the Xreal Ones recently. They were pretty decent, though I was a little disappointed by the limited FOV (relative to real life screens, as I gather they’re pretty good for this style of display) the screen pinning was very good, and I really liked the “ultrawide” support (other than the aforementioned fov).

I’m thinking about buying a pair before I have a bunch of long flights later in the year.

I’d be interested to see your profile for the Corne-ish Zen, if that were possible! Or even just hear of any tweaks or assignments you’ve enjoyed.

And they just got partially acquired by HP.

Real “got money, I’m out” energy, there.

Ah, interesting - I meant against the storm, but I don’t think I’ve scaled the text! That might be my issue. Thank you!

How do you deal with the janky text? I found it hard to learn the game with it all so aliased.

For what it’s worth, the posted article isn’t talking about the Portal - actually talking about a theoretical unconfirmed new handheld.

Unless you can point us to that term, is it worth considering that you may be in the wrong here?

I’ve been searching for someone who can give me more than “yeah, but I saw someone say it online” for a while now… I’ve read the public facing docs and have found nothing that says you can’t sell your game cheaper - though there is something that says you can’t sell your free generated Steam keys cheaper without an equivalent deal on Steam ([here] (https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3)).

It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam key purchasers.

It’s not even that strongly worded.

Even if there was a super secret policy, how do you think it is communicated to developers so they know not to do it?

Which part of the industry are you looking, if you don’t mind revealing?

Okay, to reverse the question then - have you ever seen anything that supports there being something contractual to say thar non–Steam copies can’t be sold at lower prices? Like, the terms you mention above? I’ve read the public docs, and can find nothing.

I can think of multiple times when, e.g. Ubisoft games, Rockstar games, have been sold on EGS or their own launcher for far cheaper than the version on Steam - so we’re both supported by anecdata, here.

Thanks!