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  • ZerontoLinux GamingHow is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux?
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    9 months ago

    To be fair, you probably don’t want a native version anyways. Most native games i’ve played just required me to switch to proton because they had their own share of issues that the proton versions didn’t have.

    At this point it’s better for devs to make proton support a goal(i.e steam deck compatibility) rather than native linux builds. Linux just has too much diversity for native linux support to not be a massive pain in the ass in my opinion.


  • ZerontoGamesSteam keeps on winning
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    2 years ago

    Hopefully not soon, but probably once Gabe is gone if i had to guess.

    If steam goes public, might as well start packing the bug out bag because shit is going to go south real quick.




  • It just feels wrong, and I can’t quite explain why.

    It’s essentially throwing a slab of meat into an arena and watching the starved poors fight to the death over it, then watching while you’re served the equivalent of thanksgiving dinner by your butler/maids in a safe climate controlled room.

    There comes a point where “philanthropy” simply becomes rich people making games for the poors to win a “prize” and seeing how they react for their own entertainment rather than any sort of benevolence. The lambo example seems pretty much spot on for that.




  • ZerontoGamesSmurfing is Not Welcome in Dota
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    2 years ago

    I think it’s just because most players tend to be good at micro, but not so much macro.

    Having a set “build” takes the macro thought of your item choice out of the equation so they can focus on their micro. The thing is though, you can easily make up for subpar micro with good macro. Picking the best items for a given situation, even if they aren’t necessarily “meta” is incredibly important and something most players just don’t feel like mastering.







  • At this point i’m convinced it’s more about the fact these higher ups have skin in the real estate game. They either know the people who lease their properties, or are heavily invested in the property itself. So they can’t get past the mental block that is the sunk cost fallacy to just ditch it, or lose “good boy points” with their rich peers by saying they don’t need the property anymore.

    I guess it’s also harder to brag to your rich friends how big your company is when you have less physical locations too, but at this point i’m just grasping. The amount of money these companies could save it massive, but they just absolutely refuse to do it for whatever reason.



  • ZerontoTechnology*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    For real. It’s like SSD manufacturers are in cahoots with HDD manufacturers to never step on their turf(capacity.)

    SSD manufacs keep chasing useless metrics like sequential write speed in consumer drives, when if they just chased capacity they could kill HDDs forever and we’d all be better off for it. Then again, i guess they’d also lose revenue since they don’t nearly die as much as HDDs, so i guess there’s that.

    Or…they could keep with their current trend but actually focus on metrics that matter. Like lower que depth operations which actually make an operating system feel amazing to use like Q1T1. The difference between even an Intel Optane 905p and some of the newest fastest gen4 SSDs currently on the market is still crazy large in terms of how much better the OS feels to use moment to moment for me.


  • It’s crazy to me that bigwigs see office space as a sunk cost, but not employees.

    They’ll drop and burn employees like going through tissue paper, but useless buildings? Nah, better use it even if it’s worthless.

    Having long time tenured employees does nothing but benefit a company since they can perform tasks that would take a new employee hours to weeks in minutes to days, hell, it even lets you employee less staff due to that efficiency that can only be acquired through experience. It baffles me how those at the top just refuse to think efficiently.


  • ZerontoLinux Gaming*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    Which is why you generally don’t want NVME raid. You’ll never, ever use that much sequential in a consumer environment, and game loading mostly uses random reads rather than sequential. What makes an OS feel snappy and responsive is the lower que depths(i.e q1t1,) which actually get worse or stay about the same when you raid flash together.

    The only time i feel like raiding them together is worth it is if you’re lazy and want one big storage blob, or if you have unique circumstances that demand ridiculous amounts of ingest speed, like with 4k footage.