🎮│game

[cyan pewter]

hoyoslop 💔 🥀

[outer pollen]

A lot of people seem disappointed with the collab idk why

[cyan pewter]

its hoyo

[iron oak]

Guys it’s John gambling time to gamble my money

[verbal nymph]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQFDM5-zLU

this is cool

[orchid prism]

Or not.

[small comet]

it was technically interesting but nothing world changing

basically just uses discord text replacement functionality to change a gif link and the server generates doom gameplay via a modified open source engine

[outer pollen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEvmvBAAVJ4

[modern holly]

I actually quit genshin 6 days ago after watching a video called "Your money means NOTHING in Genshin Impact" by GlaiveKiyo

Day 1 was difficult because I didn't know what to do w my free time and because I did my dailies day before. Day 2 onward was a lot easier

breaking bad habits builts over 5 years of time

[verbal nymph]

At least you managed to quit

[modern holly]

that was my only and last gacha or live service game, only localhost or singleplayer now

[verbal nymph]

It's kinda sad though, most popular game on mobile is now mostly gacha game. I would rather time spent there goes towards skills.

Though that's kinda hard when the audience is mostly students who have just enough time to do dailies (probably, that's what I observe for the people around me).

[modern holly]

I feel like I owe GlaiveKiyo something for actually doing me the greatest change in my life, at least telling him thanks or something in DMs

[verbal nymph]

Could prop drop him $10 donation during stream I guess

[modern holly]

bet

these are my mobike games now, including some emulators

[verbal nymph]

ah yes. steam, my favorite mobile game. Everything else is actually fine.

[modern holly]

lol

[verbal nymph]

I prefer rhythm game now, it may be just as expensive, but for $10 I get sweating, and fun in the arcade.

[modern holly]

now i get to spend more money on wooting stuff

or just hardware in general

[verbal nymph]

yeah! Something physical this time. Time for you to spend hours lubing while watching K Drama

[modern holly]

for me while watching anime lol

actually speaking of physical purchases

I have an SP-004 but my desk is bowing and not enough verical room for that. Gonna try and get myself a motorized desk but i just dunno when is a good time

will make gaming so much easier

maybe my bday because i have like 4 days off work haha

id better go shopping soon

[verbal nymph]

Better start saving up

maybe at least $2000

[maiden tulip]

https://www.gosugamers.net/entertainment/news/76122-krafton-confirms-subnautica-2-dev-report-leak-as-dispute-with-fired-leadership-escalates

[bleak pike]

This is why I don't always like to assume one is innocent

I say always since I've definitely done that

[orchid prism]

There's no two sides when you withold this kind of money out of the blue. It's a known and very dirty tactic.

There's having an actual lawyer go through the damn contract and not trusting any such promise until it's in the bank.

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIpOU7ceN3c
Man... ESA is so comfy and not overplanned. Feels like early GDQ 😄

[modern holly]

I found one that looks good, Flexispot E7 Plus

I'll do more research when I'm home

[lapis shuttle]

Anyone play Csgo here? I just downloaded and I’m getting 130 fps and 20 ms latency (1060 and i7-7700) any one know how to lower latency and higher fps?

[maiden tulip]

An rx5700 would be a bad choice, it lack DX12U and doesn't have any RT cores meaning if he ever wants to play a game that needs those he's outta luck

An RX 6xxx would be a smarter choice

Problem is we don't know the future, someday we may end up with an esports game with some dx12u features

Yep

Tbh if he wants a new gpu

Intel b580 at least here in canada is available at msrp easily

For 350cad it's a killer deal imo

And if you have more then a 9060xt 16gb is around 475cad

[maiden tulip]

Oh yeah i remember that one it was capped at 30 on pc

I'd rather play the hot pursuit reboot remaster

But yeah you're right rivals was fine

It's so much fun for mp

I play it with nicowo regularly

[hot spire]

i hope the nfsu2 remake gets mp

[maiden tulip]

nfsmw 2005 best nfs

[hot spire]

u2 100% fam

[sinful cobalt]

U2 with teleportation mod is great

Vanilla u2 is ass

Oh and URL something mod, that fixes URL

But it is sad that we not gonna see a new NFS for a while

[hot spire]

dashi playing nfsmw 2005 colorized

[maiden tulip]

i aint a rat

but good video

[bleak pike]

Didn't even read the message

Thought of dashi

[hot spire]

meanwhile the cool kids are playing nfsu2

[hot spire]

youre gonna kill me i cant laugh that hard with a respiratory infection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_hK1S5cbnI

[signal estuary]

lf1 valorant 5stack dm

[hot spire]

also Dashi im sorry that was actualy not the video i wanted

this is what i ment

as its literally dashi and moumou

[bleak pike]

Literally

[little cape]

@cyan pewter

[cyan pewter]

wat

[little cape]

look

[cyan pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/shocking-shocked-sarcasm-emoji-reaction-gif-14712663263517681978

[cyan pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/toyota-yaris-yaris-meme-whys-this-dealer-meme-whys-this-dealer-i-need-my-things-gif-14472248150583635823

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/toyota-yaris-yaris-meme-whys-this-dealer-meme-whys-this-dealer-i-need-my-things-gif-14472248150583635823

[hot spire]

https://tenor.com/view/toyota-yaris-yaris-meme-whys-this-dealer-meme-whys-this-dealer-i-need-my-things-gif-14472248150583635823

[sinful cobalt]

Imagine donating near 3 tons of ryegrass bc of a horse in a horse girl game

[outer pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/하루우라라-gif-26453523

[sinful cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/seseren-gif-26509175

[outer pollen]

Debating if I should just focus on Pretty Derby or keep juggling Arknights still

Trying to lock in on my gacha career

[orchid prism]

https://youtu.be/apbLn3uJ9d0&t=1263
OH BOY - No wonder Nintendo wants people to forget this game. Moustache Man!

(Timestamped)

[buoyant osprey]

I'm going to play GTA 1 today. Will try to play and finish every GTA before 6 is out. Anybody here played GTA 1? Is it good?

[hardy merlin]

It is good, but a bit outdated
Also keep in mind you have to use DOSBox itself to save

GTA 2 and juggling influence is a pain though, stupid Zaibatsu

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ejBTJeu74
A more positive story about the game preservation initiatives.

[trim rock]

But that's not a live seeervice! And those player hosted servers are scary dangerous

[fallow bronze]

i remember ut99 being unplayable on modern systems

[trim rock]

It is very playable on modern systems, at least with oldunreal patches

[orchid prism]

It is perfectly playable right now using the right patches and using one of the available master servers operated by fans.

[fallow bronze]

weird glitches etc

[hardy merlin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQbEBcQ0bo

Game tech evolves backwards

[pure bear]

yea its gotten pretty bad and the price only goes up

they have nice graphics (but no detail) but all look similar because of it

in those 2000/2010s the studios were trying to oneup each other with it

[trim rock]

Yeah it's a sad state of affairs

[pure bear]

It will be all our fault cause we signed that damn SKG petition, they can't afford to not kill games yknow?

[hardy merlin]

Ubisoft is already being eaten by Tencent
It's just a matter of time until they go down

[novel umbra]

That ubisoft is not living for too long anymore is something i could have told you years ago

Like stocks are nice and all but in the end what a company needs to survive is profit

I don't think changing siege monetization alone will do it

[hardy merlin]

People are mad af because of new progression systems in Siege X

Also cheaters everywhere because F2P

[trim rock]

Imagine how much worse it would be if they allowed Linux gamers to join in

[hardy merlin]

[outer pollen]

Fr

[hardy merlin]

I love Respawn though:

"Majority of cheaters run on Linux"
Blocks Linux players
Even more cheaters

[novel umbra]

Yet people cry how bad cs2 is with cheaters

Linux leaves your client side entirely open

[hardy merlin]

More how cheating still happens on Windows, but people were tricking EAC into running in compat Proton mode, so they could use Windows cheats
Anyway
Nowadays there isn't pretty much a single match in Dia+ where there's not a cheater
In Apex and Master it's a total massacre

[hardy merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-the-joke-ranier-wolfcastle-mc-bain-the-simpsons-stand-up-comedy-gif-4372917

[buoyant osprey]

The camera is extremely terrible

Might be one of the worst cameras in every game I have ever played

You drive extremely quick. It's impossible not to crash constantly if you go fast

Mix that with the idiotic camera and it makes for a terrible experience

[nimble current]

it was hella fun in 1997

but yeah hasn't aged too well

[buoyant osprey]

2 sounds more fun since it doesn't have a camera this bad

[nimble current]

I played the shit out of the shareware

[buoyant osprey]

I don't know why they made it so shaky

[nimble current]

never really got into the dark noir style of the second game

gta3 is where the series got gud for real and came into its own

problem with that is not all that much has changed since then, its basically been gta3 over and over with new characters and better graphics

[outer pollen]

Goated game right here

[nimble current]

you want to play a better car game from the same year as gta1 try carmageddon

you get bonuses for hitting pedestrians there too

[hardy merlin]

Granted, it was a while since I played it

[nimble current]

camera is way too close when you drive slowly

it only really zooms out when you going max speed but its almost impossible to keep that speed without crashing within seconds

[mellow garden]

https://x.com/tomshardware/status/1945107761139999007

Tom's Hardware (@tomshardware)

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is finally hitting the Mac on July 17, with support for Spatial Audio, MetalFX upscaling, and a version of AMD FSR that is optimized for Apple Silicon. https://t.co/7MAfbNPkjm

X · Jul 15, 2025, 1:06 PM

[hardy merlin]

But we got Proton optimizations way earlier than Mac version existed

[mellow garden]

Apple silicon is based though

[hot spire]

it runs find in proton though

[hardy merlin]

Productivity - of course
Gaming? Hell nah

[fallow bronze]

its got a competent gpu

especially for the power it sips

[hot spire]

how bad will rt be XD

[nimble current]

yeah the hardware isn't bad for graphics but support for most games is dogshit

[fallow bronze]

if only apple supported vulkan..

[trim rock]

Nah see there's a need for another API for developers to target

[hot spire]

metal is much higher level than vulkan

[narrow junco]

lets just make an API that unifies all of them so developers only need to do the work once

[hot spire]

metal is simpler opengl

vulkan is more complex opengl

[mellow garden]

Apple at least have a set of APIs they’ve standardised across their operating systems. I don’t think it’s a big deal they’re not using Vulkan.

[hot spire]

metal also predates vulkan

[mellow garden]

Apple is also a trillion dollar company with tons of resources on hand to help developers.

[hardy merlin]

Vulkan is standardized everywhere... but on Apple
So yeah

[mellow garden]

If they actually took gaming seriously, they’d have 10% market share for PC gaming is no time at all.

[hardy merlin]

They can play their own game
But then don't expect too much support

And I believe we'll have sooner well working Proton ARM than anyone would really start supporting Apple

[hot spire]

mobile makes to much money to care about desktop

[hardy merlin]

But PC is slowly overtaking consoles
After all nowadays, when factoring in game prices and no subscription on PC, desktop is cheaper than console
And both Sony and MS are raising prices on their hardware instead of reducing it

[outer pollen]

It begins

[hot spire]

until you look at gpu prices

[outer pollen]

@fallow bronze

[hot spire]

mobile factorio?

[outer pollen]

Yeah Drakonen just told me about it not too long ago called Mindustry

[fallow bronze]

factorio with some tower defense mecahnics

[outer pollen]

All it’s missing is gacha pixel girls!

[mellow garden]

Me when GPU prices are even worse than console prices

[fallow bronze]

the same cycle as ever..

[hot spire]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3024040/

Steam

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition

Travel back in time to the legendary crusades for the holy land, in this expanded definitive edition of the fan-favourite Stronghold Crusader! Engage in historical desert skirmishes reimagined with new gameplay content and upgraded visuals, faithfully reforged using the source artwork, music, returning voice talent and veteran developers of t…

Price

$17.99

▶ Play video

[bleak pike]

Dats a big update

[hardy merlin]

As you can see there are 3 games that have 2 on the end of their name, and all 3 are worse than their predecessors

[bleak pike]

Hahaha except d2 is better than d1

[hardy merlin]

Except both suck ass

[bleak pike]

Im inclined to agree with it's current and most recent state

I haven't even bought the expansion coming out today

[mellow garden]

Can they please return all the deleted content to Destiny 2? I’ll take a 500GB install if I could play everything.

[hot spire]

console gamers coulnt play then

[mellow garden]

Xbox Series and PS5 would be fine

Xbox One and PS4 should probably be put to pasture at this point anyway

[outer pollen]

They probably don’t even have that data anymore

[bleak pike]

https://thegamepost.com/bungie-access-destiny-2-vaulted-red-war-internally/

Pretty much

[bleak pike]

They did this with d1

Idk why they don't with 2

Honestly, it's a complete joke that they said it will rotate back but it never did.....

They also mentioned streaming content but still nothing.

They just don't want to do it...

[small comet]

its insane they dont have any version control

[outer pollen]

wtf

[hot spire]

base ps5 is only like 500 free

[pure bear]

"trust me mr judge it dun work anymore"

[maiden tulip]

https://youtu.be/r9RXG9jJQ_M?si=-YubSyCt7S7lW9A5

no more hentai girls eslop

[iron oak]

NOOOOO (this is great change! Only quality.)

[bleak pike]

Awww

[novel umbra]

get mogged d2

if I wanna play my free content that got released almost a decade ago I still can if I want to

unless it has gotten a direct upgrade

(outside raids RIP)

[little cape]

theyre edgers now

[pure bear]

collabs are pretty cringe in general

[little cape]

most of the time yeah

[modern holly]

hi

[novel umbra]

warframe got some unreal tournament weapon skins

partially to promote them being available on epic, partially because DE used to work on unreal tournament

they also got a gordon freeman cutout and half life posters now but idk why

[trim rock]

Because 1999

[novel umbra]

still seems kinda odd

ok apparently that only happens if you launch the game via steam, didn't even know that until now

[novel umbra]

only downside to those is the selection of weapons that did get a skin

the ogris and drakgoon are basically useless

and the strahlta mainly isn't because of a bug

[pure bear]

im fine with collabs in games that dont take themselves seriously but then i still find it eh

but in storygames etc its very odd to me

[novel umbra]

they still kinda fit thematically in warframe

siege has gone a very odd route with siege x imo

[pure bear]

the ow2

[bleak pike]

Raids disagree

Oh you said that

[maiden tulip]

@novel umbra WHERE IS YOUR TAG

FROM

WE LOVE MOU

I NEED A MOU TAG

THEY NEED TO REMOVE THE S

[cold anvil]

OMG I GOT IN THE SKATE PLAYTEST

IM SO EXCITED

[hot spire]

how do you not just have a moumou server with a tag

[maiden tulip]

it costs money

[hot spire]

you try not being poor?

[maiden tulip]

I spent my moumey on pokemon cards

[maiden tulip]

Go play tony hawk

It's better

Skate always was a bit mediocre

And what i've seen about the new one

It just seems like slop made to cash on the fsct that activision gave us a tony hawk game in 2020 and 2025

We don't need skate games to become a fad again

We need them to be good

Things like ea's skate is part of what completely nuked the genre

[cold anvil]

Suuurreee unc 🙄 lmao
All seriousness though I am afraid of ea and what they’re capable of.

Always liked skate 3

Dont want this game to be milked to death

[cold anvil]

Was never really into the genre tbh

So I have no clue how all of it went between 2010-2020

[maiden tulip]

I don't even want more tony hawk games

Likecthey remade 4 of the great ones

If they give me american wasteland or underground in 5-10 years sure

But i'd rather they do nothing

I just remember seeing the skate genre get milked

Same eith the snowboarding games genre

It completely killed things

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6z4Hcf9GMQ
Oops all cows.

[iron oak]

john drift king finally uploaded

[young hill]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/anime-horse-girls-are-causing-one-real-life-mare-dubbed-the-shining-star-of-losers-everywhere-to-receive-so-much-usd40-grass-she-broke-the-donation-website/

[fallow bronze]

Ppl will buy everything

[little cape]

luna gooner skin smh

[barren pewter]

idk how but even on the hardest difficulty
Rogue City was a complete joke

still can't wait for unfinished business...tomorrow

[hardy merlin]

https://www.counter-strike.net/newsentry/529852487375519751

[hardy merlin]

https://buy.guildwars2.com/en-us/visions-of-eternity

New expansion

Time to say goodbye to 75€ again

ArenaNet is doing good and GW2 has still a very stable playerbase

New expac
Hopefully will be better than JW

[orchid prism]

I just couldn't get into it. Think I lasted to somewher ein the 20s?

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, early game (aka leveling to 80) is a pain currently

[trim rock]

And they have still not killed guild wars 1 apparently

[orchid prism]

I remember the cat people having classic "big model, same movement speed" issue, causing their animations to look like they move really slowly, just like Taurens in WoW.

And that just broke me 😄

The little puzzle areas were neat?

[hardy merlin]

GW1 still has quite a big playerbase And gets updates
Also helps that it's basically RPG with MMO elements, not MMORPG, so you can completely solo it too

[orchid prism]

I also enjoyed the gnome race intro storyline...at least until Felicia Day started doing VA work. God she was everywhere at one point.

[hardy merlin]

Zojja

[orchid prism]

[hardy merlin]

Still, I don't think any MMORPG at this point has better combat system honestly

[orchid prism]

Depends on your flavour I guess.

Spam keys, chug potion, get loot

[hardy merlin]

um... wha?

Moving does not interrupt your casts or attacks, you have to actively dodge enemy attacks, actually your skill matters than just abilities you picked

Oh yeah, another thing I like
You want to change stats in armor - just get a rune with stats and done, you can change stats of your armor
Don't have to grind for specific armor or weapon (unless you want skin of it)

And don't tell me about PoE
End game is just running around enemies and spamming Flask of Exile

[orchid prism]

I mostly only play Dune these days, and it isn't quite an MMO, and isn't quite an RPG. But its combat system is pretty decent (but basic), gotta dodge out of melee attacks, you have gun aiming and scopes.

[hardy merlin]

Used to - farming maps over and over again

Member farming Shaper for hideout when it was to be removed from map and added to rotation

[novel umbra]

that looks like bald ratchet

[hardy merlin]

No
Is Zojja

[orchid prism]

Oh wow. Snutt left Coffee Stain as well. The OGs are all gone.

[fallow bronze]

A couple of months ago

[orchid prism]

We'll never get Sanctum 3 this way

[fallow bronze]

Was sanctum any good? I didn't like it when I tried it

[novel umbra]

imo was kinda mid

[orchid prism]

It was an awesome LAN game.

To this day I never managed to beat the final level of the 2nd game with my friends or by myself.

[scarlet marlin]

I guess this an indirect way of the devs approving socd?https://x.com/Razer/status/1945273169679446499

or we get another cs2 situation hahah

R Λ Z Ξ R (@Razer)

WASD keys?
Tuned with Razer™ Snap Tap—so when you switch directions, it triggers instantly.
No debounce delay. No wasted motion. Just cleaner strafes and quicker jukes.

X · Jul 16, 2025, 12:03 AM

[hardy merlin]

Slop is back on the menu boys! https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fallout-5-is-now-reportedly-fully-greenlit/1100-6533153/

[nimble current]

all those cancellations and layoffs was totally worth another round of 15 year old reheated bethesda slop

[pure bear]

i have no hope for bethesda

not after trashfield was what they put out after years of reheating skyrim

[nimble current]

or after the starfield dlc that improved on nothing

[vapid lintel]

This time is different, surely 🤡

[pure bear]

ngl i have never even heard about anything of it such a nothingburger it was

[nimble current]

but they added a vehicle and everything!

so you can traverse through a landscape of nothing slightly faster

[scarlet marlin]

wasnt that last bethesda space game kind fo flop too?

[nimble current]

that's literally what we're talking about

it was bethesda basically proving everything their haters accused them of being

[scarlet marlin]

IM SORRYYYYYYYY

[pure bear]

its ok we know your attention is focused on butts

[nimble current]

https://tenor.com/view/barbie-preminger-gif-1252513322434636345

[scarlet marlin]

HUH

dont self reflect on me

[pure bear]

Nah you were posting stellar blade "content" not me :P

[scarlet marlin]

butts are a nice extra in the game to look at, gameplay, ost, story is was kept me going

https://tenor.com/view/stellar-blade-nod-meme-gif-4572483295252815353

[vapid lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-por-que-no-gif-23322568

[hardy merlin]

[mellow garden]

It’s a great game

I wasn’t able to complete it before heading on my vacation

[scarlet marlin]

deff finish it when you get back

[scarlet marlin]

WDYM

[hardy merlin]

Gesundheit

[mellow garden]

Eve is also considerably hotter in the full body outfits. Unwrapping a gift is an important part of the process after all 😉

[scarlet marlin]

if the rest of the game sucked I wouldnt care about the game. Im not that monkey brain that all I need is ass and tits

[narrow junco]

Unfortunately gamers do not understand this

[mellow garden]

Yeah the swimsuits and effectively lingerie outfits are cool… but that ass looks majestic in a full body suit.

[hardy merlin]

If I didn't know you I'd even believe you

[scarlet marlin]

then i guess you dont know me

[narrow junco]

Women in full armor ❤️

[hardy merlin]

[scarlet marlin]

I tried to roleplay, aka in dessert wear bikini's/less clothing cause it would be hot in the other outfits

[narrow junco]

Yes

Full knight armor

Full knight armor and then they take off their helmet

[mellow garden]

I’ve unlocked all the Nier crossover outfits in Stellar Blade and one of them is basically just 2B-themed lingerie

I went to Prague once and looked around the castle. Many suits of armour that had extra, shaped protection around the groin area.

[verbal nymph]

makes boob armor real

maybe extra bit for extra protection

[hardy merlin]

Don't you need like full body covered but with light and airy clothes to protect yourself from the sun on the desert?

[pure bear]

the main misconception with armor is that theyre often made/drawn skkintight, which is a problem since you can't breathe in that

yeah but putting fake tits on it or sth is defo something that couldve happened

[narrow junco]

Such as skin and bones

Sometimes flesh too

[scarlet marlin]

also new summer skins for marvel rivals

at least they gave everyone equal stuff as in loki's bulge

[pure bear]

gooner rivals 🤷‍♂️

i mean superhero women were always drawn saucy and the men were beefcakes too

ig it tracks

[hardy merlin]

Ain't you a bit tired of throwing sex appeal and goon bait in every single game* nowadays

[narrow junco]

There was this one letter someone sent where she asked marvel to put thor in their next swimsuit edition

like a long ass time ago

It‘s all overwatch‘s fault

We need to go back and fix the timeline by stopping overwatch from releasing

[hardy merlin]

And guys
Though I don't want all of them being all muscular and shit

[narrow junco]

We need more muscular women in games and more twinky men

Honestly if we stopped straight people from designing and greenlighting characters from now on we‘d be feasting on more different and interesting shapes and sizes

[hardy merlin]

Gib me femboys

But in video games

[scarlet marlin]

muscle mommies

[hardy merlin]

Also please

[scarlet marlin]

also new fire lady is fun

[vapid lintel]

"You've been judged"

Indeed lady, indeed...

[scarlet marlin]

sentence: death

[hardy merlin]

Anyone wants Saints Row 2, 3, 4 and Gat out of Hell for GOG?

[outer pollen]

Finally bought this solo board game I wanted

[proven drift]

RIP ALL LOW END PLAYERS

its been fun val

[hardy merlin]

Chapter 2 of Valorant Rito spaghettification incoming

[outer pollen]

@cyan pewter

[cyan pewter]

yeah i been known this

anyways i have good pc 👍

[cyan pewter]

“there wont be a big performance loss”

600+ fps -> 300

[hardy merlin]

It's Rito
Try 600+ -> <200

[verbal nymph]

higher spec means higher investment, which also means meeting player that play alot becomes more common right???

[hardy merlin]

Meh
During beta it was fun
Now it's getting worse and worse

[outer pollen]

My Nintendo psycho friend sent me this like it means something

[verbal nymph]

lmao

hopefully it's actually good since the thing that can save switch 2 from ps5/ps6 is good game

[outer pollen]

The destructible environment sounds cool

[bleak pike]

What game

[small comet]

val

as was stated right after

[fallow bronze]

Valheim

Ohwait, I. Believe that's unity

[bleak pike]

Rip perf

[maiden tulip]

They're not even in the same market segment tho

One is a handheld one is a console

[verbal nymph]

I view both as a gaming console. It's just that switch able to be lift up and play everywhere.

[maiden tulip]

So it's a handheld

The same way you could play the psp onto your tv with a separate cable

And like... it being a handheld is the whole appeal

[verbal nymph]

I keep forgetting that part

[maiden tulip]

Someone who owns a ps5 may buy a switch 2 to use... as a handheld

Unless you expect them to buy a frickin ps portal which just streams the games and can't do shit locally

XD

But at that point why not have something that can welp play games

Talking about switch 2 competition

I wish the steam deck's dock was... actually drcent

I really regreted buying the dock for it

[verbal nymph]

There's game you can buy for $10 that's good

*new game

[maiden tulip]

?

What game

[verbal nymph]

I meant to say, buying on the steam store is cheaper than from nintendo based on steam sale alone.

[maiden tulip]

There's sales on the eshop too but yeah sales tend to be deeper on steam

But that's not what i was talking about

I was saying how the deck's docked mode was always really meh and i hope valve improves on that someday

[sinful cobalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFLKoZaHak8

[verbal nymph]

PCIE GEN 5x4 FOR EGPU!!!!

[hardy merlin]

Um... there's no docked mode on Deck

[maiden tulip]

But they sell a dock for it

And that's the whole problem xD

[hardy merlin]

Sure, but it's just USB hub, nothing more

[maiden tulip]

For 110$

I regreted the purchase xd

[verbal nymph]

RIP

[hardy merlin]

I just got some 30€ dongle for laptop and works great

[verbal nymph]

Yeah, I hope steamdeck 2 includes a nice upgrade

[hardy merlin]

As long as it holds 3~6 hours I'm happy

[maiden tulip]

It's what i wish i had done

XD

but hey i got an extra ac adapter out of it so?

The official dock was extremely fussy with display compatibility for around a year

Eventually they patched it but

Yeah was a rough product

I finally disconnected it from my tv like a week ago and it's chilling in a box

Because it was just gathering dust

I think if valve had a polished dock and like an actual docked mode that unlocked a little more power

That'd be great

The only thing i ended up using the deck's dock to do was stream from my desktop and i ended up replacing that with the apple tv 4k

I get way lower latency with the apple tv 4k with a controller paired to it xD

[outer pollen]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dragon-quest-7-remake-reportedly-in-the-works/1100-6533146/

[fading spade]

Depending on how quite the desktop I'm getting will be, I feel I'll be using the deck as a streaming device from it when I wanna play games when away from my desk

Does streaming over steam need the computer to be connected to a display?

Cause ideally I'd turn off my monitor cause it makes a really awful high pitched whine when powered on

[maiden tulip]

https://tenor.com/view/huh-cat-huh-m4rtin-huh-huh-meme-what-cat-gif-5834484041415217257

[fading spade]

Huh what?

[hardy merlin]

Needs to have a display, but you can turn off monitor, as long as it's connected it's fine

[maiden tulip]

yes you can turn off your monitor xd

It doesn't cut out the picture lana

[fading spade]

Nah I can't leave the monitor powered on
Due to the noise the power brick makes

[maiden tulip]

🤣

[maiden tulip]

yeah no you need a monitor plugged into your pc

[fading spade]

Oh

[maiden tulip]

Buy a cheap monitor if it's that bad

You can grab a basic1080p monitor for like 70cad

[hardy merlin]

Really nice used IPS 1080p corporations get rid of you can buy for some 20~30€?

[fading spade]

I have a second monitor already I'm not using cause the deck is bad at having two attached to it

Idk if it has dp though
Only HDMI :/

[maiden tulip]

You can get a brand new one for cheap

If she ain't picky

[fading spade]

And I would need to try to and make a way to unplug the other one without powering off this one

[hardy merlin]

I know what corpos throw away
It's almost new stuff

[outer pollen]

wtf is Geometry Dash I thought it was a little jumping cube

[maiden tulip]

Ye

[maiden tulip]

I know just wipe em with iso alcohol and enjoy

(Well the casing not the screen itself)

[fading spade]

Sometimes yeah....
We are currently collecting laptops and PCs and their SSDs to send to scrap because they can't be upgraded to Windows 11

[maiden tulip]

https://www.amazon.ca/KOORUI-Mountable-Compatible-Protection-Adjustment/dp/B0C5HVPNGR

@fading spade here's something cheap

Like you can genuinely get a fine display for not too much

100hz with vrr xd

[fading spade]

VRR is nice if gnome desktop didn't disable it while any OSD is on screen

[maiden tulip]

Then turn off vrr

It's not the point lana xd

[fading spade]

I go change the volume....
The screen turns black while it disables vrr
Few seconds later, the osd goes away
It turns to black again to enable vrr

[maiden tulip]

The point is you said you wanted a display that didn't make an awdul noise

Hell you could just replace the power brick

[fading spade]

Yeh I have one
It's just tricky to power one and not power the one that makes noise when both are connected to the same extension cable that's stuck behind my desk so I can't reach it without pulling the desk out

[fading spade]

Maybe maybe....

[maiden tulip]

I bet its universal xd

[fading spade]

Steal one from work xxxdd

[maiden tulip]

Just take a picture of the label

[fading spade]

They have plenty ...

Wait
Only the cables...not the brick itself :'( nvm

[maiden tulip]

Some fullscreen windows apps with HDR on trigger that but its rare

[outer pollen]

13 more days
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2661300/Grounded_2/

Steam

Grounded 2

When you've been shrunk to the size of an ant, what was once familiar is now a wild, uncharted frontier. Traverse sprawling manmade spaces overgrown with nature with buggies that can fight alongside with you, uncover hidden secrets, and fight to survive in a world much larger than the backyard. The playground may seem familiar, but beneath its…

Release Date

Jul 29, 2025

▶ Play video

[fading spade]

Minecraft and all my steam games do

[vapid lintel]

Didn't the first one just release recently?

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, and still gets updates

We finished it, started NG+ and stopped playing

[outer pollen]

It was in early access for a while

[hardy merlin]

COOL
NICE
new stuff for cars
WHERE NEW CLOTHES I ASK?

[outer pollen]

Cyberpunk?

[sinful cobalt]

no Cyberdown

[hardy merlin]

Cyberdisco

[sinful cobalt]

who needs clothes anyway

clothes are overrated

[hardy merlin]

ME

I want my dress-ups

[mellow garden]

Clothing stores literally exist

[maiden tulip]

Fsr 3.1 finally

[hardy merlin]

But more
Choice is very limited

[maiden tulip]

damn switch 2 at a later date

ive been playing it on there

well re playing

Got it used but they sent me a new copy xd

Kinda funny

[pure bear]

their community has gotten pretty nutty

[fading spade]

Im so impressed by Bluefin so far <3
Apparently its done updates twice since I installed it and I have not noticed cause it downloads them in the background and applies them when you next shutdown / reboot the computer

[outer pollen]

Yeah I was seeing apparently not even the Dev/s know how they’re making those 3D levels

This one is crazy
https://youtu.be/uQPMh62HogQ

[verbal nymph]

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/steam-rules-updated-to-prohibit-content-that-violates-rules-set-forth-by-payment-processors-and-banks/

Payment processor also fucked up AI interms of having uncensored content.

[maiden tulip]

Payment processors have blocked porn sites for a while

With how many porn games there are on steam im not surprised this was added

[orchid prism]

Oh wow. That's going to hurt Valve profits HARD.

[maiden tulip]

how many sales of gooning games are made on steam yearly

[orchid prism]

But for real - Forget about crypto. We need payment processors that provide proper net neutrality and doesn't block content that isn't illegal.

[maiden tulip]

that's something im kinda curious about

[hardy merlin]

US is speedrunning that losing soft influence it seems

[orchid prism]

Disable the mature filter, and about half of your discovery queue will be adult, graphical novel games that have been ported to Steam from existing patreon releases.

[maiden tulip]

Like do people actually play the steam sex games like hentai simulator

[maiden tulip]

I know

I'm judt wondering how much money comes from that

[sinful cobalt]

but Sex with H is fun

[maiden tulip]

i forgot that existed

[hardy merlin]

A lot

[maiden tulip]

Thanks for reminding me

[verbal nymph]

holy shit

[sinful cobalt]

10/10 new emote

[maiden tulip]

For real tho who the fuck goons at a computer and at a fucking game

[verbal nymph]

Actually. Elon should make one for the funsies. For gooner by gooner.

[maiden tulip]

am i out of touch

Like the whole concept just sounds so dumb to me

[verbal nymph]

I know a lot of people who goon with AI and affected by payment processor.

[sinful cobalt]

like what the heck that has 5 games in it

[hardy merlin]

If you're making mobile game for certain niche... expect well over $30k a month easily
Dude working on Virtual Succubus was racking $90k

[sinful cobalt]

time to make a gooner game about switchy

[outer pollen]

Ai Chat bots

[maiden tulip]

Switchy clicker

Switchy moans every mouse click

[sinful cobalt]

whos gonna provide the moaning voice

[hardy merlin]

I'd say which niches are especially profitable, but I'm not in the mood of banning myself

[pure bear]

huhh

[sinful cobalt]

tho if i wanna be honest i could find that out fast

[outer pollen]

I know PayPal is super against incest stuff

Why’d you stop typing

[maiden tulip]

Calder

[sinful cobalt]

why not ?

[verbal nymph]

Look at top 8 to 5. All of those app prop uses AI to chat with waifu/husbando. Assuming just 20% of it is goon and total is 420, 100 billion token is being used just for goon. 1 token can be 1 word. So there's at least 80 billion words processed and generated just THIS MONTH, for AI gooning.

[hardy merlin]

Half of it you can get from /d/

[sinful cobalt]

[verbal nymph]

This doesn't count direct API usage, or local usage.

[outer pollen]

Ai is the future

Ai GF

[verbal nymph]

😭

[sinful cobalt]

AI Calder as a Husbando

[outer pollen]

Which one do you use?

[verbal nymph]

Still very sad though, a lot of AI can be great if payment processor can just allow porn

[verbal nymph]

Deepseek v3/r1 is great for its price to performance, current favorite is Kimi K2. It's a bit more expensive but has nice writing.

just place down $10 and go wild, you won't find yourself using more than $1 per day unless you goon very VERY hard.

[outer pollen]

Oh I just get on Chub

[verbal nymph]

NOOOO

[verbal nymph]

That place is literally a wild west, no filter, just a straight dropbox filled with a mixed of the worst and the best, usually mid to bad.

[hardy merlin]

Fuck AI
Billions of dollars and it still doesn't want to give simple answers for math and code problems

[verbal nymph]

You can blame the same people who tune the AI to be bad at roleplaying BTW. I feel your pain.

[sinful cobalt]

i still think its funny bc ppl are wanna be secure about their data, but how does AI learns by stealing DATA

[fallow bronze]

Vavle moving into payment?

[digital dawn]

Grok Calder companion

[outer pollen]

It’s simple for me

[hardy merlin]

Ah yeah
Coworker: we have to keep our data secure, we have to introduce nth layer of authorization
The very same coworker: just paste everything into ChatGPT, it'll help us

[verbal nymph]

just host your own deepseek, ez

[fallow bronze]

Only the top 3 are coding tools

[digital dawn]

“yeah bro I use Chub AI”

[hardy merlin]

Imagine how world would be beautiful if we could use all those unused GPUs to do something actually useful
We have 64 A100s, 8 per rack, 1 rack is doing something and hosting our useless AI assistant, 2 are just running proxmox and 5 is not even on

[digital dawn]

gimme some

[verbal nymph]

My unused 3090 for AI being on second pcie slot: Sweats

[outer pollen]

I shall try Kimi!

[verbal nymph]

It's a nice model, rated hightly for its different flavor compared to the other model.

[outer pollen]

I might DM to ask questions if that’s fine

About Ai

[verbal nymph]

sure

[verbal nymph]

I'll be asleep in 1 hour though, but feel free to ask anyway since I'll still be on my PC until I sleep

[orchid prism]

I mean...honestly wouldn't be the worst idea ever.

Means they basically control most of the pipeline from sales to distribution. No middle men.

[outer pollen]

I’ll message later! Since I gotta sleep as well

[verbal nymph]

I'll be going outside after 8 hours. But yeah, feel free to DM.

[maiden tulip]

valve monopoly

valve crypto

[vapid lintel]

T-minus 8 hours until the expedition into uncharted territories begins. Months of training of led to this point, but even then, the risk of encountering G.R.A.S.S is high. We'll all be glued to our screens, waiting for the first update from Shot64 once the perilous journey gets underfoot.

[maiden tulip]

pay in cs skins

[outer pollen]

New spirit blossom stuff in discord shop

[bleak pike]

i hate myself

[outer pollen]

https://imgur.com/9JAXYgQ

[maiden tulip]

https://www.sega.com/news/sonic-racing-crossworlds-nintendo-switch-2-faq

Full game on cart

[trim rock]

Guess it's still good enough slop to buy it then

Waow a full game on cart imagine that

[autumn depot]

oh man I missed the Ai gooning convo😢

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E5S5XOL7cKU

[little cape]

holy shit

https://tenor.com/view/animation-meme-eyeless-dog-worm-lethal-company-gif-16808505258294735258

[outer pollen]

Hmmmm idk if to get Killing Floor 3 or not

[outer pollen]

@proper basin

[maiden tulip]

Third party switch 2 dock go brrr

Around the size of a regular switch adapter/a little largerthan a steam deck charger

Only thing i can't get to work is hdr but that's because for some dumb reason my samsung neo g9 doesn't let me adjust the aspect ratio with hdr on, only with it off so it's either stretched to 32:9 with hdr or 16:9 without lol

[hardy merlin]

So... playing on emulator with 32:9 mod and 60fps mod is still better than Switch 2 version, got it

[maiden tulip]

Goal of this was to have a second dock for upstairs

Been playing dk bananza for the last 2 hours :P

but yes i do agree that if the goal was to play totk it would be a better experience

I just wanted to be able to play my switch next to nico when I want to play switch and he wants to play pc

Instead of me being downstairs and him being upstairs we can be in the same room and i don't have to move the dock between the 2 rooms all the damn time

But yeah for 50$ off on clearance this is a nice portable dock

Also worked nicely with the steam deck :D

I was doing PIP with the switch on one side and my pc on the other was nice

I go bed now

Goodnight

[outer pollen]

Fuck

The day has arrived where I have to choose my gacha career

Arknights or Pretty Derby

[hardy merlin]

Latter*
It's newer gacha, so less likely it'll be shut down soon

[outer pollen]

Fuck me I didn’t get the card I wanted

I might just focus on Arknights

At least I know if I spend 300$ I’ll get the unit I want multiple times and then be able to get another unit

[pure bear]

...great

[outer pollen]

DO NOT! Try and understand my high genius level plays

https://imgur.com/9JAXYgQ

[hardy merlin]

Or... you can spend $300 on this funny game https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/id/Calslock/
I like it a lot

[outer pollen]

Guys I rerolled and got the card 3 times

Now I can spend money

[trim rock]

Yes

[outer pollen]

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BWaLkV2PTsw
Showerthought. Did Nintendo just revive the SSX Tricky/Tony Hawk genre indirectly with the new Mario Kart game? 😄

[proper basin]

i have gambled successfully

[hardy merlin]

I swear
Fuck this dude

[orchid prism]

For a second there, I thought you were talking shit about one of our staff member's avatars 😄

[hardy merlin]

No

[orchid prism]

Iswearifdisbish...

[hardy merlin]

I like Terraria fishing
But quests are BS
And the fact that you can only do one quest daily
And you have like 1.5% to get what you want from quest

[sinful cobalt]

But thats the funny part

[hardy merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/senko-poute-hmph-pouting-mope-sulk-gif-15650605

[outer pollen]

I decided to stick with Arknights

https://tenor.com/view/arknights-nian-dusk-saga-gif-10349633825456167057

[proper basin]

Limbus x arknights gonna hit hard for them

Since limbus only getting EGOs

[barren pewter]

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/sid-meiers-civilization-vi--platinum-edition

Civ VI free on EGS

figured y'all may wish to know

[outer pollen]

I would rather replace Prometheus and have my liver eaten every day by an eagle, than use EGS

[barren pewter]

ok
I only do so for the free games
they're not getting a penny from me

[maiden tulip]

I bought like 3 games on epic

[outer pollen]

[maiden tulip]

Cuz the discount was better than on steam

game launches and plays

i saved money

[barren pewter]

you also kiss boys
boykisser

[maiden tulip]

mou stare

[barren pewter]

WE'RE SO BACK

[maiden tulip]

Ur slow

Ha

we're like the only people who care about this game sadly

Cuz everyone else is BORING

[barren pewter]

no, everyone else in the special ed class was slow

including you haha dweeb

[maiden tulip]

shit u got me

[mellow garden]

Can’t seem to claim the latest free EGS game

[fallow bronze]

Worked for me

[maiden tulip]

It did it through the website and it worked

Didnt work through the client

[digital dawn]

https://gamerant.com/steam-removed-games-publishing-rules-update/

[mellow garden]

Ehh

Not a big deal IMHO

[hardy merlin]

Quite a big deal I'd say
Give them a finger, they'll take whole arm
It should not be the case that payment processors can censor whatever they like

[outer pollen]

My porn games

[digital dawn]

censorship is almost never a good thing

[outer pollen]

Fuck might need to drop mad money

[digital dawn]

especially from companies entirely designed to make money

there should be no reason for payment processors to have the power to censor platforms

[digital dawn]

and judging by Fansly’s recent changes, they’re not going to stop at that either

[outer pollen]

Oh I didn’t know that

[mellow garden]

They’re incest games

I don’t really think anything of value was lost

Especially when Valve are also incredibly hands off in terms of moderation on their entire platform

[digital dawn]

they literally just got implemented, thinking they’re gonna stop there is a bit silly

Fansly’s terms changed somewhat recently to allow payment processors to censor content and now payment processors have deemed all furry content (strictly nsfw or not) beastiality

[mellow garden]

I think that’s a huge and rather unnecessary conspiracy theory

[digital dawn]

it’s really not a conspiracy #🎮│game message

[mellow garden]

I’m going to be honest, there’s huge correlations in many of those communities. Allegations aren’t being beaten.

[digital dawn]

????

alright man

if you don’t want to argue in good faith then I think we’re done here

[mellow garden]

Back to vacation

[sinful cobalt]

i love Blops 3

[hardy merlin]

Blops? Is that some Pikmin spinoff?

[sinful cobalt]

yes

its built into the mod

[digital dawn]

a little RCE is good for a balanced breakfast

[hardy merlin]

How can you be so selfish and not let other people run scripts on your PC

My ThinkPad got a new sticker

I know it's 2500U, but still

[maiden tulip]

my work still won't give me an upgrade from my intel 11th gen laptop smh

[outer pollen]

I like reading thinkpad green text

[maiden tulip]

you aint alone cals

[hardy merlin]

I have now 13th gen and it's SHIT
I want my 8th gen back

[pure bear]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-U4F8hNazE

[maiden tulip]

haven't gotten to try anything intel 12th/13th/14th xD

[mellow garden]

I need an M4 laptop

[hardy merlin]

But Thinkiepads are mine, 10 hours on battery easily, can do browsing and some light gaming, that's enough for me

[maiden tulip]

The only laptop i own is uh

A 5700HQ with a 970M

And the casing is held by tape :3

[hardy merlin]

I have X270 and A285, both bought as dead and "for parts" and restored to be happy again
Plus I have like a box of parts when something breaks

[hot spire]

they killed slavery and inscest and it nuked like half of the games XD

[hardy merlin]

Incest? For some Visa/MC executive it was hitting too close to home?

[hot spire]

wild is its only adult and incset

[outer pollen]

Wait will the Coffin of Andy and Leyley get removed at some point?

[hot spire]

so you can have implied sex with incest all day long

[hardy merlin]

It's not yet

[hot spire]

the worst part is steam cant even make a adult only store you need to buy steam cards to buy on, as the limit any content on the store, not only content for sale via credit cards

[orchid prism]

Someone tell Musk Visa and Mastercard are trying to prevent him from making Grok Anime Waifus, and that he needs to fund an independent payment service.

[maiden tulip]

genuinely i think people are just too damn prude if it's between consenting adults who gives a fuck

[orchid prism]

You know - Like Paypal but less shite.

[hot spire]

he has enough pull to not care

[orchid prism]

Just need to sound convincingly unhinged.

Those damn liberals and leftists are trying to censor democracy.

[hot spire]

hence why x has no bans on any adult content that involves consenting adults other than violence

[hardy merlin]

You know full well that right-wing would gladly go into everyone's bedroom to monitor that you are having only marital, heterosexual intercourse

For anyone with more than 2 brain cells and IQ higher than room temperature it's obvious that if 2 or more adults consent they can do whatever they want in bedroom

[pulsar prism]

They are very nice

Have an M1 16" but got to play with some new 14" m4s yesterday

[digital dawn]

I got an M4 mac mini recently

currently it’s just a paperweight tho lol

need some more stuff to be able to use it properly

[hardy merlin]

I'm waiting M6 - so that people will start getting rid of their M2s

[mellow garden]

I have an M1 MBP 16” and it’s a certified brick

Great to use though but a pain to move about with

[pulsar prism]

Oh yeah it's heavy af

Big ol block of aluminum

[mellow garden]

Might get myself an M4 MBA 13”

[outer pollen]

I got access to killing floor 3 beta @grave granite

[barren pewter]

that reminds me, I'm waiting for M6 to upgrade from my M1

[pulsar prism]

Honestly the M1 has aged pretty well I'm holding onto it until it dies

[hardy merlin]

I want either M1 or M2
Because that's the only models that Linux is working on

[barren pewter]

I'd probably be getting the M6 because I'd rather the extra oomph (gayming) and because...funnily enough
after...many years of hard service, my MBP is starting to feel it
small things like looser ports and hinge or a more spongy keyboard

the actual chips are still absolutely bonkers though

that's not the issue

[pulsar prism]

"Working"

[barren pewter]

besides, why use a dodgy version of Linux when Macs ship with a perfectly fine OS that works perfectly on the hardware by default

[pulsar prism]

Also asahi is basically dead in the water

[hardy merlin]

I kno
Still it's better than using macOS

[maiden tulip]

Mac os is fine tbh

[barren pewter]

not if you're a linux neckbeard
it is tainted, unclean

[maiden tulip]

or just... use both

[pulsar prism]

I mean it's impressive that they managed to pull off what they did with asahi but I wouldn't buy a Mac just to use asahi

[maiden tulip]

I had a macbook air a long time ago

I just dual booted

[hardy merlin]

For some people yeah, sure
But when you're moving from Windows/Linux it is painful

[pulsar prism]

Yeah boot camp doesn't exist anymore

[hardy merlin]

I'd honestly rather use W11 than macOS

[maiden tulip]

):

why nooootttt

[pulsar prism]

Well then the MacBook ain't for you

[barren pewter]

isn't it obvious?

[maiden tulip]

yes

[digital dawn]

you’re sick in the head

[maiden tulip]

But i don't see a reason why its not technically feasable

[hardy merlin]

That's why I don't have one

[pulsar prism]

There's no other official OS support on arm based MacOS so I guess they killed it off because of that

[barren pewter]

I think it's more just that it would be a shit experience
it's not like the software to utilise the hardware exists outside of mac
not like older intel macs...

it went from approachable to completely pointless

[maiden tulip]

Windows arm exists

[digital dawn]

I wish it didn’t

[hardy merlin]

That's a good word
Exists, not works

[barren pewter]

with drivers for the M series SoC?
and...yeah windows arm is actually shit
I'd say it is worse than Linux, even

[maiden tulip]

But for most of my stuff, macos was fine as a laptop

[digital dawn]

everything is worse than linux

linux is superior

[pulsar prism]

Game support has gone out the window on MacOS

[digital dawn]

not entirely true

[maiden tulip]

It's getting better

Cyberpunk launched today

[pulsar prism]

Can't even play cs2 👀

[barren pewter]

yesn't
32 bit games are mostly not playable
but actual native mac ports are coming out with decent regularity now

[digital dawn]

whisky and crossover still work for a good amount of titles

not to mention the native ports

[maiden tulip]

The way i see it a mac is good as a secondary device

[mellow garden]

macOS is better than any Linux desktop… or Windows 11 for that matter

[digital dawn]

I dunno about linux, definitely better than win11 tho

[pulsar prism]

All I'm saying if you buy a Mac to play games you're going to be disappointed

[maiden tulip]

I wouldn't use it as my primary machine but if you want to have a laptop with good battery life that does almost everything

Nothing wrong with a macbook

[barren pewter]

yeah, opposite conclusion here lol

[hardy merlin]

W take from Dashi

[maiden tulip]

For once not an L take from me

[barren pewter]

me who uses it as a primary machine because it works so well

and I can use it in bed
unlike my windows rig

[maiden tulip]

Most of what you do is word documents tho

And web browing

[barren pewter]

oi
AND PDFS

[digital dawn]

now? yeah, probably. but I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets way better in the near future.

[maiden tulip]

It works well for that kinda office use case

Mac is basically a tablet++

[barren pewter]

I mean, nowadays, the issue is entirely support
macs are clearly very, very capable

[maiden tulip]

in between a tablet and a desktop

[hardy merlin]

Let's be honest
If it's gonna get better it's not thanks to Apple, but thanks to Wine and Proton
Apple hampers heavily making games running on macOS by not supporting universal APIs like Vulkan

[pulsar prism]

Been 5 years still waiting

[digital dawn]

they said the same thing about linux

[pulsar prism]

True we just need valve to save Mac gaming

[hardy merlin]

They are doing so
Proton-ARM is in very late stages of internal testing

[digital dawn]

really?

[pulsar prism]

Don't buy products based on something that could happen in the future

[digital dawn]

that’s neat, last I heard they killed off proton on mac to focus on loonix

[maiden tulip]

Cyberpunk launched

[barren pewter]

and the GTA DE trilogy

[maiden tulip]

So yes you can get games

[barren pewter]

and pretty much every Resi game made in the past decade

[maiden tulip]

Death stranding

[barren pewter]

and minecraft

minecraft has always had a mac port

[maiden tulip]

AC shadows

[barren pewter]

...yeah no

[maiden tulip]

Ac mirage

[barren pewter]

froggies worked on em

and the mac ports actually blew

[pulsar prism]

Can't wait to play that on my M1 MacBook pro

[maiden tulip]

I'm a froggie and you talk to me every single day

[hardy merlin]

They started recently, it's mostly for ARMv8 and Apple Silicon chips, and it's based on Proton+DXVK/VKD3D+MoltenVK
Hence ARM native version of Steam for Macs, Valve be cooking

[digital dawn]

and roblox

[maiden tulip]

Proof that froggies can be good

I'm awesome

[digital dawn]

nice

[digital dawn]

she probably talks to you out of pity

I mean, that’s what I do

[pulsar prism]

Moltenvk needs some work before it's a full implementation, currently it's pretty limited

[hardy merlin]

All I want is to most games be running with just open-source libraries like Proton on all PCs
So that so gamers are not dependent on Windows/MS Store/Apple App Store
Just pop the game you have on Steam/EGS/GOG, heck even on CD and play it

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, but Volvo is throwing fat sacks of money and developers into it

[pulsar prism]

Hey if it means more game support I'm all for it

[sinful cobalt]

not bad performance

[mellow garden]

Still relies on Windows at the end of the day. Also relies on Microsoft not being fucky and trying to break things.

[maiden tulip]

Cyberpunk switch best version

[hardy merlin]

Thankfully even with Microsoft being Microsoft they have limited abilities to fuck up DirectX now
And Windows situation is slowly, but surely, changes with each day - Linux with almost 7%, macOS with about 15%

[barren pewter]

cyberpunk mac better

[maiden tulip]

what if we ran mac on a nintendo switch

[hardy merlin]

Switchingtosh

[maiden tulip]

Apple steam deck

[sinful cobalt]

SwitchyOS

But tbh im just gonna stick with windows

[barren pewter]

at least I still got my 49€ aliexpress visionators and my jar of peanut butter
-linux neckbeard, from mom's basement, <current_year>

[digital dawn]

this is actually possible

[maiden tulip]

Moumos

also i love this pic i took

her fucking stare i can't even

Cootest little stare

[hardy merlin]

wants ball again?

[maiden tulip]

ball or frog

[hardy merlin]

[maiden tulip]

the 2 favorite moutoys

[barren pewter]

forg

🐸

[maiden tulip]

cals join moumotes

We have moufrogtoy emoji

[hardy merlin]

@outer pollen is you?

[sinful cobalt]

i mean yeah i can see FG worth it if i wanna play Cp77 with ultra RT

[trim rock]

Is that psycho raytracing also where path tracing

[sinful cobalt]

no path tracing enabled

yeah its possible on Balanced FSR

yeah thats not enjoyable

[trim rock]

Cinematic

[clear osprey]

the game feels so gorgeous without ray tracing, I could never enable that shit for the performance drop

[iron oak]

rt is such a scam

is more a novelty than a feature

[hardy merlin]

Enabling RT in Cyberpunk:

Halves your FPS
Makes puddles look a bit more detailed
Night clubs and neon streets are so flooded with light you can't see anything

[clear osprey]

when is discord gonna fix their terrible video playback man

[hardy merlin]

Works just fine for me

[clear osprey]

oh what da hell

it always turns into buffer city if I upload something too large

[pure bear]

keep in mind your in australia so up and download are switched

[hardy merlin]

I think people enable RT only to make benchmarks and YT videos in CBP2077
I really don't think anyone would play like that

[clear osprey]

this is actually a genius joke

[loud violet]

this isnt asymmetric, it's abstract at this point

[pulsar prism]

RT is cool, Path Tracing is turning the dial up too hard but it's cool that it's an option I'm sure in 10 years we'll be able to go back and play games with it properly

[loud violet]

can we just go back to making good looking games and then slapping rtx mods on it after a year please uwu

[pulsar prism]

We have good looking games now

[hardy merlin]

[maiden tulip]

I played with rt on like medium for reflections

[clear osprey]

good looking stuttery tech demos

[maiden tulip]

RT is dumb past medium imo

Also some effects are useless

Like rt shadows i left those on off lol

[mellow garden]

I enjoyed the full path tracing in CP2077

[hardy merlin]

FINALLY
Fuck Angler

[pulsar prism]

Idk there are still games that I've played recently that were good looking to me

Clair Obscur was nice

[loud violet]

i should be playing terraria rn........

[pulsar prism]

Was some of the best $2 I spent

[orchid prism]

Dune Awakening's radio channels are great. It's basically like GTA but themed around each faction.

The music ain't half bad either.

[trim rock]

Love those adlib tunes

[orchid prism]

[bleak pike]

Re: reys tracing

Reflections are nice but fuck perf

[digital dawn]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2963950/Persona_4_Revival/

Steam

Persona 4 Revival

Persona 4 Revival intertwines an investigation into a string of murders with the journey of self-discovery and encounters with the occult, all within a critically acclaimed, classic RPG experience—revived in a new form!

In the rural Japanese town of Inaba, the once sleepy streets receive a cold wake-up call when a mysterious serial killer str…

Release Date

To be announced

▶ Play video

[hot spire]

but its turbo ass

[hot spire]

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/gabe-newells-daily-routine-is-get-up-work-go-scuba-diving-says-hes-been-retired-for-a-long-time-but-works-7-days-a-week-the-things-i-get-to-do-every-day-are-super-awesome/

[outer pollen]

I haven’t spent money yet thankfully but debating it

[outer pollen]

I think I’m burnt out on Gacha games

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/sds-gif-20505870

[lucid brook]

haven't they added fsr4 in the latest update?

[sinful cobalt]

They added Fsr 3.1

[sinful cobalt]

[hardy merlin]

Pretty sure FG was added way back

[lucid brook]

They updated from FSR 3 FG to 3.1 and added FSR4 support for 9000 series cards

This has to be the worst naming the humanity has ever seen

[hardy merlin]

Oh yeah, so it is

[bleak pike]

I got it a few days ago, is it actually up?

[outer pollen]

I haven’t tried it ;3;

[bleak pike]

My interest is incredibly low when I saw initial gameplay tbh

[trim rock]

I completely forgot to try it when they had the Wednesday test, but I did try the earlier closed beeta and was not impressed. Delaying it was the right choice to do and apparently it's better now

[outer pollen]

Some of the reviews I’ve seen are pretty brutal; just straight up saying the people who worked on 2 couldn’t have made this

[pulsar prism]

Payday 3 kind of game

[outer pollen]

I hear that’s good now lol

[outer pollen]

I can finally start playing the game after rerolling

[little cape]

GAME

[bleak pike]

Delete it

[outer pollen]

Just gonna be a chill dude and f2p

[nimble current]

free2play is a lie

[vapid lintel]

Free2play is a lie, there is only microtransactions.
Through microtransactions I gain revenue.
Through revenue, I gain marketing budget.
Through marketing budget, I gain Victory.
Through victory my chains are broken.
The in-game store shall free me.

[orchid prism]

proceeds to spend 600.000 Solari on faction cosmetics in Dune

[outer pollen]

[outer pollen]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3343160/Fill_Up_The_Hole/

Steam

Fill Up The Hole

Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you help peons create as much garbage as possible and toss it into a hole. Watch your village grow and evolve as you unlock visual upgrades and new features.

Throw Garbage…

Price

$2.69

▶ Play video

[orchid prism]

Just a few more minutes, and I can log off for the day and live out my dreams of being a travelling minstrel on a hellishly hostile planet, where everyone's on a constant drug induced high.

[vapid lintel]

Rimworld? Rimworld.

[orchid prism]

Not until all of my mods are updated - and I've built a proper palace on Dune that I can log into once a week to keep running 😄

[sinful cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/vaughnpena-gif-27076347

[little cape]

oh yeah hes on that spice

[orchid prism]

Yeah you basically become a full on drug addict in the game. It's a sort of ultimate meter/mode you go into.

[verbal nymph]

Aww, we can't have game that tackle the problem of incest and rape. Looks like people will be confused as to why it's bad and just do it because they think it'll be fine.

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/dune-dune-part-2-water-of-life-baja-blast-zeek-gif-13448733527164681802

[vapid lintel]

I have never intentionally taken spice, but I have become hopelessly addicted solely due to misclicks

[orchid prism]

I only use it on "boss" fights, to have quicker cooldowns on my slow-strikes. That's literally all I use it for.

[buoyant osprey]

https://youtu.be/W6SzAhkHgAw?t=382

OMG I CLAPPED! I LOVE SONY GAMEPLAY!

[trim rock]

You love to see it